2y Smart Kids Care, LLC
A licensed child care center in Killeen, Texas 76549
1001 Willow Springs Rd, Killeen, Texas 76549. (803) 397-9886.
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The short answer
Record last released by Texas HHSC on Nov 5, 2026.
- 33 deficiencies cited in the last three years Middle in Bell County: 2
- 13 rated High by Texas, its most serious level (needs attention)
- 26 inspections on record
- 2-Star Texas Rising Star rating
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?
33 deficiencies cited in the last three years
The middle of the 237 child care providers in Bell County had 2.
26 inspections on record. The latest, on Sep 3, 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 inspection on May 29, 2026
Rated High by Texas: Mark Cleaning Supplies, Toxic Materials; Keep Separate from Food and Inaccessible to Children, at the inspection on Aug 4, 2025
Rated High by Texas: Responsibilities of Caregivers - Intervene to ensure each child’s safety, at the inspection on May 19, 2025
10 more rated High; all are listed below.
Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data) and inspections and investigations. Released Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.
When those deficiencies happened
28 deficiencies in 10 months of the last 36. Last cited May 2026. Most serious: High. The last 3 years, to Nov 5, 2026.
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| 2026 | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov |
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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 Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.
May 29, 2026: inspection2 deficiencies
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Supervision ensures each child?s safety, well-being, including physical proximity and auditory or visual awareness of each child?s on going activity
“Two children were observed leaving the classroom after eating and going to another classroom. The children were unsupervised.”
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Child/ Caregiver Ratio - 13 or More Children
“A caregiver was observed in a classroom with 15 children aged 18-23 months of age, bringing the room out of ratio by 6. This was corrected when a caregiver came, removed the 6 children and took them to another room placing the room into compliance.”
Dec 3, 2025: inspection1 deficiency
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Sheltering Drills for Lock-Down-4 times in a calendar year
“The operation completed 5 of the 8 required emergency drills for sheltar/severe weather and lockdowns.”
Aug 4, 2025: inspection3 deficiencies
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Mark Cleaning Supplies, Toxic Materials; Keep Separate from Food and Inaccessible to Children
“Cleaning supplies were observed underneath the hand washing sink in a classroom. This was corrected during the inspection when the supplies were removed and placed out of reach.”
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Written Operational Policies - Parent Rights
“Components of the operational policies were incomplete. Parents rights, infant safe sleep.”
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Children’s Records - Enrollment Agreement
“Enrollment agreements were incomplete for parent’s rights, signatures and water safety permissions.”
May 19, 2025: inspection1 deficiency
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Responsibilities of Caregivers - Intervene to ensure each child’s safety
“A child was observed walking unsupervised to the bathroom.”
Apr 3, 2025: inspection7 deficiencies
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AP Background check results - Must receive notification prior to allowing subject to be present at your operation
“A caregiver with a pending background was present at the operation and in a classroom caring for children. The caregiver was removed from the classroom and placed in the training room for training.”
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Supervision ensures each child?s safety, well-being, including physical proximity and auditory or visual awareness of each child?s on going activity
“A child was observed walking from the bathroom back to his classroom unsupervised.”
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Infant May Not Sleep in a Restrictive Device
“Two children were observed sleeping in restrictive devices.”
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Prohibited Punishments - Restrictive device for time out
“Three children were observed to be sitting in a restrictive device while the other children were playing around the room.”
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Training Requirements for Employees, Caregivers, and Directors - Pre-Service Training
“Four employees had not received the required 8 hours of pre-service training prior be being counted in ratio. Two caregivers were working with children, neither had SIDS/Shaken Baby, and CPR/FA.”
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Requirements for Feeding Infants - No Walking or Sleeping with Bottle or Cup
“Two children had bottles of milk in the crib. One child was drinking milk while sleeping, a second child was observed laying down with a bottle.”
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Required Records Maintained and Made Available - Personnel and Training Records
“An employee did not have the required completed records for employment. Missing from the file were education, pre-service training, CPR and F/A, photo ID, notarized and preapplication affidavits. Three other employees were observed working in the capacity of caregivers and did not have an employee file. No files had been created for these employees.”
Mar 27, 2025: inspection4 deficiencies
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AP Background ck determination - If provisionally eligible w/conditions or eligible w/conditions you must restrict duties per conditions/restrictions
“The operation was observed not following the conditions of the CBCU. A caregiver with a provisional background was observed alone with a group of children. The caregiver was placed in another room with a caregiver without conditions.”
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AP Background check results - Must receive notification prior to allowing subject to be present at your operation
“The operation had not received the background determination for a caregiver before giving the employee access to the children. A caregiver with a pending background was counted in ratio and had access to the children. Two employees were observed counted in ratio with access to children and did not have submitted background checks. The caregiver was removed and sent home.”
