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Goddard School Long Meadow Farm

A licensed child care center in Richmond, Texas 77406

21024 W Bellfort, Richmond, Texas 77406. (281) 232-7980.

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The short answer

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

The last 24 months 9 deficiencies in 5 months of the last 36. Last cited Feb 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?

9 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 477 child care providers in Fort Bend County had 4.

15 inspections on record. The latest, on Oct 7, 2026: no violation found.

Rated High by Texas: Prohibited Punishments - Corporal Punishment, at the report to the state on Mar 19, 2024

Rated High by Texas: Responsibilities of Caregivers - Know children responsible for, at the inspection on Feb 27, 2024

Source:

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

When those deficiencies happened

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

9 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.

Feb 2, 2026: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Written Operational Policies - Parent Rights

    “The operational policies were lacking of the parent’s rights information. Form 2987 was not available neither.”

    Rule 746.501(a)(20). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 16, 2026. Correction verified: Feb 13, 2026.

  • Required Personnel Records - Required Affidavit (Form 2912)

    “Employee’s files were lacking of pre-employment affidavit form 2912.”

    Rule 746.901(5). Medium Low, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 16, 2026. Correction verified: Feb 4, 2026.

Jan 21, 2025: assessment1 deficiency

  • Report Number of Employees

    “A review of the Employees Who Left Employment in 2024 data 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 24, 2025. Correction verified: Jan 22, 2025.

Jul 30, 2024: report to the state1 deficiency

  • Training Requirements for Employees, Caregivers, and Directors - Pediatric CPR

    “Based on information obtained during the investigation two caregivers employed for over 90 days as of July 30, 2024, did not have current first aid and CPR training.”

    Rule 746.1301(a)(4)(A). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 29, 2024. Correction verified: Sep 13, 2024.

Mar 19, 2024: report to the state1 deficiency

  • Prohibited Punishments - Corporal Punishment

    “Based on investigation findings a caregiver inappropriately disciplined a child in care.”

    Rule 746.2805(1). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 17, 2024. Correction verified: May 21, 2024.

Feb 27, 2024: inspection4 deficiencies

  • Responsibilities of Caregivers - Know children responsible for

    “Two caregivers did not know the age of the children in their classroom.”

    Rule 746.1205(a)(1). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 27, 2024. Correction verified: Mar 6, 2024.

  • Diaper Changing Equipment - Smooth, Non-absorbent, Easy to Clean Surface

    “Diaper changing pad was torn and ripped in the Pre-Toddler classroom.”

    Rule 746.3503(a). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 29, 2024. Correction verified: Mar 6, 2024.

  • Diapering Procedures-Soiled Diapers Kept in a Sanitary Manner

    “A dirty diaper was left on the diaper changing pad in the Toddler classroom during inspection. The caregiver was not changing diapers at this time.”

    Rule 746.3505(f). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 27, 2024. Correction verified: Mar 6, 2024.

  • Annual Fire Inspection - Conducted by Fire Marshal

    “The fire inspection was last conducted October 26, 2022.”

    Rule 746.5101(b). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 12, 2024. Correction verified: Mar 15, 2024.

3 deficiencies older than three years
Jan 28, 2022: inspection2 deficiencies

  • AP Background check results - Must receive notification prior to allowing subject to be present at your operation

    “Two emplyees were at the operation without clear background checks. A caregiver was seen monitoring children outside with no background check. A caregiver was seen in a classroom while children were seated for circle time.”

    Rule 745.641. High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 28, 2022. Correction verified: Feb 2, 2022.

  • Responsibilities of Caregivers- Supervision of Children

    “A caregiver was seen sitting in a chair while children were jumping off of a ledge on the play area. The caregiver stood near the ledge as the children played to see all areas of the playground.”

    Rule 746.1203(4). High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 28, 2022.

Dec 10, 2021: report to the state1 deficiency

  • Prohibited Punishments - No Harsh, Cruel or Unusual

    “A volunteer employed by the center pushed a child in care to the ground.”

    Rule 746.2805. High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 24, 2022. Correction verified: Jan 28, 2022.

All 24 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Oct 7, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Feb 2, 2026Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Feb 12, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Jan 21, 2025Assessment1 deficiency cited
Jan 17, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Jan 14, 2025Report to the stateNo violation found
Oct 14, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Aug 8, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Jul 30, 2024Report to the state1 deficiency cited
May 21, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Apr 1, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Mar 19, 2024Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Mar 6, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Feb 27, 2024Inspection4 deficiencies cited
Feb 23, 2024Report to the stateNo violation found
Nov 18, 2023Report to the stateNo violation found
May 11, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Apr 18, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Apr 12, 2023Report to the stateNo violation found
Jul 19, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Feb 2, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Jan 28, 2022Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Dec 10, 2021Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Oct 19, 2021Report to the stateNo violation found

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Feb 5, 2015.
  • Its permit has conditions.
  • Accepts state child care subsidies.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 193 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.
  • 8 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: 4-Star (the highest 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 477 child care providers in Fort Bend County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 4; this one had 9.
Source:

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

11 of the 477 in Fort Bend County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Funshine Academy4
Tw Davis YMCA Austin Elementary0
Mamaluz’s Learning Center1
Goddard School Long Meadow Farm This child care provider9
Meadow Montessori School, Inc.2
Gingerbread House/Bentley After-School Program11
Primrose School at Waterside Estates7
Ivy Kids at Long Meadow Farms7
Discovery Early Learning Center12
Bellavision Montessori School12
Jennifer TaylorNot given
Harvest Green Montessori School5

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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