Hollingsworth Head Start Center
A licensed child care center in Odessa, Texas 79761
900 S Grant Ave, Odessa, Texas 79761. (432) 334-0456.
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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 Ector County: 1
- 5 rated High by Texas, its most serious level (needs attention)
- 14 inspections on record
- Not rated Texas Rising Star rating
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 58 child care providers in Ector County had 1.
14 inspections on record. The latest, on Apr 21, 2026: no violation found.
Rated High by Texas: Supervision ensures each child?s safety, well-being, including physical proximity and auditory or visual awareness of each child?s on going activity, at the report to the state on Apr 24, 2025
Rated High by Texas: Parental Communication - Situation that Placed a Child at Risk, at the report to the state on Apr 24, 2025
Rated High by Texas: Supervision ensures each child?s safety, well-being, including physical proximity and auditory or visual awareness of each child?s on going activity, at the report to the state on Mar 27, 2024
2 more rated High; all are listed below.
Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data) and inspections and investigations. Released Oct 30, 2026. Updated daily.
When those deficiencies happened
6 deficiencies in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited Apr 2025. Most serious: High. The last 3 years, to Oct 30, 2026.
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| 2026 | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct |
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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.
Apr 24, 2025: report to the state2 deficiencies
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Supervision ensures each child?s safety, well-being, including physical proximity and auditory or visual awareness of each child?s on going activity
“This standard was evaluated and found to be out of compliance when caregivers left a child asleep and unsupervised in the classroom for 12 minutes.”
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Parental Communication - Situation that Placed a Child at Risk
“This standard was evaluated and found to be out of compliance when operation staff failed to immediately inform a parent that their child was left unattended in the classroom for 12 minutes.”
Nov 21, 2024: inspection1 deficiency
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Pre-service Training- Developmental Stages
“One caregiver without previous 2-year experience in child care, hired October 2024 does not have at at 8 hours of preserve training completed. Only 2.5 hours of training completed.”
Mar 27, 2024: report to the state3 deficiencies
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Supervision ensures each child?s safety, well-being, including physical proximity and auditory or visual awareness of each child?s on going activity
“This standard was evaluated and found to be out of compliance when two children were left unsupervised at the operation on two separate dates.”
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Report Situation Placing Children at Risk
“This standard was evaluated and was found to be out of compliance. The operation did not report to CCR of a situation placing a child at risk when a child was left in the hallway unsupervised.”
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Parental Communication - Situation that Placed a Child at Risk
“This standard was evaluated and found to be out of compliance when the operation did not immediately inform parents of an incident placing their children at risk when a child was left unsupervised in the hallway on March 21, 2024 and when a child was left unsupervised in the classroom on March 26, 2024.”
3 deficiencies older than three years
Jan 27, 2023: inspection1 deficiency
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Immunization Exception or Exemption on File and Verified
“One child does not have current immunizations on file. The child is missing the 3rd and 4th immunizations for Dtap, IPV, PCV, HepA, and Hep B.”
Jan 10, 2022: report to the state1 deficiency
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Report Outbreak of Communicable Illness
“This standard was evaluated and found to be out of compliance. The operation failed to report a staff positive COVID-19 case within two days form becoming aware of the positive case.”
Dec 15, 2021: report to the state1 deficiency
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Responsibilities of Caregivers- Supervision of Children
“This standard was evaluated and was found to be deficient. The classroom staff left a child in the classroom without supervision during a fire drill.”
All 19 visits on record
| Date | Visit | What the record says |
|---|---|---|
| Apr 21, 2026 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Nov 18, 2025 | Inspection | No violation found |
| May 14, 2025 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Apr 25, 2025 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Apr 24, 2025 | Report to the state | 2 deficiencies cited |
| Dec 5, 2024 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Nov 21, 2024 | Inspection | 1 deficiency cited |
| Apr 22, 2024 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Apr 9, 2024 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Mar 28, 2024 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Mar 27, 2024 | Report to the state | 3 deficiencies cited |
| Dec 18, 2023 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Jan 27, 2023 | Inspection | 1 deficiency cited |
| Jan 25, 2023 | Report to the state | No violation found |
| Mar 21, 2022 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Jan 10, 2022 | Report to the state | 1 deficiency cited |
| Jan 7, 2022 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Dec 16, 2021 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Dec 15, 2021 | Report to the state | 1 deficiency cited |
Is it licensed?
- Licensed Center, permit issued May 30, 1994.
- Licensed for ages: Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten.
- Capacity: 119 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.
- 5 reports to the state on record; Texas doesn’t publish whether they were A complaint allegation the state investigated and found true: the evidence showed it more likely than not happened. Inconclusive means the evidence couldn’t show it either way. Neither inconclusive nor unsubstantiated proves it didn’t happen. Source: California Department of Social Services, complaint findings; each state’s licensing agency..
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?
- Not rated in Texas Rising Star.
Texas Workforce Commission, subsidy providers and Texas Rising Star. Released Oct 30, 2026. Updated daily.
How does it compare nearby?
- Among 58 child care providers in Ector County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 1; this one had 6.
Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data). Released Oct 30, 2026. Updated daily.
| Place | Deficiencies, 3 years |
|---|---|
| Mga Odessa | 19 |
| Little Angels Play School, LLC | 3 |
| Montessori School of Odessa | 1 |
| Doodlebugs Daycare & Learning Center | 2 |
| Small World Learning Center and Child Care | 3 |
| Carter Early Head Start School Readiness Academy | 9 |
| Hollingsworth Head Start Center This child care provider | 6 |
| Baby Blues Kids Learning Center | 18 |
| Odessa Y Learning Center | 6 |
| Small World Learning Center & Childcare | 5 |
| Little Texans Learning Center, LLC | 0 |
| Shandria She’trice Moore | 0 |
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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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).
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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).
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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).
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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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