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Apex Karate Academy

A licensed child care center in El Paso, Texas 79935

11237 Pellicano Dr, El Paso, Texas 79935. (915) 331-0673.

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The short answer

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

The last 24 months 5 deficiencies in 2 months of the last 36. Last cited Jun 2026. 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?

5 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 371 child care providers in El Paso County had 2.

12 inspections on record. The latest, on Jun 29, 2026: no violation found.

Rated High by Texas: AP Ensure Total Number of Children Both At and Away From Operation Within Capacity, at the inspection on Jun 25, 2026

Rated High by Texas: Annual Fire Inspection - Before Initial Permit Issued and Every 12 Months, at the inspection on Oct 21, 2024

Source:

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

When those deficiencies happened

5 deficiencies in 2 months of the last 36. Last cited Jun 2026. Most serious: 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.

Jun 25, 2026: inspection2 deficiencies

  • AP Ensure Total Number of Children Both At and Away From Operation Within Capacity

    “During inspection, the operation was found over the capacity allowed on the license/permit. The operation’s total capacity is for 40 children. During inspection, there were 60 children in care. Therefore, the operation was over the capacity by 20 children. This was corrected at inspection after director called parents to pick up some children to lower the total number of children in care to under 40 children. Additional children were picked up by parents before closing time.”

    Rule 744.201(11). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 25, 2026. Correction verified: Jun 29, 2026.

  • Training Requirements for Employees - Pediatric First Aid with Rescue Breathing

    “Director did not have his/her pediatric first aid training with rescue breathing and choking available for review.”

    Rule 744.1301(a)(3)(A). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 17, 2026. Correction verified: Jul 13, 2026.

Oct 21, 2024: inspection3 deficiencies

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

    “The operation does not have a current fire inspection/license. The last inspection was conducted/issued on 9/19/23.”

    Rule 744.3501(a). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 21, 2024. Correction verified: Oct 29, 2024.

  • Fire Extinguishers Serviced

    “The fire extinguisher at the operation has not currently been serviced. The last time it was serviced was in July of 2023.”

    Rule 744.3607(b). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 6, 2024. Correction verified: Oct 29, 2024.

  • Requirement of Gas Leak Inspection

    “The operation does not have a current gas leak inspection. The last inspection was conducted on 6/26/22.”

    Rule 744.3651. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 6, 2024. Correction verified: Oct 29, 2024.

5 deficiencies older than three years
Jul 24, 2023: inspection1 deficiency

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

    “The annual fire inspection was expired.”

    Rule 744.3501(a). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 1, 2023. Correction verified: Sep 19, 2023.

Dec 16, 2022: inspection1 deficiency

  • Required Personnel Records

    “Three out of four files evaluated were not available for review during the inspection.”

    Rule 744.901. Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 23, 2022. Correction verified: Dec 23, 2022.

Jul 18, 2022: inspection3 deficiencies

  • Operation Must be Equipped with a Working Carbon Monoxide (CO) Detection System

    “The operation will need to purchase and install a carbon monoxide.”

    Rule 744.3751. High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 25, 2022. Correction verified: Jul 21, 2022.

  • Training Requirements for -Transportation, Directors and Each Employee who transports

    “The director will need to complete 2 hours of transportation training.”

    Rule 744.1301(7)(A). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 29, 2022. Correction verified: Jul 21, 2022.

  • Fire Extinguishers Serviced

    “A fire extinguisher for a transportation vehicle will need to be serviced. The last service tag has expired as of 2/2018.”

    Rule 744.3607(b). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 25, 2022. Correction verified: Jul 21, 2022.

All 12 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Jun 29, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Jun 25, 2026Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Sep 3, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Oct 21, 2024Inspection3 deficiencies cited
Jan 18, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Jul 24, 2023Inspection1 deficiency cited
Dec 23, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Dec 16, 2022Inspection1 deficiency cited
Oct 12, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Sep 19, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Jul 21, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Jul 18, 2022Inspection3 deficiencies cited

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Jan 2, 2023.
  • Accepts state child care subsidies.
  • Licensed for ages: School.
  • Capacity: 40 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: 2-Star (the first 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 371 child care providers in El Paso County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 2; this one had 5.
Source:

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

11 of the 371 in El Paso County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Wee Wisdom8
YMCA After School Childcare at Vista Hills2
Bright Minds Early Learning Center5
Little Kings and Queens Daycare14
Apex Karate Academy This child care provider5
YWCA Mabee Academy of Early Learning9
Aggies Angels Childcare & Development Center9
It Takes A Village1
Ofelia Mendoza6
Sunshine Day Care Center No 28
Vista Del Sol Kindercare3
Three-R DC & Sch10

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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