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Kids Zone Salado

A licensed child care center in Salado, Texas 76571

1025 Soaring Eagle Way, Salado, Texas 76571. (254) 271-5700.

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The short answer

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

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

4 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 237 child care providers in Bell County had 2.

12 inspections on record. The latest, on Sep 15, 2026: no violation found.

Rated High by Texas: Prohibited Punishments - Restrictive device for time out, at the report to the state on Jan 31, 2024

Source:

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

When those deficiencies happened

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

4 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 Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.

Aug 18, 2026: inspection1 deficiency

  • Required Admission Information-Child’s allergies and Completed Food Allergy Plan

    “Required admission information regarding child allergies were missing for 4 children enrolled.”

    Rule 746.605(15). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 1, 2026. Correction verified: Aug 31, 2026.

Oct 8, 2024: inspection1 deficiency

  • Training Requirements for Employees, Caregivers, and Directors - Orientation

    “Two employees did not have the required orientations in their files. Director printed them out and put into the files.”

    Rule 746.1301(a)(1)(A). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 8, 2024.

Feb 15, 2024: inspection1 deficiency

  • Children Handwashing After Toileting or Diapering

    “During the monitoring inspection it was observed that a caregiver was changing diapers and not having the children wash their hands afterwards. This was corrected at inspection when the correct steps were explained to the caregivers and the caregiver begin to follow them.”

    Rule 746.3417(3). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 15, 2024.

Jan 31, 2024: report to the state1 deficiency

  • Prohibited Punishments - Restrictive device for time out

    “During the investigation it was found that the operation was putting children in a high chair, for 1-2 min, as a form of discipline.”

    Rule 746.2805(8). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 1, 2024. Correction verified: Feb 15, 2024.

2 deficiencies older than three years
Oct 2, 2023: inspection1 deficiency

  • Children Handwashing After Outdoor Activities

    “During the 3rd initial inspection it was observed that a classroom of children came inside, after playing outside, and did not wash their hands before being seated in their high chairs for lunch. This was corrected at inspection when the caregivers washed their hands after Child Care Licensing Inspector asked them to.”

    Rule 746.3417(4). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 2, 2023.

Jul 19, 2023: inspection1 deficiency

  • Infant Handwashing - Raised to Sink

    “After an infant’s diaper was changed they were not raised to the sink to wash their hands with soap and running water until after Child Care Regulation asked them to do so, once asked, infant did wash their hands at the sink. Corrected at inspection.”

    Rule 746.3421(b). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 19, 2023.

All 15 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Sep 15, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Aug 18, 2026Inspection1 deficiency cited
Sep 17, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Mar 27, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Mar 27, 2025Report to the stateNo violation found
Oct 8, 2024Inspection1 deficiency cited
Aug 29, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Aug 20, 2024Report to the stateNo violation found
Feb 15, 2024Inspection1 deficiency cited
Feb 1, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Jan 31, 2024Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Oct 2, 2023Inspection1 deficiency cited
Jul 19, 2023Inspection1 deficiency cited
Jun 12, 2023InspectionNo violation found
May 25, 2023InspectionNo violation found

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Oct 16, 2023.
  • Accepts state child care subsidies.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 126 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.
  • 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 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: 2-Star (the first 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 237 child care providers in Bell County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 2; this one had 4.
Source:

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

11 of the 237 in Bell County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Salado Montessori Inc.4
Kids Zone Salado This child care provider4
The Play Yard LP15
Susan Travis2
Maria Burgos4
Tiny Troops Learning Center4
God’s Promise6
A Heart for the Children0
Theresas Creative Minds6
Barnyard Babes Daycare3
Faith’s First Steps Home Daycare0
Carmen Y Benitez Rivera2

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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