Rucker Head Start

A licensed child care center in Houston, Texas 77017

5201 Vinett Ave, Houston, Texas 77017. (713) 845-7467.

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The short answer

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

6 deficiencies cited in the last three years Middle in Harris County: 4
2 rated High by Texas, its most serious level (needs attention)
10 inspections on record
Not rated Texas Rising Star rating

The last 24 months 6 deficiencies in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited Nov 2024. 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?

6 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 2,139 child care providers in Harris County had 4.

10 inspections on record. The latest, on Nov 10, 2025: no violation found.

Rated High by Texas: AP Background check determination - If ineligible then you must immediately remove subject from operation and confirm to CBCU receipt of notice letter, at the inspection on Nov 12, 2024

Rated High by Texas: Report Situation Placing Children at Risk, at the report to the state on Aug 16, 2024

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

When those deficiencies happened

6 deficiencies in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited Nov 2024. Most serious: High. The last 3 years, to Nov 5, 2026.

6 deficiencies by month over the last 3 years. Each cell is one month.
	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
2023												Dec
2024	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
2025	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
2026	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov

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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

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.

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

Nov 12, 2024: inspection2 deficiencies

AP Background check determination - If ineligible then you must immediately remove subject from operation and confirm to CBCU receipt of notice letter

“A caregiver was present at the operation with an ineligible background check.”

Rule 745.635(2). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 12, 2024. Correction verified: Nov 13, 2024.
Training Requirements for Employees, Caregivers, and Directors - Pediatric CPR

“It was found that 4 employees did not have valid CPR/first aid.”

Rule 746.1301(a)(4)(A). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 20, 2024. Correction verified: Dec 18, 2024.

Aug 16, 2024: report to the state3 deficiencies

Report Situation Placing Children at Risk

“An incident in which a child was placed at risk was not reported to Childcare Licensing as required.”

Rule 746.305(a)(6). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 11, 2024. Correction verified: Oct 25, 2024.
Licensing Incident/Illness Report Form - Situations Placing Children at Risk

“An incident report was not on record or provided for review during the investigation.”

Rule 746.701(5). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 11, 2024. Correction verified: Oct 25, 2024.
Incident/Illness Report Form Shared with Parent

“Based on the information found during the investigation, there was sufficient evidence that an incident report was not shared with the parent.”

Rule 746.707. Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 11, 2024. Correction verified: Oct 25, 2024.

Dec 5, 2023: inspection1 deficiency

Report Change in Director

“The director on record with licensing is no longer the director for the operation. The director on record ceased being the director in August 2023. There is a new director for the operation that licensing was not notified about. The new director took over director responsibilites in August 2023.”

Rule 746.303(a)(4). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 12, 2023. Correction verified: Dec 6, 2023.

3 deficiencies older than three years

Dec 9, 2022: inspection1 deficiency

Safety - Electrical Outlets Covered

“In Room 32 there were electrical outlets accessible to the children that were not covered. Note: This was corrected during the inspection.”

Rule 746.3701(1). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 9, 2022.

Feb 25, 2022: assessment1 deficiency

Report Number of Employees

“A review of the Employees Who Left Employment in 2021 data from February 23, 2022, revealed that the center had not reported the number of employees who left employment in 2021 by February 22, 2022, as required.”

Rule 746.303(b). Medium Low, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 1, 2022. Correction verified: Feb 25, 2022.

Dec 13, 2021: inspection1 deficiency

AP Renewal background checks submitted -No later than 5 yrs from date last submitted subjects initial or renewal fingerprint-based criminal hist check

“One caregiver does not have renewed background check. Became inactive 8.23.2021”

Rule 745.621(b)(1)(A). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 20, 2021. Correction verified: Jan 3, 2022.

All 14 visits on record

Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
Date	Visit	What the record says
Nov 10, 2025	Inspection	No violation found
Nov 7, 2025	Inspection	No violation found
Nov 12, 2024	Inspection	2 deficiencies cited
Aug 29, 2024	Inspection	No violation found
Aug 16, 2024	Report to the state	3 deficiencies cited
Feb 13, 2024	Inspection	No violation found
Dec 5, 2023	Inspection	1 deficiency cited
Dec 20, 2022	Inspection	No violation found
Dec 9, 2022	Report to the state	No violation found
Dec 9, 2022	Inspection	1 deficiency cited
Aug 2, 2022	Inspection	No violation found
Feb 25, 2022	Assessment	1 deficiency cited
Dec 13, 2021	Inspection	1 deficiency cited
Dec 9, 2021	Report to the state	No violation found

Is it licensed?

Licensed Center, permit issued Dec 14, 2020.
Licensed for ages: Pre-Kindergarten, School.
Capacity: 97 children.

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.
3 reports to the state on record; Texas doesn’t publish whether they were .

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?

Not rated in Texas Rising Star.

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

How does it compare nearby?

Among 2139 child care providers in Harris County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 4; this one had 6.

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

11 of the 2,139 in Harris County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
Place	Deficiencies, 3 years
Raul Yzaguirre Head Start	1
Rucker Head Start This child care provider	6
A & B Nursery School	27
Kce Champions LLC @ Kipp	2
Dung Tri Tran	8
Cuc Kim Thi Nguyen	1
Nga Thi Tran	6
Patterson Head Start Center	2
Yorkshire Academy	4
Immanuel Lutheran Church and School	12
Brooke’s Learning Corner	4
School in the Pines	2

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

Texas Health and Human Services Commission, Child care operations (bc5r-88dy).

Released Nov 5, 2026 and checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily. Creative Commons 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication).
Texas Health and Human Services Commission, Inspections and investigations (m5q4-3y3d).

Released Nov 5, 2026 and checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily. Creative Commons 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication).
Texas Health and Human Services Commission, Deficiencies (non-compliance data) (tqgd-mf4x).

Released Nov 5, 2026 and checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily. Creative Commons 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication).
Texas Workforce Commission, Subsidy providers and Texas Rising Star.

Released Nov 5, 2026 and checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily. No licence stated.

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