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Blocks and Books Learning Center

A licensed child care center in Katy, Texas 77449

20144 Morton Rd 100, Katy, Texas 77449. (281) 599-3833.

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The short answer

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

The last 24 months 6 deficiencies in 2 months of the last 36. Last cited Jun 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?

6 deficiencies cited in the last three years

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

8 inspections on record. The latest, on Jul 2, 2026: no violation found.

Rated High by Texas: Proof of Franchise Tax Payment, at the inspection on Jun 16, 2026

Rated High by Texas: AP Background check results - Must receive notification prior to allowing subject to be present at your operation, at the inspection on Jun 16, 2026

Rated High by Texas: Annual Fire Inspection - Before Initial Permit Issued and Every 12 Months, at the inspection on Jun 24, 2025

Source:

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

When those deficiencies happened

6 deficiencies in 2 months of the last 36. Last cited Jun 2026. Most serious: High. The last 3 years, to Nov 5, 2026.

6 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.

Jun 16, 2026: inspection3 deficiencies

  • Proof of Franchise Tax Payment

    “The Franchise Tax account was showing as inactive in the system during the inspection.”

    Rule 745.245. High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 30, 2026. Correction verified: Jul 2, 2026.

  • AP Background check results - Must receive notification prior to allowing subject to be present at your operation

    “During the inspection, an individual who works directly with children did not have an active initial background check under the operation number.”

    Rule 745.641. High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 18, 2026. Correction verified: Jun 23, 2026.

  • Child/Caregiver Ratio - 18 Months Difference in Age

    “In the infant’s classroom, there were two children (3 years old) and one infant (15 months old) combined during inspection time. Note: The director removed the two children (3 years old) to the toddlers’ classroom during inspection.”

    Rule 746.1605(1). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 16, 2026.

Jun 24, 2025: inspection3 deficiencies

  • Annual Fire Inspection - Before Initial Permit Issued and Every 12 Months

    “The fire marshal’s inspection report was not available for review. The current report expired on 11/09/2024.”

    Rule 746.5101(a). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 25, 2025. Correction verified: Aug 15, 2025.

  • Maintenance Procedures for Active Play - Hazards Removed or Repaired

    “The playhouse has a stair with broken wooden pieces, and the snail is stuck out with those broken pieces at the playground.”

    Rule 746.4751(c). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 17, 2025. Correction verified: Jul 16, 2025.

  • Installation and Maintenance of Loose-fill Surfacing - Six Inches if Equipment 5 Ft or Less

    “There was no loose mulch installation under the slide at the playground.”

    Rule 746.4907(a)(1). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 17, 2025. Correction verified: Jul 16, 2025.

16 deficiencies older than three years
Jul 17, 2023: inspection3 deficiencies

  • Daily Menus - Record Comparable Substitutions

    “The food served was different from the lunch menu. Note: I discussed this with the director, who corrected it during the inspection.”

    Rule 746.3313(1). Medium, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 17, 2023.

  • Children’s Records - Health Statement

    “Five of 8 children’s records evaluated were observed incomplete for health statement information.”

    Rule 746.603(a)(3). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 31, 2023. Correction verified: Jul 31, 2023.

  • Children’s Records - Immunizations

    “The immunization record was unavailable in one of the children’s files.”

    Rule 746.603(a)(4). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 31, 2023. Correction verified: Jul 31, 2023.

Apr 18, 2023: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Child/ Caregiver Ratio - 13 or More Children

    “In the infant room there were 5 infants ages 7 weeks to 12months with one caregiver.The operation is over ratio by1 infants. The director called another caregiver to help in that classroom, ratio was in compliance during the inspection.”

    Rule 746.1601. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 18, 2023.

  • Annual Sanitation Inspection

    “The operation did not have an annual sanitation inspection to review. The current one expired on 03/16/2023.”

    Rule 746.3401(a). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 8, 2023. Correction verified: May 10, 2023.

