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Kid Zone Childcare Center LLC

A licensed child care center in Lufkin, Texas 75904

1825 Sayers St, Lufkin, Texas 75904. (936) 899-6288.

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The short answer

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

The last 24 months 9 deficiencies in 4 months of the last 36. Last cited Nov 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?

9 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 Nov 2, 2026: 1 deficiency cited.

Rated High by Texas: Annual Fire Inspection - Before Initial Permit Issued and Every 12 Months, at the inspection on Nov 2, 2026

Rated High by Texas: AP Responsibilities of Employees and Caregivers -Ensure No Child Abused, Neglected, or Exploited, at the report to the state on Dec 17, 2024

Source:

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

When those deficiencies happened

9 deficiencies in 4 months of the last 36. Last cited Nov 2026. Most serious: High. The last 3 years, to Nov 5, 2026.

9 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.

Nov 2, 2026: inspection1 deficiency

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

    “The most recent fire inspection was conducted on 10/15/2025. The director has scheduled a new inspection with the fire marshal to be conducted tomorrow.”

    Rule 746.5101(a). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 16, 2026.

Dec 2, 2025: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Requirement of Gas Leak Inspection

    “The gas leak inspection expired on 6/2/2025. The Director is going to correct this by getting the gas leak inspection done.”

    Rule 746.5401. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 4, 2025. Correction verified: Dec 3, 2025.

  • Written Feeding Instructions - Review and Update Every 30 Days

    “One out of four infant feeding instructions was out of date. This was corrected at the time of the inspection by the parent coming and signing the feeding instructions.”

    Rule 746.2421(b). Medium, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 2, 2025.

Dec 17, 2024: report to the state4 deficiencies

  • AP Responsibilities of Employees and Caregivers -Ensure No Child Abused, Neglected, or Exploited

    “An employee at the operation was found reason to believe for Neglect by Department of Family and Protective Services.”

    Rule 746.1201(4). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 7, 2025. Correction verified: Mar 12, 2025.

  • Provide care consistent with child’s habits, interests, strengths, special needs, including any special supervision needs

    “This standard was evaluated regarding a report received and found to be deficient. Evidence received through interviews supports that a caregiver did not properly supervise two children which resulted in the children exiting the center and walking to their home which is about 50 yards from the center.”

    Rule 746.1203(4). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 7, 2025. Correction verified: Mar 12, 2025.

  • Required Admission Information - Parents’ Information

    “Based on the information obtained through the DFPS investigation the name and address of the parents for both children were missing from the admission form.”

    Rule 746.605(4). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 7, 2025. Correction verified: Mar 12, 2025.

  • Required Admission Information - Parents’ Phone Numbers

    “Based on the information obtained through the DFPS investigation the contact numbers of the parents for both children were missing from the admission form.”

    Rule 746.605(5). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 7, 2025. Correction verified: Mar 12, 2025.

Jan 26, 2024: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Sanitize Tables Tops, Furniture and Similar Equipment

    “Three caregivers did not know the correct sanitation process order. The Director is going to correct this by having a training on the correct sanitation process.”

    Rule 746.3407(11). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 29, 2024. Correction verified: Jan 29, 2024.

  • Written Feeding Instructions - Review and Update Every 30 Days

    “There was one feeding instruction that had not been updated. The Director was able to correct this at the inspection by having the parent updated the feeding instruction and sign it.”

    Rule 746.2421(b). Medium, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 26, 2024.

2 deficiencies older than three years
Jul 11, 2023: report to the state1 deficiency

  • Orientation-Policy on prevention, recognition and reporting of child maltreatment

    “Employee files that were reviewed did not have the required orientation on the policy for reporting child maltreatment.”

    Rule 746.1303(3). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 17, 2023. Correction verified: Jul 14, 2023.

Sep 12, 2022: inspection1 deficiency

  • Required Admission Information - Emergency Contact

    “Three out of four children’s records were missing the emergency contact address. The owner corrected this at the time of the inspection.”

    Rule 746.605(6). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 12, 2022.

All 16 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Nov 2, 2026Inspection1 deficiency cited
Dec 2, 2025Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Mar 12, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Dec 17, 2024Report to the state4 deficiencies cited
Dec 17, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Mar 7, 2024Report to the stateNo violation found
Jan 26, 2024Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Sep 11, 2023Report to the stateNo violation found
Aug 25, 2023Report to the stateNo violation found
Jul 13, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Jul 11, 2023Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Jun 28, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Jan 3, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Oct 21, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Sep 12, 2022Inspection1 deficiency cited
Jul 14, 2022InspectionNo violation found

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Jan 4, 2023.
  • Accepts state child care subsidies.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 102 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.
  • 5 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 37 child care providers in Angelina County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 2; this one had 9.
Source:

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

11 of the 37 in Angelina County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Presbyterian Early Learning Center0
Just Kidz Preschool3
Tots on the Move Child Education Center2
Cornerstone Kids Academy6
Lufkin Tiny Treasures Preschool6
Lufkin’s Tiny Treasures Too11
Life Kids6
Tiny Blessings Preschool1
Kid Zone Childcare Center LLC This child care provider9
Garrett Day Care1
Building Blocks Academy 22
Sue Sue’s Daycare LLC0

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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