Big Spring YMCA Kids Academy

A licensed child care center in Big Spring, Texas 79720

409 Goliad St, Big Spring, Texas 79720. (432) 270-6023.

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The short answer

Record last released by Texas HHSC on Oct 24, 2026.

5 deficiencies cited in the last three years Middle in Howard County: 3.5
2 rated High by Texas, its most serious level (needs attention)
11 inspections on record
Not rated Texas Rising Star rating

The last 24 months 5 deficiencies in 4 months of the last 36. Last cited Jan 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 8 child care providers in Howard County had 3.5.

11 inspections on record. The latest, on Apr 30, 2026: no violation found.

Rated High by Texas: AP Initial background checks submitted - At the time you hire someone, at the inspection on May 15, 2024

Rated High by Texas: Prohibited Punishments - Restrictive device for time out, at the report to the state on Nov 7, 2023

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data) and inspections and investigations. Released Oct 24, 2026. Updated daily.

When those deficiencies happened

5 deficiencies in 4 months of the last 36. Last cited Jan 2026. Most serious: High. The last 3 years, to Oct 24, 2026.

5 deficiencies by month over the last 3 years. Each cell is one month.
	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
2023											Nov	Dec
2024	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
2025	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
2026	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct

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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

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.

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data). Released Oct 24, 2026. Updated daily.

Jan 20, 2026: assessment1 deficiency

Report Number of Employees

“A review of the Employees Who Left Employment in 2025 survey conducted January 20, 2026, revealed the operation failed to report the number of employees who left employment in 2025 by the January 15, 2026, deadline.”

Rule 746.303(b). Medium Low, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 20, 2026. Correction verified: Jan 21, 2026.

May 1, 2025: inspection2 deficiencies

Immunization Records, Exceptions, and Exemptions Current

“Two children out of 10 children’s files evaluated did not have current immunizations.”

Rule 746.613(b). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 9, 2025. Correction verified: May 9, 2025.
Children’s Records - Vision and Hearing Screening

“Four children over the age of four years did not have a vision and Hearing screening completed. Two children turned 5 years this year, one child turned 5 years in 2024, and one child turned 4 years September 2024.”

Rule 746.603(a)(6). Low, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 9, 2025. Correction verified: May 9, 2025.

May 15, 2024: inspection1 deficiency

AP Initial background checks submitted - At the time you hire someone

“An employee without a background check was present at the operation with access to children.”

Rule 745.621(a)(2). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 16, 2024. Correction verified: May 28, 2024.

Nov 7, 2023: report to the state1 deficiency

Prohibited Punishments - Restrictive device for time out

“This standard was evaluated and found to be out of compliance when a caregiver placed a child in a restrictive device to discipline the child.”

Rule 746.2805(8). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 1, 2023. Correction verified: Dec 8, 2023.

6 deficiencies older than three years

Apr 11, 2023: inspection1 deficiency

Supervision ensures each child?s safety, well-being, including physical proximity and auditory or visual awareness of each child?s on going activity

“A child was in the hallway bathroom alone. The caregiver was in the classroom with the rest of the children.”

Rule 746.1205(a)(4). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 11, 2023. Correction verified: Apr 24, 2023.

Jan 5, 2023: inspection5 deficiencies

Notification of Change in Age Range of Children In Care

“The operation added school age care prior to notifying Child Care Regulation. This was corrected at inspection when the director informed Child Care Regulation of the added service.”

Rule 746.301(5). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 5, 2023. Correction verified: Jan 11, 2023.
Food Allergy Emergency Plan Signed by Parents and Health Care Professional

“A child with a sever food allergy does not have an allergy emergency plan on file.”

Rule 746.3819. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 6, 2023. Correction verified: Jan 11, 2023.
Posting Requirements - Child’s Food Allergy Plans

“A child’s severe food allergies was not posted in the kitchen where food is prepared.”

Rule 746.403(b). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 5, 2023. Correction verified: Jan 11, 2023.
Posting Requirements - Activity Plans for each group of children in the child care center

“Daily activity schedule is not posted in the classrooms for each age group.”

Rule 746.401(5). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 6, 2023. Correction verified: Jan 11, 2023.
Children’s Records - Immunizations

“One child does not have a record of immunizations in the file.”

Rule 746.603(a)(4). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 13, 2023. Correction verified: Jan 11, 2023.

All 13 visits on record

Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
Date	Visit	What the record says
Apr 30, 2026	Inspection	No violation found
Jan 20, 2026	Assessment	1 deficiency cited
May 1, 2025	Inspection	2 deficiencies cited
May 15, 2024	Inspection	1 deficiency cited
Dec 8, 2023	Inspection	No violation found
Nov 14, 2023	Inspection	No violation found
Nov 7, 2023	Report to the state	1 deficiency cited
Apr 24, 2023	Inspection	No violation found
Apr 11, 2023	Inspection	1 deficiency cited
Mar 1, 2023	Inspection	No violation found
Jan 5, 2023	Inspection	5 deficiencies cited
Nov 9, 2022	Inspection	No violation found
Nov 3, 2022	Inspection	No violation found

Is it licensed?

Licensed Center, permit issued May 5, 2023.
Licensed for ages: Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
Capacity: 61 children.

Texas HHSC, child care operations. Released Oct 24, 2026. Updated daily.

Has Texas acted against it?

No corrective or adverse action by Texas on record.
1 report to the state on record; Texas doesn’t publish whether they were .

Texas HHSC, child care operations and inspections and investigations. Released Oct 24, 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.

Texas Workforce Commission, subsidy providers and Texas Rising Star. Released Oct 24, 2026. Updated daily.

How does it compare nearby?

Among 8 child care providers in Howard County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 3.5; this one had 5.

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data). Released Oct 24, 2026. Updated daily.

8 of the 8 in Howard County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
Place	Deficiencies, 3 years
Big Spring Family YMCA	1
Bauer School Readiness Academy	3
Howard Cottage (Howard College Child Development Center)	2
Big Spring YMCA Kids Academy This child care provider	5
Jhs Texas Operations LLC DBA Jack & Jill School Child Care C	11
Lisa Hooper	Not given
New Hope Christian School	4
Little Learners Christian Daycare	1
Westside Community Dcc	11

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

Texas Health and Human Services Commission, Child care operations (bc5r-88dy).

Released Oct 24, 2026 and checked Oct 24, 2026. Updated daily. Creative Commons 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication).
Texas Health and Human Services Commission, Inspections and investigations (m5q4-3y3d).

Released Oct 24, 2026 and checked Oct 24, 2026. Updated daily. Creative Commons 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication).
Texas Health and Human Services Commission, Deficiencies (non-compliance data) (tqgd-mf4x).

Released Oct 24, 2026 and checked Oct 24, 2026. Updated daily. Creative Commons 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication).
Texas Workforce Commission, Subsidy providers and Texas Rising Star.

Released Oct 24, 2026 and checked Oct 24, 2026. Updated daily. No licence stated.

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