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Lil Pirates Daycare and Learning Center

A licensed child care center in Shepherd, Texas 77371

11250 Highway 150, Shepherd, Texas 77371. (936) 727-0090.

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The short answer

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

The last 24 months 10 deficiencies in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited Jun 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?

10 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 7 child care providers in San Jacinto County had 2.

9 inspections on record. The latest, on Apr 30, 2026: no violation found.

Rated High by Texas: Supervision ensures each child?s safety, well-being, including physical proximity and auditory or visual awareness of each child?s on going activity, at the report to the state on Jun 27, 2025

Rated High by Texas: Annual Fire Inspection - Before Initial Permit Issued and Every 12 Months, at the inspection on May 16, 2025

Rated High by Texas: Director Responsibilities - Operate in Compliance, at the report to the state on May 15, 2025

2 more rated High; all are listed below.

Source:

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

When those deficiencies happened

10 deficiencies in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited Jun 2025. Most serious: High. The last 3 years, to Oct 24, 2026.

10 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.

Jun 27, 2025: report to the state1 deficiency

  • Supervision ensures each child?s safety, well-being, including physical proximity and auditory or visual awareness of each child?s on going activity

    “Based on information obtained during the inspection and through staff interviews, it was determined that a child was not properly supervised at the time of an incident. The child obtained an injury during the incident. The injury sustained required medical treatment.”

    Rule 746.1205(a)(4). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 2, 2025. Correction verified: Jul 2, 2025.

May 16, 2025: inspection1 deficiency

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

    “The fire inspection expired on 5/14/2025. The Director is going to correct this by getting the fire inspection done.”

    Rule 746.5101(a). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 28, 2025. Correction verified: May 28, 2025.

May 15, 2025: report to the state7 deficiencies

  • Director Responsibilities - Operate in Compliance

    “Based on the information obtained and the standards that were cited, the Director has not been ensuring that the operation is operating in compliance.”

    Rule 746.1003(1). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 19, 2025. Correction verified: May 28, 2025.

  • Infants sleep in Designated Crib, Cot, Bed, or Mat

    “It was found that infants were sleeping in bouncy chairs, and two infants were sharing a playpen to sleep in.”

    Rule 746.2424. High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 19, 2025. Correction verified: May 28, 2025.

  • Infant May Not Sleep in a Restrictive Device

    “It was found that infants have been sleeping in bouncy chairs which are restrictive devices.”

    Rule 746.2426(a)(1). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 19, 2025. Correction verified: May 28, 2025.

  • Infant Care Area Furnishings and Equipment - Crib for Each Non-walking Infant Younger Than 12 Months of Age

    “It was found that all of the infants did not have their own cribs.”

    Rule 746.2405(2). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 19, 2025. Correction verified: May 28, 2025.

  • Adequate Lighting During Naptime

    “It was found during the inspection and through interviews that was not sufficient lighting to see all the children during naptime.”

    Rule 746.2911. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 19, 2025. Correction verified: May 28, 2025.

  • Safety - Areas Free From Hazards

    “There was a mop bucket stored in the restroom that the children use that had water in it,”

    Rule 746.3701. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 16, 2025.

  • Child/Caregiver Ratio - 12 or Fewer Children

    “Based on the information obtained during the inspection, there have been more than one occasion where the operation was out of ratio during naptime.”

    Rule 746.1701. Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 19, 2025. Correction verified: May 28, 2025.

Jan 22, 2025: assessment1 deficiency

  • Report Number of Employees

    “A Review of the Employees Who Left Employment in 2024 data from January 22, 2025, revealed that the center had not reported the number of employees who left employment in 2024 by January 15, 2025, as required.”

    Rule 746.303(b). Medium Low, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 23, 2025. Correction verified: Jan 22, 2025.

3 deficiencies older than three years
Jun 27, 2023: inspection1 deficiency

  • Required Admission Information - Emergency Medical Authorization

    “Two out of four children’s records were missing the emergency contact addresses. The Director correct this at the time of the inspection be getting the emergency contact addresses.”

    Rule 746.605(12). High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 27, 2023.

Jul 20, 2022: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Director’s Absence - Qualified Caregiver in Charge

    “The Director left a caregvier in charge while she was on vacatin who did not know where files were for Licensing to review. This was corrected when a another caregiver came over from the sister location to help out the caregiver present in the building. The corrected at inspection box will not be checked because a follow up inspeciton will be done.”

    Rule 746.1013(a). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 25, 2022. Correction verified: Aug 4, 2022.

  • Director Annual Training 30 Hours Required

    “The Director had one out 30 reauired training hours for the calendar year of 2021-2022-her hire date to her anniversary date of hire.”

    Rule 746.1311(a). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 3, 2022. Correction verified: Aug 26, 2022.

All 12 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Apr 30, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Jun 30, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Jun 27, 2025Report to the state1 deficiency cited
May 28, 2025InspectionNo violation found
May 16, 2025Inspection1 deficiency cited
May 15, 2025Report to the state7 deficiencies cited
Jan 22, 2025Assessment1 deficiency cited
Jun 17, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Jul 13, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Jun 27, 2023Inspection1 deficiency cited
Aug 4, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Jul 20, 2022Inspection2 deficiencies cited

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Feb 10, 2015.
  • Accepts state child care subsidies.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
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.
  • 2 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 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 7 child care providers in San Jacinto County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 2; this one had 10.
Source:

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

7 of the 7 in San Jacinto County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Lil Pirates Daycare and Learning Center This child care provider10
Darlynn Sherrard SchoppeNot given
Shepherd Isd Early Learning Center2
God’s Precious Creations Daycare7
Methodist School for Little Children7
Mimi’s Learning Place1
Love and Learning Academy2
Getgap Head Start and Early Head Start at Coldspring1

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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