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Bright Kids Academy

A licensed child care center in El Paso, Texas 79924

10710 Gateway Blvd N Ste B1, El Paso, Texas 79924. (915) 313-5771.

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The short answer

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

The last 24 months 7 deficiencies in 4 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?

7 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 371 child care providers in El Paso County had 2.

23 inspections on record. The latest, on Jul 24, 2026: no violation found.

Rated High by Texas: Required Equipment in Vehicles - Fire Extinguisher, at the inspection on Apr 22, 2025

Source:

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

When those deficiencies happened

7 deficiencies in 4 months of the last 36. Last cited Jun 2026. Most serious: High. The last 3 years, to Nov 5, 2026.

7 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 22, 2026: report to the state1 deficiency

  • Screen Time Activities - Not Exceed One Hour Daily

    Rule 746.2207(c)(3). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 23, 2026. Correction verified: Jul 24, 2026.

Mar 13, 2026: inspection1 deficiency

  • Documented Annual Training- Required Content

    “In review of employee records three employees do not have proof of training in hazardous materials available for review. Two staff do not have proof of training in emergency preparedness available for review.”

    Rule 746.1309(e). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 27, 2026. Correction verified: Mar 30, 2026.

Apr 22, 2025: inspection3 deficiencies

  • Required Equipment in Vehicles - Fire Extinguisher

    “Operation had a fire extinguisher in a van used to transport children with a fire extinguisher with a service date of April 2023. This was corrected at inspection when the designee placed a different fire extinguisher in the van with a service date of April 2025.”

    Rule 746.5617(a)(5). High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 22, 2025.

  • Children’s Products- Review list and Remove unsafe products

    “Opeation has a children product certification dated 01/03/24 posted. This was corrected at inspection when the designee cheked the CPSC website then completed and posted a new form 2885.”

    Rule 746.4135(a). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 22, 2025.

  • First Aid Kit - Incomplete Kit

    “Operation has four first aid kits, in various areas of the operation. All four kits were missing band aids. This was corrected at inspection when person in charge added new band aids to the first aid kits.”

    Rule 746.4003(a). Medium, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 22, 2025.

May 9, 2024: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Emergency Evacuation and Relocation Diagram - Posted in Each Room

    “Operation did not have evacuation and relocation diagrams posted in each classroom. This was corrected at inspection when the designee printed and posted evacuation and relocation diagrams in each classroom during the inspection.”

    Rule 746.5207(b). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 9, 2024.

  • Documented Annual Training- Required Content

    “In review of employee records for HASA, three employees were missing annual training in administration of medicataion, hazardous material and food allergy.”

    Rule 746.1309(e). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 23, 2024. Correction verified: May 17, 2024.

8 deficiencies older than three years
Jul 12, 2023: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Infant Care Area - Crib Placement

    “In the infant room, the cribs were positioned in a way that allowed for the children to reach into the crib of another.”

    Rule 746.2403(4). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 26, 2023. Correction verified: Aug 7, 2023.

  • Posting of Activity Plan

    “The operation does not have an activity plan posted in the toddler room.”

    Rule 746.2209. Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 26, 2023. Correction verified: Aug 7, 2023.

Aug 17, 2022: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Children’s Records - Immunizations

    “Two out of eight children’s records checked did not have an immunization record available for review in the file.”

    Rule 746.603(a)(4). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 31, 2022. Correction verified: Aug 25, 2022.

  • Required Personnel Records

    “Eight out of eight employee files were not available for review/ were incomplete.”

    Rule 746.901. Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 31, 2022. Correction verified: Aug 25, 2022.

May 23, 2022: inspection1 deficiency

  • Substitute Qualifications - Not Counted in Ratio

    “A substitute was observed caring for a group of childern. This was corrected when the primary group caregiver returned to the classroom.”

    Rule 746.1401(b). Medium, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 23, 2022.

Apr 21, 2022: report to the state1 deficiency

  • Operation Open to Parents At All Times

    “The operation is not allowing parents to enter the operation and observe their child(ren) in the care areas and/or have access to building/grounds.”

    Rule 746.201(7). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 10, 2022. Correction verified: May 20, 2022.

Mar 1, 2022: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Required Equipment in Vehicles - Emergency Telephone Numbers for Each Child

    “The emergency contact information for two children being transported was not available for review. This was corrected at the inspection by printing out the information and placing it in the transportation vehicle’s binder.”

    Rule 746.5617(a)(4). High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 1, 2022.

  • Required Equipment in Vehicles - Fire Extinguisher

    “Three transportation vehicles will need to have the fire extinguisher serviced or replaced.”

    Rule 746.5617(a)(5). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 15, 2022. Correction verified: Mar 18, 2022.

All 33 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Jul 24, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Jul 2, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Jun 24, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Jun 22, 2026Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Mar 13, 2026Inspection1 deficiency cited
Jul 26, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Jul 21, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Jun 20, 2025Report to the stateNo violation found
Apr 22, 2025Inspection3 deficiencies cited
May 20, 2024Report to the stateNo violation found
May 9, 2024Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Apr 8, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Apr 5, 2024Report to the stateNo violation found
Jan 16, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Jan 4, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Dec 24, 2023Report to the stateNo violation found
Oct 6, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Sep 26, 2023Report to the stateNo violation found
Aug 7, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Jul 12, 2023Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Nov 7, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Oct 21, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Oct 17, 2022Report to the stateNo violation found
Aug 25, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Aug 17, 2022Inspection2 deficiencies cited
May 23, 2022Inspection1 deficiency cited
May 19, 2022Report to the stateNo violation found
Apr 22, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Apr 21, 2022Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Mar 18, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Mar 1, 2022Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Nov 5, 2021InspectionNo violation found
Oct 29, 2021Report to the stateNo violation found

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Sep 9, 2021.
  • Accepts state child care subsidies.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 81 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.
  • 10 reports 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: 4-Star (the highest 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 371 child care providers in El Paso County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 2; this one had 7.
Source:

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

12 of the 371 in El Paso County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Bright Kids Academy This child care provider7
Wee Care11
John E Uxer Head Start Site15
Kims Day Care7
Flying Colors Learning Center #56
A Place to Grow III8
Hollywood Kids Day Care8
Paradise Learning Center8
Nancys Daycare4
Coras Day Care8
Branon Head Start1
Sun City Child Development Center20
Ice Castles Too, Inc. Learning Center & Child Care13

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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