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Kinder Early Learning Center

A licensed child care center in Houston, Texas 77054

3143 Yellowstone Blvd, Houston, Texas 77054. (713) 832-2135.

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The short answer

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

The last 24 months 7 deficiencies in 4 months of the last 36. Last cited Sep 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?

7 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 2,139 child care providers in Harris County had 4.

10 inspections on record. The latest, on Oct 20, 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 Mar 10, 2026

Rated High by Texas: Illegal Operation - Not Licensed, at the inspection on Aug 26, 2025

Source:

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

When those deficiencies happened

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

7 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.

Sep 18, 2026: inspection1 deficiency

  • Annual Sanitation Inspection

    “The annual sanitation inspection has not been conducted for this year and the last inspection report is dated 7/24/2025”

    Rule 746.3401(a). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 9, 2026. Correction verified: Sep 25, 2026.

Jul 23, 2026: report to the state3 deficiencies

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

    “The daycare does not have an emergency allergy plan for the victim or the victim’s sibling who has a medically diagnosed allergy.”

    Rule 746.3819. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 14, 2026. Correction verified: Sep 18, 2026.

  • Posting Requirements - Child’s Food Allergy Plans

    “Based on the preponderance of evidence there is sufficient evidence to support the claim that the alleged perpetrator admitted to serving the child peanut M&MS and not being aware that the child is allergic to peanuts.”

    Rule 746.403(b). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 17, 2026. Correction verified: Sep 18, 2026.

  • Caring for Children Above or Below Ground Level-Written Approval

    “Based on the preponderance of evidence there is sufficient evidence to support the claim that the preschool classroom was upstairs, and the operation does not have written approval from the state or local fire authority to care for children above level”

    Rule 746.4217(1). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 17, 2026. Correction verified: Sep 18, 2026.

Mar 11, 2026: inspection1 deficiency

  • Floors, ceilings and Walls in Good Repair and Clean

    “Multiple ceiling tiles appear to have water damage and pockets of water bubbles were observed in the toddler and school age classroom. This was corrected during the inspection when I observed the director replacing the ceiling tiles.”

    Rule 746.3407(9). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 11, 2026.

Mar 10, 2026: report to the state1 deficiency

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

    “Based on the preponderance of evidence there is sufficient evidence to support that good judgment wasn’t used when a child whose parent never came to pick them up, went home with the director”

    Rule 746.1201(1). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 1, 2026. Correction verified: Apr 7, 2026.

Aug 26, 2025: inspection1 deficiency

  • Illegal Operation - Not Licensed

    “During the application inspection there were two toddlers and two infants being cared for by staff members. The operation is currently in the application stage and does not have a permit to care for children. This was corrected during the inspection when the parents of each child came and picked up the children.”

    Rule HRC42.041(a). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 26, 2025. Correction verified: Sep 4, 2025.

All 12 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Oct 20, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Sep 18, 2026Inspection1 deficiency cited
Jul 24, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Jul 23, 2026Report to the state3 deficiencies cited
Jun 4, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Apr 7, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Mar 20, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Mar 11, 2026Inspection1 deficiency cited
Mar 10, 2026Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Nov 18, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Sep 4, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Aug 26, 2025Inspection1 deficiency cited

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Jul 21, 2026.
  • Its permit has conditions.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 227 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.
  • 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 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 star-rated in Texas Rising Star (TWC’s code: ELD).
Source:

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

How does it compare nearby?

  • Among 2139 child care providers in Harris County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 4; this one had 7.
Source:

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

11 of the 2,139 in Harris County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Tmc Tots21
Alfrednette PaytonNot given
Vidyakiran PolakiNot given
Kinder Early Learning Center This child care provider7
Learning Time Academy14
Yorkshire Academy4
Immanuel Lutheran Church and School12
Brooke’s Learning Corner4
School in the Pines2
Gloria Dei Early Childhood Program7
Childrens Cottage Infant Center11
Resurrection Lutheran Early Learning Center5

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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