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Bright Minds Learning Center

A licensed child care center in Alton, Texas 78573

624 N Alton Blvd, Alton, Texas 78573. (956) 424-7360.

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The short answer

Record last released by Texas Workforce Commission on Nov 2, 2026.

The last 24 months 5 deficiencies in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited Jan 2026. 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?

5 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 479 child care providers in Hidalgo County had 3.

8 inspections on record. The latest, on Jan 30, 2026: 3 deficiencies cited.

Rated High by Texas: Required Equipment in Vehicles - Emergency Medical Information, at the inspection on Mar 13, 2025

Rated High by Texas: AP Background ck determination - If provisionally eligible w/conditions or eligible w/conditions you must restrict duties per conditions/restrictions, at the inspection on Feb 6, 2025

Source:

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data) and inspections and investigations. Released Oct 31, 2026. Updated daily.

When those deficiencies happened

5 deficiencies in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited Jan 2026. Most serious: High. The last 3 years, to Nov 2, 2026.

5 deficiencies by month over the last 3 years. Each cell is one month.
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2023 Dec
2024 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2025 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2026 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNov

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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 31, 2026. Updated daily.

Jan 30, 2026: inspection3 deficiencies

  • Training Requirements for Employees, Caregivers, and Directors - Pre-Service Training

    “A caregiver caring for a group of children did not complete the required 24 clock hours of pre-service training within 90 days of employment. The caregiver was missing 11 clock hours of pre-service training.”

    Rule 746.1301(a)(2)(A). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 6, 2026. Correction verified: Feb 5, 2026.

  • Each Caregiver and the Director Must Have Current Training in pediatric first aid with rescue breathing and choking.

    “A caregiver caring for a group of children did not have current training in pediatric first aid with rescue breathing and choking. The training certificate available for review was for training completed in Standard First Aid.”

    Rule 746.1315(a). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 6, 2026. Correction verified: Feb 5, 2026.

  • CPR Training and Recertification Adhere to Guidelines-skill based

    “A caregiver caring for a group of children completed the pediatric CPR training online.”

    Rule 746.1315(b)(1). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 6, 2026. Correction verified: Feb 5, 2026.

Mar 13, 2025: inspection1 deficiency

  • Required Equipment in Vehicles - Emergency Medical Information

    “The Emergency medical transport and treatment authorization forms and Parent’s names and telephone numbers and emergency telephone numbers were missing from the transportation vehicle binder for two children being transported. Note: This was corrected during the inspection when copies of the required forms were obtained and placed in the transportation vehicle binders.”

    Rule 746.5617(a)(2). High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 13, 2025.

Feb 6, 2025: inspection1 deficiency

  • AP Background ck determination - If provisionally eligible w/conditions or eligible w/conditions you must restrict duties per conditions/restrictions

    “A person who is provisionally eligible to be present at the operation with conditions was performing duties that violated a condition placed by the Centralized Background Check Unit.”

    Rule 745.635(3). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 7, 2025. Correction verified: Feb 21, 2025.

5 deficiencies older than three years
Jun 5, 2023: inspection1 deficiency

  • Director Annual Training - Additional required topics

    “One out of four staff training records reviewed is missing trainings on the following topics: Hazardous Materials Food Allergies Administering Medications Emergency Preparedness Communicable Diseases”

    Rule 746.1311(e). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 19, 2023. Correction verified: Jun 13, 2023.

Aug 2, 2022: inspection4 deficiencies

  • Each Caregiver and the Director Must Have Current Training in pediatric CPR

    “One out of four staff training records reviewed has a first and/CPR training that expired 9/14/2021.”

    Rule 746.1315(b). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 23, 2022. Correction verified: Aug 9, 2022.

  • Maintenance of Building, Grounds and Equipment

    “There are cleaning products acceissble to children underneath the sink of the children’s restroom. Changing mats in the infant and toddler room have tears.”

    Rule 746.3407. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 4, 2022. Correction verified: Aug 3, 2022.

  • Children’s Records Maintained

    “Two out four children’s files review were not available for review at the time of inspection.”

    Rule 746.603(a). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 7, 2022. Correction verified: Aug 8, 2022.

  • Required Personnel Records

    “Four staff files were reviewed. One file is missing copy of high school diploma/ged or equivalent and a second file is missing 16 hours of pre-service training.”

    Rule 746.901. Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 23, 2022. Correction verified: Aug 12, 2022.

All 9 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Jan 30, 2026Inspection3 deficiencies cited
Mar 13, 2025Inspection1 deficiency cited
Feb 21, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Feb 6, 2025Inspection1 deficiency cited
Feb 4, 2025Report to the stateNo violation found
Jun 7, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Apr 16, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Jun 5, 2023Inspection1 deficiency cited
Aug 2, 2022Inspection4 deficiencies cited

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Nov 15, 2012.
  • Accepts state child care subsidies.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 42 children.
Source:

Texas HHSC, child care operations. Released Oct 31, 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 31, 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?

  • Texas Rising Star: 3-Star (the middle of three levels).
Source:

Texas Workforce Commission, subsidy providers and Texas Rising Star. Released Nov 2, 2026. Updated daily.

How does it compare nearby?

  • Among 479 child care providers in Hidalgo County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 3; this one had 5.
Source:

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data). Released Oct 31, 2026. Updated daily.

11 of the 479 in Hidalgo County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Bright Minds Learning Center This child care provider5
Helping Hands Child Care12
Einstein’s Academy, LLC15
Sunrise Learning Academy4
Handprints Playschool7
Little Harvard Educational Center Preschool and Day Care12
Umos Mshs Alton Center7
His Little Ones Preschool & Daycare,llc9
Future Leaders Daycare and Learning Center29
Little Explorers Academy & Daycare 214
Little Diamondbacks Learning Center LLC7
Salinas Elementary Head Start Campus5

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 Nov 2, 2026.

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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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