Aladdin’s Castle Learning Ctr. Inc.
A licensed child care center in Odessa, Texas 79762
1601 E 42nd St, Odessa, Texas 79762. (432) 362-2785.
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The short answer
Record last released by Texas HHSC on Oct 24, 2026.
- 10 deficiencies cited in the last three years Middle in Ector County: 1
- 8 rated High by Texas, its most serious level (needs attention)
- 17 inspections on record
- Not rated Texas Rising Star rating
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?
10 deficiencies cited in the last three years
The middle of the 58 child care providers in Ector County had 1.
17 inspections on record. The latest, on Jul 21, 2026: no violation found.
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 report to the state on Nov 13, 2025
Rated High by Texas: Parental Communication - Situation that Placed a Child at Risk, at the report to the state on Nov 13, 2025
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 report to the state on Nov 11, 2025
5 more rated High; all are listed below.
Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data) and inspections and investigations. Released Oct 24, 2026. Updated daily.
When those deficiencies happened
10 deficiencies in 5 months of the last 36. Last cited Nov 2025. Most serious: High. The last 3 years, to Oct 24, 2026.
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| 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 |
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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 24, 2026. Updated daily.
Nov 13, 2025: report to the state2 deficiencies
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Supervision ensures each child?s safety, well-being, including physical proximity and auditory or visual awareness of each child?s on going activity
“A two year old child was left at the playground unsupervised for 10 minutes.”
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Parental Communication - Situation that Placed a Child at Risk
“The operation did not notify the parent immediately after the child was left unsupervised at the playground. Parent was notified a day later.”
Nov 11, 2025: report to the state4 deficiencies
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Supervision ensures each child?s safety, well-being, including physical proximity and auditory or visual awareness of each child?s on going activity
“A three year old child was left unsupervised in the restroom”
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Prohibited Punishments - Corporal Punishment
“A caregiver in reaction to a child slapping her, hit her back.”
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Report Situation Placing Children at Risk
“Operation did not notify Licensing about a child left unsupervised in the restroom.”
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Parental Communication - Situation that Placed a Child at Risk
“Operation did not notify parents about an incident that happened when a staff inadvertently hit a child after the child hit the staff.”
Jul 16, 2025: report to the state1 deficiency
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Prohibited Punishments - Grabbing and Pulling
“A caregiver grabbed a child and roughly sat the child down for time out which resulted to scratching the child with the caregiver?s nail. Note: Caregiver is no longer employed with the operation.”
Jul 10, 2024: report to the state1 deficiency
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Responsibilities of Caregivers - Share Information with Incoming Caregivers
“A caregiver did not provide information to the incoming caregiver that a child fell on a toy so parent could be notified during pick up time.”
May 30, 2024: inspection1 deficiency
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Training Requirements for Employees, Caregivers, and Directors - Pediatric CPR
“A staff does not have a current Pediatric First Aid/CPR Training.”
Dec 12, 2023: report to the state1 deficiency
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Responsibilities of Employees and Caregivers-Report Suspected Child Abuse, Neglect or Exploitation
“Staff failed to report suspected abuse/neglect to DFPS after obtaining the information in the Summer of 2022.”
5 deficiencies older than three years
Sep 5, 2023: report to the state1 deficiency
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Responsibilities of Employees and Caregivers -Demonstrate Competency, Good Judgment, Self-control
“A caregiver did not demonstrate good judgment when the caregiver posted pictures of children in care on the caregiver?s social media account with a derogatory remark. Caregiver is no longer employed at the operation.”
Apr 26, 2023: report to the state2 deficiencies
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AP Responsibilities of Employees and Caregivers -Ensure No Child Abused, Neglected, or Exploited
“A child was injured at the daycare when a caregiver inappropriately grabbed and dragged the child. The injuries required medical attention.”
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Prohibited Punishments - Grabbing and Pulling
“A caregiver inappropriately grabbed a child by the arm and dragged the child by the leg when the child resisted being taken for a diaper change.”
May 31, 2022: inspection1 deficiency
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Training Requirements for Directors 30- Annual Training
“The Director has not completed her 30 hours of annual training.”
