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Michelle’s Daycare-Preschool

A licensed child care center in El Campo, Texas 77437

1256 N Mechanic St, El Campo, Texas 77437. (979) 358-0596.

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The short answer

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

The last 24 months 1 deficiency in 1 month of the last 36. Last cited Jan 2025. Most serious: Medium Low. 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?

1 deficiency cited in the last three years

The middle of the 19 child care providers in Wharton County had 4.

14 inspections on record. The latest, on Sep 29, 2026: no violation found.

Source:

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

When those deficiencies happened

1 deficiency in 1 month of the last 36. Last cited Jan 2025. Most serious: Medium Low. The last 3 years, to Oct 24, 2026.

1 deficiency 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.

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 28, 2025.

14 deficiencies older than three years
Jul 7, 2023: report to the state2 deficiencies
  • Maintenance of Building, Grounds and Equipment

    “The operation did not replace a missing door handle.”

    Rule 746.3407. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 8, 2023. Correction verified: Sep 11, 2023.

  • Licensing Incident/Illness Report Form - Situations Placing Children at Risk

    “The operation did not complete form 7239 Licensing incident/illness report when a child?s finger was shut in the door, sustaining an injury.”

    Rule 746.701(5). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 8, 2023. Correction verified: Sep 26, 2023.

May 12, 2023: inspection1 deficiency
  • Child/ Caregiver Ratio - 13 or More Children

    “There was one caregiver with 5 infants with a specified age group of 0-11 months, putting the room over ratio by one infant.”

    Rule 746.1601. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 12, 2023. Correction verified: May 18, 2023.

Apr 17, 2023: inspection1 deficiency
  • Children’s Records - Immunizations

    “2 children did not have immunization records on file at the operation.”

    Rule 746.603(a)(4). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 24, 2023. Correction verified: Apr 24, 2023.

Apr 28, 2022: inspection4 deficiencies
  • Director Annual Training - Additional required topics

    “The director did not have proof of training being obtained in the required topics between training year February 2021-February 2022.”

    Rule 746.1311(e). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 5, 2022. Correction verified: May 5, 2022.

  • Written Feeding Instructions - Review and Update Every 30 Days

    “Two infants under the age of 12 months did not have monthly feeding schedules that had been updated within the last 30 days.”

    Rule 746.2421(b). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 2, 2022. Correction verified: May 2, 2022.

  • Posting Requirements - Letter or form from the most recent Licensing Inspection or Investigation

    “The most recent 2936 from inspection conducted on 2/15/22 was not posted. This was corrected when the form was printed and posted.”

    Rule 746.401(2). Medium, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 28, 2022.

  • Children’s Records - Immunizations

    “One child did not have an immunization record on file.”

    Rule 746.603(a)(4). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 2, 2022. Correction verified: May 2, 2022.

Mar 3, 2022: assessment1 deficiency
  • Report Number of Employees

    “A review of the Employees Who Left Employment in 2021 data from February 23, 2022, revealed that the center had not reported the number of employees who left employment in 2021 by February 22, 2022, as required.”

    Rule 746.303(b). Medium Low, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 6, 2022. Correction verified: Mar 3, 2022.

Feb 15, 2022: inspection5 deficiencies
  • AP Background check results - Must receive notification prior to allowing subject to be present at your operation

    “One caregiver present during the inspection did not have a background check. Note: Background check was submitted during inspection.”

    Rule 745.641. High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 15, 2022. Correction verified: Feb 15, 2022.

  • Responsibilities of Caregivers - Know Group Responsible For

    “One caregiver thought she had 11 children, but there were only 10 children present at the time.”

    Rule 746.1203(2). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 15, 2022. Correction verified: Feb 23, 2022.

  • Safety Requirements for Active Play Equipment - No Pinch, Crush, or Shear Points

    “Round barrel play structure has 3 large long cracks on top. The plastic is rotted from the sun and weather exposure.”

    Rule 746.4601(7). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 22, 2022. Correction verified: Feb 23, 2022.

  • Responsibilities of Caregivers - Know Children’s Names and Ages

    “During inspection walk through 3 caregivers could not determine the age of the youngest child in the room.”

    Rule 746.1203(3). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 15, 2022. Correction verified: Feb 23, 2022.

  • Infant Care Area Furnishings and Equipment -Use of Safety Straps

    “One 18 month old child was sitting in a high chair and was not strapped in using the straps.”

    Rule 746.2407. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 15, 2022.

All 23 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Sep 29, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Nov 7, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Jul 1, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Apr 15, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Mar 5, 2025Report to the stateNo violation found
Feb 28, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Feb 27, 2025Report to the stateNo violation found
Jan 31, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Jan 21, 2025Assessment1 deficiency cited
Jul 29, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Jul 26, 2024Report to the stateNo violation found
Mar 6, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Jul 7, 2023Report to the state2 deficiencies cited
May 18, 2023InspectionNo violation found
May 12, 2023Inspection1 deficiency cited
May 10, 2023Report to the stateNo violation found
Apr 17, 2023Inspection1 deficiency cited
Dec 8, 2022Report to the stateNo violation found
Apr 28, 2022Inspection4 deficiencies cited
Mar 3, 2022Assessment1 deficiency cited
Feb 23, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Feb 15, 2022Inspection5 deficiencies cited
Feb 3, 2022Report to the stateNo violation found

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Jan 30, 2015.
  • Its permit has conditions.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 51 children.
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.
  • 7 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 19 child care providers in Wharton County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 4; this one had 1.
Source:

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

11 of the 19 in Wharton County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
The First School1
Michelle’s Daycare-Preschool This child care provider1
Susan E Rod2
Elida CisnerosNot given
Mrs. Beckys Home Away From Home Child Care Learning Center11
Sunny Days Preschool2
Jaylen Espitia3
Little Unicorns Daycare8
The First School Preschool and Youth Center0
Faith Lutheran Preschool5
Presbyterian Preschool15
Busy Bee7

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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