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La Porte Head Start

A licensed child care center in La Porte, Texas 77571

927 S 1st St, La Porte, Texas 77571. (713) 696-3123.

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The short answer

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

The last 24 months 11 deficiencies in 7 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?

11 deficiencies cited in the last three years

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

8 inspections on record. The latest, on Sep 14, 2026: 1 deficiency cited.

Rated High by Texas: Required Fees, at the assessment on Sep 10, 2025

Source:

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

When those deficiencies happened

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

11 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 14, 2026: inspection1 deficiency

  • Annual Sanitation Inspection

    “I did not observe current sanitation inspection completed for the operation last on expired on 8/25/2026.”

    Rule 746.3401(a). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 5, 2026. Correction verified: Oct 15, 2026.

Feb 3, 2026: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Individual Cot, Bed, or Mat for Each Walking Child Through 4 Years of Age

    “I observed sleeping mats in the pre-k room that were torn and unable to be clean thoroughly as required.”

    Rule 746.4503(a). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 9, 2026. Correction verified: Mar 5, 2026.

  • Required Records Maintained and Made Available - Personnel and Training Records

    “Two personnel records evaluated were missing current annual training information.”

    Rule 746.801(3). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 17, 2026. Correction verified: Feb 6, 2026.

Sep 10, 2025: assessment1 deficiency

  • Required Fees

    “The operation has failed to submit required fees for all the pending background check fees.”

    Rule HRC42.054. High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 22, 2025. Correction verified: Sep 26, 2025.

Feb 5, 2025: inspection3 deficiencies

  • Emergency Evacuation and Relocation Diagram - Posted in Each Room

    “The emergency evacuation and relocation diagram was not posted in the three-year-old classroom. Note: corrected during inspection.”

    Rule 746.5207(b). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 5, 2025.

  • Cots, Beds, Mats Labeled With Child’s Name

    “The sleeping cots in the two and three year old classrooms were not labeled with child’s name or other identifying information.”

    Rule 746.4503(b). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 12, 2025. Correction verified: Feb 7, 2025.

  • Required Records Maintained and Made Available - Personnel and Training Records

    “One personnel record evaluated was missing employee photo ID and training information.”

    Rule 746.801(3). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 12, 2025. Correction verified: Feb 6, 2025.

Jan 17, 2025: assessment1 deficiency

  • Report Number of Employees

    “The operation had not submitted the total number of employees who ceased working at the operation the previous calendar year by January 15, 2024.”

    Rule 746.303(b). Medium Low, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 7, 2025. Correction verified: Mar 25, 2025.

Feb 16, 2024: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Emergency Evacuation and Relocation Diagram - Posted in Each Room

    “The emergency evacuation and relocation diagram not posted in EHS4 Pre-K room. Note: corrected at inspection.”

    Rule 746.5207(b). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 16, 2024.

  • Requirement of Gas Leak Inspection

    “I did not observe most recent gas inspection completed for the day care. The last one was conducted on 11/10/21.”

    Rule 746.5401. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 1, 2024. Correction verified: Feb 26, 2024.

Jan 18, 2024: assessment1 deficiency

  • Report Number of Employees

    “The operation had not submitted the total number of employees who ceased working at the operation the previous calendar year by January 15, 2024.”

    Rule 746.303(b). Medium Low, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 22, 2024. Correction verified: Jan 31, 2024.

2 deficiencies older than three years
May 17, 2023: inspection1 deficiency

  • Required Records Maintained and Made Available - Personnel and Training Records

    “I did not observe documentation of caregiver’s current CPR/FA training available for review.”

    Rule 746.801(3). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 24, 2023. Correction verified: Jun 2, 2023.

Feb 24, 2023: inspection1 deficiency

  • Maintenance of Building, Grounds and Equipment

    “I observe ceiling tiles in boys/girls restroom and 4-5yos classroom that were stained need to be replaced.”

    Rule 746.3407. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 4, 2023. Correction verified: Mar 10, 2023.

All 13 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Sep 14, 2026Inspection1 deficiency cited
Sep 10, 2026Report to the stateNo violation found
Feb 11, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Feb 3, 2026Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Sep 10, 2025Assessment1 deficiency cited
Feb 5, 2025Inspection3 deficiencies cited
Jan 17, 2025Assessment1 deficiency cited
Feb 16, 2024Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Jan 18, 2024Assessment1 deficiency cited
May 17, 2023Inspection1 deficiency cited
Apr 18, 2023Report to the stateNo violation found
Feb 24, 2023Inspection1 deficiency cited
Mar 9, 2022InspectionNo violation found

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Aug 30, 1999.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 117 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 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 2139 child care providers in Harris County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 4; this one had 11.
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
Cynthia Hennessy4
Ms. Litha’s Child Care Center17
Wise Old Owl Learning Center9
High Achievers Learning Center28
Kce Champions LLC @ Bayshore Elementary5
Barbara Yamila Alvarez-CoureauxNot given
Holly Liane Mcgee1
Little Steps - Bayshore3
Rainbow Express Learning Academy7
Funcare Children’s Center0
La Porte Head Start This child care provider11
Kce Champions @ Lomax Elementary7

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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