Feb 14, 2022: report to the state1 deficiency
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AP Report Child Injury Requiring Medical Treatment by a Health-Care Professional or Hospitalization
“Operation failed to report to licensing within the required two days timeframe of an injury of a child that required medical treatment.”
All 27 visits on record
| Date | Visit | What the record says |
|---|---|---|
| Jul 21, 2026 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Feb 9, 2026 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Dec 16, 2025 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Nov 17, 2025 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Nov 13, 2025 | Report to the state | 2 deficiencies cited |
| Nov 13, 2025 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Nov 11, 2025 | Report to the state | 4 deficiencies cited |
| Sep 23, 2025 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Sep 20, 2025 | Report to the state | No violation found |
| Aug 15, 2025 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Jul 18, 2025 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Jul 16, 2025 | Report to the state | 1 deficiency cited |
| Mar 3, 2025 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Feb 20, 2025 | Report to the state | No violation found |
| Sep 13, 2024 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Jul 10, 2024 | Report to the state | 1 deficiency cited |
| May 30, 2024 | Inspection | 1 deficiency cited |
| Feb 8, 2024 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Dec 12, 2023 | Report to the state | 1 deficiency cited |
| Oct 10, 2023 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Sep 8, 2023 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Sep 5, 2023 | Report to the state | 1 deficiency cited |
| Jul 14, 2023 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Apr 26, 2023 | Report to the state | 2 deficiencies cited |
| Apr 14, 2023 | Inspection | No violation found |
| May 31, 2022 | Inspection | 1 deficiency cited |
| Feb 14, 2022 | Report to the state | 1 deficiency cited |
Is it licensed?
- Licensed Center, permit issued Jan 23, 2018.
- Accepts state child care subsidies.
- Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
- Capacity: 380 children.
Texas HHSC, child care operations. Released Oct 24, 2026. Updated daily.
Has Texas acted against it?
- No corrective or adverse action by Texas on record.
- 10 reports to the state on record; Texas doesn’t publish whether they were A complaint allegation the state investigated and found true: the evidence showed it more likely than not happened. Inconclusive means the evidence couldn’t show it either way. Neither inconclusive nor unsubstantiated proves it didn’t happen. Source: California Department of Social Services, complaint findings; each state’s licensing agency..
Texas HHSC, child care operations and inspections and investigations. Released Oct 24, 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.
Texas Workforce Commission, subsidy providers and Texas Rising Star. Released Oct 24, 2026. Updated daily.
How does it compare nearby?
- Among 58 child care providers in Ector County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 1; this one had 10.
Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data). Released Oct 24, 2026. Updated daily.
| Place | Deficiencies, 3 years |
|---|---|
| Aladdin’s Castle Learning Ctr. Inc. This child care provider | 10 |
| Amazing Grace Early Learning Center | 5 |
| Camp Fire Kids Care Ross | 3 |
| We Are Loved Childcare | 0 |
| Paula Chaffin | Not given |
| Amy Applegate | Not given |
| Kayla Leah Ybarra | 0 |
| Right at School at Lyndon B. Johnson Elem | 4 |
| Valerie Garcia | 0 |
| Amber’s Daycare | 0 |
| Camp Fire USA Kids Care Burnet Elementary | 1 |
| Utpb Child Care Center | 3 |
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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Texas Health and Human Services Commission, Child care operations (bc5r-88dy).
Released Oct 24, 2026 and checked Oct 24, 2026. Updated daily. Creative Commons 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication).
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Texas Health and Human Services Commission, Inspections and investigations (m5q4-3y3d).
Released Oct 24, 2026 and checked Oct 24, 2026. Updated daily. Creative Commons 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication).
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Texas Health and Human Services Commission, Deficiencies (non-compliance data) (tqgd-mf4x).
Released Oct 24, 2026 and checked Oct 24, 2026. Updated daily. Creative Commons 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication).
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Texas Workforce Commission, Subsidy providers and Texas Rising Star.
Released Oct 24, 2026 and checked Oct 24, 2026. Updated daily. No licence stated.
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