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Katy Knowledge Beginnings

A licensed child care center in Katy, Texas 77494

6130 S Fry Rd, Katy, Texas 77494. (281) 693-6556.

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The short answer

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

The last 24 months 3 deficiencies in 1 month of the last 36. Last cited Sep 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?

3 deficiencies cited in the last three years

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

7 inspections on record. The latest, on Jun 29, 2026: no violation found.

Rated High by Texas: Required Equipment in Vehicles - Fire Extinguisher, at the inspection on Sep 4, 2025

Rated High by Texas: Electronic Child Safety Alarm - installed and maintained according to manufacturer’s instructions, at the inspection on Sep 4, 2025

Source:

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

When those deficiencies happened

3 deficiencies in 1 month of the last 36. Last cited Sep 2025. Most serious: High. The last 3 years, to Nov 5, 2026.

3 deficiencies by month over the last 3 years. Each cell is one month.
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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 4, 2025: inspection3 deficiencies

  • Required Equipment in Vehicles - Fire Extinguisher

    “The vehicle used for transportation did not have a fire extinguisher.”

    Rule 746.5617(a)(5). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 8, 2025. Correction verified: Sep 11, 2025.

  • Electronic Child Safety Alarm - installed and maintained according to manufacturer’s instructions

    “The vehicle used for transportation did not have a working child safety alarm.”

    Rule 746.5625(b). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 18, 2025. Correction verified: Sep 8, 2025.

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

    “A child with a diagnosed food allergy did not have a food allergy emergency plan on file at the operation.”

    Rule 746.3819. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 18, 2025. Correction verified: Sep 11, 2025.

3 deficiencies older than three years
Oct 12, 2023: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Safety - Bodies of Water Inaccessible to Children

    “There was a mop bucket filled with water inside a child’s bathroom and outside a classroom accessible to children. ** Director emptied the bucket and put it inside of the utility closet. **”

    Rule 746.3701(9). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 12, 2023. Correction verified: Oct 24, 2023.

  • Furnishings and Equipment for Toddlers - Bottles & Training Cups Labeled for Each Toddler

    “There were 2 classrooms observed that did not have all the children’s name labeled on their bottle/cups. ** Cups were labeled during the inspection. **”

    Rule 746.2505(4)(A). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 12, 2023. Correction verified: Oct 24, 2023.

Oct 12, 2022: inspection1 deficiency

  • Children’s Records - Immunizations

    “2 children did not have the most up to date immunization record on file at the operation. This was corrected when the immunization records were obtained from the parents.”

    Rule 746.603(a)(4). Medium, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 12, 2022.

All 9 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Jun 29, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Sep 4, 2025Inspection3 deficiencies cited
Oct 11, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Oct 24, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Oct 12, 2023Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Sep 29, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Sep 27, 2023Report to the stateNo violation found
Apr 21, 2023Report to the stateNo violation found
Oct 12, 2022Inspection1 deficiency cited

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Feb 13, 2001.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 150 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 477 child care providers in Fort Bend County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 4; this one had 3.
Source:

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

12 of the 477 in Fort Bend County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Katy Knowledge Beginnings This child care provider3
Primrose School of West Cinco Ranch4
YMCA Afterschool @ Shafer Elementary0
YMCA Afterschool @ Wolman Elementary1
YMCA Afterschool @ Wilson Elementary1
Life Time Fitness Camp3
Katy’s Early Childhood Enrichment Center7
Ivy Kids Early Learning Center - Cinco Ranch3
British Private Prep School at Firethorne7
Bob Hosack5
YMCA Afterschool @ Davidson Elementary0
First Step Holdings Inc. DBA Discovery Schoolhouse5
Safari Kids Learning Center18

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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