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Kids Cove Early Learning Center, LLC

A licensed child care center in Lufkin, Texas 75901

3741 S Us Highway 69, Lufkin, Texas 75901. (936) 632-6969.

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The short answer

Record last released by Texas HHSC on Oct 27, 2026.

The last 24 months 2 deficiencies in 2 months of the last 36. Last cited Jun 2025. Most serious: High. Every month

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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 37 child care providers in Angelina County had 2.

12 inspections on record. The latest, on May 11, 2026: no violation found.

Rated High by Texas: Annual Fire Inspection - Before Initial Permit Issued and Every 12 Months, at the inspection on Dec 4, 2024

Source:

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data) and inspections and investigations. Released Oct 27, 2026. Updated daily.

When those deficiencies happened

2 deficiencies in 2 months of the last 36. Last cited Jun 2025. Most serious: High. The last 3 years, to Oct 27, 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 27, 2026. Updated daily.

Jun 4, 2025: inspection1 deficiency

  • Written Feeding Instructions - Signed and Dated by Parent or Health-Care Professional

    “Four infant feeding instructions were out of date. The Director is going to correct this by getting the feeding instructions updated.”

    Rule 746.2421(a). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 6, 2025. Correction verified: Jun 5, 2025.

Dec 4, 2024: inspection1 deficiency

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

    “The fire inspection expired on 11/29/2024. The Director is going to get this done.”

    Rule 746.5101(a). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 11, 2024. Correction verified: Dec 5, 2024.

6 deficiencies older than three years
Oct 26, 2023: inspection2 deficiencies

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

    “The Department of Family and Protective Services found a child was neglected while in the care of the operation.”

    Rule 746.1201(4). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 16, 2023. Correction verified: Oct 26, 2023.

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

    “Evidence supports a caregiver did not properly supervise a child in her care. The child was able to leave the operation, go through the operation’s parking lot and to the 4-lane highway in front of the operation. Vehicles on the highway had to quickly stop to avoid contact with the child. The caregiver responsible for the child’s supervision at the time this occurred is no longer employed.”

    Rule 746.1203(4). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 16, 2023. Correction verified: Oct 26, 2023.

Aug 21, 2023: report to the state2 deficiencies

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

    “The Department of Family and Protective Services found a child was neglected while in the care of the operation.”

    Rule 746.1201(4). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 16, 2023. Correction verified: Oct 26, 2023.

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

    “Evidence supports a caregiver did not properly supervise a child in her care. The child was able to leave the operation, go through the operation’s parking lot and to the 4-lane highway in front of the operation. Vehicles on the highway had to quickly stop to avoid contact with the child. The caregiver responsible for the child’s supervision at the time this occurred is no longer employed.”

    Rule 746.1203(4). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 16, 2023. Correction verified: Oct 26, 2023.

May 17, 2023: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Written Operational Policies - Safe Sleep for Infants 12 Months and Younger

    “The operational policies did not include the Safe Sleep information. The Director is going to correct this.”

    Rule 746.501(a)(9). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 19, 2023. Correction verified: May 19, 2023.

  • Written Operational Policies - Promotion of Physical Activity

    “The operational policies did not contain the information about the Promotion of Physical Activity. The Director is going to correct this.”

    Rule 746.501(a)(18). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 19, 2023. Correction verified: May 19, 2023.

All 15 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
May 11, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Jun 4, 2025Inspection1 deficiency cited
Dec 4, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Dec 4, 2024Inspection1 deficiency cited
Dec 2, 2024Report to the stateNo violation found
Sep 30, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Sep 26, 2024Report to the stateNo violation found
Jul 10, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Jan 26, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Oct 26, 2023Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Aug 21, 2023Report to the state2 deficiencies cited
Jul 25, 2023InspectionNo violation found
May 17, 2023Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Apr 5, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Feb 7, 2023InspectionNo violation found

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Jul 27, 2023.
  • Accepts state child care subsidies.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 170 children.
Source:

Texas HHSC, child care operations. Released Oct 27, 2026. Updated daily.

Has Texas acted against it?

  • No corrective or adverse action by Texas on record.
  • 3 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 27, 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 Oct 27, 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 2.
Source:

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data). Released Oct 27, 2026. Updated daily.

11 of the 37 in Angelina County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Pine Tree Preschool3
Storybook Hollow Childcare and Learning Center11
Nini’s Nest1
Lufkin Head Start Center1
Debra Jewell WadeNot given
Kimberly TippitNot given
The Learning Station Preschool7
Kids Cove Early Learning Center, LLC This child care provider2
Kid’s Konnection Preschool3
Panther Cubs Early Learning Center4
Tulane Kid’s Academy, Inc.0
The Kids Depot Preschool0

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 27, 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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