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Training Requirements for Employees, Caregivers, and Directors - Pre-Service Training
“Four employees had not received the required 8 hours of pre-service training prior be being counted in ratio.”
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Required Records Maintained and Made Available - Personnel and Training Records
“Four employees did not have the required completed records for employment. Missing items included: pre-service training, CPR and FA, SIDS/Shaken Baby, notarized and preapplication affidavits, photo ID’s, and proof of education.”
Jan 3, 2025: inspection1 deficiency
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Employee Handwashing After Diapering a Child
“During the inspection, a caregiver did not wash hands after diapering a child.”
Nov 18, 2024: inspection2 deficiencies
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Supervision ensures each child?s safety, well-being, including physical proximity and auditory or visual awareness of each child?s on going activity
“A caregiver was observed watching two classrooms. The caregiver was standing in the hallway at the door of the classes. This was corrected when the caregiver returned and entered the room.”
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Arrangement of Napping Equipment -All Children Supervised
“Nap mats did not have enough space for walking between each one.”
Sep 6, 2024: inspection3 deficiencies
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Transportation Safety Training -Director and Employee Complete 2 Hours Annually
“The director and one other driver of the van did not have current transportation training.”
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Annual Fire Inspection - Conducted by Fire Marshal
“The operation did not have documentation of the current fire inspection.”
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Posting Requirements - Activity Plans for each group of children in the child care center
“The parent board was missing the most recent licensing inspection, activity plans for each age group of children, menus, the local licensing number and address and the child abuse and neglect hot line.”
May 24, 2024: inspection3 deficiencies
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Naptime Child/Caregiver Ratio - Additional Employee Required
“During naptime, there were no additional employees in the building to answer the door or help caregivers who were supervising the napping groups. This was corrected during the inspection when the director and other caregivers returned to the operation.”
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Adequate Lighting During Naptime
“During naptime, two rooms were observed without adequate lighting.”
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Screen Time Activities - Not Used for Under Two
“Children under two years old were watching television. This was corrected during the inspection when the television was turned off.”
May 16, 2024: report to the state1 deficiency
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Supervision ensures each child?s safety, well-being, including physical proximity and auditory or visual awareness of each child?s on going activity
“During the investigation inspection, sufficient evidence was found to determine that proper supervision was not being maintained when two caregivers stepped out of their classrooms, leaving the children inside unsupervised. This was corrected during the inspection when the caregivers returned to their classrooms.”
Nov 13, 2023: inspection5 deficiencies
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Responsibilities of Caregivers - Intervene to ensure each child’s safety
“During the inspection one caregiver were observed leaving the classroom to answer a call from the director, leaving the children unsupervised in the classroom with the inspector.”
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Child/ Caregiver Ratio - 13 or More Children
“A caregiver was observed leaving the room to go to a hallway bathroom to wash the hands of a child, leaving 5 children in the room with one caregiver. The ratio of the room is 4 to 1. The caregiver returned to the room, bringing the room into compliance.”
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Infant Handwashing - Raised to Sink
“A caregiver was observed not washing the hands of a child. The caregiver carried the child back to the play yard without washing the child’s hands.”
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Diapering Procedures - Sanitizing Diaper Changing Area
“During the inspection, a caregiver was observed using a changing station to change two children. The diaper surface was covered with a multi-colored non-absorbent material.”
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Screen Time Activities - Not Used During Eating or Rest Times
“Children were observed watching a non-activity related cartoon program on the television while eating snack.”
13 deficiencies older than three years
Oct 31, 2023: inspection7 deficiencies
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Responsibilities of Caregivers - Intervene to ensure each child’s safety
“During the inspection an employee was observed supervising two classrooms of children from the doorway of the other classroom.”
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AP Cribs - Only Snug Fitting Sheet and Crib Mattress Cover Allowed if Infant Younger than 12 Months of Age
“During the inspection, play yards were observed with blankets, toys and bumpy padding and hats. This was corrected at inspection when the items were removed by the caregiver.”
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Prohibited Punishments - Associated with Food, Naps, or Toilet Training
“During the inspection, a child was observed sitting in a restrictive device during the rest period. This was corrected when the caregiver was removed the child and placed her at a table with an activity.”
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Child/ Caregiver Ratio - 13 or More Children
“During the inspection a caregiver was observed caring for children and was not in ratio. There were 6 children observed in care, bringing the room out of ratio by 2 children. The ratio is 1 caregiver to 4 children.”
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Safety Requirements for Play Yards - Snug Fitting Sheets
“During the inspection, 6 play yards were observed with mattresses that did not fit snugly the sides.”
