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The Preferred Preschool

A licensed child care center in Mesquite, Texas 75150

1615 Oates Dr, Mesquite, Texas 75150. (972) 685-5218.

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The short answer

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

The last 24 months 6 deficiencies in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited Dec 2025. 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 986 child care providers in Dallas County had 2.

13 inspections on record. The latest, on Jan 15, 2026: no violation found.

Rated High by Texas: Responsibilities - Not interfere with an inspection or investigation, at the report to the state on Jan 21, 2025

Source:

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

When those deficiencies happened

6 deficiencies in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited Dec 2025. Most serious: High. The last 3 years, to Nov 2, 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 Oct 31, 2026. Updated daily.

Dec 16, 2025: inspection3 deficiencies

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

    “The rubber chip surfacing was insufficient (less than six inches - lining visible) for both area with play equipment.”

    Rule 746.4907(a)(1). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 15, 2026. Correction verified: Jan 15, 2026.

  • Posting Requirements - Licensing Parent Notification Poster

    “The operation does not have the required posting at the center.”

    Rule 746.401(7). Medium Low, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 16, 2025.

  • Required Personnel Records - Required Affidavit (Form 2912)

    “Three staff does not have the required personnel record form 2912 on file.”

    Rule 746.901(5). Medium Low, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 17, 2025. Correction verified: Dec 17, 2025.

Jan 21, 2025: report to the state1 deficiency

  • Responsibilities - Not interfere with an inspection or investigation

    “This standard is found to be deficient due to the operation not initially allowing a DFPS investigator into the operation for an DFPS investigation.”

    Rule 745.8411(a). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 11, 2025. Correction verified: Mar 25, 2025.

Feb 28, 2024: inspection2 deficiencies

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

    “The rubber chip surfacing was insufficient (less than six inches - lining visiable).”

    Rule 746.4907(a)(1). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 26, 2024. Correction verified: Apr 2, 2024.

  • Written Feeding Instructions - Review and Update Every 30 Days

    “Infant written feeding instructions were not updated every 30 days.”

    Rule 746.2421(b). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 1, 2024. Correction verified: Feb 29, 2024.

11 deficiencies older than three years
Jun 20, 2022: inspection2 deficiencies

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

    “One Caregiver’s CPR/1st Aid did not include Pediatric.”

    Rule 746.1315(a). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 30, 2022. Correction verified: Jul 6, 2022.

  • Documented Annual Training - 6 Hours of annual training required

    “Two caregivers Abuse/Neglect Trainings expired.”

    Rule 746.1309(b). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 30, 2022. Correction verified: Jul 6, 2022.

Jun 7, 2022: inspection5 deficiencies

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

    “Two infants had braclets on their wrist identified as choking hazards.”

    Rule 746.2401(6). High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 7, 2022.

  • Child/ Caregiver Ratio - 13 or More Children

    “The Toddler Classroom was out of caregiver to child ratio.”

    Rule 746.1601. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 7, 2022.

  • Screen Time Activities - Not Used for Under Two

    “Children under two years were watching TV during this inspection.”

    Rule 746.2207(a). Medium, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 7, 2022.

  • Provide Access to Children’s Records - Licensing

    “Children records were not available for review during this inspection.”

    Rule 746.601(c). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 13, 2022. Correction verified: Jun 13, 2022.

  • Required Personnel Records

    “Personnel Records were not available for review during the inspection.”

    Rule 746.901. Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 13, 2022. Correction verified: Jun 20, 2022.

Jan 25, 2022: inspection1 deficiency

  • Required Equipment in Vehicles - Emergency Medical Information

    “Emergency Binder on bus did not have the required Emergency Medical Transport and Treatment Form for each child being transported.”

    Rule 746.5617(a)(2). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 28, 2022. Correction verified: Jan 28, 2022.

Jan 24, 2022: report to the state2 deficiencies

  • Report Situation Placing Children at Risk

    “This standard was evaluated, and found to be deficient. The operation failed to report to Child Care Regulation a transport incident that placed children in care at risk.”

    Rule 746.305(a)(6). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 1, 2022. Correction verified: Jan 25, 2022.

  • Parental Communication - Situation that Placed a Child at Risk

    “This standard was evaluated, and found to be deficient. The operation failed to notify parents of a transport incident that placed children a t risk.”

    Rule 746.307(b)(4). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 1, 2022. Correction verified: Mar 11, 2022.

Jan 13, 2022: report to the state1 deficiency

  • Report Outbreak of Communicable Illness

    “This standard was evaluated, and found to be deficient. The operation failed to report a Communicable Illness for two staff members.”

    Rule 746.305(a)(4). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 26, 2022. Correction verified: Jan 13, 2022.

All 18 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Jan 15, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Dec 16, 2025Inspection3 deficiencies cited
Mar 25, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Jan 21, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Jan 21, 2025Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Aug 22, 2024Report to the stateNo violation found
Feb 28, 2024Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Apr 19, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Jan 18, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Jan 9, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Jan 6, 2023Report to the stateNo violation found
Jun 20, 2022Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Jun 7, 2022Inspection5 deficiencies cited
Jan 25, 2022Inspection1 deficiency cited
Jan 24, 2022Report to the state2 deficiencies cited
Jan 13, 2022Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Jan 13, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Dec 2, 2021InspectionNo violation found

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Jun 15, 2021.
  • Accepts state child care subsidies.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 100 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.
  • 5 reports 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: 3-Star (the middle 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 986 child care providers in Dallas County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 2; this one had 6.
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
Sabrina Chase0
Town East Learning Center11
St Pius X Early Care and Education Center1
Kathy Steward0
Appleseed Academy2
Discovery School17
Kreative Learning With Friends Childcare2
Norma Gallegos3
Childcaregroup at Eastfield College1
The Preferred Preschool This child care provider6
Eastridge Park Christian School3
Lil Rascals Learning Center 21

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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