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Little Stars Learning Center, LLC

A licensed child care center in Rio Grande City, Texas 78582

304 N Mariposa St, Rio Grande City, Texas 78582. (956) 487-8013.

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The short answer

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

The last 24 months 7 deficiencies in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited Jul 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?

7 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 30 child care providers in Starr County had 1.5.

7 inspections on record. The latest, on Jul 7, 2026: 2 deficiencies cited.

Rated High by Texas: Notification of Additional Services Offered, at the inspection on Jul 25, 2025

Rated High by Texas: Safety Requirements for Sprinkler Play - Not Used On or Near Hard, Slippery Surface, at the inspection on Jul 25, 2025

Source:

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

When those deficiencies happened

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

7 deficiencies by month over the last 3 years. Each cell is one month.
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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 7, 2026: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Fire Drill Monthly - Exit in 3 Minutes

    “Last fire drill conducetd was March 18, 2026. The operation did not conduct a fire drill for the month of April, May or June. *A fire drill was conducted during inspection*”

    Rule 746.5205(1). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 7, 2026.

  • Documented Annual Training - 1 hour in Prevention, Recognition and Reporting of child maltreatment

    “4 out of 6 staff files reviewed are missing training in child maltreatment.”

    Rule 746.1309(c). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 10, 2026. Correction verified: Jul 10, 2026.

Jul 25, 2025: inspection4 deficiencies

  • Notification of Additional Services Offered

    “5 out of 9 after-school children were observed in an inflatable pool at the operation with an unknown height of water. The operation does not provide pool/water activities.”

    Rule 746.301(7). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 25, 2025. Correction verified: Aug 1, 2025.

  • Safety Requirements for Sprinkler Play - Not Used On or Near Hard, Slippery Surface

    “5 out of 9 after-school children were observed in an inflatable pool at the operation with an unknown height of water on a concreate surface. *This was corrected at inspection when the children were removed from the inflatable pool and the inflatable pool was removed from the outdoor area.”

    Rule 746.5015(a). High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 25, 2025.

  • Training Requirements for Employees, Caregivers, and Directors - Pediatric First Aid with Rescue Breathing

    “1 out of 6 employee files reviewed is missing a current First Aid and CPR training.”

    Rule 746.1301(a)(3)(A). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 1, 2025. Correction verified: Jul 29, 2025.

  • Documented Annual Training - Caregivers of Children Under 24 Months Required

    “3 out of 6 employee records reviewed are missing the following: 1) SIDS/Brain Developments/SBS, Hazardous materials, Allergies, Medication, Emergency prepardness, Building safety, Communicable diseases 2) Transportation 3) SIDS/Brain Developments/SBS, Allergies, Building saefty, Communicable diseases. Transportation.”

    Rule 746.1309(d). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 1, 2025. Correction verified: Aug 1, 2025.

Aug 30, 2024: inspection1 deficiency

  • Written Operational Policies - Plan for extreme weather conditions

    “Operational polices was missing updated information.”

    Rule 746.501(a)(18)(G). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 6, 2024. Correction verified: Sep 12, 2024.

7 deficiencies older than three years
Oct 3, 2023: inspection1 deficiency

  • Child/ Caregiver Ratio - 13 or More Children

    “Observed one caregiver with 8 children for age group 0-11months. CORRECTED: when extra staff member arrived to the operation to be in infant room.”

    Rule 746.1601. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 3, 2023. Correction verified: Oct 11, 2023.

Sep 5, 2023: inspection1 deficiency

  • Child/Caregiver Ratio - Combining Ages With 12 or Fewer Children

    “Obeserved operation with a total of 14 children in care, a 3 yr old in a classrooom with a 2 month old infant combining smallest child with another child over 18 months of age.”

    Rule 746.1703. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 5, 2023. Correction verified: Oct 3, 2023.

Sep 13, 2022: inspection4 deficiencies

  • Required Admission Information - Emergency Medical Authorization

    “Two out of four files reviewed were missing Authorization for Emergency Medical Attention information.”

    Rule 746.605(12). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 14, 2022. Correction verified: Sep 14, 2022.

  • Children’s Products- Annual Certification

    “Children’s Product certification was last reviewed on 3/1/21”

    Rule 746.4135(b). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 14, 2022. Correction verified: Sep 14, 2022.

  • Written Operational Policies - Promotion of Physical Activity

    “Policies were missing physical activity updates to their policies.”

    Rule 746.501(a)(18). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 16, 2022. Correction verified: Sep 16, 2022.

  • Required Personnel Records - Required Affidavit

    “Two employee records reviewed to be missing a notarized affidavit.”

    Rule 746.901(4). Medium Low, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 20, 2022. Correction verified: Sep 20, 2022.

Mar 7, 2022: assessment1 deficiency

  • Report Number of Employees

    “A review of the Employees Who Left Employment in 2021 data from February 23, 2022, revealed that the center had not reported the number of employees who left employment in 2021 by February 22, 2022, as required.”

    Rule 746.303(b). Medium Low, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 9, 2022. Correction verified: Mar 7, 2022.

All 9 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Jul 7, 2026Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Nov 21, 2025Report to the stateNo violation found
Jul 25, 2025Inspection4 deficiencies cited
Aug 30, 2024Inspection1 deficiency cited
Oct 11, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Oct 3, 2023Inspection1 deficiency cited
Sep 5, 2023Inspection1 deficiency cited
Sep 13, 2022Inspection4 deficiencies cited
Mar 7, 2022Assessment1 deficiency cited

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Apr 24, 2013.
  • Accepts state child care subsidies.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 68 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.
  • 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 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?

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

Texas Workforce Commission, subsidy providers and Texas Rising Star. Released Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.

How does it compare nearby?

  • Among 30 child care providers in Starr County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 1.5; this one had 7.
Source:

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

11 of the 30 in Starr County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Little Stars Learning Center, LLC This child care provider7
Maria Angelica Lopez1
Rebecca FloresNot given
Learning Central LLC1
Betty’s Day Care LLC6
Little Kids Academy3
Apples and Bananas5
Umos Mshs Alto Bonito Center2
Umos Mshs Rio Grande City Center1
Avance La Coma Hs/Early Head Start0
Avance Rio Vista Hs/Early Head Start1
The Edutainment Zone8

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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