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El Castillo Learning Center

A licensed child care center in Somerville, Texas 77879

101 Fojt St, Somerville, Texas 77879. (979) 315-5400.

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The short answer

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

The last 24 months 14 deficiencies in 6 months of the last 36. Last cited May 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?

14 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 7 child care providers in Burleson County had 5.

11 inspections on record. The latest, on May 6, 2026: 4 deficiencies cited.

Rated High by Texas: AP Background check results - Must receive notification prior to allowing subject to be present at your operation, at the inspection on May 6, 2026

Rated High by Texas: Annual Fire Inspection - Before Initial Permit Issued and Every 12 Months, at the inspection on Dec 12, 2024

Rated High by Texas: Supervision ensures each child?s safety, well-being, including physical proximity and auditory or visual awareness of each child?s on going activity, at the inspection on Apr 17, 2024

1 more rated High; all are listed below.

Source:

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

When those deficiencies happened

14 deficiencies in 6 months of the last 36. Last cited May 2026. Most serious: High. The last 3 years, to Oct 24, 2026.

14 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.

May 6, 2026: inspection4 deficiencies
  • AP Background check results - Must receive notification prior to allowing subject to be present at your operation

    “There was a caregiver providing care to children with a pending background check. This was corrected at inspection when the caregiver left the operation.”

    Rule 745.641. High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 6, 2026.

  • Infant Handwashing - Raised to Sink

    “An infant was observed using only water when washing hands after a diaper change. This was corrected at inspection when the caregiver re-washed the infant hands with soap and water.”

    Rule 746.3421(b). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 6, 2026.

  • Measurement of Use Zone for Slides - in Front of Access and on Sides

    “The use zone from the slide to the fence was 5 feet. This was corrected at inspection when the play equipment was moved to measure 6 feet to the fence.”

    Rule 746.4805(a). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 6, 2026.

  • Cots, Beds, Mats Labeled With Child’s Name

    “The nap cots and nap mats were not labeled with a child’s name or number. This was corrected at inspection when the they were labeled.”

    Rule 746.4503(b). Medium, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 6, 2026.

May 27, 2025: inspection1 deficiency
  • Training Requirements for Employees, Caregivers, and Directors - Pre-Service Training

    “Observed 4 caregiver files out of 8 staff. One caregiver had 18 hours of training within the 24 hours. I spoke with the director regarding when training year starts for each employee. This was corrected when I went over the tarining years with the director.”

    Rule 746.1301(a)(2)(A). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 27, 2025.

Dec 12, 2024: inspection3 deficiencies
  • Annual Fire Inspection - Before Initial Permit Issued and Every 12 Months

    “Observed the last fire inspection was completed October 2023. I spoke with the director about scheduling a new fire inspection and that fire inspections are due annually.”

    Rule 746.5101(a). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 13, 2025. Correction verified: Jan 14, 2025.

  • Child/ Caregiver Ratio - 13 or More Children

    “Observed one caregiver caring for 6 children ages 4 months to 19 months old. Two children were taken to another classroomroom leaving the classroom in compliance. The classrooms specified age group was 12-17 months old and was only allowed 5 children with one caregvier.”

    Rule 746.1601. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 12, 2024. Correction verified: Dec 18, 2024.

  • Installation and Maintenance of Loose-fill Surfacing - Proper Depth Maintained

    “Observed the weed barrier under the swings were visable. causing a tripping hazard. There was not 6 inches of loose fill under the swings.”

    Rule 746.4907(d). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 27, 2024. Correction verified: Dec 18, 2024.

Jun 14, 2024: inspection1 deficiency
  • Maintenance of Building, Grounds and Equipment

    “The outdoor area was not checked for prior to children accessing the playground this morning. The outdoor area had small white spikey insects on the play equipment, small balloon rubber pieces on the ground. In one classroom, there was ceiling tiles missing.”

    Rule 746.3407. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 21, 2024. Correction verified: Jul 1, 2024.

Apr 17, 2024: inspection1 deficiency
  • Supervision ensures each child?s safety, well-being, including physical proximity and auditory or visual awareness of each child?s on going activity

    “During an inspection, the licensing representative came inside the operation and noticed a child in a classroom by themselves. The child was taken to the classroom teacher. I spoke to the caregiver about knowing where all the children are at all times.”

    Rule 746.1205(a)(4). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 17, 2024. Correction verified: Apr 23, 2024.

Dec 4, 2023: inspection4 deficiencies
  • Written Operational Policies - Emergency Preparedness Plans

    “While reviewing the operational policy there was no emergency preparedness plan available.”

    Rule 746.501(a)(24). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 11, 2023. Correction verified: Dec 20, 2023.

  • Requirement of Gas Leak Inspection

    “There was no gas leak inspection available during the inpsection.”

    Rule 746.5401. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 14, 2023. Correction verified: Dec 20, 2023.

  • Install CO Detection System-Number of CO Detection Devices

    “During the walk through there was no carbon detection system available.”

    Rule 746.5535(a). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 15, 2023. Correction verified: Dec 20, 2023.

  • Written Operational Policies - Promotion of Physical Activity

    “While reviewing the operational policy there was no promotion of indoor and outdoor play available.”

    Rule 746.501(a)(18). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 11, 2023. Correction verified: Dec 5, 2023.

All 11 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
May 6, 2026Inspection4 deficiencies cited
May 27, 2025Inspection1 deficiency cited
Dec 18, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Dec 12, 2024Inspection3 deficiencies cited
Jul 1, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Jun 14, 2024Inspection1 deficiency cited
Apr 23, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Apr 17, 2024Inspection1 deficiency cited
Mar 21, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Dec 20, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Dec 4, 2023Inspection4 deficiencies cited

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Jul 12, 2024.
  • Accepts state child care subsidies.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 41 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?

  • Not star-rated in Texas Rising Star (TWC’s code: ELD).
Source:

Texas Workforce Commission, subsidy providers and Texas Rising Star. Released Oct 24, 2026. Updated daily.

How does it compare nearby?

  • Among 7 child care providers in Burleson County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 5; this one had 14.
Source:

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

8 of the 7 in Burleson County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
El Castillo Learning Center This child care provider14
Miss Marys Day Care1
Abundantly Blessed Child Care Center1
Tender Loving Care Child Care Central, LLC5
Shelbey Lynne SleethNot given
Caldwell Isd Little Stingers Child Development Center0
Kid’s Zone Caldwell7
Beatrice HernandezNot given
First Baptist Church School8

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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