Hearth Record

Southmont Baptist Church

A licensed child care center in Denton, Texas 76205

2801 Pennsylvania Dr, Denton, Texas 76205. (940) 240-3150.

Texas’s own record, on its child care search

Watch and the shortlist are kept with a free account, on every device. Your watch list. Texas’s own record is on its child care search.

The short answer

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

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

4 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 490 child care providers in Denton County had 3.

7 inspections on record. The latest, on Mar 30, 2026: 1 deficiency cited.

Source:

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

When those deficiencies happened

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

4 deficiencies by month over the last 3 years. Each cell is one month.
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2023 Dec
2024 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2025 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2026 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNov

Hover or focus a month to read it.

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.

Mar 30, 2026: inspection1 deficiency

  • Required Admission Information-Emergency Contact

    “Eight children files are missing the addresses for the emergency contacts that are listed.”

    Rule 744.605(6). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 6, 2026. Correction verified: Apr 8, 2026.

May 8, 2024: inspection3 deficiencies

  • Each caregiver, operation director, program director, and site director Pediatric CPR

    “Director emailed updated CPR cards.”

    Rule 744.1315(b). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 24, 2024. Correction verified: Jun 20, 2024.

  • Required Admission Information-Special Care Needs Statement

    “Director sent me updated admission forms that include special care needs and water activity permission.”

    Rule 744.605(13). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 17, 2024. Correction verified: Jun 20, 2024.

  • Required Admission Information-Water Activity Permission

    “Director sent me updated admission forms that include special care needs and water activity permission.”

    Rule 744.605(10). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 17, 2024. Correction verified: Jun 20, 2024.

8 deficiencies older than three years
Jun 6, 2023: inspection2 deficiencies

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

    “The operation allowed a caregiver to provide direct care to children in care prior to receiving a background check determination of, Eligible ; Provisional Eligibility with Conditions, ; or, Eligible with Conditions. His/her current status is pending. CI: The caregiver was sent home during the inspection.”

    Rule 745.641. High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 6, 2023. Correction verified: Jun 9, 2023.

  • Share Indoor Activity Space With Written Plan

    “The operation is currently sharing space for Southmont Vacation Bible School with no written plan. The operation is also using classroom shared space which is not allowed.”

    Rule 744.2909(a). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 13, 2023. Correction verified: Jun 14, 2023.

Jul 5, 2022: inspection6 deficiencies

  • Responsibilities of Caregivers- Supervision of Children

    “Four caregivers did not know many children they were supervising in a large group.”

    Rule 744.1203(4). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 5, 2022. Correction verified: Jul 19, 2022.

  • Each caregiver, operation director, program director, and site director Pediatric CPR

    “One caregiver has an expired first aid and CPR certificate. The certificate expired 5/7/2022. One caregiver does not have pediatric CPR/First, as required.”

    Rule 744.1315(b). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 19, 2022. Correction verified: Jul 19, 2022.

  • Medication Authorization - Signed and Dated

    “Three children do not have medication authorization forms. The operations medication log does not include name of medication or amount of medication dispensed.”

    Rule 744.2653(a)(1). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 19, 2022. Correction verified: Jul 19, 2022.

  • Required Admission Information-Food Allergy Emergency Plan

    “One child does not have a food allergy plan on file at the operation. One child has a food allergy plan on file, but it is not signed by the parent.”

    Rule 744.605(16). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 19, 2022. Correction verified: Jul 19, 2022.

  • Documented Annual Training-Required Topics prevention, recognition, and reporting of child maltreatment

    “Six caregivers have not completed required annual training for prevention, recognition, and reporting of child maltreatment.”

    Rule 744.1309(c). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 19, 2022. Correction verified: Jul 19, 2022.

  • Documented Annual Training-Required Topics in Health and Safety

    “Four caregivers that have been dispensing medication, do not have medication training. Five caregivers do not have the following annual trainings: Preventing and responding to food allergies, Understanding building and physical premise safety, and preventing and controlling the spread of communicable diseases with immunization.”

    Rule 744.1309(d). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 19, 2022. Correction verified: Jul 19, 2022.

All 7 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Mar 30, 2026Inspection1 deficiency cited
Mar 5, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Apr 1, 2025InspectionNo violation found
May 8, 2024Inspection3 deficiencies cited
Jun 6, 2023Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Jul 19, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Jul 5, 2022Inspection6 deficiencies cited

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Sep 14, 2017.
  • Licensed for ages: School.
  • Capacity: 85 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 490 child care providers in Denton County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 3; this one had 4.
Source:

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

11 of the 490 in Denton County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Southmont Baptist Church This child care provider4
Alphabet Academy0
Lisa Bracken3
Yolanda Miller0
Martin Luther King Jr Recreation Center1
Miss Pams Toddler Care3
Countryside Montessori2
Holy Covenant Early Childhood Development Program0
Kay’s Kids In-Home Daycare0
Lala’s Home Daycare0
Ridge Preschool3
Legacy Montessori Academy38

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

If you believe something here is wrong, a correction starts with the agency whose record this copies: Texas HHSC or Texas Workforce Commission. Texas’s own record is on its child care search. If Hearth Record copied something wrongly, it will fix it and log the correction publicly, with its date: how corrections work.

Source:

This copy of the record was made on Nov 5, 2026.

From the provider

The public record above comes first. Anything the provider adds will appear here, below it, and say who wrote it.

Replies

None. Replies aren’t open yet. When they open, the provider will be able to answer any finding for free, and the reply will show beside that finding, unedited and dated.

Paid listing

None. Paid listings aren’t open yet. When they open, anything paid for will say “Paid by the provider”, and paying will never change a finding, a rating or the order of results.

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

Made up for this guide: no real place is shown

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.

From the homeNone yet. Replies and paid listings aren’t open, and when they open they will sit here, below the record.

1 of 4

Every fact names its source.

Who published it, when, and how often it changes sit beside each fact, with a link to the agency’s own file.

Sign in

A free account keeps your watch list, shortlists, comparisons and saved searches on every device, and can email you when something you watch changes. Browsing never needs one.