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Kids Garden

A licensed child care center in Houston, Texas 77005

6729 Stella Link Rd, Houston, Texas 77005. (713) 485-4418.

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The short answer

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

The last 24 months 6 deficiencies in 2 months of the last 36. Last cited May 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?

6 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 May 20, 2026: no violation found.

Rated High by Texas: Responsibilities of Caregivers - Know number of children responsible for, at the inspection on May 20, 2025

Source:

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

When those deficiencies happened

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

6 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.

May 20, 2025: inspection3 deficiencies

  • Responsibilities of Caregivers - Know number of children responsible for

    “Caregiver did not give an accurate headcount of their children.”

    Rule 746.1205(a)(2). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 20, 2025. Correction verified: Jun 6, 2025.

  • Documented Annual Training Area - 24 Hours Required

    “All employees missing training on Hazardous materials and food allergies. Two caregivers missing educational proofs. One caregiver missing 2985.”

    Rule 746.1309(a). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 16, 2025. Correction verified: Jul 16, 2025.

  • Provide Access to Children’s Records - During Hours of Operation

    “One child missing emergency contact address. One child missing date of admission and health statement.”

    Rule 746.601(a). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 16, 2025. Correction verified: Jul 16, 2025.

May 28, 2024: inspection3 deficiencies

  • Training Requirements for Employees, Caregivers, and Directors - Pre-Service Training

    “One caregiver needs sixteen hours of preservice training.”

    Rule 746.1301(a)(2)(A). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 10, 2024. Correction verified: Jul 9, 2024.

  • Food Allergy Emergency Plan Signed by Parents and Health Care Professional

    “A food allergy emergency plan is needed for one child enrolled.”

    Rule 746.3819. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 7, 2024. Correction verified: Jun 5, 2024.

  • Immunization Records, Exceptions, and Exemptions Current

    “An immunization record is needed for one child enrolled.”

    Rule 746.613(b). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 7, 2024. Correction verified: Jun 5, 2024.

9 deficiencies older than three years
Jun 6, 2023: inspection8 deficiencies

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

    “A caregiver was observed with a group of 24 children ages 2-6 years old. The caregiver did not have an eligible background check.”

    Rule 745.641. High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 6, 2023.

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

    “The operations last fire inspection was conducted 01/04/2022.”

    Rule 746.5101(a). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 20, 2023. Correction verified: Jun 7, 2023.

  • Training Requirements for Employees, Caregivers, and Directors - Pre-Service Training

    “One caregiver is in need of 24 hours of Pre-Service training. Two caregivers are in need of 8 hours of Pre-Service training.”

    Rule 746.1301(a)(2)(A). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 10, 2023. Correction verified: Jul 14, 2023.

  • Annual Sanitation Inspection

    “The last sanitation inspection was conducted 01/2022.”

    Rule 746.3401(a). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 20, 2023. Correction verified: Jun 20, 2023.

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

    “The diaper changing equipment used in the toddler area was torn.”

    Rule 746.3503(a). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 9, 2023. Correction verified: Jun 7, 2023.

  • Documented Annual Training Area - 24 Hours Required

    “One caregiver is in need of 20 hours of annual training.”

    Rule 746.1309(a). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 10, 2023. Correction verified: Jul 14, 2023.

  • Director Annual Training 30 Hours Required

    “The director is in need of 30 hours of annual training.”

    Rule 746.1311(a). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 10, 2023. Correction verified: Jul 14, 2023.

  • Children’s Records Maintained

    “Records were evaluated for six children enrolled and the following was determined: Four children were in need of a special needs statement. Four children were in need of current immunization records. Two children needed a health statement. Two children needed an address for the emergency contact. Two children are in need of a food allergy emergency plan.”

    Rule 746.603(a). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 10, 2023. Correction verified: Aug 11, 2023.

Dec 20, 2022: inspection1 deficiency

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

    “During the inspection a caregiver was present with children and the caregivers background check status was inactive. Note: Anyone with access to children in care who is present at the center must have an active and eligible background check from Child Care Regulation.”

    Rule 745.641. High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 20, 2022. Correction verified: Dec 20, 2022.

All 10 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
May 20, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Jun 6, 2025InspectionNo violation found
May 20, 2025Inspection3 deficiencies cited
May 28, 2024Inspection3 deficiencies cited
Jun 6, 2023Inspection8 deficiencies cited
Dec 20, 2022Inspection1 deficiency cited
Jun 17, 2022InspectionNo violation found
May 10, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Apr 19, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Jan 10, 2022InspectionNo violation found

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Jun 23, 2022.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 47 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?

  • Not rated in Texas Rising Star.
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 6.
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
Becker School9
Miss Pattycake Childcare2
Kido International Preschool4
Rice Village Childcare Center8
Lmm Sunset7
Beehive Parent Child Center8
Kids Garden This child care provider6
Southampton Montessori LP17
Kidventure After School at West U Elementary3
Childrens Village Kidconnect12
Global Peace Leadership Early Learning Center3
First Christian School12

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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