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Maelee’s Learning Academy 5

A licensed child care center in La Feria, Texas 78559

132 W Oleander Ave, La Feria, Texas 78559. (956) 797-5466.

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The short answer

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

The last 24 months 6 deficiencies in 2 months of the last 36. Last cited Oct 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?

6 deficiencies cited in the last three years

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

13 inspections on record. The latest, on Nov 3, 2026: no violation found.

Rated High by Texas: Electronic Child Safety Alarm - installed and maintained according to manufacturer’s instructions, at the inspection on Oct 16, 2026

Source:

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

When those deficiencies happened

6 deficiencies in 2 months of the last 36. Last cited Oct 2026. Most serious: High. The last 3 years, to Nov 5, 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 Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.

Oct 16, 2026: inspection3 deficiencies

  • Electronic Child Safety Alarm - installed and maintained according to manufacturer’s instructions

    “Electronic child safety alarm was tested by provider and it was not working properly.”

    Rule 746.5625(b). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 30, 2026. Correction verified: Nov 3, 2026.

  • Naptime Child/Caregiver Ratio - Caregivers Physically Present

    “Upon arrival to facility observed a group of four children unsupervised. NOTE: Caregiver stepped into classroom area to be counted in child/caregiver ratios.”

    Rule 746.1613(a)(6). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 16, 2026. Correction verified: Nov 3, 2026.

  • Safety Requirements for Play Yards - Label for Each Infant

    “Observed that two play yards were being occupied each by one infant and did not have a label.”

    Rule 746.2411(2)(I). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 16, 2026. Correction verified: Nov 3, 2026.

May 30, 2024: inspection3 deficiencies

  • Employee Handwashing After Diapering a Child

    “A caregiver did not wash hands after diapering a child.”

    Rule 746.3415(4). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 30, 2024. Correction verified: Jun 4, 2024.

  • Children Handwashing Before Eating

    “Observed a child arrive to facility and sat down to eat breakfast without washing hands.”

    Rule 746.3417(1). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 30, 2024. Correction verified: Jun 4, 2024.

  • Children Handwashing After Toileting or Diapering

    “Observed infants hands were not washed after a diaper change.”

    Rule 746.3417(3). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 30, 2024. Correction verified: Jun 4, 2024.

6 deficiencies older than three years
Oct 4, 2023: inspection5 deficiencies

  • Director present-Minimum 75%

    “Director is not maintaining a sign in and out log. Note: last available sign in was on 8/4/2023.”

    Rule 746.1011(a). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 6, 2023. Correction verified: Oct 10, 2023.

  • Each Caregiver and the Director Must Have Current Training in pediatric first aid with rescue breathing and choking.

    “A caregivers file does not have proof of pediatric first aid with rescue breathing and choking.”

    Rule 746.1315(a). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 20, 2023. Correction verified: Oct 10, 2023.

  • Employee Handwashing After Diapering a Child

    “Observed a caregiver changing a diaper and did not wash hands afterwards.”

    Rule 746.3415(4). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 4, 2023. Correction verified: Oct 10, 2023.

  • Children Handwashing After Toileting or Diapering

    “Observed that a child had a diaper change and child’s hands were not washed afterwards.”

    Rule 746.3417(3). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 4, 2023. Correction verified: Oct 10, 2023.

  • Diapering Procedures - Sanitizing Diaper Changing Area

    “Changing table was not sanitized after a diaper change.”

    Rule 746.3505(e). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 4, 2023. Correction verified: Oct 10, 2023.

Aug 4, 2023: inspection1 deficiency

  • Reduction of child/caregiver naptime ratio by 50% allowed, If 13 or more children in care, children are 18 mo. or older and other standards met

    “Observed a group of 14 children napping and the youngest child is 14 months old.”

    Rule 746.1613(a). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 4, 2023. Correction verified: Aug 16, 2023.

All 14 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Nov 3, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Oct 16, 2026Inspection3 deficiencies cited
Nov 4, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Nov 18, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Oct 24, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Oct 18, 2024Report to the stateNo violation found
Jun 4, 2024InspectionNo violation found
May 30, 2024Inspection3 deficiencies cited
Nov 6, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Oct 10, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Oct 4, 2023Inspection5 deficiencies cited
Aug 16, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Aug 4, 2023Inspection1 deficiency cited
Jun 9, 2023InspectionNo violation found

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Nov 21, 2023.
  • Accepts state child care subsidies.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 53 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.
  • 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 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 198 child care providers in Cameron County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 2; this one had 6.
Source:

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

11 of the 198 in Cameron County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
La Feria Head Start Child Development0
Legendary Kids Academy LLC0
Maelee’s Learning Academy 5 This child care provider6
Little Cubs Academy Corp4
Episcopal Day School Day Care2
D J Lerma Head Start Child Development Center0
El Ranchito Head Start Child Development Center2
A Place to Grow Learning Center0
Las Palmas Head Start Child Development2
Montessori School2
Kidbridge Academy1
Aurora’s Day Care0

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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