Hearth Record

Kiddie Korral

A licensed child care home in Taft, Texas 78390

312 Tutt Ave, Taft, Texas 78390. (361) 633-1212.

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 2 deficiencies in 2 months of the last 36. Last cited Jan 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?

2 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 29 child care providers in San Patricio County had 2.

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

Rated High by Texas: AP Renewal background checks submitted -No later than 2 yrs from date you last submitted subjects initial or renewal name-based TX criminal hist check, at the inspection on Feb 2, 2024

Source:

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

When those deficiencies happened

2 deficiencies in 2 months of the last 36. Last cited Jan 2025. Most serious: High. The last 3 years, to Nov 5, 2026.

2 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.

Jan 30, 2025: inspection1 deficiency

  • Records Maintained and Made Available - Personnel and Training

    “Provider did not have annual training records available for review.”

    Rule 747.801(3). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 20, 2025. Correction verified: Feb 10, 2025.

Feb 2, 2024: inspection1 deficiency

  • AP Renewal background checks submitted -No later than 2 yrs from date you last submitted subjects initial or renewal name-based TX criminal hist check

    “The owner’s background check was not renewed when expired.”

    Rule 745.621(b)(1)(B). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 16, 2024. Correction verified: Feb 7, 2024.

9 deficiencies older than three years
Mar 10, 2023: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Children’s Records - Health Statement

    “Of the two children’s files reviewed, one did not have the Providers Health Statement Section completed.”

    Rule 747.603(a)(3). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 20, 2023. Correction verified: Mar 16, 2023.

  • Required Immunizations Records, Exceptions, and Exemptions Current

    “One of the two chidlrens files reviewed did not have thier immunization Record maintained. The Immunization Record was in thier file however it was not currrent.”

    Rule 747.613(b). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 20, 2023. Correction verified: Mar 16, 2023.

Feb 21, 2023: inspection5 deficiencies

  • Electric or Battery Operated CO System-Test Monthly

    “Provider did not have documentation that Carbon Monoxide testing had been conducted monthly.”

    Rule 747.5337(a)(2). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 7, 2023. Correction verified: Mar 10, 2023.

  • Children’s Records - Health Statement

    “Of the two children’s files reviewed, one did not have the Providers Health Statement Section completed.”

    Rule 747.603(a)(3). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 7, 2023. Correction verified: Mar 10, 2023.

  • Children’s Records - Immunizations

    “Of the two children’s files reviewed, one did not have the immunization record on file for review.”

    Rule 747.603(a)(4). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 7, 2023. Correction verified: Mar 10, 2023.

  • Required Immunizations Records, Exceptions, and Exemptions Current

    “One of the two chidlrens files reviewed did not have thier immunization Record maintained. The Immunization Record was in thier file however it was not currrent.”

    Rule 747.613(b). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 7, 2023. Correction verified: Mar 10, 2023.

  • Records Maintained and Made Available - Personnel and Training

    “The providers training records were not made available for review during the Annual Monitoring Inspection.”

    Rule 747.801(3). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 8, 2023. Correction verified: Mar 10, 2023.

Jun 13, 2022: inspection1 deficiency

  • Fire Drill Monthly - Exit in 3 Minutes

    “The provider did not have documentation of fire drills, severe weather drills, or lock down drills being conducted for 2021-2022. There was no documentation for the smoke alarm, carbon monoxide alarm, or the fire extinguisher on file as well.”

    Rule 747.5005(1). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 17, 2022. Correction verified: Jun 16, 2022.

Dec 17, 2021: inspection1 deficiency

  • Fire Drill Monthly - Exit in 3 Minutes

    “Operation had no record of emergency practices (fire drills, sheltering/severe weather and lock down drills) having been completed for the months of August, September, October, and November 2021.”

    Rule 747.5005(1). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 31, 2021. Correction verified: Dec 21, 2021.

All 8 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Jan 8, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Jan 30, 2025Inspection1 deficiency cited
Feb 2, 2024Inspection1 deficiency cited
Mar 10, 2023Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Feb 21, 2023Inspection5 deficiencies cited
Oct 16, 2022Report to the stateNo violation found
Jun 13, 2022Inspection1 deficiency cited
Dec 17, 2021Inspection1 deficiency cited

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Child-Care Home, permit issued Feb 1, 2022.
  • Accepts state child care subsidies.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 12 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.
  • 1 report 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 29 child care providers in San Patricio County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 2; this one had 2.
Source:

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

11 of the 29 in San Patricio County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Kiddie Korral This child care provider2
Taft Learning Center1
Radiant Roots Learning Center Inc.2
Paula GandaraNot given
Treehouse Learning0
Mathis Pre-K Kindergarten Academy2
Guadalupe Garcia0
East Cliff Kidz Klub4
Andrews Kidz Klub3
Lighthouse Learning Center and Daycare0
Cplc Mshs Mathis1
Marilyn Ann ClarkNot given

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.