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J.d.’s Academy

A licensed child care center in Del Rio, Texas 78840

401 W 1st St, Del Rio, Texas 78840. (830) 768-3288.

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The short answer

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

The last 24 months 3 deficiencies in 1 month of the last 36. Last cited Feb 2024. 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?

3 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 18 child care providers in Val Verde County had 8.

14 inspections on record. The latest, on Feb 10, 2026: no violation found.

Rated High by Texas: Smoke Detectors Testing, at the inspection on Feb 13, 2024

Source:

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

When those deficiencies happened

3 deficiencies in 1 month of the last 36. Last cited Feb 2024. Most serious: High. The last 3 years, to Nov 5, 2026.

3 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.

Feb 13, 2024: inspection3 deficiencies

  • Smoke Detectors Testing

    “Their was no documentation on smoke detectors tested at center.”

    Rule 746.5319. High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 13, 2024. Correction verified: Feb 13, 2024.

  • Fire Extinguishers Serviced

    “A fire extinguisher in a van was in the red and had 0 PSI. This was corrected at inspection when the center bought a new one from the store.”

    Rule 746.5307(b). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 13, 2024.

  • Child Passenger Safety Seat System - Not expired or damaged in accident

    “A couple of booster seats were expired in all vans used to transport children. This was corrected at inspection when the center removed the expired ones.”

    Rule 746.5607(b). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 13, 2024.

8 deficiencies older than three years
Aug 7, 2023: report to the state1 deficiency

  • Child/ Caregiver Ratio - 13 or More Children

    “Based on interviews and sign in out sheets the operation had one classroom open at the time the incident occurred, a caregiver was out of ratio when she was left in charge of 32 children, as the two other morning shift caregivers did not come to work that day.”

    Rule 746.1601. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 25, 2023. Correction verified: Sep 11, 2023.

Feb 22, 2023: inspection1 deficiency

  • Storage of Medication - Inaccessible to Children

    “A medication was in a backpack in the hallway and anyone could have access to the medication. Corrected at inspection: The medication was immediately moved to a box that was out of reach of kids.”

    Rule 746.3807(1). High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 22, 2023.

Mar 3, 2022: inspection1 deficiency

  • Safety Requirements for Active Play Equipment - Anchoring devices Below Level of Playing Surface

    “The anchoring for the rocking equipment was visible in the playground.”

    Rule 746.4601(6). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 7, 2022. Correction verified: Mar 7, 2022.

Jan 4, 2022: inspection1 deficiency

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

    “The child safety alarm in one of the transportation vans was not working properly.”

    Rule 746.5625(b). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 11, 2022. Correction verified: Jan 11, 2022.

Jan 3, 2022: report to the state2 deficiencies

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

    “A staff member took an infant into the kitchen.”

    Rule 746.1201(1). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 4, 2022. Correction verified: Jan 11, 2022.

  • Responsibilities of Caregivers - Free of other activities

    “A caregiver was on their phone while they were suppose to be supervising children.”

    Rule 746.1203(6). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 4, 2022. Correction verified: Jan 11, 2022.

Nov 17, 2021: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Written Operational Policies - Promotion of Physical Activity

    “The operational policies outdoor policy was lacking the benefits of playing outside. The policy does not address clothing or shoes the children should wear to safely play in the playground.”

    Rule 746.501(a)(18). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 18, 2021. Correction verified: Nov 18, 2021.

  • Required Health Statement - Written, dated within past year, indicates child is physically able to participate in operation’s child-care program

    “Three out of ten children’s records reviewed were lacking the doctor signed health statement.”

    Rule 746.611(a)(1). Low, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 24, 2021. Correction verified: Nov 24, 2021.

All 20 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Feb 10, 2026Report to the stateNo violation found
Jan 20, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Feb 5, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Feb 27, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Feb 19, 2024Report to the stateNo violation found
Feb 13, 2024Inspection3 deficiencies cited
Sep 11, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Aug 11, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Aug 7, 2023Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Feb 22, 2023Inspection1 deficiency cited
Oct 13, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Sep 9, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Sep 2, 2022Report to the stateNo violation found
May 24, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Mar 3, 2022Inspection1 deficiency cited
Jan 11, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Jan 4, 2022Inspection1 deficiency cited
Jan 3, 2022Report to the state2 deficiencies cited
Nov 17, 2021Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Oct 25, 2021Report to the stateNo violation found

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Feb 1, 2018.
  • Accepts state child care subsidies.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 101 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.
  • 6 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?

  • Texas Rising Star: 3-Star (the middle of three levels).
Source:

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

How does it compare nearby?

  • Among 18 child care providers in Val Verde County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 8; this one had 3.
Source:

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

11 of the 18 in Val Verde County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Creative Learning Educational Childcare4
J.d.’s Academy This child care provider3
Kids Zone Preschool & Youth Center, LLC19
Wonderland Daycare Center, Inc.10
Wonderland Daycare Center, Inc. #212
The Learning Express Center LLC #14
Mimi’s Learning Center2
Kid’s Playhouse Child Care and Learning Center9
Sunnyside Childcare & Academy LLC15
Kids R Kids Daycare11
Emmazing Kids Childcare & Learning Center9
Bright Beginnings Daycare2

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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