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Creative Learning Educational Childcare

A licensed child care center in Del Rio, Texas 78840

800 E 12th St, Del Rio, Texas 78840. (830) 488-6408.

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The short answer

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

The last 24 months 4 deficiencies in 2 months of the last 36. Last cited Dec 2024. 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?

4 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 18 child care providers in Val Verde County had 8.

14 inspections on record. The latest, on Dec 3, 2025: no violation found.

Rated High by Texas: Written Operational Policies - Unassigned Epinephrine Auto-Injectors, at the inspection on Jan 16, 2024

Source:

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

When those deficiencies happened

4 deficiencies in 2 months of the last 36. Last cited Dec 2024. Most serious: High. The last 3 years, to Nov 2, 2026.

4 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.

Dec 3, 2024: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Child/ Caregiver Ratio - 13 or More Children

    “The operation had 1 caregiver with 12 children in a classroom when the specified age group was 2 years old. This was corrected when director moved a child to another room.”

    Rule 746.1601. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 3, 2024. Correction verified: Dec 17, 2024.

  • Child Passenger Safety Seat System - Not expired or damaged in accident

    “The operation had expired booster seats in both vans used to transport children. The last time boosters seats were used was the day before. This was corrected at inspection when the director removed all the expired seats and replaced with new ones.”

    Rule 746.5607(b). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 3, 2024.

Jan 16, 2024: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Written Operational Policies - Unassigned Epinephrine Auto-Injectors

    “The operation did not have policy for unassigned Epinephrine pens in their operational policy.”

    Rule 746.501(a)(29). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 19, 2024. Correction verified: Jan 18, 2024.

  • Written Operational Policies - Support inclusive services

    “The operation did not have policy for inclusive services to children with special care needs in their operational policy.”

    Rule 746.501(a)(30). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 19, 2024. Correction verified: Jan 18, 2024.

5 deficiencies older than three years
Jun 16, 2022: report to the state2 deficiencies

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

    “A child was scratched by another child while in care. The caregiver in the classroom saw the child crying and the child holding their face, however the caregiver claims to have not noticed the scratches even after the scratches were pointed out by another caregiver. Neither caregiver informed the director about the scratches.”

    Rule 746.1201(1). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 10, 2022. Correction verified: Aug 17, 2022.

  • Parental Notification of Less Serious Injuries

    “A child was scratched by another child while at the center. The staff failed to notify the parent of the scratches.”

    Rule 746.307(c). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 10, 2022. Correction verified: Aug 17, 2022.

May 24, 2022: inspection1 deficiency

  • Written Activity Plan - Group Name and Dates

    “The activity plan posted in classroom #3 and #4 were for the week of May 16-20, 2022. Corrected at inspection: The activity plan for the week was done and posted during the inspection.”

    Rule 746.2205(a)(1). Medium, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 24, 2022.

Jan 27, 2022: report to the state2 deficiencies

  • Safety Precautions for Loading and Unloading Children - Account for All Children

    “A caregiver failed to account for all the children before leaving the van unattended.”

    Rule 746.5605(3). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 31, 2022. Correction verified: Feb 10, 2022.

  • AP Safety Precautions for Loading and Unloading Children - No Child Unattended

    “A child was left unattended in the transportation van for less than a minute.”

    Rule 746.5605(4). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 31, 2022. Correction verified: Feb 10, 2022.

All 17 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Dec 3, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Dec 17, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Dec 3, 2024Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Jan 16, 2024Inspection2 deficiencies cited
May 19, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Jan 25, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Sep 22, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Aug 17, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Jun 17, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Jun 16, 2022Report to the state2 deficiencies cited
May 24, 2022Inspection1 deficiency cited
Apr 1, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Mar 31, 2022Report to the stateNo violation found
Feb 22, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Feb 10, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Jan 31, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Jan 27, 2022Report to the state2 deficiencies cited

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Feb 28, 2013.
  • Accepts state child care subsidies.
  • Licensed for ages: Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 85 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.
  • 3 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 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 18 child care providers in Val Verde County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 8; this one had 4.
Source:

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

11 of the 18 in Val Verde County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Creative Learning Educational Childcare This child care provider4
J.d.’s Academy3
Kids Zone Preschool & Youth Center, LLC19
Wonderland Daycare Center, Inc.10
Wonderland Daycare Center, Inc. #212
The Learning Express Center LLC #14
Mimi’s Learning Center2
Kid’s Playhouse Child Care and Learning Center9
Sunnyside Childcare & Academy LLC15
Kids R Kids Daycare11
Emmazing Kids Childcare & Learning Center9
Bright Beginnings Daycare2

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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