Group Family Day Care
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The Magical School Bus
Bronx, NY
· Bronx County
Chatterton Avenue,
Bronx, NY 10472
Quick Facts
Capacity
16 children
Age Range
12 children, ages 6 weeks to 12 years AND 4 additional school-aged children
Subsidized Program
Does not participate
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Licensed Group Family Day Care
Active License
License Number
590981
Licensed Since
2012
License Issued
Jul 13, 2026
Active Through
Jul 12, 2030
Issued By
New York State Office of Children and Family Services
District Office
New York City Dept. of Health - Regional Office
Reviews
TEENA
2013-11-11 19:59:33
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
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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About the Provider
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 12 children, ages 6 weeks to 12 years AND 4 additional school-aged children. It is open Monday, 07:30 AM - 06:00 PM; Tuesday - Friday, 07:30 AM - 06:30 PM. 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;
Hours of Operation
- Monday07:30 AM - 06:00 PM
- Tuesday07:30 AM - 06:30 PM
- Wednesday07:30 AM - 06:30 PM
- Thursday07:30 AM - 06:30 PM
- Friday07:30 AM - 06:30 PM
- Saturday Closed
- Sunday Closed
Inspection/Report History
Where possible, ChildcareCenter provides inspection reports as a service to families. This information is deemed reliable but is not guaranteed. We encourage families to contact the daycare provider directly with any questions or concerns. Reports can also be verified with your local daycare licensing office.
| Date | Type | Regulations | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-26 | Documentation Review | Documentation Review | 2026-I-NYCDOH-084101 |
| Brief Description: Violations found | |||
| 2026-04-13 | Monitoring | Monitoring | 2026-I-NYCDOH-029779 |
| Brief Description: No violations cited | |||
| 2026-04-08 | Application - Renewal | Application - Renewal | 2026-I-NYCDOH-023302 |
| Brief Description: Violations found | |||
| 2026-04-08 | Violation | 416.5(k) | N |
| Brief Description: All cleaning materials must be used and stored such that they will not present a hazard | |||
| 2025-06-30 | Monitoring | Monitoring | 2025-I-NYCDOH-049035 |
| Brief Description: Violations found | |||
| 2025-06-25 | Annual Unannounced | Annual Unannounced | 2025-I-NYCDOH-006624 |
| Brief Description: Violations found | |||
| 2025-06-25 | Violation | 416.8(e) | N |
| Brief Description: Approved provider is the primary caregiver | |||
| 2025-06-25 | Violation | 416.8(a) | N |
| Brief Description: Competent supervision is maintained at all times with exceptions only as specified in regulation | |||
| 2025-06-25 | Violation | 416.8(j)(1) | N |
| Brief Description: One caregiver observed for either 6 children not yet in school or 8 when at least 2 are school age | |||
| 2025-06-25 | Violation | 416.8(j)(2) | N |
| Brief Description: Two caregivers present when more than 6 children, none of whom are school age, are in care | |||
| 2025-06-25 | Violation | 416.15(b)(12) | N |
| Brief Description: Office notified of any change to the home or program | |||
| 2025-06-25 | Violation | 416.15(b)(20) | N |
| Brief Description: Only approved caregivers have unsupervised contact with the day care children | |||
| 2024-12-12 | Monitoring | Monitoring | 2024-I-NYCDOH-113282 |
| Brief Description: Violations found | |||
| 2024-03-12 | Monitoring | Monitoring | 2024-I-NYCDOH-037373 |
| Brief Description: No violations cited | |||
| 2024-03-07 | Annual Unannounced | Annual Unannounced | 2024-I-NYCDOH-006547 |
| Brief Description: Violations found | |||
| 2023-12-19 | Monitoring | Monitoring | 2023-I-NYCDOH-054032 |
| Brief Description: No violations cited | |||
| 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 | |||
| 2022-01-21 | Violation | 416.13(c) | Corrected |
| Brief Description: All child day care providers, employees, volunteers and any person age eighteen (18) or older living or who begins to live in a group family day care home hired after June 30, 2013, must comply with the background check requirements for the register of substantiated category one cases of abuse or neglect maintained by the Justice Center for the Protection of Persons with Special Needs pursuant to Section 495 of the Social Services Law. | |||
| 2022-01-21 | Violation | 416.13(d) | Corrected |
| Brief Description: All child day care providers, employees, volunteers and any person age eighteen (18) or older living or who begins to live in a group family day care home are required to complete a Statewide Central Register database check. | |||
| 2022-01-21 | Violation | 416.15(a)(1)(ii) | Corrected |
| Brief Description: Each group family day care home must operate in compliance with the regulations of the Office and all other applicable laws and regulations. | |||
| 2022-01-21 | Violation | 416.15(b)(10)(i) | Corrected |
| Brief Description: A group family day care home must admit inspectors and other representatives of the Office onto the grounds and premises at any time during the hours of operation as documented with the Office on the application for group family day care. Such inspectors and representatives must be given free access to the building, the caregivers, employees and volunteers, the children and any program records. | |||
| 2022-01-21 | Violation | 416.15(b)(10)(ii) | Corrected |
| Brief Description: A group family day care home must cooperate with inspectors and other representatives of the Office in regard to any inspections or investigations that are conducted by the Office or its representatives. | |||
| 2022-01-21 | Violation | 416.15(b)(11)(ii)(a) | Corrected |
| Brief Description: the forms necessary for the Office to inquire whether the applicant is the subject of an indicated report of child abuse or maltreatment on file with the Statewide Central Register of Child Abuse and Maltreatment, | |||
| 2022-01-21 | Violation | 416.15(b)(11)(ii)(b) | Corrected |
| Brief Description: the forms necessary to check the register of substantiated category one cases of abuse or neglect maintained by the Justice Center for the Protection of Persons with Special Needs pursuant to Section 495 of the Social Services Law, | |||
| 2022-01-21 | Violation | 416.15(b)(11)(ii)(c) | Corrected |
| Brief Description: fingerprint images necessary for the Office to conduct a criminal history review, | |||
| 2022-01-21 | Violation | 416.15(b)(11)(ii)(d) | Corrected |
| Brief Description: a sworn statement indicating whether, to the best of the applicant's knowledge, he or she has ever been convicted of a | |||
| 2022-01-21 | Violation | 416.15(b)(11)(ii)(e) | Corrected |
| Brief Description: two acceptable references; | |||
| 2022-01-21 | Violation | 416.15(b)(12) | Corrected |
| Brief Description: The group family day care home must report to the Office: any change affecting, or which reasonably might be expected to affect, those portions of the building and property in which the program is operating or which are used for the children's egress in the case of emergency; any change in household members; and any other change that would place the home out of compliance with applicable regulations. | |||
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