Grace Place Preschool of Fort Smith

Serious Deficiency: Rosters listing the date, the names, and the ages or dates, of birth of all children being transported as well as the name of the driver and any other staff member on the vehicle shall be maintained. These rosters shall be used to check children on and off the vehicle when they are picked up and dropped off at home, school, etc. and when they arrive at and leave the facility. Transportation rosters shall be kept by the facility and available for review for one (1) year., Aug 25, 2026

Serious Deficiency: To ensure that children have safely arrived in the appropriate classroom, the transportation roster shall be reviewed by the Director or designee and compared with classroom attendance records. The Director or designee shall sign off on the transportation roster to verify that all children have safely transitioned from the vehicle to the classroom., Aug 25, 2026

Serious Deficiency: At no time shall children be left unsupervised or unattended. The child care center shall provide additional staff for any temporary absence of primary child caring staff for activities such as breaks, meal preparation, transportation, etc., Jan 21, 2026

1 more at that level; all are listed below.

When those deficiencies happened

4 deficiencies in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited Aug 2026. Most serious: Serious Deficiency. The last 3 years, to Oct 30, 2026.

Each deficiency, in its source’s words

Grouped by visit, newest first, with the level its source gave it.

• Child Care Center.
• Provider type: Center Based.
• Approved capacity by age group: Infant/Toddler License Type 79, Preschool License Type 51, School Age License Type 53.
• Capacity: 183 children.

• No corrective action agreements listed by Arkansas.

• Owner, as Arkansas lists it: Grace Place Preschool of Fort Smith.

• Not rated in Better Beginnings (Arkansas lists it at Level 0).

• Among 55 child care providers in Sebastian County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 1; this one had 4.

• Arkansas’s visit records cover the last three years only.
• Arkansas lists the regulation each deficiency cited, not what the licensing staff saw.
• Arkansas lists complaints and the regulations their investigations cited, not what was alleged.

• Arkansas Department of Education, Office of Early Childhood, Find Child Care search and facility pages, Arkansas eLicensing.

  Checked Oct 30, 2026. Updated daily. Arkansas.gov’s acceptable-use terms: linking is allowed; no framing, no presenting the content as one’s own, no implied endorsement.

• Arkansas Department of Education, Office of Early Childhood, Facility visits: regulations inspected and deficiencies cited, Arkansas eLicensing.

  Checked Oct 30, 2026. Updated daily. Arkansas.gov’s acceptable-use terms: linking is allowed; no framing, no presenting the content as one’s own, no implied endorsement.

• Arkansas Department of Education, Office of Early Childhood, Facility complaints, Arkansas eLicensing.

  Checked Oct 30, 2026. Updated daily. Arkansas.gov’s acceptable-use terms: linking is allowed; no framing, no presenting the content as one’s own, no implied endorsement.

• Arkansas Department of Education, Office of Early Childhood, Facility corrective action agreements, Arkansas eLicensing.

  Checked Oct 30, 2026. Updated daily. Arkansas.gov’s acceptable-use terms: linking is allowed; no framing, no presenting the content as one’s own, no implied endorsement.

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