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Excellence Academy Child Care & Learning Center

A licensed child care center in Dickinson, Texas 77539

3717 Highway 3 Ste A-D, Dickinson, Texas 77539. (281) 614-9187.

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The short answer

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

The last 24 months 12 deficiencies in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited Oct 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?

12 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 127 child care providers in Galveston County had 5.

12 inspections on record. The latest, on Oct 7, 2026: 2 deficiencies cited.

Rated High by Texas: Annual Fire Inspection - Before Initial Permit Issued and Every 12 Months, at the inspection on Oct 7, 2026

Rated High by Texas: Prohibited Punishments - Corporal Punishment, at the report to the state on May 31, 2025

Rated High by Texas: Electronic Child Safety Alarm - installed and maintained according to manufacturer’s instructions, at the inspection on Oct 16, 2024

Source:

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

When those deficiencies happened

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

12 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.

Oct 7, 2026: inspection2 deficiencies

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

    “At time of inspection, operation had not had a current fire inspection.”

    Rule 746.5101(a). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 14, 2026.

  • Annual Sanitation Inspection

    “At time of inspection, sanitation inspection had not been conducted.”

    Rule 746.3401(a). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 14, 2026.

May 31, 2025: report to the state1 deficiency

  • Prohibited Punishments - Corporal Punishment

    “Based on photos and documentation, caregiver hit another child in the face leaving a scratch.”

    Rule 746.2805(1). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 3, 2025. Correction verified: Jul 10, 2025.

Oct 16, 2024: inspection9 deficiencies

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

    “Two out of the three vans child safety alarms did not sound.”

    Rule 746.5625(b). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 23, 2024. Correction verified: Nov 4, 2024.

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

    “Staff hired on 5/23/2022 had 11 hours of annual training for 2023-2024 training year. Staff hired on 9/1/2019 had 17 hours of annual training for 2023-2024 training year.”

    Rule 746.1301(a)(5)(A). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 23, 2024. Correction verified: Nov 1, 2024.

  • Training Requirements for Employees, Caregivers, and Directors - Transportation training

    “Transporters hired on 10/10/2017, 2/8/2024, and 2/20/2020 have not taken transportation training for 2023-2024 year.”

    Rule 746.1301(a)(7)(A). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 18, 2024. Correction verified: Oct 22, 2024.

  • Each Caregiver and the Director Must Have Current Training in pediatric first aid with rescue breathing and choking.

    “Staff hired on 8/22/2022 and director hired on 12/3/2020 had expired Pediatric CPR and First Aid cards on file.”

    Rule 746.1315(a). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 23, 2024. Correction verified: Nov 4, 2024.

  • Administering Medication - Not After Expiration date

    “During inspection, children with birth dates 6/30/2021, 3/19/2019, and 4/9/2012 had expired medications.”

    Rule 746.3805(b)(3). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 18, 2024. Correction verified: Oct 23, 2024.

  • Fire Extinguishers Serviced

    “Two out of the three buses had fire extinguishers that had not been serviced and were observed empty.”

    Rule 746.5307(b). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 23, 2024. Correction verified: Nov 1, 2024.

  • Background Check Validation ? Every 3 months each operation, other than a licensed, registered, or listed home, must validate current list

    “Operation last validated their employee list on 5/6/2024.”

    Rule 745.651(2)(A). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 18, 2024. Correction verified: Oct 16, 2024.

  • Required Personnel Records - Required Affidavit (Form 2985)

    “Staff hired on 8/31/2021 did not have notarized affidavit in file.”

    Rule 746.901(4). Medium Low, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 18, 2024. Correction verified: Oct 22, 2024.

  • Required Personnel Records - Required Affidavit (Form 2912)

    “Staff hired on 2/8/2024 did not have Pre-Employment affidavit form in file.”

    Rule 746.901(5). Medium Low, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 18, 2024. Correction verified: Oct 22, 2024.

5 deficiencies older than three years
Nov 2, 2023: inspection1 deficiency

  • Training Requirements for Employees, Caregivers, and Directors - Transportation training

    “The director doesn’t have current transportation training.”

    Rule 746.1301(a)(7)(A). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 30, 2023. Correction verified: Nov 27, 2023.

Aug 7, 2023: inspection1 deficiency

  • Adequate Lighting During Naptime

    “During nap time in the toddler 1 room the class was very dark children and cargiver could not be seen upon entering the classroom, there was not sufficent lighting.”

    Rule 746.2911. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 7, 2023. Correction verified: Sep 8, 2023.

Nov 2, 2022: inspection1 deficiency

  • Training Requirements for Employees, Caregivers, and Directors - Transportation Training

    “Staff hired on 2/20/2020 did not have current transportation training on file.”

    Rule 746.1301(7)(A). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 4, 2022. Correction verified: Nov 4, 2022.

Aug 16, 2022: report to the state1 deficiency

  • Background Check Validation ? Every 3 months each operation, other than a licensed, registered, or listed home, must validate current list

    “Operation has not validated their people list since 1/11/2022. Noted: Director updated the people list during visit.”

    Rule 745.651(2)(A). Medium, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 22, 2022.

Nov 10, 2021: inspection1 deficiency

  • Infant Care Area - Space to Walk Between Cribs, Cots or Mats

    “Mats were not spaced in the toddler room, this was corrected at inspection when they were spaced out.”

    Rule 746.2403(5). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 10, 2021.

All 16 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Oct 7, 2026Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Oct 15, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Jul 10, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Jun 2, 2025InspectionNo violation found
May 31, 2025Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Oct 16, 2024Inspection9 deficiencies cited
May 30, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Nov 2, 2023Inspection1 deficiency cited
Sep 8, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Sep 5, 2023Report to the stateNo violation found
Aug 7, 2023Inspection1 deficiency cited
Jul 26, 2023Report to the stateNo violation found
Nov 2, 2022Inspection1 deficiency cited
Aug 22, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Aug 16, 2022Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Nov 10, 2021Inspection1 deficiency cited

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Jun 25, 2019.
  • Accepts state child care subsidies.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 96 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.
  • 4 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 127 child care providers in Galveston County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 5; this one had 12.
Source:

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

11 of the 127 in Galveston County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Dickinson Isd Gator Academy5
Kids @ First Nursery and Preschool15
Yvette Bimage-FieldsNot given
Excellence Academy Child Care & Learning Center This child care provider12
YMCA After School @ Lobit Elementary0
Learners Land Child Care Center22
Lac Ho13
Highland Forest Daycare and Early Learning Center16
Cheryl Ann Hayes-Brandt1
Kid City League City4
Hieu Thanh Vu0
S&a’s Fun Time Learn Time Academy0

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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