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A licensed child care center in Rockwall, Texas 75087

305 E Rusk St, Rockwall, Texas 75087. (972) 772-0011.

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The short answer

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

The last 24 months 16 deficiencies in 4 months of the last 36. Last cited Apr 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?

16 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 58 child care providers in Rockwall County had 2.

10 inspections on record. The latest, on May 8, 2026: no violation found.

Source:

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

When those deficiencies happened

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

16 deficiencies by month over the last 3 years. Each cell is one month.
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2023 Dec
2024 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2025 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
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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.

Apr 10, 2026: inspection4 deficiencies

  • Safety - Areas Free From Hazards

    “Playground hazard: Children were observed playing on a tree that appeared to damaged from severe weather.”

    Rule 746.3701. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 29, 2026. Correction verified: May 8, 2026.

  • Installation and Maintenance of Loose-fill Surfacing - Proper Depth Maintained

    “The younger playground did not have the required six inches of surfacing (pea gravel).”

    Rule 746.4907(d). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 29, 2026. Correction verified: May 8, 2026.

  • Child Passenger Safety Seat System - Not expired or damaged in accident

    “Two booster seats used to transport children were expired.”

    Rule 746.5607(b). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 24, 2026. Correction verified: Apr 23, 2026.

  • Minimum Qualifications Employees and Caregivers - Affidavit (Form 2985)

    “One staff member did not have the required notorized affidavit.”

    Rule 746.1105(3). Low, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 17, 2026. Correction verified: Apr 23, 2026.

Dec 4, 2025: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Maintenance Procedures for Active Play - Hazards Removed or Repaired

    “The wheels on the Merry go cycle were broken and needed to be repaired.”

    Rule 746.4751(c). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 5, 2025. Correction verified: Dec 5, 2025.

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

    “1 child observed in the infant classroom during the inspection did not have updated infant feeding instructions signed by parent.”

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

Nov 18, 2025: inspection8 deficiencies

  • Requirements for Feeding Infants - Label Bottles/Cups

    “Bottle were missing labels and the Director corrected it by writing the child’s name on their bottles”

    Rule 746.2419(6). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 2, 2025.

  • Maintenance Procedures for Active Play - Hazards Removed or Repaired

    “The wheels on the Merry go cycle were broken and needed to be repaired.”

    Rule 746.4751(c). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 2, 2025. Correction verified: Dec 4, 2025.

  • Acceptable Loose-fill Surfacing

    “The loose-fill located on the playground measured less than one inch.”

    Rule 746.4905. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 2, 2025. Correction verified: Dec 4, 2025.

  • Annual Fire Inspection - Conducted by Fire Marshal

    “The operation does not have an updated fire inspection on file. The Director called the fire marshal and scheduled for Tuesday11-25-2025 and will provide documentation.”

    Rule 746.5101(b). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 2, 2025. Correction verified: Dec 4, 2025.

  • Requirement of Gas Leak Inspection

    “The operation does not have a current gas inspection availble for review for CCR.”

    Rule 746.5401. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 2, 2025. Correction verified: Dec 4, 2025.

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

    “All infants observed in the infant classroom during the inspection did not have updated infant feeding instructions.”

    Rule 746.2421(a). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 2, 2025. Correction verified: Dec 4, 2025.

  • Documentation of Drills

    “The director did not provide documentation for sheltering or lockdown drills.”

    Rule 746.5205(4). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 2, 2025. Correction verified: Dec 4, 2025.

  • Required Records Maintained and Made Available - Playground Maintenance Records

    “The operation did not have a building and ground checklist available for review.”

    Rule 746.801(8). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 2, 2025. Correction verified: Dec 4, 2025.

Dec 11, 2024: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Safety - Play Materials and Equipment Safe

    “Playground hazards: broken plastic slide; wooden storage shed with splinted wood (children observed putting hands in wooden shed).”

    Rule 746.3701(5). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 31, 2024. Correction verified: Jan 9, 2025.

  • First Aid Kit - Available in Each Building, on Field Trips, during Transportation

    “One van used to transport children in care did not have the required first aid kit.”

    Rule 746.4001. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 17, 2024. Correction verified: Jan 9, 2025.

All 12 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
May 8, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Apr 10, 2026Inspection4 deficiencies cited
Dec 4, 2025Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Nov 18, 2025Inspection8 deficiencies cited
Nov 13, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Nov 12, 2025Report to the stateNo violation found
Feb 3, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Jan 30, 2025Report to the stateNo violation found
Dec 11, 2024Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Jan 18, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Feb 22, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Mar 4, 2022InspectionNo violation found

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Jun 18, 1996.
  • Accepts state child care subsidies.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 63 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.
  • 2 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 58 child care providers in Rockwall County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 2; this one had 16.
Source:

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

11 of the 58 in Rockwall County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Natascha MaxwellNot given
Eastridge Preschool6
Whitehills Child Development Center5
Primrose School of North Rockwall4
Payton MarrsNot given
Rise Academy Learning Center1
Essential Steps This child care provider16
Highview Learning Center19
Carolina Darmousseh1
Woodbridge Montessori Academy of Rockwall1
Everbrook Academy12
Kiddie Academy of Rockwall5

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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