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Little Peoples School

A licensed child care center in Tyler, Texas 75703

5210 Hollytree Dr, Tyler, Texas 75703. (903) 509-8904.

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The short answer

Record last released by Texas HHSC on Oct 27, 2026.

The last 24 months 3 deficiencies in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited Nov 2025. Most serious: High. Every month

Each figure’s source sits beside it, in its section below.

What these words mean5
Inspection (survey)
A visit by state inspectors, often unannounced, who check a place against the rules it must meet. For nursing homes and other places Medicare pays, CMS calls these visits surveys: a standard survey of a nursing home comes at least every 15 months, and a complaint survey whenever a complaint calls for one. Source: CMS; 42 CFR 488.308.
Deficiency, citation, violation
What inspectors write up when a place didn’t meet a rule: the rule, what they saw, and when. CMS calls it a deficiency; states may say citation or violation. It is the inspectors’ finding, not a court’s, and the place is usually asked for a plan to correct it. Source: CMS, statement of deficiencies (Form CMS-2567); each state’s licensing agency.
Texas’s risk levels
Texas gives each child care deficiency a risk level, by how likely it is to harm a child: Low, Medium Low, Medium, Medium High or High. High is its most serious. Source: Texas Health and Human Services Commission, Child Care Regulation.
Licence status
Whether the state’s licence lets the place operate now, in the state’s own words: licensed, on probation (allowed to keep operating on conditions, after problems), provisional, pending or expired. Source: Each state’s licensing agency.
Capacity
The most people the licence or certification lets the place care for at once: residents, children, beds or apartments, as the state counts them. It isn’t how many are there now. Source: Each state’s licensing agency.

What did inspectors find?

3 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 83 child care providers in Smith County had 2.

8 inspections on record. The latest, on Oct 26, 2026: no violation found.

Rated High by Texas: AP Background check results - Must receive notification prior to allowing subject to be present at your operation, at the inspection on Jan 17, 2024

Source:

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data) and inspections and investigations. Released Oct 27, 2026. Updated daily.

When those deficiencies happened

3 deficiencies in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited Nov 2025. Most serious: High. The last 3 years, to Oct 27, 2026.

3 deficiencies by month over the last 3 years. Each cell is one month.
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2023 NovDec
2024 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2025 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2026 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOct

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No visit on record Visited, nothing cited A stronger orange is more serious, on its source’s own levels, read onto four bands: from the least serious it publishes to the most
Source:

Hearth Record drew this from the dates and levels in the source’s own records.

Each deficiency, in Texas’s words

Grouped by visit, newest first, with the risk level Texas gave it, from Low to High.

Source:

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data). Released Oct 27, 2026. Updated daily.

Nov 18, 2025: inspection1 deficiency

  • Written Operational Policies - Parent Rights

    “During a review of the operation’s handbook, there was no statement regrading the parents right. A form was later added to the handbook which brought the operation into compliance.”

    Rule 746.501(a)(20). Medium, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 18, 2025.

Dec 11, 2024: inspection1 deficiency

  • Children’s Records - Immunizations

    “During a review of the children’s files, it was observed two children missing their immunization records.”

    Rule 746.603(a)(4). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 15, 2025. Correction verified: Dec 12, 2024.

Jan 17, 2024: inspection1 deficiency

  • AP Background check results - Must receive notification prior to allowing subject to be present at your operation

    “During the inspection, it was observed by licensing a caregiver present at the operation without a current background check. This was corrected at the inspection.”

    Rule 745.641. High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 17, 2024.

1 deficiency older than three years
Dec 14, 2022: report to the state1 deficiency

  • AP Report Child Injury Requiring Medical Treatment by a Health-Care Professional or Hospitalization

    “This standard was reviewed in relation to the allegations and found to be deficient. The center did not notify licensing in the appropriate 48 hour time frame.”

    Rule 746.305(a)(2). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 13, 2023. Correction verified: Jan 19, 2023.

All 9 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Oct 26, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Nov 18, 2025Inspection1 deficiency cited
Dec 11, 2024Inspection1 deficiency cited
Jan 17, 2024Inspection1 deficiency cited
Mar 30, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Jan 19, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Dec 16, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Dec 14, 2022Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Apr 28, 2022InspectionNo violation found

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Aug 21, 1997.
  • Licensed for ages: Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten.
  • Capacity: 130 children.
Source:

Texas HHSC, child care operations. Released Oct 27, 2026. Updated daily.

Has Texas acted against it?

  • No corrective or adverse action by Texas on record.
  • 1 report to the state on record; Texas doesn’t publish whether they were .
Source:

Texas HHSC, child care operations and inspections and investigations. Released Oct 27, 2026. Updated daily.

Who does the caring?

  • Texas doesn’t publish staffing levels for individual providers. State rules set staff-to-child ratios by age.

Who owns it?

  • Texas’s open data doesn’t list owners.

How is it rated?

  • Not rated in Texas Rising Star.
Source:

Texas Workforce Commission, subsidy providers and Texas Rising Star. Released Oct 27, 2026. Updated daily.

How does it compare nearby?

  • Among 83 child care providers in Smith County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 2; this one had 3.
Source:

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data). Released Oct 27, 2026. Updated daily.

11 of the 83 in Smith County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Little Peoples School This child care provider3
The Primary Leadership Academy3
Stepping Stone School11
Hand in Hand Preschool0
Early Steps Bilingual Academy10
First Steps Daycare4
Lillie Brannen3
Kid City USA Tyler0
Live Oaks Childcare5
Brittany Bowman1
Lions and Lambs Childcare18
Little Blessings Childcare & Preschool of Tyler2

What the record doesn’t say

  • Texas doesn’t publish whether a complaint was substantiated.
  • Texas rates some paperwork slips as High risk, so read what was actually cited.
  • Texas doesn’t publish staffing levels or owners for individual providers.

Sources

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Source:

This copy of the record was made on Oct 27, 2026.

From the provider

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Replies

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How to read a record

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An example nursing home

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Not fully inspected in over two years (CMS flag)

11 health citations at the latest inspection cycle

The state average is 14.3.

Source:

CMS, State and US Averages and Health Deficiencies. Released Oct 28, 2026. Updated monthly.

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