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Twinkle Twinkle Little Star Learning Academy

A licensed child care center in Brownsville, Texas 78521

109 S Bernal Dr, Brownsville, Texas 78521. (956) 621-0297.

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The short answer

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

The last 24 months 8 deficiencies in 4 months of the last 36. Last cited Jan 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?

8 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 198 child care providers in Cameron County had 2.

10 inspections on record. The latest, on Sep 25, 2026: no violation found.

Rated High by Texas: AP Responsibilities of Employees and Caregivers -Ensure No Child Abused, Neglected, or Exploited, at the report to the state on Mar 28, 2024

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 Mar 28, 2024

Source:

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

When those deficiencies happened

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

8 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.

Jan 29, 2025: inspection1 deficiency

  • Training Requirements for Employees, Caregivers, and Directors - Transportation training

    “Route driver last took transportation training in July of 2023.”

    Rule 746.1301(a)(7)(A). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 7, 2025. Correction verified: Feb 4, 2025.

Jan 24, 2025: assessment1 deficiency

  • Report Number of Employees

    “A review of the Employees Who Left Employment in 2024 from January 21, 2025, revealed the center had not reported the number of employees who left employment in 2024 by January 15, 2025, as required.”

    Rule 746.303(b). Medium Low, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 2, 2025. Correction verified: Jan 27, 2025.

May 3, 2024: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Annual Sanitation Inspection

    “Annual health inspection is not current. Last completed on 12/19/2022.”

    Rule 746.3401(a). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 1, 2024. Correction verified: May 30, 2024.

  • Maintenance of Building, Grounds and Equipment

    “Observed the outdoor playground used for infants and toddlers not maintained as the leveling on the ground is uneven which can cause the children to stumble and fall.”

    Rule 746.3407. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 3, 2024. Correction verified: May 20, 2024.

Mar 28, 2024: report to the state3 deficiencies

  • AP Responsibilities of Employees and Caregivers -Ensure No Child Abused, Neglected, or Exploited

    “Based on the information gained during the investigation, one caregiver was found to have neglectfully supervised a child in care.”

    Rule 746.1201(4). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 30, 2024. Correction verified: May 3, 2024.

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

    “Based on the information gained during the investigation, one caregiver did not supervise a child properly while in care allowing the child to exit the daycare thru the gate which could have resulted in death.”

    Rule 746.1205(a)(4). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 30, 2024. Correction verified: May 3, 2024.

  • Fenced Outdoor Activity Space -Gates Locked

    “Based on the information gained during the investigation, one caregiver did not ensure the outdoor gate was locked which resulted in a child leaving the daycare for unknown amount of time.”

    Rule 746.4309. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 30, 2024. Correction verified: May 3, 2024.

Jan 22, 2024: assessment1 deficiency

  • Report Number of Employees

    “A review of the Employees Who Left Employment in 2023 data from January 22, 2024, revealed the center had not reported the number of employees who left employment in 2023 by January 15, 2023, as required.”

    Rule 746.303(b). Medium Low, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 22, 2024. Correction verified: Jan 24, 2024.

2 deficiencies older than three years
Jun 28, 2023: inspection1 deficiency

  • Safety - Play Materials and Equipment Safe

    “Observed a little tykes playing equipment broken and accessible to the children in the outdoor playground. NOTE: CORRECTED AT INSPECTION as the little tykes was removed and inaccessible to the children at the time of inspection.”

    Rule 746.3701(5). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 28, 2023.

Jul 22, 2022: inspection1 deficiency

  • Written Feeding Instructions - Signed and Dated by Parent or Health-Care Professional

    “The feeding instructions for one infant need to be updated. No feeding instructions were available for the other infant.”

    Rule 746.2421(a). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 29, 2022. Correction verified: Jul 27, 2022.

All 13 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Sep 25, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Feb 6, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Jan 15, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Feb 20, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Jan 29, 2025Inspection1 deficiency cited
Jan 24, 2025Assessment1 deficiency cited
Jun 7, 2024InspectionNo violation found
May 20, 2024InspectionNo violation found
May 3, 2024Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Mar 28, 2024Report to the state3 deficiencies cited
Jan 22, 2024Assessment1 deficiency cited
Jun 28, 2023Inspection1 deficiency cited
Jul 22, 2022Inspection1 deficiency cited

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Oct 2, 2020.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 67 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.
  • 1 report 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 198 child care providers in Cameron County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 2; this one had 8.
Source:

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

12 of the 198 in Cameron County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star Learning Academy This child care provider8
D J Lerma Head Start Child Development Center0
Kidzland Learning Center2
Small World Educational Center2
Creative Minds Learning Center1
Alphabet Playhouse Early Childhood Center, LLC1
Little Mermaid Day Care Center2
Lincoln Park School Day Care Center3
The Texas Christian Preschool6
Giggles & Wiggles Daycare3
DBA: Kinder Fun Creative Learning Center2
Felipe R. Perez Head Start Child Development3
Juggi’s Child Care Inc.9

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 28, 2026. Updated monthly.

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