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Horizon Lighthouse Children’s Academy

A licensed child care center in Rockwall, Texas 75032

5600 Horizon Rd, Rockwall, Texas 75032. (972) 771-5333.

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The short answer

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

The last 24 months 6 deficiencies in 4 months of the last 36. Last cited May 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?

6 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 58 child care providers in Rockwall County had 2.

28 inspections on record. The latest, on Jul 22, 2026: no violation found.

Rated High by Texas: Food Service and Preparation Requirement - No Foods That Present Choking Risk, at the inspection on May 27, 2026

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 May 25, 2026

Source:

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

When those deficiencies happened

6 deficiencies in 4 months of the last 36. Last cited May 2026. Most serious: High. The last 3 years, to Nov 5, 2026.

6 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.

May 27, 2026: inspection1 deficiency

  • Food Service and Preparation Requirement - No Foods That Present Choking Risk

    “The operation was serving hot dogs that were sliced but not cut into half or fourths.”

    Rule 746.3317(7). High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 27, 2026.

May 25, 2026: report to the state1 deficiency

  • Supervision ensures each child?s safety, well-being, including physical proximity and auditory or visual awareness of each child?s on going activity

    “A caregiver had their back turned to the class while preparing lunches. A child was bitten and the caregiver was unaware of the incident.”

    Rule 746.1205(a)(4). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 12, 2026. Correction verified: Jun 18, 2026.

Nov 22, 2024: report to the state1 deficiency

  • Maintenance of Building, Grounds and Equipment

    “This standard was evaluated as part of an investigation and found to be deficient. Garbage was accessible to children in care.”

    Rule 746.3407. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 18, 2024.

Aug 1, 2024: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Crib Mattress Cover - Snug-Fitting and Thin

    “Some infant cribs did not have tight fitted sheets.”

    Rule 746.2415(c)(2). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 1, 2024.

  • Installation and Maintenance of Loose-fill Surfacing - Nine Inches if Equipment Greater Than 5 Ft.

    “The School Age Playground did not have the required nine inches of woodchip surfacing.”

    Rule 746.4907(a)(2). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 20, 2024. Correction verified: Aug 9, 2024.

May 30, 2024: report to the state1 deficiency

  • Child/ Caregiver Ratio - 13 or More Children

    “This standard was evaluated as part of an investigation and found to be deficient. Child/Caregiver Ratio was deficient in the older toddler classroom.”

    Rule 746.1601. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 27, 2024. Correction verified: Jul 2, 2024.

10 deficiencies older than three years
Apr 2, 2023: report to the state2 deficiencies

  • Janitorial duties

    “It was found that OV had been placed in a crib while the teacher was cleaning. OV climbed over the crib railing and hit his head.”

    Rule 746.1203(3)(C). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 27, 2023. Correction verified: May 3, 2023.

  • Incident/Illness Report Form Shared with Parent

    “The operation did not share with the parent the incident report the day it happened. The caregiver mentioned that she completes the incident report that day, but the other teacher did not share when the child was picked up.”

    Rule 746.707. Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 27, 2023. Correction verified: May 3, 2023.

Jan 17, 2023: report to the state2 deficiencies

  • Diaper Changing Steps- Prompt

    “The finding was based on the photos that was sent by the parent and the statement of the former teacher who also has the same concern when her daughter was in the center, she suffered consistent diaper rashes. She would often pick her child from daycare with an extended soiled diaper. This standard was found to be deficient.”

    Rule 746.3501(1). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 14, 2023. Correction verified: Feb 27, 2023.

  • Incident/Illness Report Form Shared with Parent

    The inspectors’ words, 126 words

    “Based on the interview with the parent, the Doctor’s note submitted dated 1/13/2023 and the photos provided as proof stating the incident that happened on 1/11/2023 (screenshot). The parent stated during the interview that she always checks the child’s body before she drops at the daycare on 1/11/2023, she knew the child does not have any bruises that day. But after the parent picked up the child in the afternoon, parent found the bruises and took a picture. The operation failed to file an incident report and did not share to the parent. During the inspection, the operation was asked of any other incident report aside from the 3 dates provided which the parent also provided the same copies. This standard was found to be deficient.”

