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Joyful Kids Learning Center

A licensed child care center in Deer Park, Texas 77536

202 W Pasadena Blvd, Deer Park, Texas 77536. (281) 476-4472.

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The short answer

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

The last 24 months 3 deficiencies in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited May 2026. Most serious: Medium 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?

3 deficiencies cited in the last three years

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

13 inspections on record. The latest, on Jun 23, 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

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

3 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 Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.

May 19, 2026: inspection1 deficiency

  • CPR Training and Recertification Adhere to Guidelines-skill based

    “The on-line CPR recertification training obtain did not include use of a CPR manikin.”

    Rule 746.1315(b)(1). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 2, 2026. Correction verified: May 26, 2026.

Apr 9, 2025: inspection1 deficiency

  • Documented Annual Training - 1 hour in Prevention, Recognition and Reporting of child maltreatment

    “Two caregivers missing one hour of child maltreatment annual training. Note: this was corrected during inspection.”

    Rule 746.1309(c). Medium, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 9, 2025.

Apr 29, 2024: inspection1 deficiency

  • Children’s Records - Immunizations

    “One of children’s records evaluated did not have a current shot record.”

    Rule 746.603(a)(4). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 6, 2024. Correction verified: Apr 30, 2024.

3 deficiencies older than three years
Sep 8, 2023: report to the state1 deficiency

  • Each Caregiver and the Director Must Have Current Training in pediatric first aid with rescue breathing and choking.

    “Based on the information obtained during investigation, it was determined caregiver’s CPR/FA training was expired on 9/4/2023.”

    Rule 746.1315(a). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 6, 2023. Correction verified: Nov 6, 2023.

May 19, 2023: inspection1 deficiency

  • Additional Minimum Qualifications for Caregivers - HS Diploma, Equivalent, Certification of Completion

    “It was determined caregiver does not have GED or High school diploma.”

    Rule 746.1107(2). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 9, 2023. Correction verified: Jul 13, 2023.

Nov 10, 2022: report to the state1 deficiency

  • Prohibited Punishments - No Harsh, Cruel or Unusual

    “Based on the information obtained during investigation, it was determined staff taped children’s shoes to keep them from taking off their shoes.”

    Rule 746.2805. High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 6, 2023. Correction verified: Jan 13, 2023.

All 17 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Jun 23, 2026InspectionNo violation found
May 19, 2026Inspection1 deficiency cited
May 5, 2026Report to the stateNo violation found
Mar 24, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Apr 9, 2025Inspection1 deficiency cited
Apr 29, 2024Inspection1 deficiency cited
Sep 8, 2023Report to the state1 deficiency cited
May 19, 2023Inspection1 deficiency cited
Mar 8, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Feb 3, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Jan 13, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Nov 22, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Nov 10, 2022Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Sep 8, 2022InspectionNo violation found
May 25, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Mar 14, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Mar 1, 2022Report to the stateNo violation found

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Jun 15, 2020.
  • Accepts state child care subsidies.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 95 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 2139 child care providers in Harris County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 4; this one had 3.
Source:

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
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Cross-Over After School Program2
Leslie GamezNot given
Laporte Isd Early Childhood Center5
Joyful Kids Learning Center This child care provider3
Lil Rascals Childcare5
Kids Connect of Deer Park6
Peggys Child Care Inc.9
Silvia Marquez8
Cheryl R Crawford1
Kce Champions @ College Park6
Kids Kountry Learning Center8
Bekki Stepp3

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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