Hearth Record

Star Christian Academy

A licensed child care center in Tyler, Texas 75702

1014 W Houston St, Tyler, Texas 75702. (903) 245-1449.

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The short answer

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

The last 24 months 12 deficiencies in 4 months of the last 36. Last cited Dec 2024. 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 83 child care providers in Smith County had 2.

9 inspections on record. The latest, on Oct 30, 2026: no violation found.

Rated High by Texas: Policies Comply with Rules, at the inspection on Feb 21, 2024

Source:

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

When those deficiencies happened

12 deficiencies in 4 months of the last 36. Last cited Dec 2024. 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.

Dec 3, 2024: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Each Caregiver and the Director Must Have Current Training in pediatric first aid with rescue breathing and choking.

    “The first aid and CPR was not renewed by the required date.”

    Rule 746.1315(a). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 17, 2024. Correction verified: Dec 13, 2024.

  • Screen Time Activities - Not Used for Under Two

    “The caregiver had a video playing for the children ages 19m and younger. This was corrected at inspection.”

    Rule 746.2207(a). Medium, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 3, 2024.

Sep 5, 2024: inspection1 deficiency

  • Infant Daily Report - Share with Parent

    “The operation has not been providing parents with daily sheets for the infants.”

    Rule 746.2431. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 12, 2024. Correction verified: Sep 11, 2024.

Apr 2, 2024: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Annual Sanitation Inspection

    “The operation has not obtained a sanitation inspection.”

    Rule 746.3401(a). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 9, 2024. Correction verified: May 9, 2024.

  • Maintenance of Building, Grounds and Equipment

    “A follow up was conducted on this day. There was debris found on the playground next to the storage building and this standard was re-cited.”

    Rule 746.3407. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 3, 2024. Correction verified: Apr 4, 2024.

Feb 21, 2024: inspection7 deficiencies

  • Policies Comply with Rules

    The inspectors’ words, 99 words

    “The operational policy is missing the following: Parental notifications, Discipline and guidance, Suspension and expulsion of children, Safe sleep policy, Meals and food service practices, Immunization requirements for children, Hearing and vision screening requirements, Enrollment procedures, Transportation, Water activities, Promotion of indoor and outdoor physical activity, Procedures for insect repellant and sunscreen, Procedures for reviewing policies and procedures of the child-care center, Procedures for reviewing Licensing inspection report, Provide a place to breastfeed, Preventing and responding to abuse and neglect, Health checks, Vaccine-preventable diseases for employees, Unassigned epinephrine auto- injectors, Supporting inclusive services, Child-care center visitation, and Gang-free zone”

    Rule 746.201(1). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 1, 2024. Correction verified: Mar 21, 2024.

  • Maintenance of Building, Grounds and Equipment

    “The water hose is laying out in the outdoor area where children will play and is a tripping hazard. Broken windows, broken gate pieces, and debris is out in the play area. The shed that contained construction material had a broken and unlocked door. There are 2 BBQ pits in the play area. An electrical outlet box and wires are in the middle of the play area.”

    Rule 746.3407. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 21, 2024. Correction verified: Apr 2, 2024.

  • Floors, ceilings and Walls in Good Repair and Clean

    “The green room has walls with peeling paint, and the door frame has holes. Room 2nd -3rd grade needed items: The wall behind the door has a hole. Room K-1st grade: The wall is cracked above the window. Sanctuary: Walls has peeling paint. Women’s restroom: Walls have peeling paint, and cracks. Men’s restroom: Walls have peeling paint, and cracks.”

    Rule 746.3407(9). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 21, 2024. Correction verified: Apr 2, 2024.

  • Fenced Outdoor Activity Space

    “The chain linked fence has sections of the fence removed, which prevents it from being fully enclosed.”

    Rule 746.4305. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 21, 2024. Correction verified: Apr 2, 2024.

  • Emergency Evacuation and Relocation Diagram - Posted in Each Room

    “Emergency evacuation and relocation diagrams were not posted in each room that will be used by children.”

    Rule 746.5207(b). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 1, 2024. Correction verified: Mar 21, 2024.

  • First Aid Kit Incomplete - Thermometer, preferably non-glass

    “The first aid kit is missing the thermometer.”

    Rule 746.4003(a)(7). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 1, 2024. Correction verified: Feb 27, 2024.

  • Required posting of Emergency Telephone numbers- Local Licensing Office Phone Number

    “The local Licensing office telephone number is missing from the emergency numbers contact informaiton posting document.”

    Rule 746.405(4). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 1, 2024. Correction verified: Feb 27, 2024.

All 9 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Oct 30, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Feb 10, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Dec 5, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Jun 9, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Dec 3, 2024Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Oct 1, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Sep 5, 2024Inspection1 deficiency cited
Apr 2, 2024Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Feb 21, 2024Inspection7 deficiencies cited

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Dec 30, 2024.
  • Accepts state child care subsidies.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 49 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?

  • Texas Rising Star: 4-Star (the highest 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 83 child care providers in Smith County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 2; this one had 12.
Source:

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

11 of the 83 in Smith County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
North Tyler Day Nursery9
Maria AraizaNot given
Profound Pillars3
DBA Lil People Adventures12
Star Christian Academy This child care provider12
St. Gregory Early Learning Center9
Kidz Depot Learning Academy LLC4
Shamonica Taylor1
Early Years Learning Academy3
Angela’s Little Angels11
Ninos Preschool1
Jessica SullivanNot 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 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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