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Children’s Education Center

A licensed child care center in Pharr, Texas 78577

4000 N Sugar Rd, Pharr, Texas 78577. (956) 702-5144.

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The short answer

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

The last 24 months 4 deficiencies in 2 months of the last 36. Last cited Dec 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?

4 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 479 child care providers in Hidalgo County had 3.

7 inspections on record. The latest, on Dec 18, 2025: no violation found.

Rated High by Texas: Required Equipment in Vehicles - Emergency Medical Information, at the inspection on Feb 8, 2024

Source:

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

When those deficiencies happened

4 deficiencies in 2 months of the last 36. Last cited Dec 2025. Most serious: High. The last 3 years, to Nov 2, 2026.

4 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.

Dec 12, 2025: inspection1 deficiency

  • Child/ Caregiver Ratio - 13 or More Children

    “The infant Classroom was out of ratio; one caregiver was supervising 5 infants with the specified age of the children in the classroom being 0 - 11 Months old. NOTE: This was corrected at inspection when a caregiver stepped into the room making the classroom in ratio.”

    Rule 746.1601. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 12, 2025. Correction verified: Dec 18, 2025.

Feb 8, 2024: inspection3 deficiencies

  • Required Equipment in Vehicles - Emergency Medical Information

    “Thirteen of the children being transported are missing emergency medical transport and medical authorization forms. Corrected during inspection.”

    Rule 746.5617(a)(2). High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 8, 2024.

  • Medication Records - Date, Time and Amount Given

    “The time and dosage of a medication given to a child is not being written when medication is given to child.”

    Rule 746.3805(c)(3). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 9, 2024.

  • Documented Annual Training- Required Content

    “Two caregiver records of the eight records reviewed are pending required content for annual trainings. Caregivers are missing: Caregiver 1- Medication Administration, Communicable Diseases, Allergic Reactions Caregiver 2- Communicable Diseases”

    Rule 746.1309(e). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 29, 2024. Correction verified: Feb 14, 2024.

3 deficiencies older than three years
Feb 27, 2023: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Maintenance Procedures for Active Play - Inspect Daily

    “In the outdoor area there was a large hole near the fence making it a hazard.”

    Rule 746.4751(a). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 13, 2023. Correction verified: Mar 6, 2023.

  • Diaper Changing Steps-Label Powders, Lotions, Etc. with Name

    “A diaper cream was seen in the infant room that was not labeled with a child’s name. NOTE: This was corrected at inspection when caregiver labeled the diaper cream with the correct child’s name.”

    Rule 746.3501(5). Medium, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 27, 2023.

Mar 3, 2022: inspection1 deficiency

  • Emergency Lighting

    “During inspection it was observed that in one of the classrooms the emergency light was not working. Note: This was corrected at inspection when director placed a working flashlight to replace the flashlight that was not working.”

    Rule 746.5211. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 3, 2022.

All 9 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Dec 18, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Dec 12, 2025Inspection1 deficiency cited
Jan 13, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Apr 11, 2024AssessmentNo violation found
Feb 8, 2024Inspection3 deficiencies cited
Feb 27, 2023Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Aug 11, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Aug 10, 2022Report to the stateNo violation found
Mar 3, 2022Inspection1 deficiency cited

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Mar 16, 2020.
  • Accepts state child care subsidies.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 98 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.
  • 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 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: 4-Star (the highest 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 479 child care providers in Hidalgo County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 3; this one had 4.
Source:

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

12 of the 479 in Hidalgo County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Children’s Education Center This child care provider4
Maria Alonso3
Go-Go Kids Learning Academy2
Bright Minds Academy1
Little Bright Minds Child Development Center0
Longoria Head Start Center0
Kaleidoscope Early Childhood Learning Knowledge Center0
Little Golden Playschool2
Little Heaven’s Learning Center2
Cisneros Day Care Center0
My Little Sunshine Learning Center2
Immaculata Pre-Primary2
Kids & Todd’s Learning Center, LLC4

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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