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Tots and Tikes Learning Center #2

A licensed child care center in Port Lavaca, Texas 77979

424 Seadrift St, Port Lavaca, Texas 77979. (361) 482-0657.

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The short answer

Record last released by Texas HHSC on Oct 20, 2026.

The last 24 months 2 deficiencies in 2 months of the last 36. Last cited Jan 2026. Most serious: Medium 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?

2 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 12 child care providers in Calhoun County had 4.

18 inspections on record. The latest, on Jan 30, 2026: 1 deficiency cited.

Source:

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data) and inspections and investigations. Released Oct 20, 2026. Updated daily.

When those deficiencies happened

2 deficiencies in 2 months of the last 36. Last cited Jan 2026. Most serious: Medium High. The last 3 years, to Oct 20, 2026.

2 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 20, 2026. Updated daily.

Jan 30, 2026: inspection1 deficiency

  • Required Personnel Records - Required Affidavit (Form 2912)

    “Two out of six personnel files evaluated lacked a pre employment affidavit. Note: This was corrected when the affidavit’s were completed.”

    Rule 746.901(5). Medium Low, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 30, 2026.

Apr 29, 2024: inspection1 deficiency

  • Immunization Records, Exceptions, and Exemptions Current

    “Two out of ten children’s files evaluated lacked an updated shot record on file. Note: This was corrected when the director obtained the shot records.”

    Rule 746.613(b). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 29, 2024.

9 deficiencies older than three years
Sep 6, 2023: inspection3 deficiencies

  • Employee Handwashing After Diapering a Child

    “The caregiver failed to wash her hands after changing an infant’s diaper.”

    Rule 746.3415(4). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 6, 2023. Correction verified: Sep 15, 2023.

  • Children Handwashing After Toileting or Diapering

    “The caregiver failed to wash the infant’s hands after a diaper change.”

    Rule 746.3417(3). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 6, 2023. Correction verified: Sep 15, 2023.

  • Cots, Beds, Mats Labeled With Child’s Name

    “Cots and play yards were not labeled with children’s names.”

    Rule 746.4503(b). Medium, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 6, 2023.

Aug 1, 2023: report to the state1 deficiency

  • Child/ Caregiver Ratio - 13 or More Children

    “During the inspection, a caregiver was supervising five infants, with a specified age group of 0-11 months. The caregiver was over child/caregiver ratio by one child. Note: This was corrected when a second caregiver entered the room.”

    Rule 746.1601. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 7, 2023. Correction verified: Aug 18, 2023.

Feb 17, 2023: report to the state1 deficiency

  • Notification of Change in Space

    “Based on information gathered and observations, the operation failed to notify Child Care Regulation of additional space that is being used for children.”

    Rule 746.301(2). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 13, 2023. Correction verified: Mar 24, 2023.

Feb 3, 2023: inspection4 deficiencies

  • Responsibilities of Caregivers - Supervision of Children

    “A caregiver briefly stepped out of her classroom to answer the front door, which left her children unsupervised.”

    Rule 746.1203(4). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 3, 2023. Correction verified: Feb 10, 2023.

  • Activities for Infants - Not in Restrictive Device for more than 15 Minutes

    “A five month old was observed in a bouncer for appromiately 28 minutes. Note: The infant was moved when licensing confronted the caregiver.”

    Rule 746.2417(2)(B). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 3, 2023. Correction verified: Feb 10, 2023.

  • Child/ Caregiver Ratio - 13 or More Children

    “Two different caregivers were observed briefly walking out of the classroom, leaving the other caregiver over child/caregiver ratio by three children.”

    Rule 746.1601. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 3, 2023. Correction verified: Feb 10, 2023.

  • Naptime Child/Caregiver Ratio - Additional Employee Required

    “There was not an additional caregiver in the building during nap time.”

    Rule 746.1613(a)(4). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 3, 2023. Correction verified: Feb 10, 2023.

All 23 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Jan 30, 2026Inspection1 deficiency cited
Feb 25, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Aug 29, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Jun 26, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Jun 21, 2024Report to the stateNo violation found
Jun 13, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Apr 29, 2024Inspection1 deficiency cited
Apr 20, 2024Report to the stateNo violation found
Dec 8, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Dec 5, 2023Report to the stateNo violation found
Sep 15, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Sep 6, 2023Inspection3 deficiencies cited
Aug 18, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Aug 7, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Aug 1, 2023Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Apr 3, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Mar 24, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Feb 21, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Feb 17, 2023Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Feb 10, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Feb 3, 2023Inspection4 deficiencies cited
Dec 20, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Nov 3, 2022InspectionNo violation found

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued May 1, 2023.
  • Accepts state child care subsidies.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 99 children.
Source:

Texas HHSC, child care operations. Released Oct 20, 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 Oct 20, 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: 4-Star (the highest of three levels).
Source:

Texas Workforce Commission, subsidy providers and Texas Rising Star. Released Oct 20, 2026. Updated daily.

How does it compare nearby?

  • Among 12 child care providers in Calhoun County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 4; this one had 2.
Source:

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data). Released Oct 20, 2026. Updated daily.

11 of the 12 in Calhoun County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Tots and Tikes Learning Center2
Babies & Beyond Daycare4
Calhoun County YMCA - Summer Camp4
Gingerbread School and Daycare8
Tots and Tikes Learning Center #2 This child care provider2
Ink Port Lavaca Ehs/Hs10
Griffin YMCA Early Learning Center27
Ladybug Preschool0
Bright Day Preschool, LLC0
Calhoun County YMCA Jr Afterschool Care4
Calhoun County YMCA Hjm Afterschool Care3
Coastal Kids Day Care15

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 20, 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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