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Sproutstart Academy- Spring Valley Location

A licensed child care center in Houston, Texas 77055

1504 Wirt Rd, Houston, Texas 77055. (713) 534-1406.

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The short answer

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

The last 24 months 8 deficiencies in 2 months of the last 36. Last cited Apr 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 2,139 child care providers in Harris County had 4.

6 inspections on record. The latest, on Apr 7, 2026: 2 deficiencies cited.

Source:

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

When those deficiencies happened

8 deficiencies in 2 months of the last 36. Last cited Apr 2026. Most serious: Medium High. The last 3 years, to Nov 5, 2026.

8 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.

Apr 7, 2026: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Documented Annual Training Area - 24 Hours Required

    “Four caregivers are missing 3 hours of the required 24 annual training hours.”

    Rule 746.1309(a). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 21, 2026. Correction verified: Apr 17, 2026.

  • Director Annual Training 30 Hours Required

    “The director is missing 6 hours of the required 30 annual training hours.”

    Rule 746.1311(a). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 21, 2026. Correction verified: Apr 8, 2026.

Jun 13, 2025: inspection6 deficiencies

  • Administering Medication - Original Container with Child’s Name, Date

    “Two children did not have the Epi-Pens in the original container they were placed in a zip lock bag.”

    Rule 746.3805(b)(1). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 19, 2025. Correction verified: Jun 20, 2025.

  • Measurement of Use Zone for Slides - in Front of Access and on Sides

    “The play structure’s do not have a use zone of six feet. On one play structure it is only 3 ft and 9 inches from the barrier. On the other play structure they is a play house in front of the slide.”

    Rule 746.4805(a). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 27, 2025. Correction verified: Jul 1, 2025.

  • Director Annual Training 30 Hours Required

    “The director is missing 20 hours of annual training,”

    Rule 746.1311(a). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 9, 2025. Correction verified: Jul 8, 2025.

  • Written Operational Policies - Parent Rights

    “The operational policy did not have parent rights.”

    Rule 746.501(a)(20). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 19, 2025. Correction verified: Jun 18, 2025.

  • Written Operational Policies - Procedures parents access minimum standards online, TX A/N hotline, and HHSC website

    “The operational policy did not have the correct information on where to find Minimum standards or HHSC website.”

    Rule 746.501(a)(23). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 19, 2025. Correction verified: Jun 18, 2025.

  • Children’s Records - Vision and Hearing Screening

    “One child that is four years old did not have a vision and hearing screening on file.”

    Rule 746.603(a)(6). Low, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 20, 2025. Correction verified: Jun 20, 2025.

4 deficiencies older than three years
Jun 27, 2023: inspection3 deficiencies

  • Arrangement of Napping Equipment -Provides Sufficient Walking and Work Space

    “During naptime the operation was found to not have adquate space for caregivers to walk between naptime mats.”

    Rule 746.2909(3). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 4, 2023. Correction verified: Jul 24, 2023.

  • Installation and Maintenance of Loose-fill Surfacing - Proper Depth Maintained

    “During the walkthrough of the playground the operation was found to have failed to maintain 6 inches of loose filled material for equipment less than 5 ft.”

    Rule 746.4907(d). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 11, 2023. Correction verified: Jul 24, 2023.

  • Emergency Preparedness Plan - Evacuation, relocation, and sheltering/lock-down procedures

    “During the review of the operation’s emergency preparedness plan, the operation failed to provide a plan for how children with limited mobility will be evacuated/relocated and the operation did not provide an addess for an alternate shelter for relocation as required by minimum standards.”

    Rule 746.5202(1). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 4, 2023. Correction verified: Jul 24, 2023.

Mar 31, 2022: assessment1 deficiency

  • Report Number of Employees

    “Employees who Left Employment in 2021 survey was not completed by deadline of 2/22/2022.”

    Rule 746.303(b). Medium Low, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 31, 2022. Correction verified: Mar 31, 2022.

All 7 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Apr 7, 2026Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Jul 1, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Jun 13, 2025Inspection6 deficiencies cited
Jun 18, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Jun 27, 2023Inspection3 deficiencies cited
Jul 7, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Mar 31, 2022Assessment1 deficiency cited

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Aug 11, 2015.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten.
  • Capacity: 44 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.
  • 0 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?

  • Not rated in Texas Rising Star.
Source:

Texas Workforce Commission, subsidy providers and Texas Rising Star. Released Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.

How does it compare nearby?

  • Among 2139 child care providers in Harris 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 Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.

11 of the 2,139 in Harris County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Nabor House Community8
Sproutstart Academy- Spring Valley Location This child care provider8
Sukyung Lee12
The Preschool at Christ the King2
Alianza Eco International School9
Idea Lab Kids Spring-Branch6
Lipp- Babble10
Clever Kiddos Child Development Center9
The Learning Experience Spring Branch11
Learn & Play Academy2
Ikids Valley Oaks6
Jp Morgan Chase Backup Center10

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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