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Little Hawks Early Childhood Center

A licensed child care center in Sour Lake, Texas 77659

17694 Hwy 105, Sour Lake, Texas 77659. (409) 287-2005.

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The short answer

Record last released by Texas HHSC on Oct 24, 2026.

The last 24 months 15 deficiencies in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited Sep 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?

15 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 21 child care providers in Hardin County had 5.

5 inspections on record. The latest, on Sep 8, 2026: 11 deficiencies cited.

Rated High by Texas: Required Equipment in Vehicles - List of Children, at the inspection on Sep 10, 2025

Rated High by Texas: Required Equipment in Vehicles - Fire Extinguisher, at the inspection on Sep 10, 2025

Source:

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data) and inspections and investigations. Released Oct 24, 2026. Updated daily.

When those deficiencies happened

15 deficiencies in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited Sep 2026. Most serious: High. The last 3 years, to Oct 24, 2026.

15 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 24, 2026. Updated daily.

Sep 8, 2026: inspection11 deficiencies

  • Safety - Areas Free From Hazards

    “The wooden boarder on the outdoor play area was raised presenting a possible tripping hazard.”

    Rule 746.3701. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 22, 2026. Correction verified: Sep 18, 2026.

  • Documented Annual Training- Required Content

    “One out of nine staff were missing training for emergency preparedness, preventing and controlling the spread of communicable diseases, administrering medication. Thw out of nine staff were missing training for preventing and responding to emergencies due to food or an allergic reaction, understanding building and physical premises safety, and handling, storing, and disposing of hazardous materials.”

    Rule 746.1309(e). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 22, 2026. Correction verified: Sep 21, 2026.

  • Director Annual Training - Additional required topics

    “The director was missing training for emergency preparedness, preventing and controlling the spread of communicable diseases, administrering medication, preventing and responding to emergencies due to food or an allergic reaction, understanding building and physical premises safety, and handling, storing, and disposing of hazardous materials.”

    Rule 746.1311(e). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 22, 2026. Correction verified: Sep 18, 2026.

  • Written Operational Policies - Transportation

    “Information regarding transportation procedures was not observed to be in the parent handbook.”

    Rule 746.501(a)(14). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 22, 2026. Correction verified: Sep 18, 2026.

  • Written Operational Policies - Field Trips

    “Information regarding field trip procedures were not included in the parent handbook.”

    Rule 746.501(a)(16). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 22, 2026. Correction verified: Sep 15, 2026.

  • Written Operational Policies - Promotion of Physical Activity

    “The parent handbook did not include information about the promotion of indoor and outdoor physical activity including the benefits of physical activity and outdoor play, the type of physical activity (structured and unstructured) that children may engage in, each setting in which your physical activity program will take place; criteria you will use to determine when extreme weather conditions pose a significant health risk that prohibits or limits outdoor play, and A plan to ensure physical activity occurs on days when extreme weather conditions prohibit or limit outdoor play.”

    Rule 746.501(a)(18). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 22, 2026. Correction verified: Sep 15, 2026.

  • Written Operational Policies - Parent Rights

    “Parent rights were not observed in the parent handbook.”

    Rule 746.501(a)(20). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 22, 2026. Correction verified: Sep 18, 2026.

  • Required Personnel Records- Meets Requirements

    “Five out of ten staff files were missing documentation showing how the employee meets the minimum age and education qualifications.”

    Rule 746.901(2). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 22, 2026. Correction verified: Sep 18, 2026.

  • Required Personnel Records - Photo Identification

    “Three out of ten staff files were missing a copy of a photo identification.”

    Rule 746.901(9). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 22, 2026. Correction verified: Sep 18, 2026.

  • Required Personnel Records - Required Affidavit (Form 2985)

    “Four out of ten staff members were missing a notarized Affidavit for Applicants for Employment with a Licensed Operation or Registered Child-Care Home (Form 2985).”

    Rule 746.901(4). Medium Low, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 22, 2026. Correction verified: Sep 18, 2026.

  • Required Personnel Records - Required Affidavit (Form 2912)

    “Six out of ten staff files were missing a Pre-Employment Affidavit for Applicants for Employment at Certain Child Care Operations (Form 2912).”

    Rule 746.901(5). Medium Low, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 22, 2026. Correction verified: Sep 18, 2026.

Sep 10, 2025: inspection3 deficiencies

  • Required Equipment in Vehicles - List of Children

    “The operation uses two vehicles for transportation. One vehicle had all the required information for both vehicles. Each vehicle should have information for the children that they are transporting.”

    Rule 746.5617(a)(1). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 11, 2025. Correction verified: Sep 11, 2025.

  • Required Equipment in Vehicles - Fire Extinguisher

    “The fire extinguishers in the operation’s vehicles were not mounted.”

    Rule 746.5617(a)(5). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 15, 2025. Correction verified: Sep 18, 2025.

  • Children’s Records - Immunizations

    “Five children’s admission files were lacking current immunization records.”

    Rule 746.603(a)(4). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 19, 2025. Correction verified: Sep 11, 2025.

Sep 17, 2024: inspection1 deficiency

  • Written Operational Policies - Support inclusive services

    “The operational policies were lacking information related to the support of inclusive services.”

    Rule 746.501(a)(30). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 23, 2024. Correction verified: Sep 19, 2024.

3 deficiencies older than three years
Sep 26, 2023: inspection1 deficiency

  • Children’s Records - Immunizations

    “Two children’s enrollment information was lacking current immunization records.”

    Rule 746.603(a)(4). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 4, 2023. Correction verified: Sep 28, 2023.

Oct 5, 2022: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Written Feeding Instructions - Review and Update Every 30 Days

    “One infant feeding schedule has not been updated within the past 30 days.”

    Rule 746.2421(b). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 10, 2022. Correction verified: Oct 6, 2022.

  • Written Operational Policies - Promotion of Physical Activity

    “The operational policies were lacking information related to the promotion of physical activities.”

    Rule 746.501(a)(18). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 10, 2022. Correction verified: Oct 6, 2022.

All 6 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Sep 8, 2026Inspection11 deficiencies cited
Sep 10, 2025Inspection3 deficiencies cited
Sep 17, 2024Inspection1 deficiency cited
Sep 26, 2023Inspection1 deficiency cited
Aug 12, 2023Report to the stateNo violation found
Oct 5, 2022Inspection2 deficiencies cited

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Jan 17, 2013.
  • Accepts state child care subsidies.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 122 children.
Source:

Texas HHSC, child care operations. Released Oct 24, 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 24, 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 Oct 24, 2026. Updated daily.

How does it compare nearby?

  • Among 21 child care providers in Hardin County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 5; this one had 15.
Source:

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data). Released Oct 24, 2026. Updated daily.

11 of the 21 in Hardin County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Little Hawks Early Childhood Center This child care provider15
Happy Hearts Learning Academy, LLC3
Children’s World Daycare Center16
Met Early Head Start3
Love Fellowship Day Care Center22
Kids Kampus 2.01
Met Head Start of Hardin County2
Gail StephensNot given
Met Early Head Start-Silsbee1
Raider Days18
Amanda Drone3
Julia Renee Hickerson9

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 24, 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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