One Step Ahead Vlv Learning Center LLC

A licensed child care center in Penitas, Texas 78576

1010 Expressway 83, Penitas, Texas 78576. (956) 271-1050.

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The short answer

Record last released by Texas Workforce Commission on Nov 2, 2026.

7 deficiencies cited in the last three years Middle in Hidalgo County: 3
1 rated High by Texas, its most serious level (needs attention)
7 inspections on record
3-Star Texas Rising Star rating

The last 24 months 7 deficiencies in 2 months of the last 36. Last cited Apr 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?

7 deficiencies cited in the last three years

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

7 inspections on record. The latest, on Apr 28, 2026: no violation found.

Rated High by Texas: Electronic Child Safety Alarm - installed and maintained according to manufacturer’s instructions, at the inspection on May 29, 2025

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data) and inspections and investigations. Released Oct 31, 2026. Updated daily.

When those deficiencies happened

7 deficiencies in 2 months of the last 36. Last cited Apr 2026. Most serious: High. The last 3 years, to Nov 2, 2026.

7 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 Oct 31, 2026. Updated daily.

Apr 22, 2026: inspection3 deficiencies

Training Requirements for Employees, Caregivers, and Directors - Pediatric First Aid with Rescue Breathing

“A caregiver present at the operation and careing for children has an expired First Aid and CPR certification with a date of 12/2025.”

Rule 746.1301(a)(3)(A). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 1, 2026. Correction verified: Apr 30, 2026.
Child/ Caregiver Ratio - 13 or More Children

“A caregiver was caring for 5 children ages from 6months to 12months.”

Rule 746.1601. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 22, 2026. Correction verified: Apr 28, 2026.
Maintenance of Building, Grounds and Equipment

“Ceiling tiles in the toddler and after school room were observed with water stains dark in color.”

Rule 746.3407. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 8, 2026. Correction verified: Apr 27, 2026.

May 29, 2025: inspection4 deficiencies

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

“The child safety alarm was observed not functioning.”

Rule 746.5625(b). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 6, 2025. Correction verified: Jun 2, 2025.
Electronic or Battery-Operated Carbon Monoxide Detector-Check All Detectors Monthly

“Carbon monoxide detector had not been tested for the year 2025. *This was corrected at inspection when the carbon monoxide detector was tested and documented.”

Rule 746.5537(a)(2). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 29, 2025.
Documented Annual Training- Required Content

“5 out of 5 employee records reviewed are missing the following: 1) Allergies, Building safety 2) SIDS, Allergies, Building safety 3) Allergies 4) Allergies, Building safety 5) SIDS, Building safety”

Rule 746.1309(e). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 6, 2025. Correction verified: Jun 4, 2025.
Children’s Records - Admission Information

“5 out of 6 children’s records reviewed are missing the following: 1) Emergency contact address, special care statement, parents rights 2) Parents rights 3) Parents rights 4) Parents rights 5) Admission Date, Emergency care authorization”

Rule 746.603(a)(2). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 6, 2025. Correction verified: Jun 6, 2025.

4 deficiencies older than three years

Jun 21, 2023: inspection1 deficiency

Screen Time Activities - Not Used for Under Two

“Children under two years of age observed with to be watching an animated cartoon (coco melon) on anchored television in room. CORRECTED at inspection when television was turned off.”

Rule 746.2207(a). Medium, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 21, 2023.

Jul 14, 2022: inspection3 deficiencies

Garbage Inaccessible to Children; Maintained in Sanitary Manner

“Trash can observed in school age room, lid was open and trash was close to top of bin accessible to children. CORRECTED when trash bag was removed from room and bin was covered with lid.”

Rule 746.3407(8). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 14, 2022.
Measurement of Use Zone for Stationary Equipment

“Four stationary play structure slides observed in play area, Use zone was under 4 ft.”

Rule 746.4803. Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 28, 2022. Correction verified: Aug 11, 2022.
Written Operational Policies - Promotion of Physical Activity

“Operational policies are missing physical activity updated information.”

Rule 746.501(a)(18). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 21, 2022. Correction verified: Aug 11, 2022.

All 7 visits on record

Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
Date	Visit	What the record says
Apr 28, 2026	Inspection	No violation found
Apr 22, 2026	Inspection	3 deficiencies cited
May 29, 2025	Inspection	4 deficiencies cited
Jun 10, 2024	Inspection	No violation found
Jun 21, 2023	Inspection	1 deficiency cited
Aug 11, 2022	Inspection	No violation found
Jul 14, 2022	Inspection	3 deficiencies cited

Is it licensed?

Licensed Center, permit issued Oct 19, 2017.
Its permit has conditions.
Accepts state child care subsidies.
Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
Capacity: 46 children.

Texas HHSC, child care operations. Released Oct 31, 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 .

Texas HHSC, child care operations and inspections and investigations. Released Oct 31, 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 2, 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 7.

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data). Released Oct 31, 2026. Updated daily.

11 of the 479 in Hidalgo County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
Place	Deficiencies, 3 years
Daddy’s Day Care Learning Academy, LLC	3
We Love R Kids Child Care & Learning	2
L.j.c. Childcare and Preschool	0
One Step Ahead Vlv Learning Center LLC This child care provider	7
Children’s Education Station LLC	5
Valley Oak Tree No.1	1
Mega Kids Child Development Center	0
St. Mark Pre School	6
Ikids Academy	0
Bright Minds Learning Center	5
St. Paul Lutheran Early Learning Center	6
The Growing Patch Early Learning Center	9

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 Oct 31, 2026 and checked Nov 2, 2026. Updated daily. Creative Commons 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication).
Texas Health and Human Services Commission, Inspections and investigations (m5q4-3y3d).

Released Oct 31, 2026 and checked Nov 2, 2026. Updated daily. Creative Commons 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication).
Texas Health and Human Services Commission, Deficiencies (non-compliance data) (tqgd-mf4x).

Released Oct 31, 2026 and checked Nov 2, 2026. Updated daily. Creative Commons 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication).
Texas Workforce Commission, Subsidy providers and Texas Rising Star.

Released Nov 2, 2026 and checked Nov 2, 2026. Updated daily. No licence stated.

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This copy of the record was made on Nov 2, 2026.

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