Apr 6, 2023: report to the state3 deficiencies

  • Report Situation Placing Children at Risk

    “The director was aware of the incident and did not report it to licensing.”

    Rule 746.305(a)(6). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 10, 2023. Correction verified: May 5, 2023.

  • Safety - Areas Free From Hazards

    “Based on information gathered during the investigation, a hazardous item, a broken leg chair, was placed at the playground and caused the incident to the child.”

    Rule 746.3701. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 12, 2023. Correction verified: May 5, 2023.

  • Maintenance Procedures for Active Play - Hazards Removed or Repaired

    “Based on information gathered during the investigation, a hazardous item, a broken leg chair, did not remove from the playground.”

    Rule 746.4751(c). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 12, 2023. Correction verified: May 5, 2023.

Jul 26, 2022: inspection8 deficiencies

  • AP Background check results - Must receive notification prior to allowing subject to be present at your operation

    “There were 2 caregivers who were present and have been in direct care of the children prior to today. They did not have the background check with status eligibility.Their BGC are still pending. Note : The director sent them home and called another caregiver to come in.”

    Rule 745.641. High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 29, 2022. Correction verified: Jul 27, 2022.

  • Responsibilities of Caregivers - Supervision of Children

    “A group of children was left unsupervised when she stepped away from the classroom to assist inspestor at the front office.Children were left unsupervised in a classroom . Note: I discussed with the director about this situataion during inspection time.”

    Rule 746.1203(4). High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 26, 2022.

  • Child/ Caregiver Ratio - 13 or More Children

    “In the infant room there were 5 infants ages 5 months to 12 months old with one caregiver. The operation is over ratio by 1 infant. The director called another caregiver to help in that classroom, ratio was in compliance during the inspection.”

    Rule 746.1601. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 26, 2022.

  • Fire Drill Monthly - Exit in 3 Minutes

    “The operation did not have Fire Drill Monthly practice to review during inspection time.The last one was on May 2022.”

    Rule 746.5205(1). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 5, 2022. Correction verified: Jul 27, 2022.

  • Sheltering Drill For Severe Weather-Four times a calendar year

    “The operation did not have current sheltering drill for severe weather drill to review during inspection time.The last practice was on Feburary 2022.”

    Rule 746.5205(2). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 5, 2022. Correction verified: Jul 27, 2022.

  • Sheltering Drills for Lock-Down-4 times in a calendar year

    “The operation did not have current Sheltering Drills for Lock Down Drill practice to review during inspection time.The last one was on Feburary 2022.”

    Rule 746.5205(3). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 5, 2022. Correction verified: Jul 27, 2022.

  • Inspect Fire Extinguishers Monthly

    “Fire Extingguishers did not done annually at the operation .The last one was on March 2022.”

    Rule 746.5307(a). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 2, 2022. Correction verified: Jul 27, 2022.

  • Screen Time Activities - Not Used for Under Two

    “The infants were watching television in the infant’s classroom.”

    Rule 746.2207(a). Medium, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 26, 2022.

All 9 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Jul 2, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Jun 16, 2026Inspection3 deficiencies cited
Jun 24, 2025Inspection3 deficiencies cited
Jul 1, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Jul 17, 2023Inspection3 deficiencies cited
Apr 18, 2023Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Apr 6, 2023Report to the state3 deficiencies cited
Aug 25, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Jul 26, 2022Inspection8 deficiencies cited

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Aug 20, 2020.
  • Accepts state child care subsidies.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 87 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.
  • 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 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: 3-Star (the middle 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 6.
Source:

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

12 of the 2,139 in Harris County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Blocks and Books Learning Center This child care provider6
Texas Kids Learning Center4
Mary Morales Child Care Home7
Ha Le0
Bertha Valdes3
Holy Covenant Cdc0
Wendy Mazariego3
Kathleen Dufour0
Kinder Shine Academy12
Texas Kids Childcare19
Rayshell ButlerNot given
Golbow Elementary YMCA0
Svitlana ZievakinaNot given

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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