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Bright Beginnings Preschool and Elementary

A licensed child care center in Sherman, Texas 75090

711 N Elm St, Sherman, Texas 75090. (903) 998-0075.

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The short answer

Record last released by Texas HHSC on Oct 27, 2026.

The last 24 months 12 deficiencies in 5 months of the last 36. Last cited Jun 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?

12 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 57 child care providers in Grayson County had 2.

18 inspections on record. The latest, on Oct 26, 2026: no violation found.

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 Jun 12, 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 Jun 10, 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 Feb 5, 2025

1 more rated High; all are listed below.

Source:

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data) and inspections and investigations. Released Oct 27, 2026. Updated daily.

When those deficiencies happened

12 deficiencies in 5 months of the last 36. Last cited Jun 2025. Most serious: High. The last 3 years, to Oct 27, 2026.

12 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 27, 2026. Updated daily.

Jun 19, 2025: inspection1 deficiency
  • Children’s Records Maintained

    “The operation did not records for a child who was in care at the time of the incident.”

    Rule 746.603(a). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 20, 2025. Correction verified: Jul 7, 2025.

Jun 12, 2025: inspection1 deficiency
  • AP Background check results - Must receive notification prior to allowing subject to be present at your operation

    “During the investigation inspection a person was present and caring for children without a cleared background check. This was corrected during the inspection when the individual was asked to leave.”

    Rule 745.641. High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 12, 2025.

Jun 10, 2025: report to the state2 deficiencies
  • Supervision ensures each child?s safety, well-being, including physical proximity and auditory or visual awareness of each child?s on going activity

    “This standard was evaluated during the investigation and was found to be deficient. A child jumped over a fence of the operation’s playground and walked down the sidewalk unsupervised by the operation’s caregiver. The child then returned to the playground through a gate located on the other side of the playground. Two other children were observed climbing up the fence and throwing objects over the fence via video footage.”

    Rule 746.1205(a)(4). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 8, 2025. Correction verified: Jul 9, 2025.

  • Required Personnel Records

    “The operation does not have personnel records for one employee. The employee was caring for children and has an active background check on file for the operation.”

    Rule 746.901. Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 20, 2025. Correction verified: Jul 7, 2025.

Apr 22, 2025: inspection1 deficiency
  • Written Feeding Instructions - Review and Update Every 30 Days

    “Infant feeding instructions for two infants who are not ready to eat table food were not updated for the current month.”

    Rule 746.2421(b). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 29, 2025. Correction verified: May 21, 2025.

Feb 5, 2025: report to the state2 deficiencies
  • Supervision ensures each child?s safety, well-being, including physical proximity and auditory or visual awareness of each child?s on going activity

    “This standard was evaluated during the investigation and was found to be deficient. A child was left outside by a caregiver for an undetermined amount of time. Another adult who was present returned the child to the facility.”

    Rule 746.1205(a)(4). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 6, 2025. Correction verified: Mar 20, 2025.

  • Incident/Illness Report Form Shared with Parent

    “This standard was evaluated during the investigation and was found to be deficient. The operation did not share an incident report with the parent within the required time frame.”

    Rule 746.707. Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 13, 2025. Correction verified: Mar 20, 2025.

Dec 3, 2024: inspection3 deficiencies
  • AP Ensure total number of children both at & away from center within capacity

    “During the inspection there were 36 children in care. The opereation’s total licenced capacity is 35 children. This was corrected during the inspection when children were picked up by parents.”

    Rule 746.201(11). High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 3, 2024.

  • Notification of Change in Age Range of Children In Care

    “During the inspection there were two infants and eight toddlers present. The operation is currently licenced for care for Pre-K and School aged children.”

    Rule 746.301(5). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 10, 2024. Correction verified: Dec 4, 2024.

  • Notification of Change in Space

    “During the inspection the operation was caring for children in two unlicenced rooms within the facility.”

    Rule 746.301(2). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 10, 2024. Correction verified: Dec 4, 2024.

Nov 19, 2024: inspection2 deficiencies
  • Measurement of Use Zone for Slides - Six Feet High or Less

    “The use zones surrounding the slide does not extend 6 feet around the entirety of the slide’s use zone.”

    Rule 746.4805(b). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 26, 2024. Correction verified: Nov 25, 2024.

  • Documentation of Fire Inspection

    “The operation has had a fire inspection but does not have a copy of the latest fire inspection report.”

    Rule 746.5103. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 26, 2024. Correction verified: Nov 20, 2024.

All 21 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Oct 26, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Jul 16, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Jun 9, 2026InspectionNo violation found
May 20, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Nov 25, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Jul 9, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Jun 19, 2025Inspection1 deficiency cited
Jun 12, 2025Inspection1 deficiency cited
Jun 10, 2025Report to the state2 deficiencies cited
Jun 4, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Apr 22, 2025Inspection1 deficiency cited
Mar 20, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Feb 14, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Feb 13, 2025Report to the stateNo violation found
Feb 11, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Feb 7, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Feb 7, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Feb 5, 2025Report to the state2 deficiencies cited
Jan 17, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Dec 3, 2024Inspection3 deficiencies cited
Nov 19, 2024Inspection2 deficiencies cited

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued May 22, 2025.
  • Accepts state child care subsidies.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 83 children.
Source:

Texas HHSC, child care operations. Released Oct 27, 2026. Updated daily.

Has Texas acted against it?

  • No corrective or adverse action by Texas on record.
  • 3 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 27, 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 27, 2026. Updated daily.

How does it compare nearby?

  • Among 57 child care providers in Grayson 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 Oct 27, 2026. Updated daily.

11 of the 57 in Grayson County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
University of Gymnastics2
Tuck Street Early Education Center34
Rising Stars Learning Center11
Growing Smart Learning Center13
Marilyn Ponder2
Home Based Learning Academy LLC3
Lexus KaboreNot given
Montessori Academy of North Texas6
Sherman Early Head Start0
Bluebonnet Learning Academy12
Bright Beginnings Preschool and Elementary This child care provider12
School for Little People2

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 27, 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 8, 2026. Updated monthly.

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