The Crayon Academy
A licensed child care center in Missouri City, Texas 77459
2861 Dulles Ave, Missouri City, Texas 77459. (281) 261-4000.
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The short answer
Record last released by Texas HHSC on Nov 5, 2026.
- 15 deficiencies cited in the last three years Middle in Fort Bend County: 4
- 5 rated High by Texas, its most serious level (needs attention)
- 12 inspections on record
- 3-Star Texas Rising Star rating
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?
15 deficiencies cited in the last three years
The middle of the 477 child care providers in Fort Bend County had 4.
12 inspections on record. The latest, on May 14, 2026: no violation found.
Rated High by Texas: Electronic Child Safety Alarm - is equipped in each vehicle, at the inspection on Oct 3, 2024
Rated High by Texas: AP Background check results - Must receive notification prior to allowing subject to be present at your operation, at the inspection on Jul 5, 2024
Rated High by Texas: Supervision ensures each child?s safety, well-being, including physical proximity and auditory or visual awareness of each child?s on going activity, at the inspection on Jul 5, 2024
2 more rated High; all are listed below.
Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data) and inspections and investigations. Released Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.
When those deficiencies happened
15 deficiencies in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited May 2025. Most serious: High. The last 3 years, to Nov 5, 2026.
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| 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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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.
May 28, 2025: inspection4 deficiencies
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Emergency Evacuation and Relocation Diagram
“Evacuation and Relocation diagram was observed to not be posted in two classrooms. Corrected at Inspection: Evacuation and relocations diagrams were observed to be posted in both classrooms.”
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Types of Vehicles Used to Transport Children - Be Maintained Safely
“Seat belt buckle was observed to be broken.”
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Child Passenger Safety Seat System - Not expired or damaged in accident
“1 car seats used for transporting children were expired.”
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Required Admission Information - Emergency Contact
“Two children records evaluated did not an address for the emergency contact. Corrected at Inspection: the operation was able to call the parents for the emergency address for the emergency contact.”
Oct 3, 2024: inspection7 deficiencies
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Electronic Child Safety Alarm - is equipped in each vehicle
“2 out of 3 vehicles used for transporting children did not have an electronic child safety alarm installed.”
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CPR Training and Recertification Adhere to Guidelines-skill based
“4 out of 5 caregiver files reviewed had online CPR that did not meet minimum standards and include a hands-on portion with the mannequin.”
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Infant Care Area Furnishings and Equipment -Use of Safety Straps
“2 infants weren’t buckled into high chairs and one was not buckled into a bouncer.”
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Child Passenger Safety Seat System - Not expired or damaged in accident
“2 booster seats used for transporting children were expired.”
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Required Admission Information-Child’s allergies and Completed Food Allergy Plan
“One child with a diagnosed food allergy did not have a food allergy emergency plan on file at the operation.”
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Children’s Records - Immunizations
“1 child did not have an immunization record on file at the operation.”
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Required Personnel Records - Required Affidavit (Form 2912)
“5 out of 5 caregiver’s files checked did not have the required pre-employment affidavit.”
Jul 5, 2024: inspection2 deficiencies
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AP Background check results - Must receive notification prior to allowing subject to be present at your operation
“During the inspection I observed, two caregivers alone in direct care of a children without an active background check on file.”
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Supervision ensures each child?s safety, well-being, including physical proximity and auditory or visual awareness of each child?s on going activity
“During the walkthrough I observed 10 children in care unsupervised. The caregiver was in the front office when I arrived. The second caregiver was in the kitchen.”
Jul 3, 2024: report to the state2 deficiencies
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Responsibilities of Employees and Caregivers -Demonstrate Competency, Good Judgment, Self-control
“A caregiver did not exhibit good judgment when separating two children who were fighting over toys and putting one of them into a dark closet to speak to them and calm them down. The caregiver also did not exhibit good judgment when sitting the toddler aged child on a stack of cots in the closet as the child could have gotten injured by falling off or trying to get down. The caregiver did not think to call for assistance.”
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Prohibited Punishments - Placing Child in Locked or Dark Room
“Information gathered in the investigation substantiated that a child was placed in a dark closet by a caregiver after separating the child from another child to speak to them and calm them down.”
1 deficiency older than three years
Nov 2, 2023: inspection1 deficiency
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Adequate Lighting During Naptime
“The Toddler room was too dark to count the children during naptime. NOTE: The deficiency was corrected with additional lighting turned on from a closet space.”
All 15 visits on record
| Date | Visit | What the record says |
|---|---|---|
| May 14, 2026 | Inspection | No violation found |
| May 28, 2025 | Inspection | 4 deficiencies cited |
| Oct 8, 2024 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Oct 3, 2024 | Inspection | 7 deficiencies cited |
| Aug 5, 2024 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Jul 17, 2024 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Jul 5, 2024 | Inspection | 2 deficiencies cited |
| Jul 3, 2024 | Report to the state | 2 deficiencies cited |
| Nov 2, 2023 | Inspection | 1 deficiency cited |
| Feb 2, 2023 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Jan 30, 2023 | Report to the state | No violation found |
| Dec 15, 2022 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Dec 13, 2022 | Report to the state | No violation found |
| Dec 5, 2022 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Dec 6, 2021 | Inspection | No violation found |
Is it licensed?
- Licensed Center, permit issued May 7, 2002.
- Accepts state child care subsidies.
- Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
- Capacity: 156 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.
- 3 reports to the state on record; Texas doesn’t publish whether they were A complaint allegation the state investigated and found true: the evidence showed it more likely than not happened. Inconclusive means the evidence couldn’t show it either way. Neither inconclusive nor unsubstantiated proves it didn’t happen. Source: California Department of Social Services, complaint findings; each state’s licensing agency..
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?
- Texas Rising Star: 3-Star (the middle of three levels).
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 15.
Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data). Released Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.
| Place | Deficiencies, 3 years |
|---|---|
| The Crayon Academy This child care provider | 15 |
| The Townecreek School | 2 |
| New Millennium Montessori School | 12 |
| Primrose School of Sienna | 7 |
| The W.i.d.e School | 3 |
| Unique Minds Montessori School | 11 |
| Sensational Beginning Learning Academy | 22 |
| Montessori School of Sugar Land Sienna | 77 |
| The Little Village School | 4 |
| Fort Bend Talent Academy, Inc. | 17 |
| Kiddie Academy of Missouri City, Texas | 3 |
| The Learning Experience | 35 |
| The Learning Experience | 11 |
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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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).
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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).
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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).
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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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