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Met Early Head Start Porter TX

A licensed child care center in Porter, Texas 77365

24135 Kelly St, Porter, Texas 77365. (281) 354-1310.

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 1 deficiency in 1 month of the last 36. Last cited Sep 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 232 child care providers in Montgomery County had 3.

6 inspections on record. The latest, on Jul 15, 2026: no violation found.

Rated High by Texas: Annual Fire Inspection - Before Initial Permit Issued and Every 12 Months, at the inspection on Nov 13, 2023

Source:

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

When those deficiencies happened

1 deficiency in 1 month of the last 36. Last cited Sep 2025. Most serious: Medium High. The last 3 years, to Nov 5, 2026.

1 deficiency 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.

Sep 15, 2025: inspection1 deficiency

  • Annual Sanitation Inspection

    “During the inspection, it was observed that the operation does not have a current health inspection. The last health inspection was conducted 8/15/2024.”

    Rule 746.3401(a). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 29, 2025. Correction verified: Sep 18, 2025.

Nov 13, 2023: inspection2 deficiencies

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

    “At the time of the inspection, the operation did not have an up to date fire inspection.”

    Rule 746.5101(a). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 27, 2023. Correction verified: Nov 27, 2023.

  • Children’s Records - Immunizations

    “Two children did not have updated immunization information.”

    Rule 746.603(a)(4). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 27, 2023. Correction verified: Dec 4, 2023.

3 deficiencies older than three years
Mar 7, 2022: report to the state1 deficiency

  • Responsibilities of Employees and Caregivers-Report Suspected Child Abuse, Neglect or Exploitation

    “Based on the findings from a DFPS investigation, caregivers did not report suspected abuse.”

    Rule 746.1201(5). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 11, 2022. Correction verified: Apr 22, 2022.

Nov 18, 2021: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Training Requirements for Employees, Caregivers, and Directors - Pediatric first aid with rescue breathing

    “I observed that the first aid certification for a caregiver working with children had recently expired.”

    Rule 746.1301(3)(A). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 2, 2021. Correction verified: Nov 24, 2021.

  • Children’s Records Maintained

    “I evaluated 4 children’s enrollment records and observed the following: 1. There was not an address documented for the emergency contact person in 1 out of 4 records. This was corrected during the inspection. 2. 1. There was not an emergency contact person listed in 1 out of 4 records. 3. 1. There was not documentation of a preschool health statement in 1 out of 4 records.”

    Rule 746.603(a). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 2, 2021. Correction verified: Nov 24, 2021.

All 8 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Jul 15, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Sep 15, 2025Inspection1 deficiency cited
Oct 21, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Oct 17, 2024Report to the stateNo violation found
Nov 13, 2023Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Nov 16, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Mar 7, 2022Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Nov 18, 2021Inspection2 deficiencies cited

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Mar 27, 2019.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler.
  • Capacity: 58 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.
  • 2 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?

  • Not rated in Texas Rising Star.
Source:

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

How does it compare nearby?

  • Among 232 child care providers in Montgomery County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 3; this one had 3.
Source:

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

11 of the 232 in Montgomery County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Met Early Head Start Porter TX This child care provider3
Monica GrayNot given
Valley Ranch Academy1
Tinker Time Academy0
Chelsie Cooksey1
High Top Academy2
Dana Denise Billings1
Sotitos Child Care0
Kristina CavazosNot given
Jovana Cantu0
Rocking Horse Day Care5
Debra Larene ClineNot 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

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Source:

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

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Replies

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An example nursing home

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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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