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Brainy Kids Place, LLC

A licensed child care center in Santa Fe, Texas 77510

13307 FM 1764 & 3606 Ave S, Santa Fe, Texas 77510. (409) 925-2437.

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The short answer

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

The last 24 months 4 deficiencies in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited Sep 2026. Most serious: High. Every month

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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 127 child care providers in Galveston County had 5.

10 inspections on record. The latest, on Sep 23, 2026: 1 deficiency cited.

Rated High by Texas: Electronic Child Safety Alarm - installed and maintained according to manufacturer’s instructions, at the inspection on Sep 23, 2026

Rated High by Texas: Required Equipment in Vehicles - List of Children, at the inspection on Feb 24, 2025

Rated High by Texas: Responsibilities of Employees and Caregivers -Demonstrate Competency, Good Judgment, Self-control, at the report to the state on Feb 3, 2025

Source:

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

When those deficiencies happened

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

Sep 23, 2026: inspection1 deficiency

  • Electronic Child Safety Alarm - installed and maintained according to manufacturer’s instructions

    “During the monitoring inspection, the transporation van was inspected but the child safety alarm was not working.”

    Rule 746.5625(b). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 2, 2026. Correction verified: Sep 30, 2026.

Feb 24, 2025: inspection1 deficiency

  • Required Equipment in Vehicles - List of Children

    “During follow up, transporter did not use checklist to verify who was being transported and dropped off at which school.”

    Rule 746.5617(a)(1). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 25, 2025. Correction verified: Feb 25, 2025.

Feb 3, 2025: report to the state1 deficiency

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

    “Driver did not demonstrate good judgement when they were unaware of an incident occurring on the van. Good Judgement was not used when driver did not notice a child unbuckle their seatbelt to unbuckle another child seatbelt while vehicle was on. Which led to a child being injured.”

    Rule 746.1201(1). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 24, 2025. Correction verified: Feb 24, 2025.

Oct 2, 2024: inspection1 deficiency

  • Required Admission Information - Special Needs Statement

    “During inspection two children files observed did not have a place for parents to state any special needs or accomendations children who have special needs might need.”

    Rule 746.605(12). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 9, 2024. Correction verified: Nov 1, 2024.

5 deficiencies older than three years
Oct 5, 2022: inspection4 deficiencies

  • CPR Training and Recertification Adhere to Guidelines-skill based

    “Five caregivers completed CPR training online.”

    Rule 746.1315(b)(1). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 12, 2022. Correction verified: Oct 12, 2022.

  • Maintenance of Building, Grounds and Equipment

    “Three out of the six classrooms observed had rips and tears on floor mats. Playground cover had two tears. Bottle/Food warmer had residue inside. Pictures were taken.”

    Rule 746.3407. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 19, 2022. Correction verified: Oct 19, 2022.

  • Required Admission Information - Emergency Contact

    “One child was missing emergency contact address.”

    Rule 746.605(6). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 7, 2022. Correction verified: Oct 7, 2022.

  • Required Personnel Records - Required Affidavit

    “One caregiver did not have a notarized affidavit on file.”

    Rule 746.901(4). Medium Low, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 7, 2022. Correction verified: Oct 7, 2022.

Nov 30, 2021: inspection1 deficiency

  • Written Feeding Instructions - Review and Update Every 30 Days

    “Seven infant feeding sheets were not updated.”

    Rule 746.2421(b). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 6, 2021. Correction verified: Dec 2, 2021.

All 13 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Sep 23, 2026Inspection1 deficiency cited
Oct 1, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Feb 24, 2025Inspection1 deficiency cited
Feb 7, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Feb 3, 2025Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Nov 7, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Oct 29, 2024Report to the stateNo violation found
Oct 2, 2024Inspection1 deficiency cited
Aug 2, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Jul 19, 2024Report to the stateNo violation found
Oct 6, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Oct 5, 2022Inspection4 deficiencies cited
Nov 30, 2021Inspection1 deficiency cited

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Aug 4, 2014.
  • Its permit has conditions.
  • Accepts state child care subsidies.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 151 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?

  • Texas Rising Star: 2-Star (the first of three levels).
Source:

Texas Workforce Commission, subsidy providers and Texas Rising Star. Released Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.

How does it compare nearby?

  • Among 127 child care providers in Galveston County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 5; this one had 4.
Source:

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

11 of the 127 in Galveston County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Brainy Kids Place, LLC This child care provider4
Wee Care Mothers Day Out At1st Baptist Church of Alta Loma1
Jenny McginnesNot given
Polly World Inc. First Step Daycare5
Creative Explorers: Kubacak0
Creative Explorers: Barnett0
Terri Williams6
Childworks22
Kimberly Ford1
Tracy GeesingNot given
Growing With Wonder Academy0
Hmt Investments Inc. DBA Kids and Company3

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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