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Little Tikes Learning Center

A licensed child care center in Crystal City, Texas 78839

805 E Crockett St, Crystal City, Texas 78839. (830) 448-5399.

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The short answer

Record last released by Texas HHSC on Oct 30, 2026.

The last 24 months 6 deficiencies in 2 months of the last 36. Last cited Nov 2024. 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 7 child care providers in Zavala County had 6.

8 inspections on record. The latest, on Oct 20, 2026: no violation found.

Rated High by Texas: AP Background check results - Must receive notification prior to allowing subject to be present at your operation, at the inspection on Nov 12, 2024

Source:

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data) and inspections and investigations. Released Oct 30, 2026. Updated daily.

When those deficiencies happened

6 deficiencies in 2 months of the last 36. Last cited Nov 2024. Most serious: High. The last 3 years, to Oct 30, 2026.

6 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 30, 2026. Updated daily.

Nov 12, 2024: inspection5 deficiencies

  • AP Background check results - Must receive notification prior to allowing subject to be present at your operation

    “A caregiver in the infant room did not have an active background check.”

    Rule 745.641. High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 12, 2024. Correction verified: Nov 14, 2024.

  • Measurement of Use Zone for Slides - Six Feet High or Less

    “The use zone for the exit of a slide was blocked by another play structure at 3 feet.”

    Rule 746.4805(b). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 13, 2024. Correction verified: Nov 13, 2024.

  • Installation and Maintenance of Loose-fill Surfacing - Six Inches if Equipment 5 Ft or Less

    “There was no loose-fill for a structure that included a slide that was over 20 inches high but under 5ff tall. This was corrected at inspection when the slide was removed from the playground.”

    Rule 746.4907(a)(1). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 12, 2024.

  • Annual Fire Inspection - Conducted by Fire Marshal

    “A fire inspection has not been completed since July 2023.”

    Rule 746.5101(b). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 15, 2024. Correction verified: Nov 14, 2024.

  • Fire Extinguishers Serviced

    “The fire extinguishers had not been serviced since November 2022.”

    Rule 746.5307(b). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 19, 2024. Correction verified: Nov 15, 2024.

Nov 17, 2023: inspection1 deficiency

  • Diaper Changing Equipment - Smooth, Non-absorbent, Easy to Clean Surface

    “Two diaper changing mats observed were torn and the foam was exposed.”

    Rule 746.3503(a). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 20, 2023. Correction verified: Nov 20, 2023.

1 deficiency older than three years
Jun 7, 2022: inspection1 deficiency

  • Written Feeding Instructions - Review and Update Every 30 Days

    “Three out of four infants not on table food lacked a current feeding schedule form.”

    Rule 746.2421(b). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 10, 2022. Correction verified: Jun 8, 2022.

All 8 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Oct 20, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Nov 4, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Apr 8, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Nov 12, 2024Inspection5 deficiencies cited
Nov 17, 2023Inspection1 deficiency cited
Nov 22, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Jun 7, 2022Inspection1 deficiency cited
Dec 9, 2021InspectionNo violation found

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Dec 21, 2021.
  • Accepts state child care subsidies.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 78 children.
Source:

Texas HHSC, child care operations. Released Oct 30, 2026. Updated daily.

Has Texas acted against it?

  • No corrective or adverse action by Texas on record.
  • 0 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 30, 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: 2-Star (the first of three levels).
Source:

Texas Workforce Commission, subsidy providers and Texas Rising Star. Released Oct 30, 2026. Updated daily.

How does it compare nearby?

  • Among 7 child care providers in Zavala County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 6; this one had 6.
Source:

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data). Released Oct 30, 2026. Updated daily.

6 of the 7 in Zavala County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Kids Corner Daycare7
Cplc Mshs Crystal City2
Little Tikes Learning Center This child care provider6
Sunshine Sitters Daycare7
Winter Garden Christian School -Templo Emanuel8
Alamar Campos Center2
Avance-La Pryor2

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 30, 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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