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Norman M. Thomas Learning Center

A licensed child care center in Freer, Texas 78357

1404 S Norton Ave, Freer, Texas 78357. (361) 394-6800.

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The short answer

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

The last 24 months 4 deficiencies in 2 months of the last 36. Last cited May 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?

4 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 6 child care providers in Duval County had 2.

8 inspections on record. The latest, on Oct 22, 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 report to the state on May 11, 2026

Rated High by Texas: Parental Communication - Situation that Placed a Child at Risk, at the report to the state on May 11, 2026

Source:

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

When those deficiencies happened

4 deficiencies in 2 months of the last 36. Last cited May 2026. Most serious: High. The last 3 years, to Oct 24, 2026.

4 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 24, 2026. Updated daily.

May 11, 2026: report to the state3 deficiencies

  • Supervision ensures each child?s safety, well-being, including physical proximity and auditory or visual awareness of each child?s on going activity

    “Based on the information obtained during the course of the investigation, caregivers in charge of supervising the children did not intervene timely when two children were involved in a physical altercation. One child sustained injuries to the head as a result.”

    Rule 746.1205(a)(4). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 9, 2026. Correction verified: Jun 18, 2026.

  • Parental Communication - Situation that Placed a Child at Risk

    “Parent was not notified immediately after a child was placed at risk by getting hit in the head and body several times.”

    Rule 746.307(b)(4). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 9, 2026. Correction verified: Jun 18, 2026.

  • Incident/Illness Report Form Signed

    “Director did not review and did not sign the completed report, before it was shared with parent.”

    Rule 746.705. Low, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 9, 2026. Correction verified: Jun 18, 2026.

Feb 7, 2024: inspection1 deficiency

  • Children’s Products- Annual Certification

    “The Consumer Product Safety form was last reviewed on January 3, 2023.”

    Rule 746.4135(b). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 14, 2024. Correction verified: Feb 26, 2024.

2 deficiencies older than three years
Apr 5, 2023: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Fire Drill Monthly - Exit in 3 Minutes

    “Fire drills were last conducted on January 2023.”

    Rule 746.5205(1). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 10, 2023. Correction verified: Apr 6, 2023.

  • Emergency Evacuation and Relocation Diagram

    “Emergency evacuation and relocation diagram did not include the relocation site after children safely exit the builing, the two paths to exit the builing, and the severe weather relocation site.”

    Rule 746.5207(a). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 10, 2023. Correction verified: Apr 28, 2023.

All 9 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Oct 22, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Jun 18, 2026InspectionNo violation found
May 14, 2026InspectionNo violation found
May 11, 2026Report to the state3 deficiencies cited
Nov 14, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Feb 6, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Feb 7, 2024Inspection1 deficiency cited
Apr 5, 2023Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Apr 27, 2022InspectionNo violation found

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Nov 16, 2015.
  • Licensed for ages: Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 68 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.
  • 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 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?

  • Not rated in Texas Rising Star.
Source:

Texas Workforce Commission, subsidy providers and Texas Rising Star. Released Oct 24, 2026. Updated daily.

How does it compare nearby?

  • Among 6 child care providers in Duval County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 2; this one had 4.
Source:

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

5 of the 6 in Duval County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Norman M. Thomas Learning Center This child care provider4
Little Bucks Daycare and Learning Center2
Edu-Care Early Learning Academy2
Collins-Parr Early Learning Center0
Little Scholars3
Abby’s Daycare & Learning Center0

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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