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Abc Academy Preschool and Daycare Center

A licensed child care center in San Benito, Texas 78586

1181 N Sam Houston Blvd, San Benito, Texas 78586. (956) 276-4082.

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The short answer

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

The last 24 months 4 deficiencies in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited Apr 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?

4 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 198 child care providers in Cameron County had 2.

12 inspections on record. The latest, on Sep 11, 2026: no violation found.

Rated High by Texas: AP Initial background checks submitted - At the time you hire someone, at the inspection on Apr 7, 2026

Source:

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

When those deficiencies happened

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

4 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.

Apr 7, 2026: inspection1 deficiency

  • AP Initial background checks submitted - At the time you hire someone

    “Observed a caregiver present in the operation supervising a group of children without having had a background check run by the operation.”

    Rule 745.621(a)(2). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 9, 2026. Correction verified: Apr 10, 2026.

May 12, 2025: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Training Requirements for Employees, Caregivers, and Directors - Pre-Service Training

    “Reviewed staff records: one staff does not have the 24 hours of training, hired on 7/23/2023”

    Rule 746.1301(a)(2)(A). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 19, 2025. Correction verified: May 20, 2025.

  • Child/ Caregiver Ratio - 13 or More Children

    “Observed one caregvier supervising 8 infants between the ages of 2 months to 17 months. Caregiver was over by 4 children at the time of inspection.”

    Rule 746.1601. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 12, 2025. Correction verified: May 20, 2025.

Nov 8, 2024: report to the state1 deficiency

  • Notification of Change in Space

    “This deficiency is not related to investigation: Facility removed a wall and added space to infant room and Child Care Regulations was not notified.”

    Rule 746.301(2). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 12, 2024. Correction verified: Nov 13, 2024.

10 deficiencies older than three years
Jul 12, 2023: inspection9 deficiencies

  • Background Check Requirements - Submit All Identifying Information

    “Observed four individuals present at the operation and background checks have not been submitted.”

    Rule 745.619. High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 12, 2023. Correction verified: Jul 27, 2023.

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

    “Observed 15 children ages ranging from 18 months to 3 years old napping in a classroom without being supervised.”

    Rule 746.1205(a)(4). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 12, 2023. Correction verified: Jul 27, 2023.

  • Documented Annual Training Area - 24 Hours Required

    “A caregiver lacks 11.50 hours of annual training from cycle 11/11/21 to 11/10/22. A second caregiver has no annual training hours from cycle 2/3/2022 to 2/2/23. A third caregiver has no annual training hours for cycle 4/26/22 to 4/25/23.”

    Rule 746.1309(a). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 4, 2023. Correction verified: Jul 27, 2023.

  • Director Annual Training 30 Hours Required

    “A center director has no annual training for cycle 3/19/22 to 3/18/23. Another director lacks 22 hours of annual training for cycle 4/12/22 to 4/11/23.”

    Rule 746.1311(a). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 4, 2023. Correction verified: Jul 27, 2023.

  • Children’s Products- Annual Certification

    “Children’s Products annual certification is not current.”

    Rule 746.4135(b). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 19, 2023. Correction verified: Jul 27, 2023.

  • Children’s Records - Health Statement

    “Two children files are missing a health care statement.”

    Rule 746.603(a)(3). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 28, 2023. Correction verified: Jul 27, 2023.

  • Required Records Maintained and Made Available - Employees’ Attendance

    “Employee’s attendance records is not being maintained.”

    Rule 746.801(5). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 12, 2023. Correction verified: Jul 27, 2023.

  • Required Personnel Records

    “Two staff files have not been created.”

    Rule 746.901. Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 21, 2023. Correction verified: Jul 27, 2023.

  • Posting Requirements - List entitled “Current Employees”--sized at least 81/2 X 11 inches, printed legibly, include employee first and last name

    “Current employees list is not up to date.”

    Rule 746.401(9). Medium Low, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 12, 2023. Correction verified: Jul 27, 2023.

Feb 28, 2023: assessment1 deficiency

  • Liability Insurance Maintained

    “There has been no updated information regarding liability insurance.”

    Rule 746.201(8). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 3, 2023. Correction verified: Feb 28, 2023.

All 16 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Sep 11, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Apr 7, 2026Inspection1 deficiency cited
Jun 25, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Jun 23, 2025Report to the stateNo violation found
May 20, 2025InspectionNo violation found
May 12, 2025Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Dec 17, 2024Report to the stateNo violation found
Nov 14, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Nov 8, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Nov 8, 2024Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Jul 8, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Dec 29, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Jul 27, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Jul 12, 2023Inspection9 deficiencies cited
Feb 28, 2023Assessment1 deficiency cited
Aug 9, 2022InspectionNo violation found

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Oct 10, 2019.
  • Accepts state child care subsidies.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 36 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.
  • 3 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: 2-Star (the first 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 198 child care providers in Cameron County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 2; this one had 4.
Source:

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

11 of the 198 in Cameron County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
El Ranchito Head Start Child Development Center2
Hello Kiddy Day Care7
Fsa Learning Center2
Nora Ann Garza1
All Kids Day Care0
Abc Academy Preschool and Daycare Center This child care provider4
Bright Kids Day Care12
La Encantada Head Start Child Development0
New Beginnings Daycare Center17
Little Aa’s Play School LLC0
Umos Mshs La Paloma Center4
Sunshine Turtle Daycare LLC3

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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