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A Creative Learning Ctr

A licensed child care center in New Braunfels, Texas 78130

311 FM 306 Bldg 2, New Braunfels, Texas 78130. (830) 626-8440.

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The short answer

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

The last 24 months 4 deficiencies in 4 months of the last 36. Last cited Apr 2026. 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 61 child care providers in Comal County had 4.

17 inspections on record. The latest, on Jul 20, 2026: no violation found.

Rated High by Texas: Supervision ensures each child?s safety, well-being, including physical proximity and auditory or visual awareness of each child?s on going activity, at the report to the state on Oct 22, 2024

Source:

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

When those deficiencies happened

4 deficiencies in 4 months of the last 36. Last cited Apr 2026. Most serious: High. The last 3 years, to Nov 5, 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 Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.

Apr 7, 2026: inspection1 deficiency

  • Food Allergy Emergency Plan Signed by Parents and Health Care Professional

    “Two children were missing parent signatures on the Emergency Food Allergy plan.”

    Rule 746.3819. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 7, 2026. Correction verified: Apr 10, 2026.

Apr 23, 2025: inspection1 deficiency

  • Maintenance of Building, Grounds and Equipment

    “Several sleeping mats were torn exposing the interior padding. This was corrected during the inspection when they were replaced with new ones.”

    Rule 746.3407. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 23, 2025.

Oct 22, 2024: report to the state1 deficiency

  • Supervision ensures each child?s safety, well-being, including physical proximity and auditory or visual awareness of each child?s on going activity

    “During the course of an investigation, it was determined that there was inadequate supervision in a classroom when two incidents occurred in plain sight which placed children in care at risk of harm. One incident involved children touching one another under their clothing, the other was a child being repeatedly kicked on his back by another child.”

    Rule 746.1205(a)(4). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 20, 2024. Correction verified: Dec 2, 2024.

Sep 10, 2024: inspection1 deficiency

  • Maintenance of Building, Grounds and Equipment

    “A few toy containers were cracked and sharp to the touch. This was corrected when the containers were removed from the room.”

    Rule 746.3407. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 10, 2024.

6 deficiencies older than three years
Sep 18, 2023: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Required Admission Information - Emergency Contact

    “Two out of ten children’s records were missing the address for the emergency contact. This was corrected when the director contacted the parents for the information.”

    Rule 746.605(6). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 18, 2023.

  • Written Operational Policies - Promotion of Physical Activity

    “The promotion of Physical Activity was not available for review in the Operational Policies.”

    Rule 746.501(a)(18). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 18, 2023. Correction verified: Oct 2, 2023.

Dec 15, 2022: report to the state1 deficiency

  • Nutrition and Food Service - Must not serve identified foods to allergic child

    “A child was given a piece of fruit that was listed on his enrollment form as being allergic to it. It is unknown how much of the fruit the child ate but the child did not have an allergic reaction to the piece of fruit that day.”

    Rule 746.3301(i). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 26, 2023. Correction verified: Feb 10, 2023.

Jun 3, 2022: report to the state1 deficiency

  • Prohibited Punishments - Using Inappropriate Long Period of Silence or Inactivity Including Requiring Child to Remain in a Restrictive Device

    “A two-year-old was placed in a highchair for an undetermined amount of time due to his behavior in class with the other children and teacher.”

    Rule 746.2805(10). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 12, 2022. Correction verified: Jul 25, 2022.

Dec 30, 2021: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Transportation Safety Training -Director and Employee Complete 2 Hours Annually

    “A transportation training was not available for review from the director’s file.”

    Rule 746.1316(a). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 30, 2021. Correction verified: Jan 5, 2022.

  • Maintenance of Building, Grounds and Equipment

    The inspectors’ words, 151 words

    “The cushion was exposed on a soft cushion age appropriate chair in the PreK 5 room resulting in it not being able to be properly sanitized. This was corrected when the chair was removed. The rug in the 2 year old room had a lot of soiled spots on it. This was corrected when the rug was removed. There was a small hole in the flooring in the older 2 year old room exposing the concrete and accessible to children and that area was sharp to the touch. This was corrected when the area was covered. There was a sharp bent paneling out on the 12-18month old playground that was accessible to children. This was corrected by placing foam over it with tape. A broken toy was found on the infant playground that was accessible to children and sharp to the touch. This was corrected when the riding toy was removed.”

    Rule 746.3407. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 30, 2021.

All 29 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Jul 20, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Jul 10, 2026Report to the stateNo violation found
Jul 8, 2026Report to the stateNo violation found
Apr 7, 2026Inspection1 deficiency cited
Apr 23, 2025Inspection1 deficiency cited
Dec 2, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Nov 26, 2024Report to the stateNo violation found
Nov 13, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Oct 23, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Oct 22, 2024Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Sep 10, 2024Inspection1 deficiency cited
Sep 3, 2024Report to the stateNo violation found
Jul 1, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Jun 27, 2024Report to the stateNo violation found
Nov 29, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Nov 17, 2023Report to the stateNo violation found
Sep 18, 2023Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Sep 6, 2023Report to the stateNo violation found
Dec 28, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Dec 15, 2022Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Oct 3, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Sep 19, 2022Report to the stateNo violation found
Jul 25, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Jun 15, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Jun 3, 2022Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Mar 23, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Mar 11, 2022Report to the stateNo violation found
Feb 7, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Dec 30, 2021Inspection2 deficiencies cited

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Jan 17, 2020.
  • Accepts state child care subsidies.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 200 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.
  • 12 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: 4-Star (the highest 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 61 child care providers in Comal County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 4; this one had 4.
Source:

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

11 of the 61 in Comal County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Gruene Tree Learning Center3
Through A Child’s Eyes3
Tiffany Hasty1
Early Learning Cottage3
Ixtchel Fisher0
Y School Age @seele1
Crossroads Church and Preschool8
Rosemary MontoyaNot given
First Protestant School35
The Children’s Courtyard, Inc.12
A Creative Learning Ctr This child care provider4
Peggy Podgurski2

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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