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Kids Quest Learning Academy

A licensed child care center in Harker Heights, Texas 76548

2330 Verna Lee Blvd Ste 102-104, Harker Heights, Texas 76548. (254) 392-5128.

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The short answer

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

The last 24 months 1 deficiency in 1 month of the last 36. Last cited Mar 2025. 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?

1 deficiency cited in the last three years

The middle of the 237 child care providers in Bell County had 2.

9 inspections on record. The latest, on Aug 28, 2026: no violation found.

Source:

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

When those deficiencies happened

1 deficiency in 1 month of the last 36. Last cited Mar 2025. Most serious: Medium High. The last 3 years, to Nov 5, 2026.

1 deficiency by month over the last 3 years. Each cell is one month.
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2024 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2025 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
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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.

Mar 31, 2025: inspection1 deficiency

  • Safety - Areas Free From Hazards

    “Electrical cords were observed hanging and accessible to the children. This was corrected when the cords were secured and move out of the reach of the children.”

    Rule 746.3701. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 31, 2025.

9 deficiencies older than three years
May 3, 2023: inspection8 deficiencies

  • Sanitize Sleeping Equipment

    “During the monitoring inspection it was observed that the children’s nap mats were torn, with foam exposed, resulting in them being unable to be adequately sanitized.”

    Rule 746.3407(4). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 19, 2023. Correction verified: Jun 1, 2023.

  • Children Handwashing After Toileting or Diapering

    “During the monitoring inspection it was observed that children in two classrooms did not wash their hands after their diapers were changed.”

    Rule 746.3417(3). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 3, 2023. Correction verified: Jun 1, 2023.

  • Diaper Changing Equipment - Hand-washing Sink in Diaper Changing Area

    “During the monitoring inspection it was observed that there was a diaper changing area in the toddler room, but there was not a sink in this area.”

    Rule 746.3503(d). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 10, 2023. Correction verified: Jun 1, 2023.

  • Maintenance Procedures for Active Play - Inspect Daily

    “During the monitoring inspection the daily grounds checklists were reviewed but had not been conducted, per documentation, since June 2022.”

    Rule 746.4751(a). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 3, 2023. Correction verified: Jun 1, 2023.

  • Active Play Surfacing In Use Zones - Loose Fill or Unitary Surfacing

    “During the monitoring inspection it was observed that there was no loose fill under the spring rockers in the playground area.”

    Rule 746.4901(a). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 17, 2023. Correction verified: Jun 1, 2023.

  • Written Activity Plans - Plan Followed by Caregiver

    “During the monitoring inspection it was observed that the classrooms were not following their posted daily schedule.”

    Rule 746.2203(b). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 3, 2023. Correction verified: Jun 1, 2023.

  • Screen Time Activities - Not Used for Under Two

    “During the monitoring inspection screen time was observed in the toddler room; children under two were present.”

    Rule 746.2207(a). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 3, 2023. Correction verified: Jun 1, 2023.

  • Documentation of Drills

    “During the monitoring inspection the emergency drill form was reviewed and stated that some of the emergency drills were conducted on Saturdays and Sundays; the operation does not offer weekend care. A fire drill was conducted while I was present to meet compliance.”

    Rule 746.5205(4). Medium, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 3, 2023.

May 10, 2022: inspection1 deficiency

  • AP Background check results - Must receive notification prior to allowing subject to be present at your operation

    “A person was observed in a classroom counted in ratio in the Pre-K classroom with an inactive background check. The owner sent the person home.”

    Rule 745.641. High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 12, 2022. Correction verified: May 11, 2022.

All 13 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Aug 28, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Aug 24, 2026Report to the stateNo violation found
Feb 12, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Feb 10, 2026Report to the stateNo violation found
Sep 3, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Aug 27, 2025Report to the stateNo violation found
Mar 31, 2025Inspection1 deficiency cited
May 2, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Jun 1, 2023InspectionNo violation found
May 3, 2023Inspection8 deficiencies cited
Jun 27, 2022InspectionNo violation found
May 10, 2022Inspection1 deficiency cited
Apr 26, 2022Report to the stateNo violation found

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Sep 3, 2020.
  • Accepts state child care subsidies.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 73 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.
  • 4 reports 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?

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

Texas Workforce Commission, subsidy providers and Texas Rising Star. Released Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.

How does it compare nearby?

  • Among 237 child care providers in Bell County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 2; this one had 1.
Source:

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

11 of the 237 in Bell County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Mountain View YMCA2
Caring Hand Learning Center29
Harker Heights YMCA1
Precious Ones Learning Center0
Miss Angi’s Little Angels6
Kids Quest Learning Academy This child care provider1
Kims Play and Learn Academy1
Butterfly Academy0
Maira Lisset Figueroa Gonzales10
Tawanna Hicks3
Harker Heights Early Head Start2
Sandra Silvera2

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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