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Little Acorns Academy

A licensed child care center in Blanco, Texas 78606

921 Cherry St, Blanco, Texas 78606. (830) 833-0222.

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The short answer

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

The last 24 months 14 deficiencies in 6 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?

14 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 4 child care providers in Blanco County had 2.5.

13 inspections on record. The latest, on Nov 2, 2026: no violation found.

Rated High by Texas: Required Admission Information - Emergency Medical Authorization, at the inspection on Apr 22, 2026

Rated High by Texas: Prohibited Punishments - Corporal Punishment, at the report to the state on Dec 27, 2024

Rated High by Texas: Prohibited Punishments - Humiliating, Rejecting, Yelling, at the report to the state on Dec 27, 2024

Source:

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

When those deficiencies happened

14 deficiencies in 6 months of the last 36. Last cited Sep 2026. Most serious: High. The last 3 years, to Nov 5, 2026.

14 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 Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.

Sep 17, 2026: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Maintenance of Building, Grounds and Equipment

    “The last documented time of playground maintenance checklist was completed was the week of May 4-8, 2026”

    Rule 746.3407. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 25, 2026. Correction verified: Sep 25, 2026.

  • Fenced Outdoor Activity Space -Gates Locked

    “The back gate would not latch.”

    Rule 746.4309. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 1, 2026. Correction verified: Sep 25, 2026.

Apr 22, 2026: inspection1 deficiency

  • Required Admission Information - Emergency Medical Authorization

    “Of the 4 children files reviewed, 3 needed emergency authorization filled out.”

    Rule 746.605(11). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 6, 2026. Correction verified: May 5, 2026.

May 29, 2025: inspection1 deficiency

  • Documentation of Fire Inspection

    “The fire inspection was dated 6/22/2023, and expired on 6/22/2024.”

    Rule 746.5103. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 13, 2025. Correction verified: Jun 9, 2025.

Jan 7, 2025: inspection1 deficiency

  • Children Handwashing After Feeding or Touching Animals

    “The children were finishing up their lunch when I got to the location. As they finished up, they were directed to get their napmats and lay down for nap.”

    Rule 746.3417(6). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 7, 2025. Correction verified: Feb 5, 2025.

Jan 2, 2025: report to the state1 deficiency

  • AP Report Child Injury Requiring Medical Treatment by a Health-Care Professional or Hospitalization

    “It was determined that the operation did not report a broken finger to Child Care Regulation as required.”

    Rule 746.305(a)(2). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 28, 2025. Correction verified: Feb 5, 2025.

Dec 30, 2024: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Sheltering Drills for Lock-Down-4 times in a calendar year

    “The operation has not been conducting lock-down drills.”

    Rule 746.5205(3). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 13, 2025. Correction verified: Feb 5, 2025.

  • Written Activity Plans - Plan Followed by Caregiver

    “The activity plans were not dated.”

    Rule 746.2203(b). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 13, 2025. Correction verified: Feb 5, 2025.

Dec 27, 2024: report to the state4 deficiencies

  • Prohibited Punishments - Corporal Punishment

    “Of the four children interviewed, three voiced concerns for yelling and seeing others being hit with a flyswatter. Also there were two parents and former care giver with concerns about yelling and the use of a fly swatter.”

    Rule 746.2805(1). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 27, 2025. Correction verified: Feb 5, 2025.

  • Prohibited Punishments - Humiliating, Rejecting, Yelling

    “Of the four children interviewed, three voiced concerns for yelling and seeing others being hit with a flyswatter. Also there were two parents and former care giver with concerns about yelling and the use of a fly swatter.”

    Rule 746.2805(5). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 27, 2025. Correction verified: Feb 5, 2025.

  • Diaper Changing Steps- Prompt

    “While most of the children at Little Acorns are potty trained, there were 2 parents and me with concerns for prompt diaper changes.”

    Rule 746.3501(1). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 27, 2025. Correction verified: Feb 5, 2025.

  • Screen Time Activities - Not Exceed One Hour Daily

    “It was found that the operation uses screen time more than one hour day and that the content shown is not always related to the planned activities that meet educational goals.”

    Rule 746.2207(c)(3). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 27, 2025. Correction verified: Feb 5, 2025.

Jun 11, 2024: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Training Requirements for Employees, Caregivers, and Directors - 24 Annual training

    “One caregiver had 20.5 hours of the needed 24 hours for her last completed training year 2023-2024”

    Rule 746.1301(a)(5)(A). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 25, 2024. Correction verified: Jun 24, 2024.

  • Children’s Products-Posting of CPSC website

    “The operation has not done an annual certification in writing that they have reviewed each of the recalled notices issued by the consumer product safety commission and that they assure there are no unsafe products in the center.”

    Rule 746.4135(c). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 18, 2024. Correction verified: Jun 12, 2024.

2 deficiencies older than three years
Jun 21, 2023: inspection1 deficiency

  • Annual Fire Inspection - Conducted by Fire Marshal

    “It was found during the inspection the last fire inspection was conducted in 2021.”

    Rule 746.5101(b). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 5, 2023. Correction verified: Jun 22, 2023.

Mar 1, 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 4, 2022. Correction verified: Mar 1, 2022.

All 17 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Nov 2, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Oct 16, 2026InspectionOutcome pending
Oct 1, 2026InspectionOutcome pending
Sep 17, 2026Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Apr 22, 2026Inspection1 deficiency cited
May 29, 2025Inspection1 deficiency cited
Feb 5, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Jan 7, 2025Inspection1 deficiency cited
Jan 2, 2025Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Dec 30, 2024Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Dec 27, 2024Report to the state4 deficiencies cited
Dec 17, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Dec 6, 2024Report to the stateNo violation found
Jun 11, 2024Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Jun 21, 2023Inspection1 deficiency cited
Jul 20, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Mar 1, 2022Assessment1 deficiency cited

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Aug 5, 2013.
  • Accepts state child care subsidies.
  • Licensed for ages: Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 18 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.
  • 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 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 4 child care providers in Blanco County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 2.5; this one had 14.
Source:

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

3 of the 4 in Blanco County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Little Acorns Academy This child care provider14
Peggy’s Playhouse Childcare Center0
Johnson City Community Preschool5
Ink Johnson City Early Head Start Center0

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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