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Little Lions Daycare

A licensed child care center in Teague, Texas 75860

420 Loop 255, Teague, Texas 75860. (254) 739-1320.

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The short answer

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

The last 24 months 3 deficiencies in 2 months of the last 36. Last cited Dec 2025. Most serious: Medium 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?

4 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 9 child care providers in Freestone County had 9.

9 inspections on record. The latest, on Dec 12, 2025: 2 deficiencies cited.

Rated High by Texas: Prohibited Equipment for Infants - Bean Bags, Waterbeds, Foam Pads As Sleeping Equipment, at the inspection on Nov 15, 2023

Source:

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

When those deficiencies happened

3 deficiencies in 2 months of the last 36. Last cited Dec 2025. Most serious: Medium High. The last 3 years, to Nov 5, 2026.

3 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.

Dec 12, 2025: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Fire Drill Monthly - Exit in 3 Minutes

    “During the last fire drill in November, children did not exit within three minutes. This was corrected during the inspection when a fire drill was done and the children exited in two minutes.”

    Rule 746.5205(1). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 12, 2025.

  • First Aid Kit Incomplete - Gudie to first aid and emergency care

    “One of the first aid kits was missing a guide to first aid.”

    Rule 746.4003(a)(1). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 6, 2026. Correction verified: Jan 5, 2026.

Aug 7, 2024: inspection1 deficiency

  • Equipment Prohibited for Younger Than 5 Yrs - Fulcrum Seesaws

    “There was a fulcrum seesaw on the playground that children younger than five used. This was corrected during the inspection when the seesaw was removed from the playground.”

    Rule 746.4605(a)(3). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 7, 2024.

Nov 15, 2023: inspection1 deficiency

  • Prohibited Equipment for Infants - Bean Bags, Waterbeds, Foam Pads As Sleeping Equipment

    “There was a bean bag in a room that was used for infants.”

    Rule 746.2415(a)(5). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 15, 2023. Correction verified: Dec 1, 2023.

3 deficiencies older than three years
Nov 2, 2023: inspection3 deficiencies

  • Safety Requirements for Cribs - Snug Fitting Sheets

    “In the infant room, none of the sheets on the cribs were snug. The sheets did not fit the crib mattresses well.”

    Rule 746.2409(a)(2). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 10, 2023. Correction verified: Nov 15, 2023.

  • Fire Drill Monthly - Exit in 3 Minutes

    “The operation had not conducted a fire drill in October. For their fire drills in August and September, they were unable to exit in three minutes.”

    Rule 746.5205(1). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 10, 2023. Correction verified: Nov 15, 2023.

  • Required Personnel Records-signed dated statement that employee received child care center’s operational policies

    “None of the staff had signed a statement saying that they had reviewed the center’s operational policies.”

    Rule 746.901(6)(A). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 17, 2023. Correction verified: Nov 15, 2023.

All 9 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Dec 12, 2025Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Jan 30, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Aug 7, 2024Inspection1 deficiency cited
Jan 8, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Dec 1, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Nov 15, 2023Inspection1 deficiency cited
Nov 2, 2023Inspection3 deficiencies cited
Sep 25, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Aug 10, 2023InspectionNo violation found

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Feb 9, 2024.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten.
  • Capacity: 38 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.
  • 0 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?

  • Not rated in Texas Rising Star.
Source:

Texas Workforce Commission, subsidy providers and Texas Rising Star. Released Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.

How does it compare nearby?

  • Among 9 child care providers in Freestone County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 9; this one had 4.
Source:

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

9 of the 9 in Freestone County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
First Methodist Preschool9
Melissa Mae Thomas6
Kiddie Patch Daycare Center21
Angela Ielati26
Little Lions Daycare This child care provider4
Jacqueline Nicole Lott68
Follow Me Montessori Pre-School3
Derekia ColemanNot given
Sara Magouirk0
Noahs Ark Preschool17

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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