Stepping Stones Learning Center
A licensed child care center in Borger, Texas 79007
100 Amaryllis St, Borger, Texas 79007. (806) 395-3018.
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The short answer
Record last released by Texas HHSC on Oct 30, 2026.
- 4 deficiencies cited in the last three years Middle in Hutchinson County: 1.5
- 3 rated High by Texas, its most serious level (needs attention)
- 20 inspections on record
- 3-Star Texas Rising Star rating
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 6 child care providers in Hutchinson County had 1.5.
20 inspections on record. The latest, on Oct 27, 2026: outcome pending.
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 1, 2025
Rated High by Texas: Prohibited Punishments - Grabbing and Pulling, at the report to the state on Oct 1, 2025
Rated High by Texas: Prohibited Punishments - Grabbing and Pulling, at the report to the state on Oct 11, 2024
Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data) and inspections and investigations. Released Oct 30, 2026. Updated daily.
When those deficiencies happened
4 deficiencies in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited Oct 2025. Most serious: High. The last 3 years, to Oct 30, 2026.
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| 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 |
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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 Oct 30, 2026. Updated daily.
Oct 1, 2025: report to the state2 deficiencies
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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 evidence obtained during the investigation, a caregiver was not supervising appropriately. A child left the classroom without the caregiver realizing until discovered by another caregiver.”
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Prohibited Punishments - Grabbing and Pulling
“Based on the evidence obtained during the investigation, a caregiver was not disciplining appropriately when grabbing a child by the arm.”
Aug 26, 2025: inspection1 deficiency
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Each Caregiver and the Director Must Have Current Training in pediatric first aid with rescue breathing and choking.
“In 2 of the 4 files reviewed staff’s CPR/First Aid certificate was expired. As well as several other staff. There were 2 staff with current First Aid and CPR certifications.”
Oct 11, 2024: report to the state1 deficiency
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Prohibited Punishments - Grabbing and Pulling
“Based on information obtained a child was grabbed by a caregiver as discipline, child was not injured.”
11 deficiencies older than three years
Oct 10, 2023: report to the state1 deficiency
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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 obtained during the investigation, a group of children were left alone in a classroom for approximately 1 minute and 42 seconds.”
Aug 14, 2023: report to the state1 deficiency
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Supervision ensures each child?s safety, well-being, including physical proximity and auditory or visual awareness of each child?s on going activity
“A child was left alone briefly without supervision.”
Apr 17, 2023: report to the state3 deficiencies
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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 obtained a child was unattended in a classroom for at least 10 minutes without supervision.”
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Report Situation Placing Children at Risk
“Based on information obtained a child was at risk due to a lack of supervision and the incident was not reported to licensing within the required time frame.”
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Parental Communication - Situation that Placed a Child at Risk
“Based on information obtained a parent was not notified of an incident that placed their child at risk, immediately, after child was safe.”
Mar 28, 2023: inspection1 deficiency
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Annual Fire Inspection - Conducted by Fire Marshal
“The annual fire inspection was due 2-9-2023.”
Mar 4, 2022: inspection2 deficiencies
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Diaper Changing Equipment - If Above Floor Level Must Keep Hand on Child
“A caregiver was observed changing a child and walking away from the changing table, removing their hand from the child on several occasions.”
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Diapering Procedures - Sanitizing Diaper Changing Area
“It was observed that several children were changed and the changing surface was not sanitizing.”
Mar 2, 2022: report to the state3 deficiencies
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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 and with children at the operation prior to receiving a background check determination of “Eligible, with conditions, or provisional.”
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Child/ Caregiver Ratio - 13 or More Children
“There is evidence to support that there was one staff member with 20 children that had a median age of 3 years old. The ratio for 3 year old’s is 15 to one.”
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Handwashing Procedures
“There is evidence to support staff not washing their hands or the children’s hands according to the procedures.”
All 28 visits on record
| Date | Visit | What the record says |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 27, 2026 | Inspection | Outcome pending |
| Mar 25, 2026 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Oct 16, 2025 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Oct 2, 2025 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Oct 1, 2025 | Report to the state | 2 deficiencies cited |
| Aug 26, 2025 | Inspection | 1 deficiency cited |
| Nov 4, 2024 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Oct 15, 2024 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Oct 11, 2024 | Report to the state | 1 deficiency cited |
| Oct 4, 2024 | Report to the state | No violation found |
| Jan 30, 2024 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Nov 1, 2023 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Oct 12, 2023 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Oct 10, 2023 | Report to the state | 1 deficiency cited |
| Sep 5, 2023 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Aug 16, 2023 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Aug 14, 2023 | Report to the state | 1 deficiency cited |
| May 15, 2023 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Apr 20, 2023 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Apr 18, 2023 | Report to the state | No violation found |
| Apr 17, 2023 | Report to the state | 3 deficiencies cited |
| Mar 28, 2023 | Inspection | 1 deficiency cited |
| May 17, 2022 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Mar 22, 2022 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Mar 4, 2022 | Inspection | 2 deficiencies cited |
| Mar 2, 2022 | Report to the state | 3 deficiencies cited |
| Jan 7, 2022 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Nov 22, 2021 | Inspection | No violation found |
Is it licensed?
- Licensed Center, permit issued Aug 20, 2020.
- Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
- Capacity: 60 children.
Texas HHSC, child care operations. Released Oct 30, 2026. Updated daily.
Has Texas acted against it?
- No corrective or adverse action by Texas on record.
- 8 reports to the state on record; Texas doesn’t publish whether they were A complaint allegation the state investigated and found true: the evidence showed it more likely than not happened. Inconclusive means the evidence couldn’t show it either way. Neither inconclusive nor unsubstantiated proves it didn’t happen. Source: California Department of Social Services, complaint findings; each state’s licensing agency..
Texas HHSC, child care operations and inspections and investigations. Released Oct 30, 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: 3-Star (the middle of three levels).
Texas Workforce Commission, subsidy providers and Texas Rising Star. Released Oct 30, 2026. Updated daily.
How does it compare nearby?
- Among 6 child care providers in Hutchinson County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 1.5; this one had 4.
Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data). Released Oct 30, 2026. Updated daily.
| Place | Deficiencies, 3 years |
|---|---|
| Patricia Wilkinson | Not given |
| Stepping Stones Learning Center This child care provider | 4 |
| Marca Elrod | Not given |
| Buttercup House Inc. | 4 |
| Amanda Jones | 1 |
| Little Eagles | 0 |
| Borger-Spring Creek Bulldog Academy | 2 |
| Psp Cisd Early Learning Academy | 0 |
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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Texas Health and Human Services Commission, Child care operations (bc5r-88dy).
Released Oct 30, 2026 and checked Oct 30, 2026. Updated daily. Creative Commons 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication).
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Texas Health and Human Services Commission, Inspections and investigations (m5q4-3y3d).
Released Oct 30, 2026 and checked Oct 30, 2026. Updated daily. Creative Commons 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication).
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Texas Health and Human Services Commission, Deficiencies (non-compliance data) (tqgd-mf4x).
Released Oct 30, 2026 and checked Oct 30, 2026. Updated daily. Creative Commons 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication).
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Texas Workforce Commission, Subsidy providers and Texas Rising Star.
Released Oct 30, 2026 and checked Oct 30, 2026. Updated daily. No licence stated.
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