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First Steps Academy & Daycare

A licensed child care center in Dallas, Texas 75229

10120 Monroe Dr, Dallas, Texas 75229. (214) 350-8145.

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The short answer

Record last released by Texas Workforce Commission on Nov 2, 2026.

The last 24 months 12 deficiencies in 2 months of the last 36. Last cited Nov 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?

14 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 986 child care providers in Dallas County had 2.

7 inspections on record. The latest, on Oct 19, 2026: outcome pending.

Rated High by Texas: Requirements for Feeding Infants - Never Prop Bottles, at the inspection on Oct 20, 2025

Rated High by Texas: Required Admission Information - Release Information, at the inspection on Oct 20, 2025

Rated High by Texas: Policies Comply with Rules, at the inspection on Nov 8, 2023

Source:

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data) and inspections and investigations. Released Oct 31, 2026. Updated daily.

When those deficiencies happened

12 deficiencies in 2 months of the last 36. Last cited Nov 2025. Most serious: High. The last 3 years, to Nov 2, 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 Oct 31, 2026. Updated daily.

Nov 6, 2025: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Documented Annual Training- Required Content

    “Staff files did not have annual required trainings completed.”

    Rule 746.1309(e). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 21, 2025. Correction verified: Dec 5, 2025.

  • Health Statement on File within 1 Week of Admission

    “Children’s records reviewed did not have health statements on file.”

    Rule 746.611(b). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 21, 2025. Correction verified: Dec 5, 2025.

Oct 20, 2025: inspection10 deficiencies

  • Requirements for Feeding Infants - Never Prop Bottles

    “An infant was observed asleep in their assigned play yard with their bottle proped up for feeding. This was corrected at inspection when the caregiver removed the bottle.”

    Rule 746.2419(3). High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 20, 2025.

  • Required Admission Information - Release Information

    “One of the children’s records reviewed did not have phone numbers for the release person.”

    Rule 746.605(7). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 22, 2025. Correction verified: Nov 6, 2025.

  • Administrative and clerical duties that take caregiver’s attention away from children

    “Caregivers were observed attending to admistrative duties such as answering the school phone and opening the doors to parents for pick-up while supervising children.”

    Rule 746.1203(3)(A). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 21, 2025. Correction verified: Nov 6, 2025.

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

    “Three of the four staff files reviewed did not have current First-Aid training certificates available.”

    Rule 746.1315(a). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 3, 2025. Correction verified: Oct 30, 2025.

  • Annual Sanitation Inspection

    “The operation did not have a current health inspection.”

    Rule 746.3401(a). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 7, 2025. Correction verified: Nov 3, 2025.

  • Required Admission Information - Emergency Contact

    “Two children out of six records reviewed did not emergency contact information on file.”

    Rule 746.605(6). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 22, 2025. Correction verified: Nov 6, 2025.

  • Documented Annual Training- Required Content

    “Four of the four staff files reviewed did not have required trainings available for review.”

    Rule 746.1309(e). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 3, 2025. Correction verified: Nov 6, 2025.

  • Documentation of Drills

    “The operation did not have their drills documented.”

    Rule 746.5205(4). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 31, 2025. Correction verified: Nov 6, 2025.

  • Health Statement on File within 1 Week of Admission

    “Three of the six children’s records reviewed did not have a health statement on file.”

    Rule 746.611(b). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 31, 2025. Correction verified: Nov 6, 2025.

  • Required Records Maintained and Made Available - Playground Maintenance Records

    “There was not a record of the playground maintenance checklist.”

    Rule 746.801(8). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 24, 2025. Correction verified: Nov 6, 2025.

Nov 8, 2023: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Policies Comply with Rules

    “The center did not have a copy of their operational policy.”

    Rule 746.201(1). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 15, 2023. Correction verified: Nov 21, 2023.

  • Children’s Records - Immunizations

    “Two children out of six records reviewed did not have current immunizations on file.”

    Rule 746.603(a)(4). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 15, 2023. Correction verified: Nov 21, 2023.

7 deficiencies older than three years
Nov 14, 2022: inspection5 deficiencies

  • Required Personnel Records

    “The director and one staff file was not available to review.”

    Rule 746.901. Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 25, 2022. Correction verified: Dec 1, 2022.

  • Required Personnel Records- signed dated statement that employee attended abuse/neglect training

    “Staff files reviewed did not have the required information.”

    Rule 746.901(10). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 25, 2022. Correction verified: Dec 1, 2022.

  • Required Personnel Records-signed dated statement that employee received child care center’s operational policies

    “Staff files reviewed did not have documentation they have completed orientation”

    Rule 746.901(6)(A). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 25, 2022. Correction verified: Nov 28, 2022.

  • Required Personnel Records- Photo Identification

    “Staff files reviewed did not have copy of staff identification.”

    Rule 746.901(8). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 25, 2022. Correction verified: Nov 28, 2022.

  • Required Personnel Records - Required Affidavit

    “Staff files reviewed did not have the required information.”

    Rule 746.901(4). Medium Low, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 25, 2022. Correction verified: Dec 1, 2022.

Nov 23, 2021: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Annual Sanitation Inspection

    “The operation did not have a current inspection. Last inspection dated 10-19-2020.”

    Rule 746.3401(a). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 30, 2021. Correction verified: Dec 8, 2021.

  • Required Admission Information - Emergency Contact

    “Six children files reviewed did not have address for the emergency contact.”

    Rule 746.605(6). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 30, 2021. Correction verified: Dec 6, 2021.

All 7 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Oct 19, 2026InspectionOutcome pending
Nov 6, 2025Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Oct 20, 2025Inspection10 deficiencies cited
Nov 4, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Nov 8, 2023Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Nov 14, 2022Inspection5 deficiencies cited
Nov 23, 2021Inspection2 deficiencies cited

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Dec 13, 2019.
  • Accepts state child care subsidies.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 48 children.
Source:

Texas HHSC, child care operations. Released Oct 31, 2026. Updated daily.

Has Texas acted against it?

  • No corrective or adverse action by Texas on record.
  • 0 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 31, 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: SUSA).
Source:

Texas Workforce Commission, subsidy providers and Texas Rising Star. Released Nov 2, 2026. Updated daily.

How does it compare nearby?

  • Among 986 child care providers in Dallas County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 2; this one had 14.
Source:

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data). Released Oct 31, 2026. Updated daily.

11 of the 986 in Dallas County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Dallas Cooperative Preschool2
Preston Royal Preschool2
YMCA @ Degolyer Elementary1
Dallas Daycare Academy, LLC12
First Steps Academy & Daycare This child care provider14
Kidz Zone3
Lovers Lane UMC Creative School0
Tot Spot Playschool7
Good Shepherd Ep Church Parents Day Out3
YMCA @ the Lamplighter School4
Ann Graves Cdc4
The Da Vinci School1

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 2, 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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