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Kids Corner Daycare

A licensed child care center in Crystal City, Texas 78839

1718 N 4th Ave, Crystal City, Texas 78839. (830) 374-5582.

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The short answer

Record last released by Texas HHSC on Oct 19, 2026.

The last 24 months 7 deficiencies in 2 months of the last 36. Last cited Apr 2025. 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?

7 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 7 child care providers in Zavala County had 6.

6 inspections on record. The latest, on Feb 25, 2026: no violation found.

Source:

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data) and inspections and investigations. Released Oct 17, 2026. Updated daily.

When those deficiencies happened

7 deficiencies in 2 months of the last 36. Last cited Apr 2025. Most serious: Medium High. The last 3 years, to Oct 19, 2026.

7 deficiencies by month over the last 3 years. Each cell is one month.
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2023 NovDec
2024 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2025 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2026 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOct

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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 17, 2026. Updated daily.

Apr 16, 2025: inspection4 deficiencies

  • Training Requirements for Employees, Caregivers, and Directors - 30 Annual Training

    “The director was lacking 9 out of 30 annual training hours for the most recent training year completed.”

    Rule 746.1301(a)(6)(A). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 25, 2025. Correction verified: Apr 25, 2025.

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

    “Two out of four employee records evaluated were lacking training in the required topic of child maltreatment for the most recent completed training year.”

    Rule 746.1309(c). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 25, 2025. Correction verified: Apr 25, 2025.

  • Documented Annual Training- Required Content

    “Two out of four employee records evaluated were lacking training in the required topic of emergency preparedness, handling hazardous materials, food allergies, etc.”

    Rule 746.1309(e). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 25, 2025. Correction verified: Apr 25, 2025.

  • Required Health Statement - Written, dated within past year, indicates child is physically able to participate in operation’s child-care program

    “Two out of five child records evaluated were lacking a complete health statement.”

    Rule 746.611(a)(1). Low, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 25, 2025. Correction verified: Apr 25, 2025.

Apr 18, 2024: inspection3 deficiencies

  • Written Operational Policies - Promotion of Physical Activity

    “The center was missing criteria for extreme weather in their operational policy.”

    Rule 746.501(a)(18). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 25, 2024. Correction verified: Apr 24, 2024.

  • Written Operational Policies - Support inclusive services

    “The center was missing the inclusion services with children with special care needs.”

    Rule 746.501(a)(30). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 25, 2024. Correction verified: Apr 24, 2024.

  • Required Records Maintained and Made Available - Playground Maintenance Records

    “The center had not completed the playground maintenance checklist for this past 2 months.”

    Rule 746.801(8). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 25, 2024. Correction verified: Apr 24, 2024.

3 deficiencies older than three years
Jun 8, 2023: inspection3 deficiencies

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

    “The prek caregiver was observed leaving the classroom of children to take another child to the other room.”

    Rule 746.1205(a)(4). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 8, 2023. Correction verified: Jun 13, 2023.

  • Basic Requirements for Infants - Free from Choking Objects That May Cause Choking in Infants or Toddlers

    “An eleven month old child was in a crib wearing a bib and a pacifer with a strap attached to it.”

    Rule 746.2401(6). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 8, 2023. Correction verified: Jun 13, 2023.

  • Requirements for Feeding Infants - No Walking or Sleeping with Bottle or Cup

    “Three out of three infants were observed drinking their bottle in the crib.”

    Rule 746.2419(7). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 8, 2023. Correction verified: Jun 13, 2023.

All 6 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Feb 25, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Apr 16, 2025Inspection4 deficiencies cited
Apr 18, 2024Inspection3 deficiencies cited
Jun 13, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Jun 8, 2023Inspection3 deficiencies cited
Jul 19, 2022InspectionNo violation found

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Aug 26, 2020.
  • Accepts state child care subsidies.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 61 children.
Source:

Texas HHSC, child care operations. Released Oct 19, 2026. Updated daily.

Has Texas acted against it?

  • No corrective or adverse action by Texas on record.
  • 0 reports to the state on record; Texas doesn’t publish whether they were .
Source:

Texas HHSC, child care operations. Released Oct 19, 2026. Updated daily.

Texas HHSC, inspections and investigations. Released Oct 17, 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).
Source:

Texas Workforce Commission, subsidy providers and Texas Rising Star. Released Oct 19, 2026. Updated daily.

How does it compare nearby?

  • Among 7 child care providers in Zavala County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 6; this one had 7.
Source:

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data). Released Oct 17, 2026. Updated daily.

6 of the 7 in Zavala County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Kids Corner Daycare This child care provider7
Cplc Mshs Crystal City2
Little Tikes Learning Center6
Sunshine Sitters Daycare7
Winter Garden Christian School -Templo Emanuel8
Alamar Campos Center2
Avance-La Pryor2

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 Oct 19, 2026.

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Replies

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An example nursing home

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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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