Happy Hippopotamus Daycare Academy of Spring Hill

A licensed child care center in Longview, Texas 75604

3833 Gilmer Rd, Longview, Texas 75604. (903) 759-4477.

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The short answer

Record last released by Texas HHSC on Oct 30, 2026.

7 deficiencies cited in the last three years Middle in Gregg County: 4
2 rated High by Texas, its most serious level (needs attention)
10 inspections on record
3-Star Texas Rising Star rating

The last 24 months 7 deficiencies in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited Sep 2025. 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 68 child care providers in Gregg County had 4.

10 inspections on record. The latest, on Sep 4, 2026: no violation found.

Rated High by Texas: Activities for Infants - Not in Restrictive Device for more than 15 Minutes, at the inspection on Sep 5, 2025

Rated High by Texas: Annual Fire Inspection - Before Initial Permit Issued and Every 12 Months, at the inspection on Nov 8, 2023

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data) and inspections and investigations. Released Oct 30, 2026. Updated daily.

When those deficiencies happened

7 deficiencies in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited Sep 2025. Most serious: High. The last 3 years, to Oct 30, 2026.

7 deficiencies by month over the last 3 years. Each cell is one month.
	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
2023											Nov	Dec
2024	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
2025	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
2026	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct

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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

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.

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data). Released Oct 30, 2026. Updated daily.

Sep 5, 2025: inspection2 deficiencies

Activities for Infants - Not in Restrictive Device for more than 15 Minutes

“During the inspection an infant was observed inside a restrictive device, rocker, for more than 15 minutes.”

Rule 746.2417(2)(B). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 5, 2025. Correction verified: Sep 19, 2025.
Safety - Areas Free From Hazards

“During the insepction a bottle of hand sanitizer and cans of air freshener were observed on the ground or within reach of children.”

Rule 746.3701. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 5, 2025. Correction verified: Sep 19, 2025.

Sep 26, 2024: inspection3 deficiencies

Children’s Products-Posting of CPSC website

“The Children’s Products Certification had not been updated since Nov. 2022. This was corrected at inpseciton when the operation completed the walkthrough and verified no products from the recall list were present at the center.”

Rule 746.4135(c). Medium, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 26, 2024.
Cots, Beds, Mats Labeled With Child’s Name

“The children’s cots were not labeled in a way to denote whose cot was whose.”

Rule 746.4503(b). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 3, 2024. Correction verified: Nov 8, 2024.
Update Admission Information - Procedure

“When reviewing children’s records 6 of the 10 had not been updated in the past year.”

Rule 746.609(a). Low, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 10, 2024. Correction verified: Nov 8, 2024.

Nov 8, 2023: inspection2 deficiencies

Annual Fire Inspection - Before Initial Permit Issued and Every 12 Months

“A fire insepction had not been completed within the past 12 months, the last fire insepction was from September of 2022.”

Rule 746.5101(a). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 20, 2023. Correction verified: Nov 28, 2023.
Floors, ceilings and Walls in Good Repair and Clean

“A portion of the wall was exposing drywall and was chipping paint in the infant classroom.”

Rule 746.3407(9). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 22, 2023. Correction verified: Nov 28, 2023.

3 deficiencies older than three years

Jan 20, 2023: assessment1 deficiency

Report Number of Employees

“The operation did not complete the Employees Who Left Survey for 2022 in the required timeframe.”

Rule 746.303(b). Medium Low, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 23, 2023. Correction verified: Jan 30, 2023.

Dec 1, 2021: inspection2 deficiencies

Training Requirements for Directors 30- Annual Training

“During the inspection the directors training hours were observed. The required 30 hours were not available during the inspection.”

Rule 746.1301(6)(A). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 3, 2022. Correction verified: Feb 4, 2022.
Documented Annual Training Area - 24 Hours Required

“During the inspection the caregivers annual training was observed. Out of the 3 caregivers who required annual training none met the 24 hour requirement.”

Rule 746.1309(a). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 3, 2022. Correction verified: Feb 4, 2022.

All 14 visits on record

Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
Date	Visit	What the record says
Sep 4, 2026	Inspection	No violation found
Sep 2, 2026	Report to the state	No violation found
Nov 20, 2025	Inspection	No violation found
Nov 18, 2025	Report to the state	No violation found
Sep 19, 2025	Inspection	No violation found
Sep 5, 2025	Inspection	2 deficiencies cited
Nov 8, 2024	Inspection	No violation found
Sep 26, 2024	Inspection	3 deficiencies cited
Sep 24, 2024	Report to the state	No violation found
Nov 28, 2023	Inspection	No violation found
Nov 8, 2023	Inspection	2 deficiencies cited
Jan 20, 2023	Assessment	1 deficiency cited
Nov 18, 2022	Inspection	No violation found
Dec 1, 2021	Inspection	2 deficiencies cited

Is it licensed?

Licensed Center, permit issued Nov 6, 2013.
Accepts state child care subsidies.
Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
Capacity: 97 children.

Texas HHSC, child care operations. Released Oct 30, 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 .

Texas HHSC, child care operations and inspections and investigations. Released Oct 30, 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).

Texas Workforce Commission, subsidy providers and Texas Rising Star. Released Oct 30, 2026. Updated daily.

How does it compare nearby?

Among 68 child care providers in Gregg County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 4; this one had 7.

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data). Released Oct 30, 2026. Updated daily.

11 of the 68 in Gregg County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
Place	Deficiencies, 3 years
Pam Hyko	3
Happy Hippopotamus Daycare Academy of Spring Hill This child care provider	7
See Saw Children’s Place - Afterschool	0
Kid Connection Preschool	3
Handprints Child Care 14	5
Heero Kids Development Center	0
Small Steps Learning Academy	3
First Step	2
Monica Warren	4
Cuddlebugs Learning Center Longview	4
Faber Enterprises DBA Jordan Country Day School	21
Sophia Beck	10

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

Texas Health and Human Services Commission, Child care operations (bc5r-88dy).

Released Oct 30, 2026 and checked Oct 30, 2026. Updated daily. Creative Commons 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication).
Texas Health and Human Services Commission, Inspections and investigations (m5q4-3y3d).

Released Oct 30, 2026 and checked Oct 30, 2026. Updated daily. Creative Commons 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication).
Texas Health and Human Services Commission, Deficiencies (non-compliance data) (tqgd-mf4x).

Released Oct 30, 2026 and checked Oct 30, 2026. Updated daily. Creative Commons 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication).
Texas Workforce Commission, Subsidy providers and Texas Rising Star.

Released Oct 30, 2026 and checked Oct 30, 2026. Updated daily. No licence stated.

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