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Little Ark Care Center

A licensed child care center in Watauga, Texas 76148

7200 Denton Hwy, Watauga, Texas 76148. (682) 999-6132.

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The short answer

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

The last 24 months 10 deficiencies in 4 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?

10 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 920 child care providers in Tarrant County had 3.

9 inspections on record. The latest, on Oct 29, 2026: outcome pending.

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 May 12, 2026

Rated High by Texas: Prohibited Punishments - Corporal Punishment, at the report to the state on May 12, 2026

Rated High by Texas: Director Responsibilities - Employee Assignments, at the report to the state on Sep 11, 2025

Source:

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

When those deficiencies happened

10 deficiencies in 4 months of the last 36. Last cited May 2026. Most serious: High. The last 3 years, to Nov 5, 2026.

10 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 21, 2026: inspection1 deficiency

  • Child/Caregiver Ratio - 18 Months Difference in Age

    “A four-year-old child was combined with 15?17-month-old infants. This was corrected during the inspection when the 4-year-old was moved out of the older infant room after naptime.”

    Rule 746.1605(1). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 21, 2026.

May 12, 2026: 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

    “A caregiver did not immediately intervene when an altercation occurred between children.”

    Rule 746.1205(a)(4). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 1, 2026. Correction verified: Jun 8, 2026.

  • Prohibited Punishments - Corporal Punishment

    “Through evidence unrelated to incident, the operation used wall sits and running laps to discipline children’s behavior.”

    Rule 746.2805(1). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 1, 2026. Correction verified: Jun 9, 2026.

May 4, 2026: report to the state1 deficiency

  • Update Admission Information - Procedure

    “The operation did not update the child’s food preference in the admission information.”

    Rule 746.609(a). Low, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 1, 2026. Correction verified: Jun 8, 2026.

May 1, 2026: report to the state1 deficiency

  • AP Report Child Injury Requiring Medical Treatment by a Health-Care Professional or Hospitalization

    “An injured child who received medical treatment was not reported to licensing within the two-day required period after the incident.”

    Rule 746.305(a)(2). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 1, 2026. Correction verified: Jun 12, 2026.

Apr 30, 2026: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Immunization Records, Exceptions, and Exemptions Current

    “One immunization record was not current.”

    Rule 746.613(b). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 21, 2026. Correction verified: May 18, 2026.

  • Medication No Longer Used

    “One medication was expired.”

    Rule 746.3809. Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 21, 2026. Correction verified: May 18, 2026.

Sep 12, 2025: inspection1 deficiency

  • Required Personnel Records - Required Affidavit (Form 2985)

    “9 Staff files were reviewed and all were missing the required Form 2985 Affidavit.”

    Rule 746.901(4). Medium Low, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 19, 2025. Correction verified: Sep 26, 2025.

Sep 11, 2025: report to the state1 deficiency

  • Director Responsibilities - Employee Assignments

    “Based on information obtained through investigation a caregiver was assigned to a classroom without being trained on the requirements for a child with special care needs.”

    Rule 746.1003(3). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 30, 2025. Correction verified: Oct 30, 2025.

Jul 11, 2025: inspection1 deficiency

  • Food Allergy Emergency Plan Signed by Parents and Health Care Professional

    “At the time of the inspection 1 child, with a noted food allergy on their enrollment form, did not have an allergy action plan from their physician on file.”

    Rule 746.3819. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 25, 2025. Correction verified: Jul 31, 2025.

All 13 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Oct 29, 2026InspectionOutcome pending
Jun 9, 2026InspectionNo violation found
May 21, 2026Inspection1 deficiency cited
May 12, 2026Report to the state2 deficiencies cited
May 8, 2026InspectionNo violation found
May 4, 2026Report to the state1 deficiency cited
May 1, 2026Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Apr 30, 2026Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Oct 28, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Sep 12, 2025Inspection1 deficiency cited
Sep 11, 2025Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Jul 11, 2025Inspection1 deficiency cited
May 2, 2025InspectionNo violation found

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Nov 6, 2025.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 226 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.
  • 4 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?

  • Not rated in Texas Rising Star.
Source:

Texas Workforce Commission, subsidy providers and Texas Rising Star. Released Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.

How does it compare nearby?

  • Among 920 child care providers in Tarrant County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 3; this one had 10.
Source:

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

11 of the 920 in Tarrant County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Lisa Worley1
Kidsville Inc. Grace Hardeman Elementary2
Horizon Kidz Too2
Monkey See Monkey Do Cdc7
Tammi HowardNot given
Colleen HenryNot given
Taylor SmithNot given
Little Ark Care Center This child care provider10
Childcare Network #19511
Bgcgtc-Whitley Road0
Xuan Hoa Thi Ly0
Watauga Kindercare16

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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