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Small World Learning Academy

A licensed child care center in Houston, Texas 77092

5018 Antoine Dr, Houston, Texas 77092. (281) 888-6897.

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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 Feb 2026. Most serious: Medium 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.

10 inspections on record. The latest, on Feb 24, 2026: 3 deficiencies cited.

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 Feb 2026. Most serious: Medium High. The last 3 years, to Nov 5, 2026.

5 deficiencies by month over the last 3 years. Each cell is one month.
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
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.

Feb 24, 2026: inspection3 deficiencies

  • Required Records Maintained and Made Available - Employees’ Attendance

    “The director has not documented attendance for the period between February 2026 and December 2025.”

    Rule 746.801(5). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 17, 2026. Correction verified: Mar 17, 2026.

  • Minimum Qualifications Employees and Caregivers - Affidavit (Form 2985)

    “The new employee affidavit form has not been notarized.”

    Rule 746.1105(3). Low, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 10, 2026. Correction verified: Mar 11, 2026.

  • Minimum Qualifications Employees and Caregivers - Affidavit (Form 2912)

    “A new employee did not complete the required Pre-Employment Affidavit.”

    Rule 746.1105(4). Low, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 10, 2026. Correction verified: Mar 11, 2026.

Mar 5, 2025: inspection1 deficiency

  • Additional Minimum Qualifications for Caregivers - HS Diploma, Equivalent, Certification of Completion

    “A caregiver does not have a high school diploma or equivalent.”

    Rule 746.1107(2). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 25, 2025. Correction verified: Mar 31, 2025.

Mar 27, 2024: inspection1 deficiency

  • Training Requirements for Employees, Caregivers, and Directors - Transportation training

    “During review record keeping 2 out of 2 staff files reviewed did not include transportation training as required for the director and caregiver transporting children.”

    Rule 746.1301(a)(7)(A). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 2, 2024. Correction verified: Apr 2, 2024.

8 deficiencies older than three years
Apr 4, 2023: inspection1 deficiency

  • Required Records Maintained and Made Available - Personnel and Training Records

    “During review of personnel the operation was unable to provide personnel records for 4 out of 5 caregivers.”

    Rule 746.801(3). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 14, 2023. Correction verified: Apr 14, 2023.

Oct 7, 2022: inspection4 deficiencies

  • Responsibilities of Caregivers - Supervision of Children

    “During the inspection a caregiver walked out of the classroom to open the front door leaving 6 children in a classroom unsupervised.”

    Rule 746.1203(4). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 7, 2022. Correction verified: Oct 11, 2022.

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

    “During the inspeciton the operation was found to not have a current fire inspection.”

    Rule 746.5101(a). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 21, 2022. Correction verified: Oct 10, 2022.

  • Annual Sanitation Inspection

    “During the inspeciton the operation was found to not have a current sanitation inspection.”

    Rule 746.3401(a). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 18, 2022. Correction verified: Nov 14, 2022.

  • Required Admission Information - Emergency Contact

    “During review of records 2 out of 6 records did not include the address for the emergency contact.”

    Rule 746.605(6). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 14, 2022. Correction verified: Oct 11, 2022.

Mar 15, 2022: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Responsibilities of Caregivers - Know Group Responsible For

    “One caregiver did not know how many children she was responsible for when supervising them at outside play. The caregiver counted and stated that there were 6 children, but there were 8 children.”

    Rule 746.1203(2). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 15, 2022. Correction verified: Mar 24, 2022.

  • Responsibilities of Caregivers - Free of other activities

    “One caregiver was observed using her cell phone while outside supervising children.”

    Rule 746.1203(6). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 15, 2022. Correction verified: Mar 24, 2022.

Feb 25, 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 22, 2022, as required”

    Rule 746.303(b). Medium Low, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 2, 2022. Correction verified: Feb 25, 2022.

All 11 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Feb 24, 2026Inspection3 deficiencies cited
Mar 5, 2025Inspection1 deficiency cited
Mar 27, 2024Inspection1 deficiency cited
Apr 4, 2023Inspection1 deficiency cited
Oct 11, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Oct 7, 2022Inspection4 deficiencies cited
Mar 24, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Mar 15, 2022Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Feb 25, 2022Assessment1 deficiency cited
Jan 11, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Dec 17, 2021InspectionNo violation found

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Apr 7, 2022.
  • Accepts state child care subsidies.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 52 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.
  • 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 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
Childrens Cottage Infant Center11
Advent’s Beloved Children Abc Learning Center3
Laugh N’ Discover Early Learning Center3
The New Day School4
Little Hands Day Care12
Small World Learning Academy This child care provider5
Kce Champions LLC @ Kipp Nexus9
The Nest of Grace Childcare16
The Learning Express Houston8
Gethsemane Lutheran Mdo1
Maria Granados9
St Ambrose Early Childhood Center3

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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