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Promise Child Development Center

A licensed child care center in Waxahachie, Texas 75165

980 Garden Valley Pkwy, Waxahachie, Texas 75165. (972) 937-0488.

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The short answer

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

The last 24 months 11 deficiencies in 5 months of the last 36. Last cited Aug 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?

11 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 98 child care providers in Ellis County had 1.

21 inspections on record. The latest, on Aug 25, 2026: 1 deficiency cited.

Rated High by Texas: Director Responsibilities - Operate in Compliance, at the inspection on Jun 17, 2026

Rated High by Texas: Responsibilities of Employees and Caregivers -Demonstrate Competency, Good Judgment, Self-control, at the report to the state on May 16, 2026

Rated High by Texas: Responsibilities of Employees and Caregivers -Demonstrate Competency, Good Judgment, Self-control, at the report to the state on Apr 23, 2026

3 more rated High; all are listed below.

Source:

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

When those deficiencies happened

11 deficiencies in 5 months of the last 36. Last cited Aug 2026. Most serious: High. The last 3 years, to Oct 27, 2026.

11 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.

Aug 25, 2026: inspection1 deficiency
  • Infant Care Area Furnishings and Equipment -Use of Safety Straps

    “Children were sitting in the table not strapped in. This was corrected during the inspection, when brought to caregiver attention, children were strapped and fastened in.”

    Rule 746.2407. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 25, 2026.

Jun 17, 2026: inspection2 deficiencies
  • Director Responsibilities - Operate in Compliance

    “Director is not operating the operation in compliance.”

    Rule 746.1003(1). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 17, 2026. Correction verified: Jun 25, 2026.

  • Floors, ceilings and Walls in Good Repair and Clean

    “Classroom wall was not in good repair with a whole and exposed sheetrock. Walls appeared very worn.”

    Rule 746.3407(9). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 24, 2026. Correction verified: Jun 25, 2026.

May 16, 2026: report to the state2 deficiencies
  • Responsibilities of Employees and Caregivers -Demonstrate Competency, Good Judgment, Self-control

    “Information obtained through interviews and observations indicated the caregiver did not demonstrate self-control when physically moving a child in a frustrating and inappropriate manner.”

    Rule 746.1201(1). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 21, 2026. Correction verified: May 28, 2026.

  • Floors, ceilings and Walls in Good Repair and Clean

    “Classroom wall was not in good repair with a whole and exposed sheetrock. Walls appeared very worn.”

    Rule 746.3407(9). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 10, 2026. Correction verified: Jun 17, 2026.

Apr 23, 2026: report to the state2 deficiencies
  • Responsibilities of Employees and Caregivers -Demonstrate Competency, Good Judgment, Self-control

    “Caregiver failed to assess and respond appropriately to a child?s reported injury.”

    Rule 746.1201(1). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 13, 2026. Correction verified: May 20, 2026.

  • Licensing Incident/Illness Report Form - Injuries Requiring Medical Treatment or Hospitalization

    “The operation failed to complete/document an incident report after being notified of the medical diagnosis.”

    Rule 746.701(1). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 13, 2026. Correction verified: May 13, 2026.

Sep 25, 2024: report to the state4 deficiencies
  • Director Responsibilities - Operate in Compliance

    “The director was not aware of a child in care with a diagnosed food allergy requiring an epi pen. The child had a food allergy plan on file at the operation.”

    Rule 746.1003(1). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 7, 2024. Correction verified: Nov 21, 2024.

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

    “A caregiver failed to demonstrate good judgment. The caregiver was aware that a child had a food allergy that required an epi pen and failed to inform management. The caregiver was also aware that the epi pen was stored in the child’s backpack which was retrieved by a child in care.”

    Rule 746.1201(1). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 7, 2024. Correction verified: Nov 21, 2024.

  • Supervision ensures each child?s safety, well-being, including physical proximity and auditory or visual awareness of each child?s on going activity

    “A caregiver was not aware that a child obtained an Epi Pen from another child’s backpack while in care.”

    Rule 746.1205(a)(4). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 18, 2024. Correction verified: Nov 5, 2024.

  • Safety - Areas Free From Hazards

    “A child in care retrieved an epi pen from another child’s backpack and stuck themselves with the epi pen’s injection point.”

    Rule 746.3701. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 7, 2024. Correction verified: Nov 21, 2024.

3 deficiencies older than three years
Apr 26, 2023: inspection1 deficiency
  • Required Health Statement - Written, dated within past year, indicates child is physically able to participate in operation’s child-care program

    “Two child out of 7 did not have the required health statement.”

    Rule 746.611(a)(1). Low, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 3, 2023. Correction verified: May 1, 2023.

Aug 2, 2022: report to the state2 deficiencies
  • Prohibited Punishments - Pinching, Shaking, or Biting

    “A caregiver unintentionally scratched a child’s arm when grabbing the child by the arm. This occurred when the caregiver redirected the child after the child pushed another child.”

    Rule 746.2805(3). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 17, 2022. Correction verified: Aug 19, 2022.

  • Positive Methods of Discipline and Guidance - Redirecting Behavior

    “A caregiver did not use appropriate verbal redirection with a child and give the child time to respond during a moment of discipline when the child pushed another child.”

    Rule 746.2803(4)(C). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 17, 2022. Correction verified: Aug 19, 2022.

All 29 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Aug 25, 2026Inspection1 deficiency cited
Jun 25, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Jun 17, 2026Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Jun 1, 2026InspectionNo violation found
May 20, 2026InspectionNo violation found
May 16, 2026Report to the state2 deficiencies cited
Apr 30, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Apr 23, 2026Report to the state2 deficiencies cited
Mar 17, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Feb 26, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Feb 24, 2026Report to the stateNo violation found
Feb 18, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Aug 7, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Aug 5, 2025Report to the stateNo violation found
Mar 6, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Feb 20, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Feb 17, 2025Report to the stateNo violation found
Nov 21, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Nov 5, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Sep 26, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Sep 25, 2024Report to the state3 deficiencies cited
Sep 25, 2024Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Mar 20, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Apr 26, 2023Inspection1 deficiency cited
Aug 19, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Aug 12, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Aug 3, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Aug 2, 2022Report to the state2 deficiencies cited
Jun 3, 2022InspectionNo violation found

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Mar 11, 2013.
  • Accepts state child care subsidies.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 170 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.
  • 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 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 star-rated in Texas Rising Star (TWC’s code: SUSI).
Source:

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

How does it compare nearby?

  • Among 98 child care providers in Ellis County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 1; this one had 11.
Source:

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

11 of the 98 in Ellis County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Promise Child Development Center This child care provider11
Carrie Finley0
Ark of Friendship0
Shackelford YMCA0
Lafondas Kids2
Condor Child Care6
Future Generations Christian Child Care Center2
Fire House Kids, LLC3
Carla Regalado0
YMCA @ Max Simpson Elementary0
YMCA @ Marvin Elementary2
Mini Scientist Academy0

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.

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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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