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Learning Express-Station 4

A licensed child care center in Athens, Texas 75751

1407 W Corsicana St, Athens, Texas 75751. (903) 904-5072.

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The short answer

Record last released by Texas HHSC on Oct 24, 2026.

The last 24 months 3 deficiencies in 2 months of the last 36. Last cited Jun 2025. 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 24 child care providers in Henderson County had 4.

14 inspections on record. The latest, on May 26, 2026: no violation found.

Rated High by Texas: Mark Cleaning Supplies, Toxic Materials; Keep Separate from Food and Inaccessible to Children, at the inspection on Jun 18, 2025

Source:

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data) and inspections and investigations. Released Oct 24, 2026. Updated daily.

When those deficiencies happened

3 deficiencies in 2 months of the last 36. Last cited Jun 2025. Most serious: High. The last 3 years, to Oct 24, 2026.

3 deficiencies by month over the last 3 years. Each cell is one month.
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2023 NovDec
2024 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2025 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2026 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOct

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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 Oct 24, 2026. Updated daily.

Jun 20, 2025: report to the state1 deficiency

  • Personal use of electronic devices, such as cell phones, MP3 players, tablets, and video games

    “This standard was reviewed during a DFPS investigation and found deficient. There were several people that stated that a caregiver is on her phone excessively throughout the day.”

    Rule 746.1203(3)(D). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 25, 2025. Correction verified: Jul 30, 2025.

Jun 18, 2025: inspection1 deficiency

  • Mark Cleaning Supplies, Toxic Materials; Keep Separate from Food and Inaccessible to Children

    “While doing a walk through, 2 classes had cleaning supplies that said keep out of reach of children under unlocked sinks and accessible to children.”

    Rule 746.3407(12). High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 18, 2025.

Mar 18, 2025: report to the state1 deficiency

  • Required Personnel Records -Training Hours

    “This standard was reviewed during a DFPS investigation and found deficient. The operation did not have training files that were requested.”

    Rule 746.901(6). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 14, 2025. Correction verified: Apr 28, 2025.

4 deficiencies older than three years
Jul 27, 2023: inspection3 deficiencies

  • Electronic Child Safety Alarm - is equipped in each vehicle

    “The vans at the operation did not have alarms on them. This was discussed with the operation and the owner will be installing.”

    Rule 746.5625(a). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 17, 2023. Correction verified: Sep 1, 2023.

  • Medication Records - Name of Child

    “Medication records were checked for the HASA and found that the full name of the children listed was not being used.”

    Rule 746.3805(c)(1). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 27, 2023.

  • Active Play Surfacing In Use Zones - Loose Fill or Unitary Surfacing

    “There was a spring rider on the playground that requires loose fill that did not have loose fill. This was corrected at inspection.”

    Rule 746.4901(a). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 27, 2023.

Apr 27, 2022: report to the state1 deficiency

  • Required Records Maintained and Made Available - Employees’ Attendance

    “This standard was reviewed in relation to the allegations and found to be deficient. The attendance record of an employee was not made available upon request.”

    Rule 746.801(5). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 27, 2022. Correction verified: May 24, 2022.

All 24 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
May 26, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Jul 28, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Jul 24, 2025Report to the stateNo violation found
Jul 24, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Jul 22, 2025Report to the stateNo violation found
Jul 10, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Jul 8, 2025Report to the stateNo violation found
Jun 20, 2025Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Jun 18, 2025Inspection1 deficiency cited
Apr 24, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Apr 17, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Apr 15, 2025Report to the stateNo violation found
Mar 19, 2025Report to the stateNo violation found
Mar 18, 2025Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Mar 4, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Feb 28, 2025Report to the stateNo violation found
Jan 22, 2025Report to the stateNo violation found
Jul 22, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Jan 30, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Jul 27, 2023Inspection3 deficiencies cited
Sep 14, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Apr 29, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Apr 27, 2022Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Mar 17, 2022InspectionNo violation found

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Jul 3, 2019.
  • Accepts state child care subsidies.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 140 children.
Source:

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 .
Source:

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?

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

Texas Workforce Commission, subsidy providers and Texas Rising Star. Released Oct 24, 2026. Updated daily.

How does it compare nearby?

  • Among 24 child care providers in Henderson County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 4; this one had 3.
Source:

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data). Released Oct 24, 2026. Updated daily.

11 of the 24 in Henderson County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Little Dreamer’s Daycare Center10
Kidz First Learning Academy13
Learning Express-Station 4 This child care provider3
Mimi’s Creative Kids, LLC6
Amazing Grace Learning Academy10
Angel Keepers Pre-School & Eastern Hills Christian School7
Love & Learn Dcc3
Sandra WeissNot given
First Baptist Church Gun Barrel City Childcare Center5
Building Blocks Childcare Center8
Learning Express Inc.0
Darla Costlow4

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 Oct 24, 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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