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Little Bison Child Care Center

A licensed child care center in Buffalo, Texas 75831

424 Donie Rd, Buffalo, Texas 75831. (903) 322-2634.

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The short answer

Record last released by Texas HHSC on Oct 24, 2026.

The last 24 months 15 deficiencies in 5 months of the last 36. Last cited Feb 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?

15 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 5 child care providers in Leon County had 15.

9 inspections on record. The latest, on Mar 31, 2026: no violation found.

Rated High by Texas: Annual Fire Inspection - Before Initial Permit Issued and Every 12 Months, at the inspection on Feb 17, 2026

Rated High by Texas: Policies Comply with Rules, at the inspection on Feb 26, 2025

Rated High by Texas: AP Ensure total number of children both at & away from center within capacity, at the inspection on Jan 24, 2024

Source:

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data) and inspections and investigations. Released Oct 24, 2026. Updated daily.

When those deficiencies happened

15 deficiencies in 5 months of the last 36. Last cited Feb 2026. Most serious: High. The last 3 years, to Oct 24, 2026.

15 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 24, 2026. Updated daily.

Feb 17, 2026: inspection3 deficiencies

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

    “The operations last fire inspection was completed on July 26, 2024.”

    Rule 746.5101(a). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 27, 2026. Correction verified: Feb 19, 2026.

  • Fire Drill Monthly - Exit in 3 Minutes

    “The operation did not have updated documentation of fire drills for this year (2026).”

    Rule 746.5205(1). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 20, 2026. Correction verified: Feb 17, 2026.

  • Requirement of Gas Leak Inspection

    “The operations last gas inspection was completed on 6/14/2023.”

    Rule 746.5401. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 27, 2026. Correction verified: Feb 23, 2026.

Feb 26, 2025: inspection7 deficiencies

  • Policies Comply with Rules

    “The parent handbook was missing information on parent’s rights and staff vaccinations.”

    Rule 746.201(1). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 5, 2025. Correction verified: Feb 27, 2025.

  • Training Requirements for Employees, Caregivers, and Directors - 24 Annual training

    “One caregiver did not have any training for the 2023-2024 training year.”

    Rule 746.1301(a)(5)(A). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 12, 2025. Correction verified: Mar 13, 2025.

  • Adequate Lighting During Naptime

    “There was not adequate lighting in the infant room during naptime. This was corrected during the inspection when one of the lights was turned on.”

    Rule 746.2911. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 26, 2025.

  • Nutrition and Food Service - Follow Meal Patterns

    “Snack did not follow the meal pattern required for snack by the CACFP. This was corrected during the inspection when the director was informed about what components the CACFP requires for snack.”

    Rule 746.3301(b). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 26, 2025.

  • Required Postings-Child’s Food Allergies

    “A child’s food allergies were not posted in the kitchen and the child’s room. This was corrected during the inspection when the child’s allergies were posted in the kitchen and in each room the child uses.”

    Rule 746.401(10). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 26, 2025.

  • Written Feeding Instructions - Review and Update Every 30 Days

    “One infant had feeding instructions that had not been updated monthly.”

    Rule 746.2421(b). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 5, 2025. Correction verified: Feb 28, 2025.

  • Infant Daily Report - Summary of Activities

    “The daily infant reports in Procare did not have the infants’ mood and a summary of the daily activities.”

    Rule 746.2431(5). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 5, 2025. Correction verified: Mar 13, 2025.

Feb 13, 2025: report to the state1 deficiency

  • Child/ Caregiver Ratio - 13 or More Children

    “A caregiver had to leave a classroom to open the front door, leaving the classroom they were counted in ratio, out of ratio. There were 17 children in the classroom, that required 2 caregivers.”

    Rule 746.1601. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 14, 2025. Correction verified: Feb 26, 2025.

Feb 6, 2024: inspection1 deficiency

  • Screen Time Activities - Not Used for Under Two

    “During the inspection, the television was observed to be on a cartoon in the infant classroom. The caregiver turned off the television during the inspection.”

    Rule 746.2207(a). Medium, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 6, 2024.

Jan 24, 2024: inspection2 deficiencies

  • AP Ensure total number of children both at & away from center within capacity

    “During the inspection, there were 11 infants in care and the total capacity for infants in the permit is 10.”

    Rule 746.201(11). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 24, 2024. Correction verified: Feb 6, 2024.

  • Screen Time Activities - Not Used During Eating or Rest Times

    “Screen time was observed being utilized during lunchtime. The caregiver turned off the television during the inspection to bring the deficiency into compliance.”

    Rule 746.2207(c)(4). Medium, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 24, 2024.

Nov 6, 2023: inspection1 deficiency

  • Required Personnel Records- Meets Requirements

    “While reviewing personnel records there was one file without documentation of education available.”

    Rule 746.901(2). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 13, 2023. Correction verified: Nov 15, 2023.

All 12 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Mar 31, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Mar 27, 2026Report to the stateNo violation found
Feb 17, 2026Inspection3 deficiencies cited
Feb 26, 2025Inspection7 deficiencies cited
Feb 14, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Feb 13, 2025Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Oct 15, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Aug 10, 2024Report to the stateNo violation found
Apr 11, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Feb 6, 2024Inspection1 deficiency cited
Jan 24, 2024Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Nov 6, 2023Inspection1 deficiency cited

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Apr 15, 2024.
  • Accepts state child care subsidies.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 64 children.
Source:

Texas HHSC, child care operations. Released Oct 24, 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 24, 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 Oct 24, 2026. Updated daily.

How does it compare nearby?

  • Among 5 child care providers in Leon County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 15; this one had 15.
Source:

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data). Released Oct 24, 2026. Updated daily.

5 of the 5 in Leon County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Buffalo Isd4
Little Bison Child Care Center This child care provider15
Roaming Hippie Ranch LLC15
Panther Cub Daycare11
The Patch Learning Center LLC31
Cathy JohnsonNot given

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 24, 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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