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Discovery School

A licensed child care center in Mesquite, Texas 75150

4805 Gus Thomasson Rd, Mesquite, Texas 75150. (972) 279-1202.

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The short answer

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

The last 24 months 17 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?

17 deficiencies cited in the last three years

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

31 inspections on record. The latest, on Oct 5, 2026: no violation found.

Rated High by Texas: Safety Precautions for Loading and Unloading Children - Account for All Children, at the report to the state on Sep 9, 2026

Rated High by Texas: AP Safety Precautions for Loading and Unloading Children - No Child Unattended, at the report to the state on Sep 9, 2026

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 May 27, 2025

1 more rated High; all are listed below.

Source:

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

When those deficiencies happened

17 deficiencies in 6 months of the last 36. Last cited Sep 2026. Most serious: High. The last 3 years, to Nov 2, 2026.

17 deficiencies by month over the last 3 years. Each cell is one month.
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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.

Sep 9, 2026: report to the state2 deficiencies
  • Safety Precautions for Loading and Unloading Children - Account for All Children

    “This rule was evaluated with regard to the investigation and a deficiency was found. Based on the information gathered, it was determined that a driver who transported children failed to account for all children before leaving the vehicle unattended.”

    Rule 746.5605(3). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 23, 2026. Correction verified: Oct 5, 2026.

  • AP Safety Precautions for Loading and Unloading Children - No Child Unattended

    “This rule was evaluated with regard to the investigation and a deficiency was found. Based on the information gathered, it was determined that a child was left unattended in a vehicle after a bus driver uploaded the children.”

    Rule 746.5605(4). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 23, 2026. Correction verified: Oct 5, 2026.

Jun 26, 2025: inspection2 deficiencies
  • Personal use of electronic devices, such as cell phones, MP3 players, tablets, and video games

    “Two caregivers were observed using an electronic device (cell phone) while supervising naptime.”

    Rule 746.1203(3)(D). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 26, 2025. Correction verified: Jul 9, 2025.

  • Arrangement of Napping Equipment -Provides Sufficient Walking and Work Space

    “The operation did not ensure that the mats had enough walking space between them.”

    Rule 746.2909(3). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 26, 2025. Correction verified: Jul 9, 2025.

May 28, 2025: inspection2 deficiencies
  • Installation and Maintenance of Loose-fill Surfacing - Proper Depth Maintained

    “The playground s loose fill surfacing has grass growing through it and is not at the correct depth of 6 or 9 inches.”

    Rule 746.4907(d). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 13, 2025. Correction verified: Jun 26, 2025.

  • Sign-in and Sign-out Tracking System

    “There were 3 children present, 2 in the schoolers and 1 in the one year old class, at the operation that was not on the attendance sheet for the caregivers.”

    Rule 746.631(a). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 29, 2025. Correction verified: Jun 4, 2025.

May 27, 2025: report to the state2 deficiencies
  • Supervision ensures each child?s safety, well-being, including physical proximity and auditory or visual awareness of each child?s on going activity

    “The operation failed to adequately supervise a child, resulting in the child being able to exit the playground area without detection.”

    Rule 746.1205(a)(4). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 23, 2025. Correction verified: Jun 26, 2025.

  • Report Situation Placing Children at Risk

    “The operation failed to report an incident in which a child exited the playground area without supervision.”

    Rule 746.305(a)(6). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 23, 2025. Correction verified: Jun 26, 2025.

Mar 12, 2025: inspection1 deficiency
  • Annual Fire Inspection - Conducted by Fire Marshal

    “The most recent fire inspection is past due.”

    Rule 746.5101(b). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 25, 2025. Correction verified: Apr 11, 2025.

Sep 24, 2024: report to the state1 deficiency
  • Maintenance of Building, Grounds and Equipment

    “During the time of the inspection, the building grounds were not being cleaned properly or in good repair. There were visible holes in the center and there was evidence that rodents had been present. The evidence can be harmful to children.”

