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Clear Lake Kindercare

A licensed child care center in Houston, Texas 77062

14777 El Camino Real, Houston, Texas 77062. (281) 480-4777.

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The short answer

Record last released by Texas HHSC on Nov 5, 2026.

The last 24 months 1 deficiency in 1 month of the last 36. Last cited Jul 2024. Most serious: Medium 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?

1 deficiency cited in the last three years

The middle of the 2,139 child care providers in Harris County had 4.

11 inspections on record. The latest, on Oct 16, 2026: no violation found.

Source:

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data) and inspections and investigations. Released Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.

When those deficiencies happened

1 deficiency in 1 month of the last 36. Last cited Jul 2024. Most serious: Medium High. The last 3 years, to Nov 5, 2026.

1 deficiency 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 Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.

Jul 16, 2024: inspection1 deficiency

  • Requirement of Gas Leak Inspection

    “The gas leak inspection expired on 12/2023.”

    Rule 746.5401. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 13, 2024. Correction verified: Jul 22, 2024.

5 deficiencies older than three years
Jul 14, 2023: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Transportation Safety Training -Director and Employee Complete 2 Hours Annually

    “Director is missing current transportation training.”

    Rule 746.1316(a). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 21, 2023. Correction verified: Jul 17, 2023.

  • Maintenance of Building, Grounds and Equipment

    “The boys restroom must be maintain and sanitized to remove all foul odors.”

    Rule 746.3407. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 21, 2023. Correction verified: Aug 16, 2023.

Apr 14, 2023: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Maintenance of Building, Grounds and Equipment

    “I observe play structure in the playground that was broken with sharp edges accessible to children.”

    Rule 746.3407. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 22, 2023. Correction verified: Apr 20, 2023.

  • Installation and Maintenance of Loose-fill Surfacing - Proper Depth Maintained

    “The mulch around the playground climbing equipment must be maintained at proper depth.”

    Rule 746.4907(d). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 22, 2023. Correction verified: Apr 20, 2023.

Feb 9, 2023: report to the state1 deficiency

  • Responsibilities of Employees and Caregivers -Demonstrate Competency, Good Judgment, Self-control

    “Based on the information obtained during investigation, it was determined a caregiver provided two school-age children with cough drops as a reward.”

    Rule 746.1201(1). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 6, 2023. Correction verified: Apr 14, 2023.

All 19 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Oct 16, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Oct 6, 2026Report to the stateOutcome pending
Apr 13, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Mar 25, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Mar 25, 2026Report to the stateNo violation found
Mar 24, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Mar 11, 2026Report to the stateNo violation found
Jun 4, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Jul 16, 2024Inspection1 deficiency cited
Oct 19, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Oct 6, 2023Report to the stateNo violation found
Jul 14, 2023Inspection2 deficiencies cited
May 8, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Apr 28, 2023Report to the stateNo violation found
Apr 26, 2023Report to the stateNo violation found
Apr 14, 2023Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Feb 9, 2023Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Sep 16, 2022Report to the stateNo violation found
Jul 27, 2022InspectionNo violation found

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Feb 9, 1990.
  • Accepts state child care subsidies.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 119 children.
Source:

Texas HHSC, child care operations. Released Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.

Has Texas acted against it?

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

Texas HHSC, child care operations and inspections and investigations. Released Nov 5, 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 Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.

How does it compare nearby?

  • Among 2139 child care providers in Harris County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 4; this one had 1.
Source:

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data). Released Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.

11 of the 2,139 in Harris County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Clear Lake Kindercare This child care provider1
Grace Christian Academy Early Learning Center5
Primrose School of Clear Lake3
Early Learning Center1
Clear Lake Montessori School9
Bell’s Little Angels4
Clear Lake Child Care4
Gwyneth Ann Marie TuggleNot given
Montessori School of Downtown5
Northstar Preschools at Clear Lake33
Little Oaks Early Learning Academy18
The Learning Experience3

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 5, 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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