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Little Ducklings Daycare

A licensed child care center in Haskell, Texas 79521

16 Avenue D, Haskell, Texas 79521. (940) 203-1863.

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The short answer

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

The last 24 months 5 deficiencies in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited May 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?

5 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 2 child care providers in Haskell County had 4.5.

15 inspections on record. The latest, on Jul 9, 2026: no violation found.

Rated High by Texas: Requirements for Feeding Infants - Never Prop Bottles, at the report to the state on Apr 23, 2025

Source:

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

When those deficiencies happened

5 deficiencies in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited May 2025. Most serious: High. The last 3 years, to Oct 24, 2026.

5 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 14, 2025: inspection1 deficiency

  • Child/Caregiver Ratio - Splashing/Wading Activities

    “The operation is out of compliance with ratio while children were playing in wading pools. The youngest child in the group was two years old with only two staff present.”

    Rule 746.2101(a). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 14, 2025. Correction verified: May 27, 2025.

Apr 23, 2025: report to the state1 deficiency

  • Requirements for Feeding Infants - Never Prop Bottles

    “Evidence gathered during this investigation shows a caregiver did prop bottles while feeding infants.”

    Rule 746.2419(3). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 21, 2025. Correction verified: May 27, 2025.

Mar 25, 2025: inspection3 deficiencies

  • Training Requirements for Employees, Caregivers, and Directors - Orientation

    “Staff records were reviewed during the inspection. Staff records were missing proof of orientation, starting employment dates, pre-employment affidavits, and affidavits for employment.”

    Rule 746.1301(a)(1)(A). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 11, 2025. Correction verified: Apr 24, 2025.

  • Child/ Caregiver Ratio - 13 or More Children

    “During the inspection two staff were with 22 children with a specified age of 2. When one staff had to go inside to cook lunch or take a child to the bathroom this left the class out of compliance with child/staff ratio. When the second caregiver returned the class came back into compliance.”

    Rule 746.1601. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 25, 2025.

  • Provide Access to Children’s Records - During Hours of Operation

    “Children’s records were reviewed during the inspection. Several children’s records were missing Health Statements, addresses for Emergency consent information, and signed medical consent information.”

    Rule 746.601(a). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 11, 2025. Correction verified: Apr 24, 2025.

All 17 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Jul 9, 2026InspectionNo violation found
May 4, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Jan 20, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Dec 3, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Sep 17, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Sep 5, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Sep 4, 2025Report to the stateNo violation found
Jul 30, 2025InspectionNo violation found
May 27, 2025InspectionNo violation found
May 14, 2025Inspection1 deficiency cited
Apr 25, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Apr 23, 2025Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Apr 3, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Mar 25, 2025Inspection3 deficiencies cited
Feb 25, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Feb 6, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Dec 20, 2024InspectionNo violation found

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Jul 2, 2025.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 116 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.
  • 2 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 2 child care providers in Haskell County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 4.5; this one had 5.
Source:

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

1 of the 2 in Haskell County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Mel’s Munchkins4
Little Ducklings Daycare This child care provider5

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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