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Small World Child Care

A licensed child care center in Corpus Christi, Texas 78418

1070 Nas Dr, Corpus Christi, Texas 78418. (361) 937-1461.

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The short answer

Record last released by Texas HHSC on Oct 27, 2026.

The last 24 months 4 deficiencies in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited Jan 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?

4 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 160 child care providers in Nueces County had 2.

8 inspections on record. The latest, on Jan 27, 2026: no violation found.

Rated High by Texas: Annual Fire Inspection - Before Initial Permit Issued and Every 12 Months, at the inspection on Feb 3, 2025

Source:

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data) and inspections and investigations. Released Oct 27, 2026. Updated daily.

When those deficiencies happened

4 deficiencies in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited Jan 2026. Most serious: High. The last 3 years, to Oct 27, 2026.

4 deficiencies by month over the last 3 years. Each cell is one month.
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2023 NovDec
2024 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2025 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2026 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOct

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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 27, 2026. Updated daily.

Jan 21, 2026: inspection1 deficiency

  • Maintenance of Building, Grounds and Equipment

    “Ceiling tiles in the younger after school room and the 3 and 4 year old room were observed with water stains that were brown in coloration. The ceiling in the 6 month and 12 month room was observed with water damage.”

    Rule 746.3407. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 16, 2026. Correction verified: Feb 12, 2026.

Feb 3, 2025: inspection1 deficiency

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

    “The operation did not have a current fire inspection. The last inspection date was 12/19/2023.”

    Rule 746.5101(a). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 3, 2025. Correction verified: Mar 3, 2025.

Feb 8, 2024: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Using, Storing and Disposing of Hazardous Materials

    “In one classroom one spray bottle, containing a mixture of bleach and water, was observed in an unsecured cabinet accessible to children. In one classroom, one spray bottle, containing a mixture of bleach and water, was observed on a desk and accessible to children. **NOTE: This was corrected at time of inspection when caregiver(s) placed the spray bottles out of reach of children.”

    Rule 746.3407(13). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 8, 2024.

  • Maintenance Procedures for Active Play - Hazards Removed or Repaired

    “On the outside playground, a slide, which is attached to a climbing play structure, was observed to have cracked and broken pieces of hard plastic at the exit end of the slide.”

    Rule 746.4751(c). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 29, 2024. Correction verified: Feb 20, 2024.

6 deficiencies older than three years
Mar 15, 2023: inspection1 deficiency

  • Medication Authorization Expires on First Anniversary

    “One medication at the operation was expired for a child allergy medication”

    Rule 746.3803(b). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 29, 2023. Correction verified: Mar 31, 2023.

Jan 17, 2023: inspection1 deficiency

  • Maintenance of Building, Grounds and Equipment

    “At the time of inspection, the 4 & 5 year old playground had a large opening alongside the fence line. The parking lot fence line also had various holes in the fence leading up to the 4 & 5 year old playground.”

    Rule 746.3407. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 31, 2023. Correction verified: Jan 27, 2023.

Aug 26, 2022: report to the state1 deficiency

  • Parental Notification of Less Serious Injuries

    “Parent’s were not notified of an injury that occurred at the time of an incident until the end of the day upon pickup.”

    Rule 746.307(c). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 12, 2022. Correction verified: Oct 11, 2022.

Jun 24, 2022: report to the state1 deficiency

  • Safety - Areas Free From Hazards

    “In the children restroom there was a hole in the wall exposed to children.”

    Rule 746.3701. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 13, 2022. Correction verified: Jul 20, 2022.

Apr 6, 2022: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Safety - Areas Free From Hazards

    “Two out of the six classroom had hand sanitizer accessible to children in the entrance of the room.”

    Rule 746.3701. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 6, 2022.

  • Required Personnel Records- Meets Requirements

    “Three out of ten personal folders were missing their highschool diploma. There was nothing in the folder showing their education.”

    Rule 746.901(2). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 8, 2022. Correction verified: Apr 8, 2022.

All 12 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Jan 27, 2026Report to the stateNo violation found
Jan 21, 2026Inspection1 deficiency cited
Aug 14, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Feb 3, 2025Inspection1 deficiency cited
Feb 8, 2024Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Mar 15, 2023Inspection1 deficiency cited
Jan 17, 2023Inspection1 deficiency cited
Jan 13, 2023Report to the stateNo violation found
Aug 26, 2022Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Jul 6, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Jun 24, 2022Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Apr 6, 2022Inspection2 deficiencies cited

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Apr 29, 2021.
  • Accepts state child care subsidies.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 118 children.
Source:

Texas HHSC, child care operations. Released Oct 27, 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 Oct 27, 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 Oct 27, 2026. Updated daily.

How does it compare nearby?

  • Among 160 child care providers in Nueces County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 2; this one had 4.
Source:

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data). Released Oct 27, 2026. Updated daily.

11 of the 160 in Nueces County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Carmens Day Care0
Lord of Life Lutheran Child Development Center2
Ms Toni’s Tots Christ-Led Preschool6
Lollys Learn and Grow Center15
Seashore Early Childhood Academy1
Our Lady of the Rosary Learning Center3
Bgccb-Ecc6
Small World Child Care This child care provider4
Odyssey Early Learning of Flour Bluff4
Upbring Head Start - Little Hornet1
Little Buzzy’s Daycare6
Lisa Brewer0

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 Oct 27, 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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