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The Learning Station Preschool

A licensed child care center in Lufkin, Texas 75901

539 S Chestnut St Ste 300, Lufkin, Texas 75901. (936) 637-1991.

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The short answer

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

The last 24 months 7 deficiencies in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited Aug 2026. Most serious: High. Every month

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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?

7 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 37 child care providers in Angelina County had 2.

11 inspections on record. The latest, on Sep 9, 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 report to the state on Aug 4, 2026

Source:

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

When those deficiencies happened

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

7 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.

Aug 4, 2026: report to the state4 deficiencies

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

    “Three caregivers were present with pending background checks during a recent DFPS investigation at the facility. The caregivers were removed by DFPS staff.”

    Rule 745.641. High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 4, 2026. Correction verified: Sep 9, 2026.

  • Director’s Absence - Qualified Caregiver in Charge

    “Evidence obtained during a DFPS investigation revealed that a qualified person was not left in charge during the director?s recent absence.”

    Rule 746.1013(a). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 4, 2026. Correction verified: Sep 9, 2026.

  • Director’s Absence - Employees Know Who Is in Charge

    “Evidence obtained during a DFPS investigation revealed that multiple caregivers were unaware of who was in charge during the director?s recent absence.”

    Rule 746.1013(c). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 4, 2026. Correction verified: Sep 9, 2026.

  • Safety - Areas Free From Hazards

    “A child had access to a toy ring during naptime and choked on the ring as a result. The child was uninjured. No medical attention was sought.”

    Rule 746.3701. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 4, 2026. Correction verified: Sep 9, 2026.

Jan 13, 2025: inspection2 deficiencies

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

    “There was one caregiver who transports whose transportation training expired on 1/4/2025. The Director had the caregiver complete the training during the inspection.”

    Rule 746.1301(a)(7)(A). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 13, 2025.

  • Required Admission Information - Emergency Contact

    “There were three children’s files that did not have all of the emergency contact information. The Director corrected this at the time of the inspection by getting all of the emergency contact information for all three files.”

    Rule 746.605(6). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 13, 2025.

Feb 27, 2024: inspection1 deficiency

  • Chairs - Safety Straps Used if Required by Manufacturer

    “In the 12-18 month old room there were three children in chairs with no safety straps and one child in a chair that was not buckled into the safety strap. The caregivers removed the children from the charis and the Director replaced all the charis without straps with new ones and told the caregivers they have to always buckle in the children.”

    Rule 746.4501(b). Medium, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 27, 2024.

4 deficiencies older than three years
Mar 20, 2023: inspection1 deficiency

  • Written Feeding Instructions - Signed and Dated by Parent or Health-Care Professional

    “The infant feeding instructions for March have all been signed but not dated by the parent. The Director is going to get the parents to date the infant feeding instructions and send them to Licensing.”

    Rule 746.2421(a). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 21, 2023. Correction verified: Mar 21, 2023.

Aug 31, 2022: inspection1 deficiency

  • Annual Sanitation Inspection

    “The sanitation inspection expired on 8/3/202022. The Director is going to get the health inspection done.”

    Rule 746.3401(a). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 7, 2022. Correction verified: Sep 9, 2022.

Feb 8, 2022: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Installation and Maintenance of Loose-fill Surfacing - Nine Inches if Equipment Greater Than 5 Ft.

    “There were three pieces of climbing equipment on the playground that did not have the required amount of loose fill. The Director is going to correct this by removing the climbing equipment and upping supervision until the equipment is removed.”

    Rule 746.4907(a)(2). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 14, 2022. Correction verified: Feb 15, 2022.

  • Written Feeding Instructions - Review and Update Every 30 Days

    “Two infant feeding instructions have not been updated. Th director is going to correct this by getting the feeding instructions updated.”

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

All 14 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Sep 9, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Aug 4, 2026Report to the state4 deficiencies cited
Dec 10, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Jan 13, 2025Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Feb 27, 2024Inspection1 deficiency cited
Jan 11, 2024Report to the stateNo violation found
Sep 8, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Mar 20, 2023Inspection1 deficiency cited
Aug 31, 2022Inspection1 deficiency cited
May 4, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Apr 4, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Feb 8, 2022Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Dec 16, 2021InspectionNo violation found
Nov 4, 2021Report to the stateNo violation found

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Apr 11, 2022.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 102 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.
  • 3 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?

  • Not star-rated in Texas Rising Star (TWC’s code: SUSI).
Source:

Texas Workforce Commission, subsidy providers and Texas Rising Star. Released Oct 27, 2026. Updated daily.

How does it compare nearby?

  • Among 37 child care providers in Angelina County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 2; this one had 7.
Source:

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

11 of the 37 in Angelina County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Pine Tree Preschool3
Storybook Hollow Childcare and Learning Center11
Nini’s Nest1
Lufkin Head Start Center1
Debra Jewell WadeNot given
Kimberly TippitNot given
The Learning Station Preschool This child care provider7
Kids Cove Early Learning Center, LLC2
Kid’s Konnection Preschool3
Panther Cubs Early Learning Center4
Tulane Kid’s Academy, Inc.0
The Kids Depot Preschool0

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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