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Mission Early Head Start Academy

A licensed child care center in Mission, Texas 78572

1105 E 8th St, Mission, Texas 78572. (956) 581-3635.

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The short answer

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

The last 24 months 2 deficiencies in 1 month of the last 36. Last cited May 2025. 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?

2 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 479 child care providers in Hidalgo County had 3.

14 inspections on record. The latest, on Jun 18, 2026: no violation found.

Source:

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

When those deficiencies happened

2 deficiencies in 1 month of the last 36. Last cited May 2025. Most serious: Medium High. The last 3 years, to Nov 5, 2026.

2 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.

May 15, 2025: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Maintenance of Building, Grounds and Equipment

    “One of the board of the fence is loose.”

    Rule 746.3407. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 20, 2025. Correction verified: May 15, 2025.

  • Required Records Maintained and Made Available - Safety Documentation for Emergency Drills, Fire Extinguishers, & Smoke Detectors

    “There were no documented fire extinguishers / CO detector checks available for review at the time of inspection. Note: This was corrected at inspection when provider completed and documented a CO detector and fire extinguisher check.”

    Rule 746.801(10). Medium, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 15, 2025.

9 deficiencies older than three years
Sep 14, 2023: inspection5 deficiencies

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

    “The annual fire inspection was not current. The last fire insepction was conducted on 9/07/2022.”

    Rule 746.5101(a). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 22, 2023. Correction verified: Sep 29, 2023.

  • Maintenance of Building, Grounds and Equipment

    “Trash was observed in the outdoor playround. Papers, wrappers, and a plastic sandwich bag were observed, this posed a hazard as the trash was accesible to chldren. Note: This was CORRECTED during the inspection as the trash was picked up.”

    Rule 746.3407. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 14, 2023.

  • Fenced Outdoor Activity Space -Gates Locked

    “Emergency exits to the gates in the outdoor playground were observed with locks. Caregivers who were in the outdoor playground with children did not know the code to the locks.”

    Rule 746.4309. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 14, 2023. Correction verified: Sep 29, 2023.

  • Individual Cot, Bed, or Mat for Each Walking Child Through 4 Years of Age

    “Several mats where children were sleeping on were not maintained in four different classrooms. The mats were observed torn exposing the mat’s foam.”

    Rule 746.4503(a). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 18, 2023. Correction verified: Sep 29, 2023.

  • Required Records Maintained and Made Available - Personnel and Training Records

    “Training records for three staff were not available for review at the operation.”

    Rule 746.801(3). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 18, 2023. Correction verified: Sep 29, 2023.

Oct 20, 2022: inspection1 deficiency

  • Diapering Procedures-Soiled Diapers Kept in a Sanitary Manner

    “Soiled diapers were observed in waste baskets without a lid in the children’s restrooms. This was observed in 5 of 6 classrooms.”

    Rule 746.3505(f). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 21, 2022. Correction verified: Nov 15, 2022.

Nov 30, 2021: inspection3 deficiencies

  • Notification of Additional Services Offered

    “Transportation services were being offered prior to notifying child care regulation in writing. Note: This was CORRECTED during the inspection as a written notification was provided.”

    Rule 746.301(7). High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 30, 2021.

  • Child/ Caregiver Ratio - 13 or More Children

    “A caregiver was observed caring for a group of 16 children. The specified age of the children in the group was 3 years of age. According to the ratio chart the maximum number of children 3 years of age a caregiver may supervise is 15. The group was out of ratio by one child. Note: A second caregiver stepped in the classroom during the inspection.”

    Rule 746.1601. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 30, 2021. Correction verified: Dec 15, 2021.

  • Required Records Maintained and Made Available - Safety Documentation for Emergency Drills, Fire Extinguishers, & Smoke Detectors

    “There was no safety documentation for emergency drills, fire extinguishers, and smoke detectors for the months of August, September, and October 2021. The only documentation available was for fire drills.”

    Rule 746.801(10). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 1, 2021. Correction verified: Dec 15, 2021.

All 15 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Jun 18, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Apr 28, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Apr 15, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Dec 23, 2025InspectionNo violation found
May 20, 2025InspectionNo violation found
May 15, 2025Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Sep 24, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Aug 26, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Aug 26, 2024Report to the stateNo violation found
Sep 29, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Sep 14, 2023Inspection5 deficiencies cited
Nov 15, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Oct 20, 2022Inspection1 deficiency cited
Dec 15, 2021InspectionNo violation found
Nov 30, 2021Inspection3 deficiencies cited

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Feb 2, 1993.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler.
  • Capacity: 111 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.
  • 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 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 479 child care providers in Hidalgo County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 3; this one had 2.
Source:

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

11 of the 479 in Hidalgo County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Instituto Bilingue Montessori San Jose17
Stepping Stones25
Noly Learning Academy8
Mickey’s Learning Academy11
Finger Prints Learning Day Care22
Colegio Bilingue Trinidad12
Kids Rock Learning Academy, LLC7
Lily’s Little Kids Day Care Center17
The Little Club Development Center Inc.6
Kiddie Academy5
Mission Early Head Start Academy This child care provider2
A+ Appletree Academy20

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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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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