    Rule 746.707. Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 28, 2023. Correction verified: Feb 23, 2023.

Sep 28, 2022: inspection4 deficiencies

  • Maintenance of Building, Grounds and Equipment

    “During the walkthrough, there were four toilets found uncleaned and not in good repair.”

    Rule 746.3407. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 17, 2022. Correction verified: Oct 13, 2022.

  • Written Feeding Instructions - Review and Update Every 30 Days

    “There were five infants with feeding instructions which are not updated or current.”

    Rule 746.2421(b). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 3, 2022. Correction verified: Oct 3, 2022.

  • Required Records Maintained and Made Available - Children’s Records

    “Ten children’s record were evaluated and found the following: there are 5 children don’t have a food allergy plan, 3 children don’t have Emergency authorization, 2 children don’t have health statement, 1 child has no immunization record, 1 has no emergency contact address and 1 has no transportation/field trip authorization.”

    Rule 746.801(1). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 5, 2022. Correction verified: Oct 3, 2022.

  • Required Records Maintained and Made Available - Tracking System

    “Daily sign in/out were not consistent. Some children were signed in but no sign out. This was corrected during the inspection.”

    Rule 746.801(19). Medium, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 28, 2022.

Jul 29, 2022: inspection1 deficiency

  • Infant Care Area Furnishings and Equipment -Use of Safety Straps

    “Four infants were not buckled into the bucket seats.”

    Rule 746.2407. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 29, 2022.

May 25, 2022: report to the state1 deficiency

  • Prohibited Punishments - Using Harsh, Abusive or Profane Language

    “A caregiver used an expletive when telling a child to get off of a bike. The caregiver no longer works at the center.”

    Rule 746.2805(7). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 20, 2022. Correction verified: Jul 7, 2022.

All 49 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Jul 22, 2026Report to the stateNo violation found
Jul 20, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Jul 15, 2026Report to the stateNo violation found
Jun 18, 2026InspectionNo violation found
May 27, 2026Inspection1 deficiency cited
May 25, 2026Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Jan 15, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Dec 30, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Dec 29, 2025Report to the stateNo violation found
Oct 27, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Oct 23, 2025Report to the stateNo violation found
Jul 18, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Jun 18, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Apr 2, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Mar 24, 2025Report to the stateNo violation found
Mar 6, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Mar 3, 2025Report to the stateNo violation found
Nov 27, 2024Report to the stateNo violation found
Nov 22, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Nov 22, 2024Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Aug 1, 2024Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Jul 2, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Jun 4, 2024InspectionNo violation found
May 31, 2024Report to the stateNo violation found
May 30, 2024InspectionNo violation found
May 30, 2024Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Jan 24, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Oct 26, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Oct 25, 2023Report to the stateNo violation found
Oct 13, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Oct 5, 2023Report to the stateNo violation found
Aug 28, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Jul 19, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Jul 18, 2023Report to the stateNo violation found
May 3, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Apr 2, 2023Report to the state2 deficiencies cited
Mar 17, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Mar 7, 2023Report to the stateNo violation found
Feb 27, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Jan 25, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Jan 17, 2023Report to the state2 deficiencies cited
Sep 28, 2022Inspection4 deficiencies cited
Aug 18, 2022Report to the stateNo violation found
Jul 29, 2022Inspection1 deficiency cited
Jul 27, 2022Report to the stateNo violation found
Jul 7, 2022InspectionNo violation found
May 26, 2022InspectionNo violation found
May 25, 2022Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Mar 10, 2022Report to the stateNo violation found

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued May 17, 2019.
  • Accepts state child care subsidies.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 180 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.
  • 21 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: 4-Star (the highest 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 58 child care providers in Rockwall County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 2; this one had 6.
Source:

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

11 of the 58 in Rockwall County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Rock Summer Rocks1
Discovery School of Fbc Heath4
Primrose School of Rockwall2
Horizon Lighthouse Children’s Academy This child care provider6
Heart of Home Daycare2
Viva World School9
The Fulton School1
Belinda Moore0
Judy Snider0
Guillermina Gonzalez0
Childrens Park Learning Center0
Adrienne Sandidge0

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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