Higher Learning Academy

A licensed child care center in Stafford, Texas 77477

435 FM 1092 Suite Z-1, Stafford, Texas 77477. (832) 539-1550.

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The short answer

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

31 deficiencies cited in the last three years Middle in Fort Bend County: 4
10 rated High by Texas, its most serious level (needs attention)
19 inspections on record
3-Star Texas Rising Star rating

The last 24 months 31 deficiencies in 9 months of the last 36. Last cited Sep 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?

31 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 477 child care providers in Fort Bend County had 4.

19 inspections on record. The latest, on Sep 21, 2026: no violation found.

Rated High by Texas: Annual Fire Inspection - Before Initial Permit Issued and Every 12 Months, at the inspection on Sep 3, 2026

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 inspection on Aug 4, 2026

Rated High by Texas: Corrections Made to Fire Inspection, at the assessment on Dec 31, 2024

7 more rated High; all are listed below.

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

When those deficiencies happened

31 deficiencies in 9 months of the last 36. Last cited Sep 2026. Most serious: High. The last 3 years, to Nov 5, 2026.

31 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.

Sep 3, 2026: inspection1 deficiency

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

“The operation has a expired fire inspection the last inspection was conducted on 9/2/2025.”

Rule 746.5101(a). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 25, 2026. Correction verified: Sep 21, 2026.

Aug 4, 2026: inspection5 deficiencies

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

“A caregiver came to answer the door and left seven children in the classroom alone.”

Rule 746.1205(a)(4). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 4, 2026. Correction verified: Aug 17, 2026.
Naptime Child/Caregiver Ratio - Additional Employee Required

“It was only one caregiver in the building during naptime; The operation had seven children in care ages 2 years old to 10-year-old.”

Rule 746.1613(a)(4). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 4, 2026. Correction verified: Aug 17, 2026.
Furnishings and Equipment for Toddlers - Age-appropriate

“A toddler was observed sleeping in a bouncer. Corrected: Caregiver put the child on a mat to sleep.”

Rule 746.2505(1). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 4, 2026.
Maintenance of Building, Grounds and Equipment

“The boy’s restroom had a toilet with a missing lid on top of the toilet. The operation had water inside the sand table. The operation had a mini barbecue pit on the playground with charcoal in the pit.”

Rule 746.3407. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 14, 2026. Correction verified: Aug 17, 2026.
Screen Time Activities - Not Used During Eating or Rest Times

“Two children ages five and ten years old were observed having screen time during nap time.”

Rule 746.2207(c)(4). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 4, 2026. Correction verified: Aug 17, 2026.

Aug 28, 2025: inspection2 deficiencies

Transportation Safety Training -Director and Employee Complete 2 Hours Annually

“One driver did not have current transportation training.”

Rule 746.1316(a). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 29, 2025. Correction verified: Aug 29, 2025.
Fenced Outdoor Activity Space -Exits Required

“The fence play area only has one entrance/exit to the area.”

Rule 746.4307. Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 19, 2025. Correction verified: Sep 10, 2025.

Feb 27, 2025: inspection3 deficiencies

Safety Requirements for Cribs - Snug Fitting Sheets

“Sheets were not observed in the cribs to cover mattresses.”

Rule 746.2409(a)(2). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 13, 2025. Correction verified: Mar 5, 2025.
Maintenance of Building, Grounds and Equipment

“The following was observed: The play area was not ready for the children’s use. There are items that must be removed and grass must be clean up. The tables in the classrooms were observed dusty. One play pen pad in the infant’s room was observed dirty with stains.”

Rule 746.3407. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 13, 2025. Correction verified: Mar 5, 2025.
Types of Vehicles Used to Transport Children - Be Maintained Safely

“The vehicle in use to transport the children was observed to have some torns floor and a ripped seat.”

Rule 746.5603(c). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 13, 2025. Correction verified: Mar 5, 2025.

Dec 31, 2024: assessment1 deficiency

Corrections Made to Fire Inspection

“The deficiencies in the Fire Marshal inspection report from 9/24/2024 have not been corrected.”

Rule 746.5105. High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 7, 2025. Correction verified: Mar 7, 2025.

Nov 26, 2024: assessment1 deficiency

Corrections Made to Fire Inspection

“The deficiencies in the Fire Marshal inspection report from 9/24/2024 have not been corrected.”

Rule 746.5105. High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 27, 2024. Correction verified: Dec 31, 2024.

Nov 6, 2024: assessment1 deficiency

Corrections Made to Fire Inspection

“The deficiencies in the Fire Marshal inspection report from 9/24/2024 have not been corrected.”

Rule 746.5105. High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 20, 2024. Correction verified: Nov 26, 2024.

