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Polly World Inc. First Step Daycare

A licensed child care center in Santa Fe, Texas 77510

4300 FM 646 Rd N Ste A, Santa Fe, Texas 77510. (409) 316-4588.

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The short answer

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

The last 24 months 5 deficiencies in 2 months of the last 36. Last cited Jan 2026. Most serious: Medium High. Every month

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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?

5 deficiencies cited in the last three years

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

7 inspections on record. The latest, on Jan 7, 2026: 3 deficiencies cited.

Source:

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

When those deficiencies happened

5 deficiencies in 2 months of the last 36. Last cited Jan 2026. Most serious: Medium High. The last 3 years, to Nov 5, 2026.

5 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.

Jan 7, 2026: inspection3 deficiencies

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

    “At time of inspection, four caregivers did not complete 24 hours of annual training for 2024-2025 training year.”

    Rule 746.1301(a)(5)(A). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 21, 2026. Correction verified: Jan 14, 2026.

  • Training Requirements for Employees, Caregivers, and Directors - 30 Annual Training

    “At time of inpsection, director completed 13 hours of annual training for 2024-2025.”

    Rule 746.1301(a)(6)(A). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 21, 2026. Correction verified: Jan 13, 2026.

  • Required Personnel Records - Required Affidavit (Form 2912)

    “At time of inspection, two caregivers did not have Affidavit 2912 form in file.”

    Rule 746.901(5). Medium Low, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 21, 2026. Correction verified: Jan 8, 2026.

Jan 11, 2024: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Diaper Changing Equipment - Smooth, Non-absorbent, Easy to Clean Surface

    “The diaper changing mat in the older infant room has small rips and tears. This was corrected during the inspection when the mat was changed out for a new mat.”

    Rule 746.3503(a). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 11, 2024.

  • First Aid Kit - Supplies Not Expired

    “The gauze pads and asprin medications in the first aid kit are expired. This was corrected during the inspection when the items were removed.”

    Rule 746.4003(b). Medium, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 11, 2024.

3 deficiencies older than three years
Oct 3, 2023: report to the state1 deficiency

  • Responsibilities of Employees and Caregivers -Demonstrate Competency, Good Judgment, Self-control

    “A former caregiver did not display good judgement while repeatedly trying to make an infant walk. The infant fell and required medical attention.”

    Rule 746.1201(1). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 2, 2023. Correction verified: Nov 21, 2023.

Jan 17, 2023: inspection1 deficiency

  • Screen Time Activities - Related to Planned Activities

    “During inspection, two classrooms were obeserved watching movies before breakfast.”

    Rule 746.2207(c)(1). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 2, 2023. Correction verified: Feb 2, 2023.

Jan 20, 2022: inspection1 deficiency

  • Children’s Products-Posting of CPSC website

    “The CPSC form was last signed 9-14-20. This was corrected at inspection when the webiste was reviewed and form signed.”

    Rule 746.4135(c). Medium, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 20, 2022.

All 8 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Jan 7, 2026Inspection3 deficiencies cited
Jan 8, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Jan 11, 2024Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Oct 6, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Oct 3, 2023Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Feb 2, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Jan 17, 2023Inspection1 deficiency cited
Jan 20, 2022Inspection1 deficiency cited

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Sep 11, 2019.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 99 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.
  • 1 report 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?

  • Not star-rated in Texas Rising Star (TWC’s code: ELD).
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 5.
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
Brainy Kids Place, LLC4
Wee Care Mothers Day Out At1st Baptist Church of Alta Loma1
Jenny McginnesNot given
Polly World Inc. First Step Daycare This child care provider5
Creative Explorers: Kubacak0
Creative Explorers: Barnett0
Terri Williams6
Childworks22
Kimberly Ford1
Tracy GeesingNot given
Growing With Wonder Academy0
Hmt Investments Inc. DBA Kids and Company3

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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