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Cotulla Early Childhood Learning Center

A licensed child care center in Cotulla, Texas 78014

208 N Leonard Ave, Cotulla, Texas 78014. (830) 879-4348.

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The short answer

Record last released by Texas HHSC on Oct 19, 2026.

The last 24 months 4 deficiencies in 2 months of the last 36. Last cited Jan 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?

  • 9 inspections on record, the latest on Jan 27, 2026.
  • 4 deficiencies cited in the last three years, 1 of them rated High by Texas.

Rated High by Texas: Requirements for Feeding Infants - Never Prop Bottles, at the inspection on Feb 16, 2024

Source:

Texas HHSC, inspections and investigations and deficiencies (non-compliance data). Released Oct 17, 2026. Updated daily.

When those deficiencies happened

4 deficiencies in 2 months of the last 36. Last cited Jan 2026. Most serious: High. The last 3 years, to Oct 19, 2026.

4 deficiencies by month over the last 3 years. Each cell is one month.
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2023 NovDec
2024 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2025 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2026 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOct

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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 Oct 17, 2026. Updated daily.

Jan 27, 2026: inspection1 deficiency

  • Children Handwashing Before Eating

    “Children did not wash hands prior to eating snack. This was corrected at inspection when it was addressed with the caregivers.”

    Rule 746.3417(1). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 27, 2026.

Feb 16, 2024: inspection3 deficiencies

  • Requirements for Feeding Infants - Never Prop Bottles

    “A caregiver propped the bottle of an infant with a blanket. Corrected at inspection: The bottle was removed from the child immediately.”

    Rule 746.2419(3). High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 16, 2024.

  • Documented Annual Training Area - 24 Hours Required

    “Two out of four staff records reviewed had not completed all the required 24 hours of annual training for their previous completed year.”

    Rule 746.1309(a). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 1, 2024. Correction verified: Mar 1, 2024.

  • Documented Annual Training- Required Content

    “The two out of four files reviewd did not have training certificates in the required training topics in 2023,”

    Rule 746.1309(e). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 1, 2024. Correction verified: Mar 1, 2024.

4 deficiencies older than three years
Feb 21, 2023: inspection1 deficiency

  • Written Feeding Instructions - Review and Update Every 30 Days

    “Three out of three infants lacked current feeding instructions.”

    Rule 746.2421(b). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 28, 2023. Correction verified: Mar 28, 2023.

Apr 5, 2022: inspection3 deficiencies

  • Installation and Maintenance of Loose-fill Surfacing - Proper Depth Maintained

    “Mulch was not at proper depth causing the black paper to be exposed causing a tripping hazard.”

    Rule 746.4907(d). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 19, 2022. Correction verified: Apr 19, 2022.

  • Sheltering Drill For Severe Weather-Four times a calendar year

    “The operation lacked a shelter drill for this year.”

    Rule 746.5205(2). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 12, 2022. Correction verified: Apr 12, 2022.

  • Children’s Products- Annual Certification

    “The required Consumer Product Safety Commission form has not been completed within the last year. CI: This was corrected at inspection when the form was complted and posted.”

    Rule 746.4135(b). Medium, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 5, 2022.

All 11 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Jan 27, 2026Inspection1 deficiency cited
Apr 7, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Mar 26, 2025Report to the stateNo violation found
Jan 30, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Jul 23, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Apr 25, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Feb 16, 2024Inspection3 deficiencies cited
Jul 21, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Feb 21, 2023Inspection1 deficiency cited
Feb 7, 2023Report to the stateNo violation found
Apr 5, 2022Inspection3 deficiencies cited

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Feb 6, 2001.
  • Accepts state child care subsidies.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten.
  • Capacity: 71 children.
Source:

Texas HHSC, child care operations. Released Oct 19, 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. Released Oct 19, 2026. Updated daily.

Texas HHSC, inspections and investigations. Released Oct 17, 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?

  • Texas Rising Star: 3-Star (the middle of three levels).
Source:

Texas Workforce Commission, subsidy providers and Texas Rising Star. Released Oct 19, 2026. Updated daily.

How does it compare nearby?

  • There aren’t enough providers in this county to compare.
Source:

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data). Released Oct 17, 2026. Updated daily.

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PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Cotulla Early Childhood Learning Center This child care provider4

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 Oct 19, 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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