The Magical School Bus - Bronx NY Group Family Day Care

2121 Chatterton Avenue, Apt. 1, 1st Floor Apt. 1, 1st Floor, Bronx NY 10472
(718) 801-2325
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About the Provider

Description: The Magical School Bus is a Group Family Day Care in Bronx NY, with a maximum capacity of 16 children. The home-based daycare service helps with children in the age range of Total Capacity: 12 children, ages 6 weeks to 12 years AND 4 additional school-aged children . The provider does not participate in a subsidized child care program.

Additional Information: Initial License Date: 7/13/2012; This facility is authorized to administer over-the-counter topical ointments only; Care is available during non-traditional hours;

Program and Licensing Details

  • License Number: 590981
  • Capacity: 16
  • Age Range: Total Capacity: 12 children, ages 6 weeks to 12 years AND 4 additional school-aged children
  • Enrolled in Subsidized Child Care Program: No
  • Schools Served: Bronx 8 School District
  • Initial License Issue Date: Jul 13, 2012
  • Current License Issue Date: Jul 13, 2022
  • Current License Expiration Date: Jul 12, 2026
  • District Office: New York City Dept. of Health - Regional Office
  • District Office Phone: (347) 854-1971 (Note: This is not the facility phone number.)

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Inspection/Report History

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Date Type Regulations Status
2022-03-03 Violation 416.11(b)(1) Corrected
Brief Description: The provider, assistant(s), and substitute(s), must each submit a medical statement on forms furnished by the Office or an approved equivalent from a health care provider:
2022-03-03 Violation 416.11(b)(6) Corrected
Brief Description: The initial medical statement for providers, assistants, and substitutes must include the results of a Mantoux tuberculin test or other federally approved tuberculin test performed within the 12 months preceding the date of the application. Thereafter, tuberculin tests are only required at the discretion of the employee's health care provider or at the start of new employment in a different child care program.
2022-01-21 Violation 413.4(d)(3) Corrected
Brief Description: The licensee or registrant shall furnish to each prospective director, employee, or volunteer, and any person age eighteen (18) or older prospectively living in a group family day care home or family day care home a fingerprint imaging application form and a description of how the completed fingerprint images will be used.
2022-01-21 Violation 416.2(a)(5) Corrected
Brief Description: Applicants for a license must submit to the Office: sworn statements by the provider, assistant(s), substitutes and any person 18 years of age or older who resides in the proposed group family day care home indicating whether, to the best of their knowledge, they have ever been convicted of a misdemeanor or a felony in New York State or any other jurisdiction, and fingerprint images as required pursuant to section 413.4 of this Article;
2022-01-21 Violation 416.8(a) Corrected
Brief Description: Children cannot be left without competent supervision at any time. Competent supervision includes awareness of and responsibility for the ongoing activity of each child. It requires that all children be within a caregiver's range of vision except as provided in section 416.8(b) of this Part and that the caregiver be near enough to respond when redirection or intervention strategies are needed. Competent supervision must take into account the child's age, emotional, physical and cognitive development.
2022-01-21 Violation 416.8(j)(1) Corrected
Brief Description: One caregiver may care for a maximum of six children younger than school age, or eight children when at least two of the eight children are school aged.
2022-01-21 Violation 416.8(j)(2) Corrected
Brief Description: Two caregivers must be present when more than six children, none of whom are school age, are in care.
2022-01-21 Violation 416.8(j)(3) Corrected
Brief Description: When care is provided for children under the age of two years, there must be at least one caregiver present for every two children under the age of two years in attendance.
2022-01-21 Violation 416.11(b)(1) Corrected
Brief Description: The provider, assistant(s), and substitute(s), must each submit a medical statement on forms furnished by the Office or an approved equivalent from a health care provider:
2022-01-21 Violation 416.11(b)(1)(ii) Corrected
Brief Description: The provider, assistant(s), and substitute(s), must each submit a medical statement on forms furnished by the Office or an approved equivalent from a health care provider: before such person has any involvement in child care work.
2022-01-21 Violation 416.11(b)(2) Corrected
Brief Description: Thereafter a medical statement will be required when an event or condition reasonably calls into question a caregiver's ability to provide safe and suitable child care.
2022-01-21 Violation 416.11(b)(5) Corrected
Brief Description: All providers, assistants, substitutes and household members must be free from communicable disease unless his/her health care provider has indicated that the presence of the communicable disease does not pose a risk to the health and safety of the children in care.
2022-01-21 Violation 416.11(b)(6) Corrected
Brief Description: The initial medical statement for providers, assistants, and substitutes must include the results of a Mantoux tuberculin test or other federally approved tuberculin test performed within the 12 months preceding the date of the application. Thereafter, tuberculin tests are only required at the discretion of the employee's health care provider or at the start of new employment in a different child care program.
2022-01-21 Violation 416.13(a) Corrected
Brief Description: The provider, assistant(s), and substitutes must each meet the following qualifications:
2022-01-21 Violation 416.13(a)(4) Corrected
Brief Description: The provider, assistant(s), and substitutes must each meet the following qualifications: provide to the Office the names, addresses and daytime telephone numbers of at least two acceptable references, other than relatives. At least one of the references must be able to attest to the employment history, work record and qualifications, if the person had ever been employed outside the home. At least one of the references must be able to attest to the character, habits and personal qualifications to be a group family day care provider, assistant, or substitute; and

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Reviews

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TEENA Nov 11, 2013

I must say this daycare is GREAT. I wasnt a bg fan of putting my children in daycare but the staff put me at ease and I can go to work without any worries. They have an amazing,caring & sweet team of staff. I cant say enough great things about them.

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