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The Escuelita Learning Center

A licensed child care center in Brownsville, Texas 78521

334 Morningside Rd, Brownsville, Texas 78521. (956) 408-7433.

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The short answer

Record last released by Texas Workforce Commission on Nov 2, 2026.

The last 24 months 6 deficiencies in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited Feb 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?

7 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 198 child care providers in Cameron County had 2.

15 inspections on record. The latest, on Apr 23, 2026: no violation found.

Rated High by Texas: Annual Fire Inspection - Before Initial Permit Issued and Every 12 Months, at the inspection on Dec 20, 2023

Source:

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data) and inspections and investigations. Released Oct 31, 2026. Updated daily.

When those deficiencies happened

6 deficiencies in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited Feb 2026. Most serious: High. The last 3 years, to Nov 2, 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 Oct 31, 2026. Updated daily.

Feb 5, 2026: report to the state2 deficiencies

  • Child Passenger Safety Seat System - Secure Each Child in Appropriate System According to Manufacturer’s Instructions

    “During the investigation it was found that children who are too young and small to sit in a vehicle without a booster/car seat were transported without the appropriate seats. It was also found that more children were transported than the seatbelts available in the vehicle.”

    Rule 746.5607(a)(2). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 10, 2026. Correction verified: Apr 16, 2026.

  • Child Passenger Safety Seat System - Child 12 Years and Younger Must Not Ride in Front Seat

    “During the investigation it was learned that children who are not yet 12 years old were transported in the front seat of the vehicle.”

    Rule 746.5607(d). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 10, 2026. Correction verified: Apr 16, 2026.

Dec 15, 2025: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Naptime Child/Caregiver Ratio - Caregivers Physically Present

    “One caregiver was supervising children in 2 rooms. A second caregiver was supervising children in another 2 rooms.”

    Rule 746.1613(a)(6). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 15, 2025. Correction verified: Jan 12, 2026.

  • Fire Drill Monthly - Exit in 3 Minutes

    “The most recent fire drill was completed on 09/11/2025.”

    Rule 746.5205(1). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 16, 2025. Correction verified: Jan 12, 2026.

Dec 20, 2023: inspection2 deficiencies

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

    “The most recent fire inspection was completed on 10/5/2022.”

    Rule 746.5101(a). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 27, 2023. Correction verified: Dec 28, 2023.

  • Annual Sanitation Inspection

    “The most recent health inspection was completed on 10/31/2022.”

    Rule 746.3401(a). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 19, 2024. Correction verified: Jan 25, 2024.

Nov 29, 2023: inspection1 deficiency

  • Required Personnel Records- signed dated statement that employee attended abuse/neglect training

    “Two of four files reviewed were missing acknowledgement of orientation. One was completed during the inspection.”

    Rule 746.901(10). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 1, 2023. Correction verified: Dec 5, 2023.

8 deficiencies older than three years
Sep 8, 2023: inspection1 deficiency

  • Electronic Child Safety Alarm - is equipped in each vehicle

    “The transportation vehicle transports 8 people including the driver. There is no child safety alarm in the vehicle.”

    Rule 746.5625(a). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 22, 2023. Correction verified: Oct 6, 2023.

Jun 29, 2023: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Infant Care Area Furnishings and Equipment - Crib for Each Non-walking Infant Younger Than 12 Months of Age

    “A 10 month old infant who is not yet walking independently is sleeping in a map.”

    Rule 746.2405(2). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 30, 2023. Correction verified: Jul 28, 2023.

  • Individual Cot, Bed, or Mat for Each Walking Child Through 4 Years of Age

    “A toddler child in care was sleeping on an oversize stuffed animal.”

    Rule 746.4503(a). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 3, 2023. Correction verified: Jul 28, 2023.

May 4, 2023: inspection4 deficiencies

  • Basic Requirements for Infants - Never Unsupervised

    “A five month old was left unsupervised in the infant room. The center has an open concept. The child can be heard from other areas in the center but there was no caregiver in charge of the child.”

    Rule 746.2401(7). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 4, 2023. Correction verified: May 19, 2023.

  • Child/Caregiver Ratio - 18 Months Difference in Age

    “There was more than 18 months between the youngest and oldest children in care in a classroom. The youngest child in the group was 8 months old. The oldest child was 3 years old.”

    Rule 746.1605(1). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 4, 2023. Correction verified: May 19, 2023.

  • Naptime Child/Caregiver Ratio - Caregivers Physically Present

    “The children were divided into two groups for naptime. One in each classroom. There was one caregiver supervising both groups.”

    Rule 746.1613(a)(6). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 4, 2023. Correction verified: May 19, 2023.

  • Required Personnel Records

    “The staff records were incomplete during the inspection.”

    Rule 746.901. Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 19, 2023. Correction verified: May 19, 2023.

Dec 20, 2022: inspection1 deficiency

  • Furnishings and Equipment for Pre-Kindergarten Age Interest Centers Clearly Defined

    “The interest centers have not been set up.”

    Rule 746.2605(1)(A). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 30, 2022. Correction verified: Dec 30, 2022.

All 16 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Apr 23, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Feb 17, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Feb 5, 2026Report to the state2 deficiencies cited
Dec 15, 2025Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Dec 16, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Jun 24, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Dec 20, 2023Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Nov 29, 2023Inspection1 deficiency cited
Sep 8, 2023Inspection1 deficiency cited
Jul 28, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Jun 29, 2023Inspection2 deficiencies cited
May 19, 2023InspectionNo violation found
May 4, 2023Inspection4 deficiencies cited
Apr 14, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Dec 30, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Dec 20, 2022Inspection1 deficiency cited

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Jan 12, 2024.
  • Accepts state child care subsidies.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 51 children.
Source:

Texas HHSC, child care operations. Released Oct 31, 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 .
Source:

Texas HHSC, child care operations and inspections and investigations. Released Oct 31, 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 2, 2026. Updated daily.

How does it compare nearby?

  • Among 198 child care providers in Cameron County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 2; this one had 7.
Source:

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data). Released Oct 31, 2026. Updated daily.

12 of the 198 in Cameron County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
The Escuelita Learning Center This child care provider7
D J Lerma Head Start Child Development Center0
Kidzland Learning Center2
Small World Educational Center2
Creative Minds Learning Center1
Alphabet Playhouse Early Childhood Center, LLC1
Little Mermaid Day Care Center2
Lincoln Park School Day Care Center3
The Texas Christian Preschool6
Giggles & Wiggles Daycare3
DBA: Kinder Fun Creative Learning Center2
Felipe R. Perez Head Start Child Development3
Juggi’s Child Care Inc.9

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 2, 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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