Oct 22, 2024: inspection1 deficiency

Corrections Made to Fire Inspection

“The deficiencies in the Fire Marshal inspection report from 9/24/2024 have not been corrected.”

Rule 746.5105. High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 5, 2024. Correction verified: Nov 6, 2024.

Sep 17, 2024: inspection5 deficiencies

Electronic Child Safety Alarm - installed and maintained according to manufacturer’s instructions

“The electronic child safety alarm in the vehicles was not working properly.”

Rule 746.5625(b). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 2, 2024. Correction verified: Oct 2, 2024.
Types of Vehicles Used to Transport Children - Be Maintained Safely

“The air conditioner in one of the vehicles was not properly working.”

Rule 746.5603(c). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 4, 2024. Correction verified: Oct 4, 2024.
Required Admission Information - Prescribed Medications; Long Term Use

“One out of 9 children did not available the health statement in file.”

Rule 746.605(13)(C). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 2, 2024. Correction verified: Oct 2, 2024.
Required Records Maintained and Made Available - Fire Inspection Report, Including Written Approval for Above/Below Ground Level Care

“The current Fire Marshal inspection report was not available during the inspection. Last inspection date 4/18/2023.”

Rule 746.801(11). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 21, 2024. Correction verified: Oct 22, 2024.
Required Personnel Records -Training Hours

“Record of training hours from director and one caregiver were not available to review during the inspection.”

Rule 746.901(6). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 3, 2024. Correction verified: Oct 3, 2024.

Sep 4, 2024: inspection10 deficiencies

Responsibilities of Employees and Caregivers -Demonstrate Competency, Good Judgment, Self-control

“Good judgement was not used when the director transported children with stuff located in the back of the vehicle. The stuff could move forward and injure a child.”

Rule 746.1201(1). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 5, 2024. Correction verified: Sep 5, 2024.
Electronic Child Safety Alarm - installed and maintained according to manufacturer’s instructions

“The electronic child safety alarm in the vehicles was not installed.”

Rule 746.5625(b). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 18, 2024. Correction verified: Sep 17, 2024.
Required Admission Information - Emergency Medical Authorization

“One child did not have in file information for emeregency medical care and to transport the child for emergency medical treatment.”

Rule 746.605(12). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 18, 2024. Correction verified: Sep 17, 2024.
Each Caregiver and the Director Must Have Current Training in pediatric first aid with rescue breathing and choking.

“One staff did not have available to review the current CPR/First Aid training.”

Rule 746.1315(a). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 6, 2024. Correction verified: Sep 6, 2024.
Types of Vehicles Used to Transport Children - Be Maintained Safely

“The air conditioner in one of the behicles was not propperly working.”

Rule 746.5603(c). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 18, 2024. Correction verified: Sep 17, 2024.
Required Admission Information - Prescribed Medications; Long Term Use

“One out of 9 children did not available the health statement in file.”

Rule 746.605(13)(C). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 18, 2024. Correction verified: Sep 17, 2024.
Required Records Maintained and Made Available - Fire Inspection Report, Including Written Approval for Above/Below Ground Level Care

“The current Fire Marshal inspection report was not available during the inspection. Last inspection date 4/18/2023.”

Rule 746.801(11). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 18, 2024. Correction verified: Sep 17, 2024.
Written Operational Policies - Parent Rights

“The operation has not provided parents with a copy of the parent’s rights form 2987 as required.”

Rule 746.501(a)(20). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 18, 2024. Correction verified: Sep 17, 2024.
Children’s Records - Immunizations

“one out of nine children did not available vaccination records in file.”

Rule 746.603(a)(4). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 18, 2024. Correction verified: Sep 17, 2024.
Required Personnel Records -Training Hours

“Record of training hours from director and caregivers were not available to review during the inspection.”

Rule 746.901(6). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 18, 2024. Correction verified: Sep 17, 2024.

Jan 16, 2024: assessment1 deficiency

Report Number of Employees

“A review of the employees who left employment in 2023, revealed that the center had not reported the number of employees who left employment in 2023 by January 15, 2024, as required.”

Rule 746.303(b). Medium Low, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 17, 2024. Correction verified: Jan 18, 2024.

11 deficiencies older than three years

Sep 21, 2023: inspection2 deficiencies

Children’s Records - Immunizations

“Five children’s files were reviewed. Two children do not have updated immunization records based on their current age.”

Rule 746.603(a)(4). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 29, 2023. Correction verified: Sep 28, 2023.
Required Personnel Records - Required Affidavit

“One employee has a blank affidavit form in their personnel file upon review of five staff records.”

Rule 746.901(4). Medium Low, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 29, 2023. Correction verified: Sep 28, 2023.

