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Crayola Experience & Academy

A licensed child care center in Cedar Hill, Texas 75104

128 N Roberts Rd, Cedar Hill, Texas 75104. (682) 241-8159.

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The short answer

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

The last 24 months 9 deficiencies in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited Mar 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?

9 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 986 child care providers in Dallas County had 2.

9 inspections on record. The latest, on Mar 5, 2026: no violation found.

Source:

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

When those deficiencies happened

9 deficiencies in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited Mar 2025. Most serious: Medium High. The last 3 years, to Nov 2, 2026.

9 deficiencies by month over the last 3 years. Each cell is one month.
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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.

Mar 25, 2025: inspection1 deficiency

  • Adequate Lighting During Naptime

    “Upon arrival to the nap room the room was to dark to see any of the children napping. This was corrected during the inspection. A light was turned on that provided the adequte amount of light to see all children napping.”

    Rule 746.2911. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 25, 2025.

Mar 13, 2025: inspection5 deficiencies

  • Provide care consistent with child’s habits, interests, strengths, special needs, including any special supervision needs

    “Children were observed walking out the classroom and down the hallwayh several times.”

    Rule 746.1203(4). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 13, 2025. Correction verified: Mar 25, 2025.

  • Required Admission Information - Emergency Contact

    “Three of the four children’s records read were missing emergency contact address.”

    Rule 746.605(6). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 13, 2025. Correction verified: Mar 17, 2025.

  • Director Annual Training - Additional required topics

    “Three required topics had not been coverd in the reviewed training certificates.”

    Rule 746.1311(e). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 20, 2025. Correction verified: Mar 25, 2025.

  • Written Activity Plans - Plan Followed by Caregiver

    “Activity plan was not followed during the inspection.”

    Rule 746.2203(b). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 13, 2025. Correction verified: Mar 25, 2025.

  • Written Activity Plan - Outdoor Play - Infant Birth to 12 Months

    “Posted activity plan in infant room did not include outdoor time. Picture taken”

    Rule 746.2206(1)(A). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 13, 2025. Correction verified: Mar 25, 2025.

Jan 7, 2025: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Share Indoor Activity Space With Written Plan

    “Written plan for shared indoor space was not available for review during the inspection.”

    Rule 746.4215(a). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 7, 2025. Correction verified: Jan 16, 2025.

  • Additional Requirements For Outdoor Activity Space Not Connected To Center - Written Plan for Supervision

    “During the inspection the written plan for the unattached playground was not available for review.”

    Rule 746.4313(2). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 7, 2025. Correction verified: Jan 16, 2025.

May 29, 2024: inspection1 deficiency

  • Daily Menus - May Rotate if Keep Record of Dates Menus Used

    “Menu with substitution was not dated. This was corrected when discussed with the director and date was added.”

    Rule 746.3313(2). Medium, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 29, 2024.

7 deficiencies older than three years
Jul 6, 2023: inspection3 deficiencies

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

    “Director did not have current documentation of required annual training during the inspection.”

    Rule 746.1301(a)(6)(A). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 20, 2023. Correction verified: Jul 6, 2023.

  • Each Caregiver and the Director Must Have Current Training in pediatric first aid with rescue breathing and choking.

    “Director does not have current documentation of first aid training.”

    Rule 746.1315(a). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 11, 2023. Correction verified: Jul 7, 2023.

  • Each Caregiver and the Director Must Have Current Training in pediatric CPR

    “Director does not have current documentation of CPR training.”

    Rule 746.1315(b). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 11, 2023. Correction verified: Jul 7, 2023.

Jun 28, 2023: assessment1 deficiency

  • Notification of Change in Hours, Days, Months of Operation

    “Operation did not update hours of operation.”

    Rule 746.301(6). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 28, 2023. Correction verified: Jul 6, 2023.

Jan 20, 2023: assessment1 deficiency

  • Report Number of Employees

    “Number of Employees has not been reported for 2022.”

    Rule 746.303(b). Medium Low, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 24, 2023. Correction verified: Jan 20, 2023.

Aug 2, 2022: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Daily Menus - Record Comparable Substitutions

    “Record of substitutions was not available for review during the inspection. This was corrected during the inspection, substitution was documented on the menu.”

    Rule 746.3313(1). Medium, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 2, 2022.

  • Daily Menus - May Rotate if Keep Record of Dates Menus Used

    “Record of rotated menus was not avaible during the inspection. This was corrected during the inspection and discussed with the director.”

    Rule 746.3313(2). Medium, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 2, 2022.

All 12 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Mar 5, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Mar 25, 2025Inspection1 deficiency cited
Mar 13, 2025Inspection5 deficiencies cited
Feb 3, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Jan 7, 2025Inspection2 deficiencies cited
May 29, 2024Inspection1 deficiency cited
Apr 18, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Apr 4, 2024Report to the stateNo violation found
Jul 6, 2023Inspection3 deficiencies cited
Jun 28, 2023Assessment1 deficiency cited
Jan 20, 2023Assessment1 deficiency cited
Aug 2, 2022Inspection2 deficiencies cited

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Dec 7, 2020.
  • Accepts state child care subsidies.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 30 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?

  • Not star-rated in Texas Rising Star (TWC’s code: SUSA).
Source:

Texas Workforce Commission, subsidy providers and Texas Rising Star. Released Nov 2, 2026. Updated daily.

How does it compare nearby?

  • Among 986 child care providers in Dallas County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 2; this one had 9.
Source:

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

11 of the 986 in Dallas County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Storytime Overnight Child Care Services LLC0
Discovery Village Learning Center, LLC3
Michelle BoyceNot given
Hart to Heart Child Care2
Jefferson Little Learners Academy7
Tiny Tots University0
Ms. Kay’s Legacy in Home Daycare0
Crayola Experience & Academy This child care provider9
Tandee Zack0
Almaria Titus5
Eya’s House1
Journey of Faith Christian Learning Center5

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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