    Rule 746.3407. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 18, 2024. Correction verified: Nov 1, 2024.

May 29, 2024: inspection7 deficiencies
  • Training Requirements for Employees, Caregivers, and Directors - Transportation training

    “At the time of the inspection, two drivers did not have tranportation training.”

    Rule 746.1301(a)(7)(A). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 29, 2024. Correction verified: Jun 4, 2024.

  • Safety Requirements for Cribs - Snug Fitting Sheets

    “At the time of inspeccton, the operation sheets were not snuggly fitted.”

    Rule 746.2409(a)(2). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 29, 2024. Correction verified: Jun 11, 2024.

  • Required Records Maintained and Made Available - Children’s Records

    “During the time of the inspection, 10 children records were reviewed and lacked the following medical authorization, admission date, emergency contact address, permission for field trips, health statements, and doctor or facility info.”

    Rule 746.801(1). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 12, 2024. Correction verified: Jun 24, 2024.

  • Required Records Maintained and Made Available - Safety Documentation for Emergency Drills, Fire Extinguishers, & Smoke Detectors

    “At the time of the inspection, the operation did not maintain documentation (or practice) of emergency drills, smoke detector checks, and carbon monoxide tests.”

    Rule 746.801(10). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 31, 2024. Correction verified: Jun 18, 2024.

  • Required Records Maintained and Made Available - Children’s Product Certification

    “The operation did not maintain or have available for review, a record of the Children’s Product Certification.”

    Rule 746.801(18). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 29, 2024. Correction verified: May 30, 2024.

  • Required Records Maintained and Made Available - Infant Feeding Instructions

    “At the time of the inspection, one child did not current feeding instructions.”

    Rule 746.801(2). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 29, 2024. Correction verified: Jun 3, 2024.

  • Required Records Maintained and Made Available - Playground Maintenance Records

    “At the time of the inspection, the operation did not maintain or have a playground maintenance record available for review.”

    Rule 746.801(8). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 29, 2024. Correction verified: Jun 11, 2024.

14 deficiencies older than three years
Apr 13, 2023: inspection2 deficiencies
  • Safety - Areas Free From Hazards

    “Hazards found on older playground (cracked picnic table, protruding nails and split wood on playground equipment).”

    Rule 746.3701. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 19, 2023. Correction verified: Apr 27, 2023.

  • Requirement of Gas Leak Inspection

    “Required Gas Inspection expired 02/04/23.”

    Rule 746.5401. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 19, 2023. Correction verified: Apr 26, 2023.

Jul 27, 2022: inspection2 deficiencies
  • Installation and Maintenance of Loose-fill Surfacing - Proper Depth Maintained

    “Playground woodchip surfacing was insufficient.”

    Rule 746.4907(d). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 30, 2022. Correction verified: Oct 12, 2022.

  • Children’s Records - Admission Information

    “One child did not have the required admission information.”

    Rule 746.603(a)(2). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 8, 2022. Correction verified: Aug 9, 2022.

Jun 20, 2022: inspection1 deficiency
  • Annual Fire Inspection - Before Initial Permit Issued and Every 12 Months

    “The required Annual Fire Inspection Expired 04/15/21.”

    Rule 746.5101(a). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 22, 2022. Correction verified: Jun 27, 2022.

Jun 9, 2022: inspection1 deficiency
  • AP Background ck determination - If provisionally eligible w/conditions or eligible w/conditions you must restrict duties per conditions/restrictions

    “A caregiver was alone with two year class with a Provisional Background.”

    Rule 745.635(3). High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 9, 2022.

Apr 19, 2022: inspection1 deficiency
  • Each Caregiver and the Director Must Have Current Training in pediatric first aid with rescue breathing and choking.

    “The Caregiver’s CPR/1st Aid Documentation did not have a name listed, and did not include pediactrics.”

    Rule 746.1315(a). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 27, 2022. Correction verified: Apr 26, 2022.

