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The Village Learning Academy

A licensed child care center in Wills Point, Texas 75169

1409 W South Commerce St, Wills Point, Texas 75169. (903) 840-5551.

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The short answer

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

The last 24 months 9 deficiencies in 4 months of the last 36. Last cited Nov 2025. Most serious: 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?

9 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 19 child care providers in Van Zandt County had 2.

9 inspections on record. The latest, on Oct 30, 2026: no violation found.

Rated High by Texas: Franchise Tax Delinquent, at the report to the state on Nov 5, 2025

Rated High by Texas: Infant May Not Sleep in a Restrictive Device, at the inspection on Nov 5, 2025

Rated High by Texas: Electronic Child Safety Alarm - is equipped in each vehicle, at the inspection on Nov 5, 2025

2 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

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

9 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 5, 2025: report to the state1 deficiency

  • Franchise Tax Delinquent

    “This standard was evaluated as part of the investigation and was found to be deficient. The business is delinquent in paying the franchise tax and inactive.”

    Rule 745.247. High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 15, 2026. Correction verified: Apr 23, 2026.

Nov 5, 2025: inspection4 deficiencies

  • Infant May Not Sleep in a Restrictive Device

    “At the inspection, an 8 month old infant was asleep in a bouncer.”

    Rule 746.2426(a)(1). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 5, 2025. Correction verified: Nov 17, 2025.

  • Electronic Child Safety Alarm - is equipped in each vehicle

    “At the inspection, the van used to transport children is not equipped with an electronic child safety alarm.”

    Rule 746.5625(a). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 26, 2025. Correction verified: Nov 17, 2025.

  • Provide care consistent with child’s habits, interests, strengths, special needs, including any special supervision needs

    “At the inspection, the caregiver was asleep on the floor next to a child in a bouncer.”

    Rule 746.1203(4). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 5, 2025. Correction verified: Nov 17, 2025.

  • Child Passenger Safety Seat System - Must Use for Each Child in When Transporting and be Properly Installed

    “At the inspection, the van used to transport children is not equipped with child safety systems.”

    Rule 746.5607(a). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 6, 2025. Correction verified: Nov 17, 2025.

Dec 10, 2024: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Annual Fire Inspection - Before Initial Permit Issued and Every 12 Months

    “At the inspection, the current fire inspection is expired and dated 11/10/2024.”

    Rule 746.5101(a). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 7, 2025. Correction verified: Jan 10, 2025.

  • Required Personnel Records

    “At the inspection, the personnel records were not available for review.”

    Rule 746.901. Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 31, 2024. Correction verified: Jan 6, 2025.

Mar 1, 2024: inspection1 deficiency

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

    “The operation allowed a person to be present at the operation before receiving notice from the CBCU regarding the person’s eligibility. This person was present in a classroom with children.”

    Rule 745.641. High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 1, 2024. Correction verified: Mar 5, 2024.

Jan 18, 2024: inspection1 deficiency

  • Required Personnel Records- Training Hours

    “At the inspection, the staff training certificates were not available for review.”

    Rule 746.901(5). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 1, 2024. Correction verified: Mar 1, 2024.

1 deficiency older than three years
Mar 29, 2022: inspection1 deficiency

  • Written Operational Policies - Benefits

    “The operational policy did not include information related to the promotion of indoor and outdoor physical activity. The operation corrected at inspection.”

    Rule 746.501(a)(18)(A). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 29, 2022. Correction verified: Mar 29, 2022.

All 12 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Oct 30, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Jun 29, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Jun 26, 2026Report to the stateNo violation found
Nov 17, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Nov 5, 2025Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Nov 5, 2025Inspection4 deficiencies cited
Dec 10, 2024Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Mar 1, 2024Inspection1 deficiency cited
Jan 18, 2024Inspection1 deficiency cited
Aug 17, 2023Report to the stateNo violation found
Mar 8, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Mar 29, 2022Inspection1 deficiency cited

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Apr 2, 2020.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 106 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.
  • 3 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: 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 19 child care providers in Van Zandt County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 2; this one had 9.
Source:

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

11 of the 19 in Van Zandt County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Methodist Day School1
The Village Learning Academy This child care provider9
Tamberlee Harrison Mitchell12
Farmhouse Friends Early Learning Center0
Karina SanchezNot given
Patty Cakes Child Care3
First Baptist Learning Center4
Hope’s Little Preschool2
Madeleine Finn0
Legacy Preschool0
Children’s Depot Learning Center3
Van Learning Center0

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 8, 2026. Updated monthly.

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