Hearth Record

This Little Piggy Academy

A licensed child care center in Waco, Texas 76706

2716 Robinson Dr, Waco, Texas 76706. (254) 537-1089.

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The short answer

Record last released by Texas HHSC on Oct 30, 2026.

The last 24 months 9 deficiencies in 4 months of the last 36. Last cited Aug 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?

9 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 132 child care providers in McLennan County had 6.

9 inspections on record. The latest, on Aug 17, 2026: 1 deficiency cited.

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 Jul 7, 2026

Source:

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data) and inspections and investigations. Released Oct 30, 2026. Updated daily.

When those deficiencies happened

9 deficiencies in 4 months of the last 36. Last cited Aug 2026. Most serious: High. The last 3 years, to Oct 30, 2026.

9 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 30, 2026. Updated daily.

Aug 17, 2026: inspection1 deficiency

  • Requirement of Gas Leak Inspection

    “The last gas inspection was observed to have been conducted in November of 2023.”

    Rule 746.5401. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 31, 2026. Correction verified: Aug 31, 2026.

Jul 8, 2026: inspection1 deficiency

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

    “The loose fill on the outdoor playground was observed to be less than the required 6 inches in depth. The under- lining material was observed to be exposed posing a tripping hazard.”

    Rule 746.4907(d). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 22, 2026. Correction verified: Aug 5, 2026.

Jul 7, 2026: report to the state2 deficiencies

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

    “There was sufficient evidence found during the DFPS investigation to show that adequate supervision was not provided when a child was left unattended on the outdoor playground for approximately 24 minutes.”

    Rule 746.1205(a)(4). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 6, 2026. Correction verified: Aug 17, 2026.

  • Written Operational Policies - Criteria for Extreme Weather

    “There was sufficient evidence found during the DFPS investigation to show that the operation’s criteria for extreme weather conditions were not followed when children were allowed to play outdoors for over 45 minutes during excessive heat.”

    Rule 746.501(a)(18)(F). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 6, 2026. Correction verified: Aug 17, 2026.

Oct 30, 2025: inspection3 deficiencies

  • Food Allergy Emergency Plan Signed by Parents and Health Care Professional

    “A physician signed emergency food allergy plan was not on file for one child with a diagnosed food allergy.”

    Rule 746.3819. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 13, 2025. Correction verified: Nov 26, 2025.

  • Installation and Maintenance of Loose-fill Surfacing - Six Inches if Equipment 5 Ft or Less

    “The loose fill on the outdoor playground area was not being maintained at the required 6 inches in depth.”

    Rule 746.4907(a)(1). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 12, 2025. Correction verified: Feb 9, 2026.

  • Written Activity Plan - Outline Daily Activities

    “Four of the four classrooms did not have written activity plans outlining daily activities posted.”

    Rule 746.2205(a)(2). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 13, 2025. Correction verified: Nov 26, 2025.

Nov 14, 2024: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Posting Requirements - Emergency and evacuation relocation diagram

    “Evacuation diagrams were not posted in all classrooms. While present for inspection evacuation plans were completed and put into all classrooms.”

    Rule 746.401(4). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 14, 2024.

  • Provide Access to Children’s Records - Parents

    “The parents right form 4271 was not in the children’s records of 4 of the files observed.”

    Rule 746.601(b). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 25, 2024. Correction verified: Nov 26, 2024.

4 deficiencies older than three years
Feb 28, 2023: inspection1 deficiency

  • Requirement of Gas Leak Inspection

    “The operation’s gas inspection was past due.”

    Rule 746.5401. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 6, 2023. Correction verified: Mar 2, 2023.

Apr 7, 2022: inspection3 deficiencies

  • Annual Fire Inspection - Before Initial Permit Issued and Every 12 Months

    “The operation did not have a current annual fire inspection.”

    Rule 746.5101(a). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 14, 2022. Correction verified: Apr 20, 2022.

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

    “The loose-fill material at the playground was below the required depth of 6 inches.”

    Rule 746.4907(d). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 29, 2022. Correction verified: Apr 20, 2022.

  • Measurement of Use Zone for Stationary Equipment

    “The stationary play equipment at the playground did not have the required use zones of 6 feet in all directions.”

    Rule 746.4803. Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 14, 2022. Correction verified: Apr 20, 2022.

All 10 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Aug 17, 2026Inspection1 deficiency cited
Jul 8, 2026Inspection1 deficiency cited
Jul 7, 2026Report to the state2 deficiencies cited
Oct 30, 2025Inspection3 deficiencies cited
Nov 26, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Nov 14, 2024Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Jan 5, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Feb 28, 2023Inspection1 deficiency cited
Apr 20, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Apr 7, 2022Inspection3 deficiencies cited

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Nov 1, 2016.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 48 children.
Source:

Texas HHSC, child care operations. Released Oct 30, 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 30, 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 30, 2026. Updated daily.

How does it compare nearby?

  • Among 132 child care providers in McLennan County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 6; this one had 9.
Source:

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data). Released Oct 30, 2026. Updated daily.

11 of the 132 in McLennan County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Little Rockets2
Waco Child Development Center14
Waco Child Development Infant5
Rr Learning Center23
This Little Piggy Academy This child care provider9
Melanie Bowman3
Mary Turnage1
Caring for Kids1
Amber Pfeiffer12
Grow With Us Home Daycare3
Bells Hill YMCA of Central Texas1
Eoac Johnette Hicks Early Head Start 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 30, 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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