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Avance-Houston, Inc.-Donna C. Lewis Head Start-Spring Isd

A licensed child care center in Houston, Texas 77067

3230 Spears Rd, Houston, Texas 77067. (281) 444-5502.

Texas’s own record, on its child care search

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The short answer

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

The last 24 months 3 deficiencies in 2 months of the last 36. Last cited Oct 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?

3 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 2,139 child care providers in Harris County had 4.

8 inspections on record. The latest, on Oct 5, 2026: 1 deficiency cited.

Rated High by Texas: AP Background check results - Must receive notification prior to allowing subject to be present at your operation, at the assessment on Oct 5, 2026

Source:

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

When those deficiencies happened

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

3 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.

Oct 5, 2026: assessment1 deficiency

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

    “A caregiver was allowed access to children in care prior to receiving the results of the background check.”

    Rule 745.641. High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 5, 2026. Correction verified: Oct 5, 2026.

Apr 27, 2026: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Training Requirements for Employees, Caregivers, and Directors - Orientation

    “Of the six personnel records evaluated, two have not completed and orientation to operation.”

    Rule 746.1301(a)(1)(A). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 4, 2026. Correction verified: May 6, 2026.

  • Documented Annual Training- Required Content

    “Of the six personnel records evaluated, three lacked training in administering medications, communicable diseases including immunizations, food allergies, understanding building and physical premises safety and handling, storing and disposing of hazardous materials.”

    Rule 746.1309(e). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 11, 2026. Correction verified: May 6, 2026.

1 deficiency older than three years
Mar 2, 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 5, 2022. Correction verified: Mar 8, 2022.

All 10 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Oct 5, 2026Assessment1 deficiency cited
Aug 10, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Apr 27, 2026Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Aug 11, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Apr 30, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Aug 22, 2024InspectionNo violation found
May 2, 2024InspectionNo violation found
May 4, 2023InspectionNo violation found
May 4, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Mar 2, 2022Assessment1 deficiency cited

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Apr 5, 2016.
  • Licensed for ages: Pre-Kindergarten.
  • Capacity: 117 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 3.
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
Building Blocks Academy Vtm24
Walters Road Head Start7
Janice Franklin13
Avance-Houston, Inc.-Donna C. Lewis Head Start-Spring Isd This child care provider3
Melba Jean Hawkins2
Creative Kidz Child Care & Preschool4
Early Education Enrichment Academy, Inc.15
Sha’coi Willis18
Lizy Harris8
Kce Champions LLC @ Idea Spears34
Thuy Thanh Tran40
All American Learning Academy23

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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Replies

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How to read a record

Four things every record does, shown on an example record made up for this guide.

An example record, made up for this guide

An example nursing home

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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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