Jan 4, 2023: inspection1 deficiency

Infant May Not Sleep in a Restrictive Device

“An 8 month old infant was observed asleep in a bouncer for several minutes.”

Rule 746.2426. High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 4, 2023. Correction verified: Jan 13, 2023.

Dec 30, 2022: report to the state1 deficiency

Responsibilities of Caregivers - Supervision of Children

“There is sufficient evidence to prove that 1 caregiver was responsible for supervising two groups of children on two different playgrounds that were separated by fences and a sidewalk.”

Rule 746.1203(4). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 2, 2023. Correction verified: Feb 9, 2023.

Oct 13, 2022: inspection1 deficiency

Responsibilities of Caregivers - Supervision of Children

“One caregiver went outside leaving 1 caregiver to supervise 11 children in two spaces.”

Rule 746.1203(4). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 13, 2022. Correction verified: Oct 21, 2022.

Oct 3, 2022: inspection3 deficiencies

Infant Care Area Furnishings and Equipment -Use of Safety Straps

“A child was in a toddler seat that uses straps to keep them secure but straps were not present. This was corrected when straps were added to the seats and the ones without straps were removed.”

Rule 746.2407. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 3, 2022.
Safety - Electrical Outlets Covered

“Two electrical outlets in the infant room did not have covers.”

Rule 746.3701(1). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 3, 2022. Correction verified: Oct 13, 2022.
Furnishings and Equipment for Toddlers - Never Allow Toddlers to Sleep or Walk With Bottles and Training Cups

“Two children were observed walking around the classroom with sippy cups.”

Rule 746.2505(4)(C). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 3, 2022. Correction verified: Oct 13, 2022.

Sep 26, 2022: inspection3 deficiencies

Infant Care Area Furnishings and Equipment -Use of Safety Straps

“An infant was in an infant car seat without the safety straps being buckled.”

Rule 746.2407. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 26, 2022. Correction verified: Oct 3, 2022.
Required Admission Information - Emergency Contact

“3 out of 4 children’s files did not have completed emergency contact information on file.”

Rule 746.605(6). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 3, 2022. Correction verified: Oct 3, 2022.
Documented Annual Training- Required Content

“3 caregivers did not obtain training in the required topics of 1309(e) during the most recently completed training year.”

Rule 746.1309(e). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 17, 2022. Correction verified: Oct 17, 2022.

All 26 visits on record

Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
Date	Visit	What the record says
Sep 21, 2026	Inspection	No violation found
Sep 3, 2026	Inspection	1 deficiency cited
Aug 4, 2026	Inspection	5 deficiencies cited
Aug 28, 2025	Inspection	2 deficiencies cited
Apr 8, 2025	Inspection	No violation found
Mar 18, 2025	Report to the state	No violation found
Mar 5, 2025	Inspection	No violation found
Feb 27, 2025	Inspection	3 deficiencies cited
Dec 31, 2024	Assessment	1 deficiency cited
Nov 26, 2024	Assessment	1 deficiency cited
Nov 6, 2024	Assessment	1 deficiency cited
Oct 22, 2024	Inspection	1 deficiency cited
Sep 17, 2024	Inspection	5 deficiencies cited
Sep 4, 2024	Inspection	10 deficiencies cited
Jan 16, 2024	Assessment	1 deficiency cited
Sep 21, 2023	Inspection	2 deficiencies cited
May 8, 2023	Inspection	No violation found
Apr 25, 2023	Report to the state	No violation found
Feb 9, 2023	Inspection	No violation found
Jan 13, 2023	Inspection	No violation found
Jan 4, 2023	Inspection	1 deficiency cited
Dec 30, 2022	Report to the state	1 deficiency cited
Oct 21, 2022	Inspection	No violation found
Oct 13, 2022	Inspection	1 deficiency cited
Oct 3, 2022	Inspection	3 deficiencies cited
Sep 26, 2022	Inspection	3 deficiencies cited

Is it licensed?

Licensed Center, permit issued Feb 1, 2018.
Accepts state child care subsidies.
Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
Capacity: 40 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.
3 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: 3-Star (the middle of three levels).

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

How does it compare nearby?

Among 477 child care providers in Fort Bend County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 4; this one had 31.

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

11 of the 477 in Fort Bend County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
Place	Deficiencies, 3 years
Fifth Street Head Start	5
Higher Learning Academy This child care provider	31
Nagos Daycare LLC	13
Sugar Creek Montessori School	11
Meadows Place Preschool	2
Kids Kingdom Learning Center	10
Stafford Early Childhood Center Daycare	3
Genesis Learning Center - Stafford	8
Hamilton Investment - Wonderful Beginnings	17
Hong Thi Thuy Le	Not given
Busy Bee’s Learning Center	18
Sheila Walker	Not given

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

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