Dewey Community Center

A licensed child care center in Waco, Texas 76707

925 N 9th St, Waco, Texas 76707. (254) 750-8677.

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The short answer

Record last released by Texas HHSC on Oct 30, 2026.

6 deficiencies cited in the last three years Middle in McLennan County: 6
1 rated High by Texas, its most serious level (needs attention)
7 inspections on record
3-Star Texas Rising Star rating

The last 24 months 6 deficiencies in 1 month of the last 36. Last cited Oct 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?

6 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 132 child care providers in McLennan County had 6.

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

Rated High by Texas: Responsibilities of Caregivers - Know how many children responsible for, at the inspection on Oct 14, 2025

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data) and inspections and investigations. Released Oct 30, 2026. Updated daily.

When those deficiencies happened

6 deficiencies in 1 month of the last 36. Last cited Oct 2025. Most serious: High. The last 3 years, to Oct 30, 2026.

6 deficiencies by month over the last 3 years. Each cell is one month.
	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
2023											Nov	Dec
2024	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
2025	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
2026	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct

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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

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.

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data). Released Oct 30, 2026. Updated daily.

Oct 14, 2025: inspection6 deficiencies

Responsibilities of Caregivers - Know how many children responsible for

“There were 3 groups of children, that the caregivers were unaware of how many children were in there group.”

Rule 744.1205(a)(2). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 14, 2025. Correction verified: Oct 21, 2025.
Responsibilities of Caregivers - Know children’s names and ages

“There were 3 groups of children and each caregiver responsible for their group were unsure of the ages of the children.”

Rule 744.1205(a)(3). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 14, 2025. Correction verified: Oct 21, 2025.
CPR Training and Recertification Adhere to Guidelines

“2 out of 8 files reviewed did not have a current CPR/First Aid Certification on file for review.”

Rule 744.1315(b)(1). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 28, 2025. Correction verified: Oct 20, 2025.
Food Allergy Plan-Emergency plan for diagnosed child, signed by health care professional and parent

“A child in care with a documented food allergy, did not have an allergy plan signed by a physician.”

Rule 744.2669. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 11, 2025. Correction verified: Nov 10, 2025.
Posting Requirements - Daily Menu, Including All Snacks and Meals Prepared or Served

“The operation did not have menus or emergency phone numbers posted for review.”

Rule 744.401(6). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 21, 2025. Correction verified: Oct 21, 2025.
Required Personnel Records- Meets Requirements

“4 out of 8 personnel files reviewed did not have a high school diploma or transcript on file for review.”

Rule 744.901(2). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 28, 2025. Correction verified: Oct 20, 2025.

7 deficiencies older than three years

Mar 28, 2023: inspection1 deficiency

Food Allergy Plan-Emergency plan for diagnosed child, signed by health care professional and parent

“Two children enrolled at the operation with diagnosed food allergies did not have emergency allergy plans on file.”

Rule 744.2669. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 11, 2023. Correction verified: Apr 11, 2023.

Apr 18, 2022: report to the state1 deficiency

AP Report Child Injury Requiring Medical Treatment by a Health-Care Professional or Hospitalization

“The operation did not report child injuries requiring medical evaluation to child care regulation after a vehicle accident.”

Rule 744.305(a)(2). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 16, 2022. Correction verified: Jun 16, 2022.

Apr 11, 2022: inspection5 deficiencies

Each caregiver, operation director, program director, and site director Training in Pediatric First Aid with Rescue Breathing and Choking.

“One caregiver employed over 90 days did not have training in first aid.”

Rule 744.1315(a). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 29, 2022. Correction verified: Apr 22, 2022.
Each caregiver, operation director, program director, and site director Pediatric CPR

“One caregiver employed over 90 days did not have training in CPR.”

Rule 744.1315(b). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 29, 2022. Correction verified: Apr 22, 2022.
Transportation Safety Training

“The site director and two drivers did not have updated transportation training on file.”

Rule 744.1317(a). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 15, 2022. Correction verified: Apr 22, 2022.
Fire Drill Monthly - Exit in 3 Minutes

“The operation did not complete a fire drill for the month of March 2022.”

Rule 744.3559(1). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 15, 2022. Correction verified: Apr 13, 2022.
Children’s Records - Immunizations

“Children’s records did not have immunization records or a statement that the child’s immunization records are up to date and filed at the school that the child attends.”

Rule 744.603(a)(3). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 25, 2022. Correction verified: Apr 22, 2022.

All 8 visits on record

Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
Date	Visit	What the record says
Jul 22, 2026	Inspection	No violation found
Oct 21, 2025	Inspection	No violation found
Oct 14, 2025	Inspection	6 deficiencies cited
Jan 28, 2025	Inspection	No violation found
Mar 6, 2024	Inspection	No violation found
Mar 28, 2023	Inspection	1 deficiency cited
Apr 18, 2022	Report to the state	1 deficiency cited
Apr 11, 2022	Inspection	5 deficiencies cited

Is it licensed?

Licensed Center, permit issued Sep 18, 2019.
Accepts state child care subsidies.
Licensed for ages: School.
Capacity: 85 children.

Texas HHSC, child care operations. Released Oct 30, 2026. Updated daily.

Has Texas acted against it?

No corrective or adverse action by Texas on record.
1 report to the state on record; Texas doesn’t publish whether they were .

Texas HHSC, child care operations and inspections and investigations. Released Oct 30, 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).

Texas Workforce Commission, subsidy providers and Texas Rising Star. Released Oct 30, 2026. Updated daily.

How does it compare nearby?

Among 132 child care providers in McLennan County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 6; this one had 6.

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data). Released Oct 30, 2026. Updated daily.

11 of the 132 in McLennan County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
Place	Deficiencies, 3 years
Paula Hofen	6
Horn’s Academy Child Care Center	14
Dewey Community Center This child care provider	6
Lenora Rosecrants	20
Brianna Lashae Tyrone	12
Miss Tt’s Childcare	6
Soco Child Care Center	5
Provident Heights YMCA of Central Texas	0
West Avenue YMCA of Central Texas	0
Country Child Care	0
Little Rockets	2
Waco Child Development Center	14

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

Texas Health and Human Services Commission, Child care operations (bc5r-88dy).

Released Oct 30, 2026 and checked Oct 30, 2026. Updated daily. Creative Commons 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication).
Texas Health and Human Services Commission, Inspections and investigations (m5q4-3y3d).

Released Oct 30, 2026 and checked Oct 30, 2026. Updated daily. Creative Commons 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication).
Texas Health and Human Services Commission, Deficiencies (non-compliance data) (tqgd-mf4x).

Released Oct 30, 2026 and checked Oct 30, 2026. Updated daily. Creative Commons 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication).
Texas Workforce Commission, Subsidy providers and Texas Rising Star.

Released Oct 30, 2026 and checked Oct 30, 2026. Updated daily. No licence stated.

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