Kool Kidz

A licensed child care center in Lake Jackson, Texas 77566

450 This Way St Ste C, Lake Jackson, Texas 77566. (979) 297-3111.

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The short answer

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

6 deficiencies cited in the last three years Middle in Brazoria County: 4
1 rated High by Texas, its most serious level (needs attention)
8 inspections on record
2-Star Texas Rising Star rating

The last 24 months 5 deficiencies in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited Nov 2025. 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?

6 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 206 child care providers in Brazoria County had 4.

8 inspections on record. The latest, on Nov 3, 2026: no violation found.

Rated High by Texas: AP Background check results - Must receive notification prior to allowing subject to be present at your operation, at the inspection on Nov 7, 2024

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

When those deficiencies happened

5 deficiencies in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited Nov 2025. Most serious: High. The last 3 years, to Nov 5, 2026.

5 deficiencies by month over the last 3 years. Each cell is one month.
	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
2023												Dec
2024	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
2025	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
2026	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov

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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

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.

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

Nov 5, 2025: inspection1 deficiency

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

“The wood chips on the playground was observed to not be at the proper depth.”

Rule 746.4907(d). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 17, 2025. Correction verified: Nov 17, 2025.

Jan 28, 2025: assessment1 deficiency

Report Number of Employees

“Operation failed to report how many employees left in 2024 by January 15, 2025.”

Rule 746.303(b). Medium Low, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 29, 2025. Correction verified: Jan 29, 2025.

Nov 7, 2024: inspection3 deficiencies

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

“The operation allowed caregiver with hire date 07/15/2024 unsupervised contact with children in care before receiving notice from the CBCU regarding the eligibility.”

Rule 745.641. High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 7, 2024. Correction verified: Nov 8, 2024.
Required Admission Information - Reasonable Accommodations or Modifications

“One child files out of six reviewed was missing the special needs documentation required by the new admission forms.”

Rule 746.605(12)(B)(i). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 14, 2024. Correction verified: Nov 22, 2024.
Required Admission Information - Physician Information

“One child files out of six reviewed was missing the child s ability to swim without assistance documentation required by the new admission forms.”

Rule 746.605(10). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 14, 2024. Correction verified: Nov 22, 2024.

Nov 9, 2023: inspection1 deficiency

Nutrition and Food Service - Drinking water available at every snack, mealtime, and during and after active play

“While on the playground the operation failed to provide fresh drinking water to the children during active play. This was corrected at inspection when a caregiver brought a pitcher of water and cups outside.”

Rule 746.3301(f)(1). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 9, 2023.

7 deficiencies older than three years

Nov 10, 2022: inspection5 deficiencies

Infant Care Area - Space to Walk Between Cribs, Cots or Mats

“I observed that the cribs are close together and a caregiver would be unable to get to all 4 sides. A photo was taken.”

Rule 746.2403(5). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 11, 2022. Correction verified: Nov 16, 2022.
Screen Time Activities - Not Used for Under Two

“There are 4 infants in care from ages 4 months to 13 months old. The television was on and playing a cartoon videos.”

Rule 746.2207(a). Medium, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 10, 2022.
Safety Requirements for Cribs - Label for Each Infant

“I observed that the cribs were not labeled with the infants name on the crib. A photo was taken.”

Rule 746.2409(a)(10). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 10, 2022. Correction verified: Nov 18, 2022.
Written Feeding Instructions - Review and Update Every 30 Days

“Three infant feeding sheets were not updated within the 30-day requirements.”

Rule 746.2421(b). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 17, 2022. Correction verified: Nov 16, 2022.
Required Personnel Records-signed dated statement that employee received child care center’s operational policies

“The records for two caregivers did not include signed center polices.”

Rule 746.901(6)(A). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 11, 2022. Correction verified: Nov 18, 2022.

Nov 10, 2021: inspection2 deficiencies

Child/ Caregiver Ratio - 13 or More Children

“A caregiver was caring for 9 children ages 12 months to 2 years old. This was corrected when another caregiver came in and took the younger 1’s class.”

Rule 746.1601. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 10, 2021. Correction verified: Nov 22, 2021.
Posting of Activity Plan

“I observed in the 3’s classroom the daily activity schedule was not posted.”

Rule 746.2209. Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 12, 2021. Correction verified: Nov 22, 2021.

All 11 visits on record

Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
Date	Visit	What the record says
Nov 3, 2026	Inspection	No violation found
Nov 5, 2025	Inspection	1 deficiency cited
Oct 7, 2025	Inspection	No violation found
Sep 24, 2025	Report to the state	No violation found
Jan 28, 2025	Assessment	1 deficiency cited
Nov 7, 2024	Inspection	3 deficiencies cited
Nov 9, 2023	Inspection	1 deficiency cited
Nov 10, 2022	Inspection	5 deficiencies cited
Nov 22, 2021	Inspection	No violation found
Nov 10, 2021	Inspection	2 deficiencies cited
Sep 22, 2021	Report to the state	No violation found

Is it licensed?

Licensed Center, permit issued Jan 10, 2017.
Accepts state child care subsidies.
Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
Capacity: 68 children.

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.
2 reports to the state on record; Texas doesn’t publish whether they were .

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?

Texas Rising Star: 2-Star (the first of three levels).

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

How does it compare nearby?

Among 206 child care providers in Brazoria County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 4; this one had 6.

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

11 of the 206 in Brazoria County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
Place	Deficiencies, 3 years
Chapelwood Weekday Ministries	6
Happy Faces Early Learning Center - Garland Dr	4
Sharon Lee Gray	0
Kool Kidz This child care provider	6
Veronica Montemayor	1
Boys & Girls Club of Brazoria County-Beutel	4
Caroline Herrera	2
Imagination Station Learning Academy	2
The Children’s Garden	2
The Kidz Spot Learning Center	0
Edufun Learning Center, LLC	5
Lake Jackson Childcare Center	11

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

Texas Health and Human Services Commission, Child care operations (bc5r-88dy).

Released Nov 5, 2026 and checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily. Creative Commons 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication).
Texas Health and Human Services Commission, Inspections and investigations (m5q4-3y3d).

Released Nov 5, 2026 and checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily. Creative Commons 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication).
Texas Health and Human Services Commission, Deficiencies (non-compliance data) (tqgd-mf4x).

Released Nov 5, 2026 and checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily. Creative Commons 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication).
Texas Workforce Commission, Subsidy providers and Texas Rising Star.

Released Nov 5, 2026 and checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily. No licence stated.

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