The Goddard School of Sugar Land

A licensed child care center in Sugar Land, Texas 77478

9722 Highway 90a, Sugar Land, Texas 77478. (281) 491-0313.

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The short answer

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

2 deficiencies cited in the last three years Middle in Fort Bend County: 4
1 rated High by Texas, its most serious level (needs attention)
2 inspections on record
Not star-rated Texas Rising Star rating

The last 24 months 2 deficiencies in 1 month of the last 36. Last cited Jun 2026. Most serious: High. Every month

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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?

2 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 477 child care providers in Fort Bend County had 4.

2 inspections on record. The latest, on Sep 14, 2026: no violation found.

Rated High by Texas: Initial background checks submitted - At the time you submit your application, at the inspection on Jun 20, 2026

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

When those deficiencies happened

2 deficiencies in 1 month of the last 36. Last cited Jun 2026. Most serious: High. The last 3 years, to Nov 5, 2026.

2 deficiencies by month over the last 3 years. Each cell is one month.
	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
2023												Dec
2024	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
2025	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
2026	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov

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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

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.

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

Jun 20, 2026: inspection2 deficiencies

Initial background checks submitted - At the time you submit your application

“The operation has not submit all the background check required for all their employees employed at the childcare center during the application inspection.”

Rule 745.621(a)(1). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 20, 2026. Correction verified: Jun 30, 2026.
Written Operational Policies - Operating Times

“The operation did not have a complete written operational policies that cover policies and procedures for each minimum standard subchapter for licensing to review.”

Rule 746.501(a)(1). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 20, 2026. Correction verified: Jun 23, 2026.

All 2 visits on record

Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
Date	Visit	What the record says
Sep 14, 2026	Inspection	No violation found
Jun 20, 2026	Inspection	2 deficiencies cited

Is it licensed?

Licensed Center, permit issued Jun 30, 2026.
Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
Capacity: 119 children.

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.
0 reports to the state on record; Texas doesn’t publish whether they were .

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).

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

How does it compare nearby?

Among 477 child care providers in Fort Bend County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 4; this one had 2.

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

11 of the 477 in Fort Bend County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
Place	Deficiencies, 3 years
Sugar Creek Baptist Mothers Day Out	3
La Petite Academy	4
Life Time Fitness Camp	1
Education Station	1
Villa Di Maria Montessori School	7
Sugar Creek Country Club	2
Tandway Properties DBA Kid Scholars Academy	15
Little Companions Day Care	24
Pam Jean Zapalac	Not given
Wonder Land Child Care and Learning Center	5
The Goddard School of Sugar Land This child care provider	2
Creative Minds Child Development Center	4

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

Texas Health and Human Services Commission, Child care operations (bc5r-88dy).

Released Nov 5, 2026 and checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily. Creative Commons 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication).
Texas Health and Human Services Commission, Inspections and investigations (m5q4-3y3d).

Released Nov 5, 2026 and checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily. Creative Commons 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication).
Texas Health and Human Services Commission, Deficiencies (non-compliance data) (tqgd-mf4x).

Released Nov 5, 2026 and checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily. Creative Commons 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication).
Texas Workforce Commission, Subsidy providers and Texas Rising Star.

Released Nov 5, 2026 and checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily. No licence stated.

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