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Sunshine Academy

A licensed child care center in Laredo, Texas 78041

2715 E Del Mar Blvd, Laredo, Texas 78041. (956) 701-3041.

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The short answer

Record last released by Texas HHSC on Oct 27, 2026.

The last 24 months 8 deficiencies in 4 months of the last 36. Last cited Aug 2026. Most serious: Medium 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?

8 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 128 child care providers in Webb County had 4.

9 inspections on record. The latest, on Aug 12, 2026: 1 deficiency cited.

Source:

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data) and inspections and investigations. Released Oct 27, 2026. Updated daily.

When those deficiencies happened

8 deficiencies in 4 months of the last 36. Last cited Aug 2026. Most serious: Medium High. The last 3 years, to Oct 27, 2026.

8 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 27, 2026. Updated daily.

Aug 12, 2026: inspection1 deficiency

  • Director Annual Training - Additional required topics

    “The director did not have the following trainings: SBS/SIDS, hazardous materials, allergic reactions, emergency preparedness, and abuse and neglect.”

    Rule 746.1311(e). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 26, 2026. Correction verified: Aug 17, 2026.

Aug 15, 2025: inspection3 deficiencies

  • Each Caregiver and the Director Must Have Current Training in pediatric CPR

    “One out of six employees had an expired CPR/First Aid certificate. One out of six employees did not have the CPR/First Aid certificate available for review.”

    Rule 746.1315(b). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 29, 2025. Correction verified: Aug 18, 2025.

  • Annual Sanitation Inspection

    “The health inspection was last conducted on 10/12/2023.”

    Rule 746.3401(a). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 29, 2025. Correction verified: Aug 21, 2025.

  • Documented Annual Training- Required Content

    “Two out of six employees did not have the building safety and communicable diseases training.”

    Rule 746.1309(e). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 29, 2025. Correction verified: Aug 27, 2025.

Mar 17, 2025: report to the state1 deficiency

  • Nutrition and Food Service - Follow Meal Patterns

    “Milk is not being provided to children on any of the meals.”

    Rule 746.3301(b). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 20, 2025. Correction verified: Jun 30, 2025.

Aug 22, 2024: inspection3 deficiencies

  • CPR Training and Recertification Adhere to Guidelines-skill based

    “Seven employee files were evaluated. One employee completed the CPR 100 % online. It did not include practice or testing on a manikin.”

    Rule 746.1315(b)(1). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 5, 2024. Correction verified: Aug 31, 2024.

  • Diaper Changing Steps-Supplies Kept Out of Child’s Reach

    “Diaper changing supplies were within children’s reach in one classroom. There are three classrooms at the operation.”

    Rule 746.3501(6). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 26, 2024. Correction verified: Sep 19, 2024.

  • Required Health Statement - Written, dated within past year, indicates child is physically able to participate in operation’s child-care program

    “Eight children’s files were evaluated. Three children’s files were pending health statements signed by a medical professional. One child was pending vision and hearing results.”

    Rule 746.611(a)(1). Low, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 5, 2024. Correction verified: Sep 19, 2024.

5 deficiencies older than three years
Sep 19, 2023: inspection1 deficiency

  • Training Requirements for Employees, Caregivers, and Directors - 24 Annual training

    “Five employee files were reviewed. Two employees were missing 24 hours of pre-service training. One employee is pending the 20 hours of annual training.”

    Rule 746.1301(a)(5)(A). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 3, 2023. Correction verified: Oct 3, 1987.

Sep 23, 2022: inspection4 deficiencies

  • Garbage Inaccessible to Children; Maintained in Sanitary Manner

    “Trash can in the classrom containing diapers and trash can in the restroom were uncovered. Garbage was accessible to children.”

    Rule 746.3407(8). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 26, 2022. Correction verified: Oct 21, 2022.

  • Smoke-Detection System Tested

    “Electronic smoke alarm was last inspected on June 02, 2022.”

    Rule 746.5315. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 3, 2022. Correction verified: Oct 21, 2022.

  • Cots, Beds, Mats Labeled With Child’s Name

    “Sleeping cots, in two classrooms, were not labeled with children’s names.”

    Rule 746.4503(b). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 26, 2022. Correction verified: Oct 21, 2022.

  • Written Operational Policies - Promotion of Physical Activity

    “Operational policies were missing information on the promotion of indoor and outdoor physical activities.”

    Rule 746.501(a)(18). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 3, 2022. Correction verified: Oct 21, 2022.

All 10 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Aug 12, 2026Inspection1 deficiency cited
Aug 15, 2025Inspection3 deficiencies cited
Jun 30, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Mar 28, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Mar 17, 2025Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Aug 22, 2024Inspection3 deficiencies cited
Sep 19, 2023Inspection1 deficiency cited
Oct 21, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Sep 23, 2022Inspection4 deficiencies cited
Aug 2, 2022InspectionNo violation found

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Dec 8, 2015.
  • Accepts state child care subsidies.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 73 children.
Source:

Texas HHSC, child care operations. Released Oct 27, 2026. Updated daily.

Has Texas acted against it?

  • No corrective or adverse action by Texas on record.
  • 1 report to the state on record; Texas doesn’t publish whether they were .
Source:

Texas HHSC, child care operations and inspections and investigations. Released Oct 27, 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 27, 2026. Updated daily.

How does it compare nearby?

  • Among 128 child care providers in Webb County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 4; this one had 8.
Source:

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data). Released Oct 27, 2026. Updated daily.

11 of the 128 in Webb County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Sproutlets Daycare and Learning Center0
My Kids Learning Center12
Sunshine Academy This child care provider8
Little Buddies Child Care Center12
Apple Bee Learning Center LLC11
The Learning Patch Academy LLC2
Little Harvard Academy6
Lil’ Blooming Stars Learning Center0
New Land Kindergarten, Inc.17
Little Hunter’s Learning Center LLC7
Caterpillars to Butterflies Learning Center1
My Kids’ Academy5

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 27, 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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