A new $7 million early childhood education center is set to open on San Antonio’s Far West Side in the coming weeks, giving families near Potranco Road a long-awaited local option for infant and toddler care. The Goddard School of San Antonio – Potranco, located at 12759 Jeff Ranch, will hold up to 200 children ranging from six weeks to five years old once it opens in early to mid-September.
The school is the third Goddard location built by franchisees Akbar and Shermeen Bhaidani, who spent three years building and completing the project, according to KSAT. State filings from the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation describe the facility as a ground-up, 10,858-square-foot, single-story wood-framed building on a 1.239-acre lot, developed under the ownership entity TGS03 – Potranco LLC.
The couple’s first San Antonio-area venture, The Goddard School of Kyle, opened in April 2025 at 870 Veterans Drive and has already built a five-star rating across more than 50 reviews, per Community Impact. That location also earned a 100% state score in safety and education grading, the outlet reported. The Bhaidanis now own two other Goddard schools in Texas in addition to the new Potranco campus.
A Corridor Struggling to Keep Up With Its Own Growth
The new center arrives in a part of Bexar County that has outgrown its own infrastructure. Census tracts on the Far West Side, including areas around Culebra Road and Alamo Ranch, have ranked among the fastest-growing in the county, with one tract seeing a 468% population surge over ten years, as the San Antonio Express-News has reported. Local officials describe the Far West Side as having a growing population whose child care resources have not kept pace, leaving some early education programs too far away for families and saddled with long waitlists…