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Highland Forest Daycare and Early Learning Center

A licensed child care center in Dickinson, Texas 77539

351 FM 646 Rd N, Dickinson, Texas 77539. (281) 678-8907.

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The short answer

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

The last 24 months 16 deficiencies in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited Oct 2025. 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?

16 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 127 child care providers in Galveston County had 5.

13 inspections on record. The latest, on Jun 24, 2026: no violation found.

Rated High by Texas: Responsibilities of Employees and Caregivers -Demonstrate Competency, Good Judgment, Self-control, at the report to the state on Oct 2, 2025

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 report to the state on Oct 2, 2025

Source:

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

When those deficiencies happened

16 deficiencies in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited Oct 2025. Most serious: High. The last 3 years, to Nov 5, 2026.

16 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.

Oct 2, 2025: report to the state2 deficiencies

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

    “Based on the evidence and video footage received for the DFPS investigation, good judgement was not used when a caregiver forcefully picked up a child to physically remove them from the classroom.”

    Rule 746.1201(1). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 10, 2025. Correction verified: Nov 21, 2025.

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

    “Based on the evidence and video footage received for the DFPS investigation, five children were left unsupervised when the caregiver stepped out of the classroom to physically remove a child from the classroom to the room next door.”

    Rule 746.1205(a)(4). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 10, 2025. Correction verified: Nov 21, 2025.

Jun 9, 2025: inspection4 deficiencies

  • Requirements for Feeding Infants - Label Bottles/Cups

    “One infant being fed did not have name on bottle.”

    Rule 746.2419(6). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 16, 2025. Correction verified: Jul 10, 2025.

  • Food Service and Preparation Requirement - Safe and Sanitary

    “Food observed on counter in kitchen was not stored in a sanitary manner and or discarded after preparation.”

    Rule 746.3317. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 16, 2025. Correction verified: Jul 10, 2025.

  • Diapering Procedures-Soiled clothes sent home

    “Two children’s soiled clothes were observed on the floor of the classroom restroom.”

    Rule 746.3505(g). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 16, 2025. Correction verified: Jul 10, 2025.

  • Immunization Records, Exceptions, and Exemptions Current

    “One child was missing current immunization record in file.”

    Rule 746.613(b). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 16, 2025. Correction verified: Jul 10, 2025.

Oct 17, 2024: inspection10 deficiencies

  • Written Operational Policies - Vision and Hearing Screening

    “Operational Policies did not discuss the procedures for vision and hearing screening.”

    Rule 746.501(a)(12). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 24, 2024. Correction verified: Oct 23, 2024.

  • Written Operational Policies - Benefits

    “Operational Policies did not discuss the benefits of active and outdoor play.”

    Rule 746.501(a)(18)(A). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 24, 2024. Correction verified: Oct 23, 2024.

  • Written Operational Policies - Duration

    “Operational Policies did not discuss how long children in their care will participate in indoor and outdoor play.”

    Rule 746.501(a)(18)(B). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 24, 2024. Correction verified: Nov 6, 2024.

  • Written Operational Policies - Type of Physical Activity

    “Operational Policies did not discuss the type of physical activities.”

    Rule 746.501(a)(18)(C). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 24, 2024. Correction verified: Nov 6, 2024.

  • Written Operational Policies - Recommended Clothing and Footing

    “Operational Policies did not discuss the recommended clothing items children while need to wear to participate in indoor and outdoor play.”

    Rule 746.501(a)(18)(E). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 24, 2024. Correction verified: Nov 6, 2024.

  • Written Operational Policies - Criteria for Extreme Weather

    “Operational Policies did not discuss how operation will determine extreme weather conditions that will cause child to miss or limit outdoor play.”

    Rule 746.501(a)(18)(F). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 24, 2024. Correction verified: Nov 6, 2024.

  • Written Operational Policies - Parent Rights

    “Parents Rights was not documented in Operational Policies.”

    Rule 746.501(a)(20). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 24, 2024. Correction verified: Oct 23, 2024.

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

    “Operational Policies did not provide the procedures in which parents can access minimum standards online, texas abuse and neglect hotline number and websit, as well as HHSC website.”

    Rule 746.501(a)(23). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 24, 2024. Correction verified: Oct 23, 2024.

  • Written Operational Policies - Support inclusive services

    “Operational Policies did not discuss how operation will support children with special needs in there care based on inclusive service requirements.”

    Rule 746.501(a)(30). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 24, 2024. Correction verified: Oct 23, 2024.

  • Written Operational Policies - Breastfeeding Provisions

    “Operational Policies did not state where breastfeeding mothers can breastfeed or formula feed their child within the center and other provisions.”

    Rule 746.501(a)(25). Low, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 24, 2024. Correction verified: Oct 23, 2024.

All 18 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Jun 24, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Jun 12, 2026Report to the stateNo violation found
Apr 30, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Dec 29, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Nov 21, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Nov 3, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Oct 30, 2025Report to the stateNo violation found
Oct 2, 2025Report to the state2 deficiencies cited
Sep 26, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Sep 22, 2025Report to the stateNo violation found
Jul 10, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Jun 9, 2025Inspection4 deficiencies cited
Apr 9, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Apr 7, 2025Report to the stateNo violation found
Dec 16, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Nov 14, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Oct 17, 2024Inspection10 deficiencies cited
Aug 16, 2024InspectionNo violation found

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Dec 19, 2024.
  • Its permit has conditions.
  • Accepts state child care subsidies.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 68 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.
  • 5 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: 2-Star (the first 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 127 child care providers in Galveston County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 5; this one had 16.
Source:

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

11 of the 127 in Galveston County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Dickinson Isd Gator Academy5
Kids @ First Nursery and Preschool15
Yvette Bimage-FieldsNot given
Excellence Academy Child Care & Learning Center12
YMCA After School @ Lobit Elementary0
Learners Land Child Care Center22
Lac Ho13
Highland Forest Daycare and Early Learning Center This child care provider16
Cheryl Ann Hayes-Brandt1
Kid City League City4
Hieu Thanh Vu0
S&a’s Fun Time Learn Time Academy0

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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