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Lil Rascals Childcare

A licensed child care center in Deer Park, Texas 77536

4509 Center St, Deer Park, Texas 77536. (281) 479-5439.

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The short answer

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

The last 24 months 5 deficiencies in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited May 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?

5 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 2,139 child care providers in Harris County had 4.

27 inspections on record. The latest, on Jul 17, 2026: no violation found.

Rated High by Texas: Supervision ensures each child?s safety, well-being, including physical proximity and auditory or visual awareness of each child?s on going activity, at the report to the state on Nov 21, 2024

Source:

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

When those deficiencies happened

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

5 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 Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.

May 21, 2026: inspection1 deficiency

  • Requirement of Gas Leak Inspection

    “The daycare is lacking current gas pipe test, last one expired on 12/28/2025.”

    Rule 746.5401. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 4, 2026. Correction verified: May 22, 2026.

May 19, 2026: report to the state1 deficiency

  • Medication Records - Date, Time and Amount Given

    “Based on the information obtained during the investigation, a caregiver administered medication to child in care and there was no information documented available for review.”

    Rule 746.3805(c)(3). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 17, 2026. Correction verified: Jul 1, 2026.

Nov 21, 2024: report to the state2 deficiencies

  • Supervision ensures each child?s safety, well-being, including physical proximity and auditory or visual awareness of each child?s on going activity

    “Based on the information obtained during the investigation, there is sufficient evidence to verify that caregivers did not maintain visual awareness of each child?s ongoing activities. Caregivers did not intervene when children received unexplained injuries on various occasions.”

    Rule 746.1205(a)(4). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 17, 2025. Correction verified: Jan 29, 2025.

  • Parental Notification of Less Serious Injuries

    “Based on the information obtained during the investigation, it was determined caregivers did not inform parent of less serious injuries during pick up time.”

    Rule 746.307(c). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 17, 2025. Correction verified: Jan 29, 2025.

Jan 18, 2024: assessment1 deficiency

  • Report Number of Employees

    “The operation had not submitted the total number of employees who ceased working at the operation the previous calendar year by January 15, 2024.”

    Rule 746.303(b). Medium Low, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 22, 2024. Correction verified: Jan 19, 2024.

4 deficiencies older than three years
May 9, 2022: report to the state1 deficiency

  • Responsibilities of Caregivers- Supervision of Children

    “Based on the information obtained, it was determined child was unsupervised for brief moment when he went into an empty classroom after returning from playground.”

    Rule 746.1203(4). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 3, 2022. Correction verified: Jun 8, 2022.

Apr 19, 2022: report to the state1 deficiency

  • Prohibited Punishments - Humiliating, Rejecting, Yelling

    “Based on the information obtained, it was determined a caregiver yelled at children as a form of discipline.”

    Rule 746.2805(6). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 16, 2022. Correction verified: Jun 24, 2022.

Mar 4, 2022: report to the state1 deficiency

  • Written Operational Policies - Discipline

    “It has been found that parents did not receive updated operational policies in regards to discipline.”

    Rule 746.501(a)(7). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 1, 2022. Correction verified: May 4, 2022.

Nov 29, 2021: inspection1 deficiency

  • Written Activity Plan - Active Play Pre K - 90 Minutes of Moderate to Vigorous

    “Activity schedule displayed 60 minutes of outside time this was corrected when the director added 15 mintues to morning and afternoon outside time.”

    Rule 746.2206(2)(B). Medium, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 29, 2021.

All 45 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Jul 17, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Jul 15, 2026Report to the stateNo violation found
Jul 1, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Jun 26, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Jun 23, 2026Report to the stateNo violation found
Jun 16, 2026InspectionNo violation found
May 21, 2026Inspection1 deficiency cited
May 19, 2026Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Dec 5, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Sep 9, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Aug 28, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Aug 27, 2025Report to the stateNo violation found
Aug 15, 2025Report to the stateNo violation found
Jun 26, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Jun 20, 2025Report to the stateNo violation found
Jun 3, 2025InspectionNo violation found
May 15, 2025InspectionNo violation found
May 2, 2025Report to the stateNo violation found
Jan 29, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Dec 5, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Dec 3, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Nov 21, 2024Report to the state2 deficiencies cited
Aug 23, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Aug 14, 2024Report to the stateNo violation found
Aug 14, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Aug 5, 2024Report to the stateNo violation found
Jun 7, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Jan 18, 2024Assessment1 deficiency cited
Sep 8, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Aug 25, 2023Report to the stateNo violation found
Jun 13, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Mar 21, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Mar 9, 2023Report to the stateNo violation found
Jun 24, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Jun 8, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Jun 2, 2022InspectionNo violation found
May 13, 2022InspectionNo violation found
May 9, 2022Report to the state1 deficiency cited
May 6, 2022Report to the stateNo violation found
Apr 29, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Apr 19, 2022Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Mar 17, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Mar 4, 2022Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Nov 29, 2021Inspection1 deficiency cited
Nov 19, 2021Report to the stateNo violation found

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Jun 4, 2021.
  • Accepts state child care subsidies.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 312 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.
  • 17 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 2139 child care providers in Harris County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 4; this one had 5.
Source:

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

11 of the 2,139 in Harris County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Cross-Over After School Program2
Leslie GamezNot given
Laporte Isd Early Childhood Center5
Joyful Kids Learning Center3
Lil Rascals Childcare This child care provider5
Kids Connect of Deer Park6
Peggys Child Care Inc.9
Silvia Marquez8
Cheryl R Crawford1
Kce Champions @ College Park6
Kids Kountry Learning Center8
Bekki Stepp3

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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