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Early Steps Bilingual Academy

A licensed child care center in Tyler, Texas 75703

1524 Cumberland Rd, Tyler, Texas 75703. (903) 630-7363.

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The short answer

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

The last 24 months 10 deficiencies in 6 months of the last 36. Last cited Sep 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?

10 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 83 child care providers in Smith County had 2.

11 inspections on record. The latest, on Sep 29, 2026: 2 deficiencies cited.

Rated High by Texas: AP Background check results - Must receive notification prior to allowing subject to be present at your operation, at the inspection on Sep 29, 2026

Rated High by Texas: Prohibited Punishments - Using Inappropriate Long Period of Silence or Inactivity Including Requiring Child to Remain in a Restrictive Device, at the report to the state on Aug 12, 2025

Rated High by Texas: Safety Requirements for Active Play Equipment - No Pinch, Crush, or Shear Points, at the inspection on Nov 18, 2024

Source:

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

When those deficiencies happened

10 deficiencies in 6 months of the last 36. Last cited Sep 2026. Most serious: High. The last 3 years, to Oct 24, 2026.

10 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.

Sep 29, 2026: inspection2 deficiencies

  • AP Background check results - Must receive notification prior to allowing subject to be present at your operation

    “During a walk through of the operation, it was learned a staff member without an active background check was supervising a group of 7 students. This was brought to the directors attention and corrected at inspection.”

    Rule 745.641. High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 29, 2026.

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

    “During a review of the staff files, it was observed three caregivers without updated training for the year.”

    Rule 746.1301(a)(5)(A). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 30, 2026.

Sep 30, 2025: inspection2 deficiencies

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

    “During the inspection, it was observed caregivers without current training hours.”

    Rule 746.1301(a)(5)(A). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 30, 2025. Correction verified: Oct 31, 2025.

  • Fire Drill Monthly - Exit in 3 Minutes

    “During the inspection, it was observed the operation has only conducted 3 fire drills for the year 2025.”

    Rule 746.5205(1). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 30, 2025. Correction verified: Oct 31, 2025.

Aug 12, 2025: report to the state1 deficiency

  • Prohibited Punishments - Using Inappropriate Long Period of Silence or Inactivity Including Requiring Child to Remain in a Restrictive Device

    “Based on a DFPS investigation this standard was reviewed and found to be deficient. A young child was placed in timeout for 5-7 minutes.”

    Rule 746.2805(10). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 18, 2025. Correction verified: Sep 30, 2025.

Jun 5, 2025: report to the state1 deficiency

  • Naptime Child/Caregiver Ratio - Caregivers Physically Present

    “This standard was reviewed during an investigation and found deficient. The operation does not have a caregiver physically present in the room during naptime.”

    Rule 746.1613(a)(6). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 30, 2025. Correction verified: Jul 21, 2025.

Jan 17, 2025: assessment1 deficiency

  • Report Number of Employees

    “The operation did not report the number of employees that left in 2024.”

    Rule 746.303(b). Medium Low, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 19, 2025. Correction verified: Jan 23, 2025.

Nov 18, 2024: inspection3 deficiencies

  • Safety Requirements for Active Play Equipment - No Pinch, Crush, or Shear Points

    “During an inspection of the playground, it was observed the merry-go-cycle had two broken seats. This was discussed with the director and a plan was put in place to keep the children off until the equipment is fixed.”

    Rule 746.4601(7). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 9, 2024. Correction verified: Dec 4, 2024.

  • Written Operational Policies - Promotion of Physical Activity

    “During an inspection of the files, it was observed the operation did not mentioned anything about their outdoor act ivies.”

    Rule 746.501(a)(18). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 2, 2024. Correction verified: Dec 4, 2024.

  • Written Operational Policies - Support inclusive services

    “During a review of the files, it was observed the operation did not mentioned anything regarding inclusive services.”

    Rule 746.501(a)(30). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 2, 2024. Correction verified: Dec 4, 2024.

4 deficiencies older than three years
Feb 28, 2023: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Documented Annual Training Area - 24 Hours Required

    “During a review of staff training records, it was observed 4 staff members without enough training hours.”

    Rule 746.1309(a). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 28, 2023. Correction verified: Apr 11, 2023.

  • Director Annual Training 30 Hours Required

    “During a review of training records, it was observed the director did not have the 30 hours that are required.”

    Rule 746.1311(a). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 28, 2023. Correction verified: Apr 11, 2023.

Aug 5, 2022: inspection1 deficiency

  • Responsibilities of Caregivers - Supervision of Children

    “During a walk through of the center, it was observed by licensing a classroom of 7 children napping without a teacher present in the room. The children were left alone for about 15 minutes.”

    Rule 746.1203(4). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 5, 2022. Correction verified: Aug 18, 2022.

Apr 12, 2022: inspection1 deficiency

  • Responsibilities of Caregivers- Supervision of Children

    “During a walk through of the center, it was observed by licensing a child who was napping alone for four minutes. This was soon corrected at inspection by the teacher returning to the classroom.”

    Rule 746.1203(4). High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 12, 2022.

All 16 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Sep 29, 2026Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Sep 30, 2025Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Aug 12, 2025Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Jul 21, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Jun 9, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Jun 5, 2025Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Jan 17, 2025Assessment1 deficiency cited
Nov 18, 2024Inspection3 deficiencies cited
Jul 3, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Jun 25, 2024Report to the stateNo violation found
Jan 12, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Feb 28, 2023Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Aug 18, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Aug 5, 2022Inspection1 deficiency cited
Jul 28, 2022Report to the stateNo violation found
Apr 12, 2022Inspection1 deficiency cited

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Jun 24, 2019.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 112 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.
  • 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 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?

  • Not rated in Texas Rising Star.
Source:

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

How does it compare nearby?

  • Among 83 child care providers in Smith County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 2; this one had 10.
Source:

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

11 of the 83 in Smith County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Little Peoples School3
The Primary Leadership Academy3
Stepping Stone School11
Hand in Hand Preschool0
Early Steps Bilingual Academy This child care provider10
First Steps Daycare4
Lillie Brannen3
Kid City USA Tyler0
Live Oaks Childcare5
Brittany Bowman1
Lions and Lambs Childcare18
Little Blessings Childcare & Preschool of Tyler2

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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