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First Class Childcare Center

A licensed child care center in Houston, Texas 77040

14159 Northwest Fwy, Houston, Texas 77040. (346) 833-8834.

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The short answer

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

The last 24 months 12 deficiencies in 2 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?

12 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 2,139 child care providers in Harris County had 4.

9 inspections on record. The latest, on May 29, 2026: no violation found.

Rated High by Texas: Responsibilities of Employees and Caregivers -Demonstrate Competency, Good Judgment, Self-control, at the inspection on May 15, 2026

Rated High by Texas: No Blocked or Locked Doors as Exits, at the inspection on May 15, 2026

Rated High by Texas: Notification of Additional Services Offered, at the report to the state on Dec 15, 2025

Source:

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

When those deficiencies happened

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

12 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.

May 15, 2026: inspection11 deficiencies

  • Responsibilities of Employees and Caregivers -Demonstrate Competency, Good Judgment, Self-control

    “Upon arrival the operation was not following their daily actively plan. The children, infants included were watching t.v. and laying on their nap cots, with the room darkened.”

    Rule 746.1201(1). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 15, 2026. Correction verified: May 29, 2026.

  • No Blocked or Locked Doors as Exits

    “One of the exit gates in the playground area was blocked by a toy equipment.”

    Rule 746.5209(c). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 15, 2026. Correction verified: May 29, 2026.

  • Responsibilities of Caregivers - Know children’s names and ages

    “The caregivers in care of the chiildren did not know all of the children ages.”

    Rule 746.1205(a)(3). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 15, 2026. Correction verified: May 29, 2026.

  • Training Requirements for Employees, Caregivers, and Directors - 30 Annual Training

    “The operation failed to call in substitute in a timely manner to ensure compliance with regulations and to maintain the day-to-day smooth functioning of the operation.”

    Rule 746.1301(a)(6)(A). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 22, 2026. Correction verified: May 26, 2026.

  • Child/Caregiver Ratio - 18 Months Difference in Age

    “The operation had a classroom with infants combine with older children that was over the 18 month age difference.”

    Rule 746.1605(1). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 15, 2026. Correction verified: May 29, 2026.

  • Fire Drill Monthly - Exit in 3 Minutes

    “The required monthly fire drills were not conducted for the month of February and March.”

    Rule 746.5205(1). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 31, 2026. Correction verified: May 28, 2026.

  • Required Admission Information - Emergency Contact

    “In review of child records, it was identified that one student file was missing the required emergency contact information.”

    Rule 746.605(6). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 1, 2026. Correction verified: May 26, 2026.

  • Screen Time Activities - Not Used for Under Two

    “Three chilidren under two years old were observed to be having screen time. CI: The director transition the chidlren into a different classroom with no television.”

    Rule 746.2207(a). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 15, 2026. Correction verified: May 29, 2026.

  • First Aid Kit - Incomplete Kit

    “An inspection of the first aid kit identified that the inventory was incomplete. The operation is missing the required items: tweezers guaze adhesive tape”

    Rule 746.4003(a). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 1, 2026. Correction verified: May 26, 2026.

  • Written Operational Policies - Procedures parents access minimum standards online, TX A/N hotline, and HHSC website

    “The operations operational policy does not provide information on how a parent can access the following: Minimum standards online; Texas Abuse and Neglect Hotline HHSC website”

    Rule 746.501(a)(23). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 1, 2026. Correction verified: May 26, 2026.

  • Required Health Statement - Written, dated within past year, indicates child is physically able to participate in operation’s child-care program

    “In review of child records, it was identified that two student files were missing the required health statement information.”

    Rule 746.611(a)(1). Low, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 1, 2026. Correction verified: May 26, 2026.

Dec 15, 2025: report to the state1 deficiency

  • Notification of Additional Services Offered

    “The operation was found to have been providing transportation to children in care without notifying licensing.”

    Rule 746.301(7). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 11, 2026. Correction verified: Feb 17, 2026.

All 10 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
May 29, 2026InspectionNo violation found
May 15, 2026Inspection11 deficiencies cited
Dec 18, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Dec 15, 2025Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Jul 24, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Jan 31, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Jun 28, 2024InspectionNo violation found
May 13, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Mar 25, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Jan 26, 2024InspectionNo violation found

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Jul 1, 2024.
  • Accepts state child care subsidies.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 65 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 2139 child care providers in Harris County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 4; this one had 12.
Source:

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

11 of the 2,139 in Harris County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Tai Thi Le0
Kieudiem Nguyen2
Oanh Kim Le2
Ry Nguyen3
Jersey Village Lab School5
The Village Learning Center1
Lynn Vo1
Thi Minh Thu Nguyen0
Vicky Bui10
First Class Childcare Center This child care provider12
Cassandra Reynolds5
Knowledge Krate Early Learning Center3

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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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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