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Baby Caterpillars Childcare Center

A licensed child care center in Socorro, Texas 79927

649 Horizon Blvd, Socorro, Texas 79927. (915) 275-4700.

Texas’s own record, on its child care search

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The short answer

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

The last 24 months 3 deficiencies in 2 months of the last 36. Last cited Jun 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?

3 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 371 child care providers in El Paso County had 2.

19 inspections on record. The latest, on May 20, 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

3 deficiencies in 2 months of the last 36. Last cited Jun 2025. Most serious: Medium 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.

Jun 10, 2025: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Required Records Maintained and Made Available - Fire Inspection Report, Including Written Approval for Above/Below Ground Level Care

    “The operation did not have proof of a current fire inspection.”

    Rule 746.801(11). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 30, 2025. Correction verified: Jul 10, 2025.

  • Children’s Records - Health Statement

    “One child’s file was missing a health statement.”

    Rule 746.603(a)(3). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 4, 2025. Correction verified: Jul 1, 2025.

Aug 29, 2024: inspection1 deficiency

  • Maintenance of Building, Grounds and Equipment

    “There was an opening in the corner of the playground area where a child could fit and be exposed to hazards.”

    Rule 746.3407. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 13, 2024. Correction verified: Sep 11, 2024.

7 deficiencies older than three years
Sep 22, 2023: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Training Requirements for Employees, Caregivers, and Directors - 24 Annual training

    “Three staff were missing the required hours of annual training.”

    Rule 746.1301(a)(5)(A). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 27, 2023. Correction verified: Oct 25, 2023.

  • Training Requirements for Employees, Caregivers, and Directors - 30 Annual Training

    “Director was missing 18 hours of annual training.”

    Rule 746.1301(a)(6)(A). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 27, 2023. Correction verified: Oct 25, 2023.

Nov 8, 2022: inspection3 deficiencies

  • Safety Requirements for Active Play Equipment - No Pinch, Crush, or Shear Points

    “There was a broken children’s plastic chair in the outdoor play area. This chair had missing plastic in the sitting as well as backrest area. The chair had sharp exposed edges. This was corrected at inspection when the broken chair was removed.”

    Rule 746.4601(7). High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 8, 2022.

  • Required Equipment in Vehicles - First-aid Kit

    “The transportation vehicle did not have a first aid kit.”

    Rule 746.5617(a)(6). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 15, 2022. Correction verified: Nov 14, 2022.

  • Safety Requirements for Play Yards - Label for Each Infant

    “The play yards in the infant room did not have labels either with the infant’s name or an alternative method of labeling that could be used as an infant assignment map.”

    Rule 746.2411(2)(I). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 15, 2022. Correction verified: Nov 14, 2022.

Jan 5, 2022: inspection2 deficiencies

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

    “The operation had an expired fire inspection.”

    Rule 746.5101(a). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 31, 2022. Correction verified: Jan 18, 2022.

  • Location of Handwashing Sink

    “There was no soap or paper towels in the boys bathroom. This was corrected at inspection when the director suppled paper towels and soap in the bathroom.”

    Rule 746.4405. Medium, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 5, 2022.

All 27 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
May 20, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Jun 10, 2025Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Aug 29, 2024Inspection1 deficiency cited
Jul 17, 2024Report to the stateNo violation found
Jul 3, 2024Report to the stateNo violation found
Jul 3, 2024InspectionNo violation found
May 22, 2024Report to the stateNo violation found
Dec 6, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Nov 27, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Nov 14, 2023Report to the stateNo violation found
Nov 6, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Nov 3, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Sep 26, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Sep 22, 2023Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Sep 21, 2023Report to the stateNo violation found
Jun 2, 2023Report to the stateNo violation found
Apr 5, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Mar 30, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Mar 27, 2023Report to the stateNo violation found
Mar 21, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Feb 8, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Nov 8, 2022Inspection3 deficiencies cited
Feb 11, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Feb 8, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Feb 7, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Feb 4, 2022Report to the stateNo violation found
Jan 5, 2022Inspection2 deficiencies cited

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Feb 5, 2019.
  • Accepts state child care subsidies.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 117 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.
  • 8 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 371 child care providers in El Paso County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 2; this one had 3.
Source:

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

11 of the 371 in El Paso County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Irma Yolanda Loera4
Rosa Isela Fraire4
Los Tres Mosqueteros Daycare LLC3
Baby Caterpillars Childcare Center This child care provider3
The Promise Daycare6
YMCA Afterschool at Idea Horizon Vista4
T?aikabede Jose Sierra Sr Youth Learning Center0
YMCA Afterschool at Idea Rio Vista2
Bright Stars Day Care Center1
YWCA Escontrias After School0
YWCA Hueco After School0
Peques Daycare & Preschool1

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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