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Higher Ground Learning Center LLC

A licensed child care center in Kingsville, Texas 78363

166 N County Road 1060 Lot A, Kingsville, Texas 78363. (361) 522-5024.

Texas’s own record, on its child care search

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The short answer

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

The last 24 months 4 deficiencies in 2 months of the last 36. Last cited Mar 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?

4 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 19 child care providers in Kleberg County had 1.

9 inspections on record. The latest, on Apr 2, 2026: no violation found.

Source:

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

When those deficiencies happened

4 deficiencies in 2 months of the last 36. Last cited Mar 2026. Most serious: Medium High. The last 3 years, to Oct 24, 2026.

4 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.

Mar 24, 2026: inspection3 deficiencies

  • Child/ Caregiver Ratio - 13 or More Children

    “Observed a caregiver supervising a group of 8 infants ages ranging from 3 months to 17 months during nap time. Child/caregiver ratios is 2:8. Note: A second caregiver stepped into classroom.”

    Rule 746.1601. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 24, 2026. Correction verified: Apr 2, 2026.

  • Naptime Child/Caregiver Ratio - Caregivers Physically Present

    “A group of 9 children was left briefly unsupervised while they were napping. NOTE: Caregiver stepped into classroom.”

    Rule 746.1613(a)(6). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 24, 2026. Correction verified: Apr 2, 2026.

  • Required Records Maintained and Made Available - Employees’ Attendance

    “Director is not maintaining an attendance record.”

    Rule 746.801(5). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 27, 2026. Correction verified: Apr 2, 2026.

Jan 21, 2026: assessment1 deficiency

  • Report Number of Employees

    “A review of the Employees Who Left Employment in 2025 data from January 20, 2026, determined the center had not reported the number of employees who left employment in 2025 by January 15, 2026, as required.”

    Rule 746.303(b). Medium Low, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 30, 2026. Correction verified: Feb 27, 2026.

All 10 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Apr 2, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Mar 24, 2026Inspection3 deficiencies cited
Jan 21, 2026Assessment1 deficiency cited
Apr 16, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Aug 27, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Jun 24, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Feb 15, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Jan 3, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Nov 28, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Oct 31, 2023InspectionNo violation found

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Apr 25, 2024.
  • Accepts state child care subsidies.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 58 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.
  • 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 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: 4-Star (the highest 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 19 child care providers in Kleberg County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 1; this one had 4.
Source:

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

11 of the 19 in Kleberg County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Marc Cisneros Center for Young Children0
Harrel Learning Center0
The Tot Spot Learning Center0
Tiny Hands Learning Center1
Tiny Einstein’s Learning Academy3
Bright Stars Child Development Center, LLC23
Beverly Gant9
Color My World Kidz Academy0
Brenda Rios8
Little Red Barn Learning Center LLC1
Higher Ground Learning Center LLC This child care provider4
Growing in Grace Academy LLC6

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

If you believe something here is wrong, a correction starts with the agency whose record this copies: Texas HHSC or Texas Workforce Commission. Texas’s own record is on its child care search. If Hearth Record copied something wrongly, it will fix it and log the correction publicly, with its date: how corrections work.

Source:

This copy of the record was made on Oct 24, 2026.

From the provider

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Replies

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Paid listing

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How to read a record

Four things every record does, shown on an example record made up for this guide.

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An example nursing home

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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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