Mar 28, 2022: report to the state1 deficiency
  • Responsibilities of Caregivers- Supervision of Children

    “This standard was evaluated, and found to be deficient. A caregiver did not have appropriate visual and/or auditory awareness of a child that was able to exit the playground gate for approximately five minutes.”

    Rule 746.1203(4). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 18, 2022. Correction verified: Apr 21, 2022.

Feb 22, 2022: inspection1 deficiency
  • Screen Time Activities - Not Used for Under Two

    “Toddlers one year old were allowed screen time during the inspection.”

    Rule 746.2207(a). Medium, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 22, 2022.

Feb 19, 2022: report to the state1 deficiency
  • Care Requirements for Toddlers - Routines Maintained

    “This standard was evaluated, and found to be deficient. There is reason to believe Toddler Diapering Routines are not being maintained throughout the day.”

    Rule 746.2501(1). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 16, 2022. Correction verified: Mar 25, 2022.

Dec 15, 2021: inspection1 deficiency
  • Screen Time Activities - Not Used for Under Two

    “One year old class was watching TV during the walkthrough.”

    Rule 746.2207(a). Medium, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 15, 2021.

Dec 13, 2021: report to the state2 deficiencies
  • Report Situation Placing Children at Risk

    “This standard was evaluated, and found to be deficient. The operation did not notify Licensing of an accident while transporting children in care.”

    Rule 746.305(a)(6). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 4, 2022. Correction verified: Jan 13, 2022.

  • Licensing Incident/Illness Report Form - Situations Placing Children at Risk

    “This standard was evaluated, and found to be deficient. Incident Report Forms were not provided by the operation of a situation placing children at risk.”

    Rule 746.701(5). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 4, 2022. Correction verified: Jan 10, 2022.

Nov 17, 2021: report to the state1 deficiency
  • Child/ Caregiver Ratio - 13 or More Children

    “This standard was evaluated, and found to be deficient. Two Year, and Three Year Classrooms were found to be out of ratio according to sign in/out logs provided by the operation.”

    Rule 746.1601. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 14, 2021. Correction verified: Dec 22, 2021.

All 44 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Oct 5, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Sep 10, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Sep 9, 2026Report to the state2 deficiencies cited
Feb 10, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Jul 16, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Jul 9, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Jun 26, 2025Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Jun 17, 2025InspectionNo violation found
May 28, 2025Inspection2 deficiencies cited
May 27, 2025Report to the state2 deficiencies cited
Mar 12, 2025Inspection1 deficiency cited
Nov 1, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Sep 25, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Sep 24, 2024Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Jun 25, 2024InspectionNo violation found
May 29, 2024Inspection7 deficiencies cited
Feb 7, 2024Report to the stateNo violation found
Jun 7, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Apr 27, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Apr 13, 2023Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Jan 20, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Jan 19, 2023Report to the stateNo violation found
Oct 12, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Sep 13, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Sep 9, 2022Report to the stateNo violation found
Jul 27, 2022Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Jun 20, 2022Inspection1 deficiency cited
Jun 9, 2022Inspection1 deficiency cited
Jun 9, 2022Report to the stateNo violation found
Apr 19, 2022Inspection1 deficiency cited
Apr 15, 2022Report to the stateNo violation found
Mar 29, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Mar 28, 2022Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Mar 26, 2022Report to the stateNo violation found
Mar 25, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Feb 28, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Feb 22, 2022Inspection1 deficiency cited
Feb 19, 2022Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Dec 22, 2021InspectionNo violation found
Dec 15, 2021Inspection1 deficiency cited
Dec 13, 2021Report to the state2 deficiencies cited
Nov 23, 2021InspectionNo violation found
Nov 18, 2021InspectionNo violation found
Nov 17, 2021Report to the state1 deficiency cited

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Nov 12, 2019.
  • Accepts state child care subsidies.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 153 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.
  • 13 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?

  • Texas Rising Star: 2-Star (the first of three levels).
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 17.
Source:

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

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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