New Hope For Kids

Center · Gastonia · 204 Stroupe Road

What kind of place is this?

Size 75 children licensed In the middle half for Charlotte centers, where the middle half licenses 50–162. Measured across 598 Charlotte centers, 2026-08-17.

How this compares

North Carolina DCDEE cited something at 1 of the 8 visits below. Across Charlotte centers it cites something at about 57% of visits. Each state decides what gets written up, so this compares Charlotte with Charlotte and never with another state.

Will it fit our family?

Accepts subsidy Yes

What will it cost us?

This provider does not publish pricing.

What Shortlist has verified

State quality rating Five Star License
License status Active

State record — North Carolina DCDEE

Last visit
March 24, 2026
On file
8 visits since August 2023 — 7 cited nothing, 7 of those unannounced
Fixed?
All 2 record a correction, in the licensor’s own words.
Most serious
North Carolina DCDEE does not publish a severity level for a citation, so there is no most-serious to name.

North Carolina DCDEE describes every citation in the licensor’s own words and records the correction in that same text — the only one of the six states that publishes whether a violation was fixed. It attaches no rule number and no report document.

Mar 2026 Unannounced visit nothing cited
Oct 2025 Unannounced visit nothing cited
Apr 2025 Unannounced visit 2 findings

Unannounced visit · April 14, 2025

A screening assessing development was not conducted within 90 days after the first day of attendance in the program or within six months prior to the first day of attendance and/or the screening was not conducted by a health care, community or school professional trained in administering the screening tool. One (1) child, enrolled in the NC Pre-Kindergarten Program on January 6, 2025, did not have a developmental screening conducted.

Violation confirmed corrected by letter received from provider on 4/25/2025

Shelter-in-place or lockdown drills were not practiced every three months and/or drill record was incomplete. The most recent shelter-in-place/lockdown drill was conducted on December 17, 2024.

Violation confirmed corrected by letter received from provider on 4/25/2025

DCDEE facility lookup

Nov 2024 Unannounced visit nothing cited
May 2024 Unannounced visit nothing cited
May 2024 Unannounced visit nothing cited
Jan 2024 Unannounced visit nothing cited
Aug 2023 Unannounced visit nothing cited DCDEE facility lookup

Before you tour

New Hope For Kids hasn’t published

Cost, hours and late pickup, a typical day, sick and biting policies.

Ask which of these findings were serious.North Carolina DCDEE records the correction in its own words, but never says how serious it was.

Sources and dates

Where every fact on this page came from, and when Shortlist last checked it against that source. Anything Shortlist could not source is named here rather than left blank.

All checked July 2026.

What kind of place is this

Not yet reported: established, teaching approach.

Will it fit our family

Not yet reported: ages served, hours, days / week, schedule, holiday closures.

Licensing and contact

State record

Every state visit and complaint on file, shown in full and never edited. Open a date to read what the state wrote.

Do you run New Hope For Kids? Shortlist has no tuition, hours or ratios for it, because the state does not publish that. Add what is missing. It is free and takes about ten minutes.