Hearth Record

Life Kids

A licensed child care center in Lufkin, Texas 75904

1715 Sayers St, Lufkin, Texas 75904. (936) 899-5480.

Texas’s own record, on its child care search

Watch and the shortlist are kept with a free account, on every device. Your watch list. Texas’s own record is on its child care search.

The short answer

Record last released by Texas HHSC on Nov 5, 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 37 child care providers in Angelina County had 2.

11 inspections on record. The latest, on Jun 22, 2026: no violation found.

Rated High by Texas: Prohibited Punishments - No Harsh, Cruel or Unusual, at the report to the state on Dec 9, 2025

Rated High by Texas: Annual Fire Inspection - Before Initial Permit Issued and Every 12 Months, at the inspection on Jul 31, 2024

Rated High by Texas: Electronic Child Safety Alarm - is equipped in each vehicle, at the inspection on Jul 31, 2024

Source:

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

Hover or focus a month to read it.

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.

Dec 10, 2025: inspection1 deficiency

  • Written Operational Policies - Parent Rights

    “The operation did not have the parent’s rights form for all of the children enrolled. The Director is going to correct this by having all the parents fill out the form and put a copy in the child’s file.”

    Rule 746.501(a)(20). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 16, 2025. Correction verified: Dec 16, 2025.

Dec 9, 2025: report to the state1 deficiency

  • Prohibited Punishments - No Harsh, Cruel or Unusual

    “Based on the information gathered during the investigation, there was enough evidence to support that unusual punishment was used for discipline.”

    Rule 746.2805. High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 12, 2025. Correction verified: Dec 16, 2025.

Jun 23, 2025: inspection1 deficiency

  • Written Feeding Instructions - Review and Update Every 30 Days

    “There were two infant feeding instructions that have not been updated. The Director is going to correct this by getting them updated.”

    Rule 746.2421(b). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 24, 2025. Correction verified: Jun 24, 2025.

Jul 31, 2024: inspection3 deficiencies

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

    “The Fire Inspection expired on 2/15/2024. The Director is going to correct this by getting the fire inspection done.”

    Rule 746.5101(a). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 7, 2024. Correction verified: Aug 8, 2024.

  • Electronic Child Safety Alarm - is equipped in each vehicle

    “The van was not equipped with an electronic safety device. The van can fit more than 8 passengers. The Director is going to correct this by getting the alarm installed.”

    Rule 746.5625(a). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 7, 2024. Correction verified: Aug 7, 2024.

  • Annual Sanitation Inspection

    “The Fire Inspection expired on 11/1/2023. The Director is going to correct this getting the fire inspection done.”

    Rule 746.3401(a). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 7, 2024. Correction verified: Aug 6, 2024.

3 deficiencies older than three years
Jan 31, 2023: assessment1 deficiency

  • Report Number of Employees

    “The operation did not report via online provider account the number of employees who ceased working at the operation during the previous calendar year by January 15th, 2023 as required.”

    Rule 746.303(b). Medium Low, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 3, 2023. Correction verified: Feb 2, 2023.

Sep 27, 2022: inspection1 deficiency

  • Documentation of Fire Inspection

    “Documentation of the most recent fire inspection was unavailable for review. The director agreed to send a copy of the most recent fire inspection to Child Care Regulations by the compliance date.”

    Rule 746.5103. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 11, 2022. Correction verified: Oct 28, 2022.

Mar 2, 2022: assessment1 deficiency

  • Report Number of Employees

    “A review of the Employees Who Left Employment in 2021 data from February 23, 2022, revealed that the center had not reported the number of employees who left employment in 2021 by February 22nd, 2022, as required.”

    Rule 746.303(b). Medium Low, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 5, 2022. Correction verified: Mar 3, 2022.

All 17 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Jun 22, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Jun 10, 2026Report to the stateNo violation found
Jun 1, 2026InspectionNo violation found
May 4, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Apr 30, 2026Report to the stateNo violation found
Dec 16, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Dec 10, 2025Inspection1 deficiency cited
Dec 9, 2025Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Sep 9, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Jun 23, 2025Inspection1 deficiency cited
Jul 31, 2024Inspection3 deficiencies cited
Jan 10, 2024Report to the stateNo violation found
Sep 22, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Jan 31, 2023Assessment1 deficiency cited
Sep 27, 2022Inspection1 deficiency cited
Mar 2, 2022Assessment1 deficiency cited
Mar 1, 2022InspectionNo violation found

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Oct 15, 2021.
  • Accepts state child care subsidies.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 94 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.
  • 4 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: 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 37 child care providers in Angelina 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 Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.

11 of the 37 in Angelina County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Presbyterian Early Learning Center0
Just Kidz Preschool3
Tots on the Move Child Education Center2
Cornerstone Kids Academy6
Lufkin Tiny Treasures Preschool6
Lufkin’s Tiny Treasures Too11
Life Kids This child care provider6
Tiny Blessings Preschool1
Kid Zone Childcare Center LLC9
Garrett Day Care1
Building Blocks Academy 22
Sue Sue’s Daycare LLC0

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

If you believe something here is wrong, a correction starts with the agency whose record this copies: Texas HHSC or Texas Workforce Commission. Texas’s own record is on its child care search. If Hearth Record copied something wrongly, it will fix it and log the correction publicly, with its date: how corrections work.

Source:

This copy of the record was made on Nov 5, 2026.

From the provider

The public record above comes first. Anything the provider adds will appear here, below it, and say who wrote it.

Replies

None. Replies aren’t open yet. When they open, the provider will be able to answer any finding for free, and the reply will show beside that finding, unedited and dated.

Paid listing

None. Paid listings aren’t open yet. When they open, anything paid for will say “Paid by the provider”, and paying will never change a finding, a rating or the order of results.

How to read a record

Four things every record does, shown on an example record made up for this guide.

An example record, made up for this guide

An example nursing home

Made up for this guide: no real place is shown

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.

From the homeNone yet. Replies and paid listings aren’t open, and when they open they will sit here, below the record.

1 of 4

Every fact names its source.

Who published it, when, and how often it changes sit beside each fact, with a link to the agency’s own file.

Sign in

A free account keeps your watch list, shortlists, comparisons and saved searches on every device, and can email you when something you watch changes. Browsing never needs one.