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Adequate Lighting During Naptime
“Children were observed during a designated rest period, with little to no lighting and the doors were closed.”
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Screen Time Activities - Not Used During Eating or Rest Times
“Children were observed in two classrooms watching screen during the rest period.”
Oct 19, 2023: report to the state1 deficiency
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Children’s Records - Enrollment Agreement
“A child was allowed to be in care at the operation without any of the required for a completed therefore not having any emergency contact information for the child.”
Sep 19, 2022: inspection5 deficiencies
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AP Background check results - Must receive notification prior to allowing subject to be present at your operation
“There were two caregivers present without cleared background checks.”
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No Swaddling of Infant Unless Completed Sleep Exception Form on File
“Two infants were observed swaddled in the infant classroom for naptime.”
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Electronic Child Safety Alarm - installed and maintained according to manufacturer’s instructions
“There was not an electronic safety alarm installed in the transportation van.”
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Required Admission Information - Emergency Medical Authorization
“Two children’s records of six that were read did not have emergency medical authorization.”
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Arrangement of Napping Equipment - Not Blocking Entrances or Exits
“Children were observed napping near the entrance/exit of two classrooms preventing the door from being opened all the way. One child was also observed napping underneath a table.”
All 31 visits on record
| Date | Visit | What the record says |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 3, 2026 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Sep 2, 2026 | Report to the state | No violation found |
| Jun 12, 2026 | Inspection | No violation found |
| May 29, 2026 | Inspection | 2 deficiencies cited |
| Dec 3, 2025 | Inspection | 1 deficiency cited |
| Aug 20, 2025 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Aug 4, 2025 | Inspection | 3 deficiencies cited |
| Aug 1, 2025 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Jul 22, 2025 | Report to the state | No violation found |
| May 28, 2025 | Inspection | No violation found |
| May 19, 2025 | Inspection | 1 deficiency cited |
| May 15, 2025 | Report to the state | No violation found |
| Apr 15, 2025 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Apr 3, 2025 | Inspection | 7 deficiencies cited |
| Mar 27, 2025 | Inspection | 4 deficiencies cited |
| Jan 17, 2025 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Jan 3, 2025 | Inspection | 1 deficiency cited |
| Dec 2, 2024 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Nov 20, 2024 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Nov 18, 2024 | Inspection | 2 deficiencies cited |
| Sep 6, 2024 | Inspection | 3 deficiencies cited |
| May 31, 2024 | Inspection | No violation found |
| May 24, 2024 | Inspection | 3 deficiencies cited |
| May 16, 2024 | Report to the state | 1 deficiency cited |
| Nov 20, 2023 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Nov 13, 2023 | Inspection | 5 deficiencies cited |
| Oct 31, 2023 | Inspection | 7 deficiencies cited |
| Oct 19, 2023 | Report to the state | 1 deficiency cited |
| Sep 13, 2023 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Sep 27, 2022 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Sep 19, 2022 | Inspection | 5 deficiencies cited |
Is it licensed?
- Licensed Center, permit issued May 18, 2015.
- Accepts state child care subsidies.
- Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
- Capacity: 84 children.
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.
- 5 reports to the state on record; Texas doesn’t publish whether they were A complaint allegation the state investigated and found true: the evidence showed it more likely than not happened. Inconclusive means the evidence couldn’t show it either way. Neither inconclusive nor unsubstantiated proves it didn’t happen. Source: California Department of Social Services, complaint findings; each state’s licensing agency..
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).
Texas Workforce Commission, subsidy providers and Texas Rising Star. Released Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.
How does it compare nearby?
- Among 237 child care providers in Bell County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 2; this one had 33.
Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data). Released Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.
| Place | Deficiencies, 3 years |
|---|---|
| Maria Burgos | 4 |
| Tiny Troops Learning Center | 4 |
| A Heart for the Children | 0 |
| Theresas Creative Minds | 6 |
| Carmen Y Benitez Rivera | 2 |
| Just for Tots #4 | 28 |
| Asymca @ Dr. Joseph A. Fowler | 8 |
| 2y Smart Kids Care, LLC This child care provider | 33 |
| Doris West | 4 |
| Anita Delores Smith | 1 |
| Sandra Lee Powell | 9 |
| Pershing Park YMCA | 0 |
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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Texas Health and Human Services Commission, Child care operations (bc5r-88dy).
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Texas Health and Human Services Commission, Inspections and investigations (m5q4-3y3d).
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Texas Health and Human Services Commission, Deficiencies (non-compliance data) (tqgd-mf4x).
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Texas Workforce Commission, Subsidy providers and Texas Rising Star.
Released Nov 5, 2026 and checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily. No licence stated.
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