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Klassy Kids Lighthouse Child Development Academy

A licensed child care center in West Columbia, Texas 77486

401 W Brazos Ave, West Columbia, Texas 77486. (979) 345-7707.

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The short answer

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

The last 24 months 5 deficiencies in 4 months of the last 36. Last cited Jan 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?

5 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 206 child care providers in Brazoria County had 4.

15 inspections on record. The latest, on May 12, 2026: no violation found.

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 report to the state on Oct 4, 2024

Rated High by Texas: Infant May Not Sleep in a Restrictive Device, at the report to the state on May 29, 2024

Source:

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

When those deficiencies happened

5 deficiencies in 4 months of the last 36. Last cited Jan 2026. Most serious: High. The last 3 years, to Nov 5, 2026.

5 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.

Jan 7, 2026: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Each Caregiver and the Director Must Have Current Training in pediatric first aid with rescue breathing and choking.

    “Two caregivers do not have first aid and CPR training.”

    Rule 746.1315(a). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 16, 2026. Correction verified: Jan 13, 2026.

  • Children’s Records - Immunizations

    “One child’s file does not have a copy of their immunization record. One child’s file does not have an updated immunization record.”

    Rule 746.603(a)(4). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 9, 2026. Correction verified: Jan 13, 2026.

Oct 4, 2024: report to the state1 deficiency

  • Supervision ensures each child?s safety, well-being, including physical proximity and auditory or visual awareness of each child?s on going activity

    “Based on the preponderance of information obtained during the investigation there is sufficient information to prove that a child had ran out of the cafeteria unsupervised and was hiding in a classroom for approximately 10 minutes. Note: Caregivers were actively looking for the child during that 10 minutes.”

    Rule 746.1205(a)(4). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 18, 2024. Correction verified: Nov 27, 2024.

Aug 28, 2024: inspection1 deficiency

  • Floors, ceilings and Walls in Good Repair and Clean

    “There is paint chipping in the infant room, pre-k, and toddler room.”

    Rule 746.3407(9). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 13, 2024. Correction verified: Sep 9, 2024.

May 29, 2024: report to the state1 deficiency

  • Infant May Not Sleep in a Restrictive Device

    “Based on information received during the DFPS investigation a caregiver has allowed a 5 month old infant to sleep in a restrictive device.”

    Rule 746.2426(a)(1). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 10, 2024. Correction verified: Aug 28, 2024.

15 deficiencies older than three years
May 9, 2023: report to the state1 deficiency

  • Prohibited Punishments - Corporal Punishment

    “Based on the preponderance of information obtained during the investigation a staff member admitted to telling a child that they will call their parent and they will get whooping?s/spankings when the child is misbehaving.”

    Rule 746.2805(1). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 8, 2023. Correction verified: Jun 15, 2023.

Dec 6, 2022: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Covering Infant’s Head or Crib

    “Infants had blankets covering the front of their cribs while taking naps. Note: Pictures were taken for the file. Blankets were removed from the sides of the cribs during my visit.”

    Rule 746.2429. High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 6, 2022. Correction verified: Dec 21, 2022.

  • Maintenance of Building, Grounds and Equipment

    “The doors leading into the classrooms have visible dirt on them. Two walls in the school age room are broken. One kitchen toy has visible dirt on it. An outlet cover is broken. Note: Pictures were taken for the file.”

    Rule 746.3407. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 16, 2022. Correction verified: Dec 21, 2022.

Jan 12, 2022: inspection1 deficiency

  • Maintenance of Building, Grounds and Equipment

    “The outlet cover was observed broken in the school age classsroom. There was a hole observed in the wall of the pre-k room. Follow up 1/12/22: The door frame has been repaired. The car has been removed from the playground.The ceiling fans have been replaced and no longer wobble. The ant piles have been treated and removed.”

    Rule 746.3407. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 21, 2022. Correction verified: Jan 12, 2022.

Jan 3, 2022: assessment1 deficiency

  • AP Background check determination - If ineligible then you must immediately remove subject from operation and confirm to CBCU receipt of notice letter

    “The operation continued to have a caregiver present at the operation with an ineligible background check.”

    Rule 745.635(2). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 3, 2022. Correction verified: Jan 7, 2022.

Dec 23, 2021: report to the state4 deficiencies

  • Responsibilities of Caregivers- Supervision of Children

    “Based on the preponderance of information obtained during the investigation caregivers were not adequately supervising children during outside play time.”

    Rule 746.1203(4). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 11, 2022. Correction verified: Feb 18, 2022.

  • Prohibited Punishments - Hitting with Hand or Instrument

    “Based on the preponderance of information obtained during the investigation there is sufficient information to prove a caregiver hit a child in the back with a shoe as a form of punishment.”

    Rule 746.2805(4). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 11, 2022. Correction verified: Feb 18, 2022.

  • Prohibited Punishments - Humiliating, Rejecting, Yelling

    “Based on the preponderance of information obtained during the investigation there is sufficient information to prove that a caregiver yells at the children as a form of punishment.”

    Rule 746.2805(6). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 11, 2022. Correction verified: Feb 18, 2022.

  • Child/ Caregiver Ratio - 13 or More Children

    “Based on the preponderance of information obtained during the investigation there were about 20 children on the playground ranging in age from toddlers to school age children with one staff member.”

    Rule 746.1601. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 7, 2022. Correction verified: Feb 18, 2022.

Dec 8, 2021: inspection6 deficiencies

  • AP Background check determination - If ineligible then you must immediately remove subject from operation and confirm to CBCU receipt of notice letter

    “A caregiver was observed at the operation after receiving notification of an ineligibity on 11/10/21.”

    Rule 745.635(2). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 8, 2021. Correction verified: Jan 3, 2022.

  • Food Service and Preparation Requirement - Safe and Sanitary

    “Milk was observed in the fridge with an expiration date of 11/15/21. Note: Pictures were taken for the file.”

    Rule 746.3317. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 13, 2022. Correction verified: Jan 12, 2022.

  • Maintenance of Building, Grounds and Equipment

    “The door frame was observed broken exposing a nail. The tires on the car equipment outside was observed to be shredding and exposing wires that are sharp. The ceiling fan in the nap room was observed on and wobbling. Two active ant piles were observed on the playground. Note: Pictures were taken for the file.”

    Rule 746.3407. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 13, 2022. Correction verified: Jan 12, 2022.

  • Required Admission Information - Emergency Contact

    “Two children’s files out of six reviewed are missing emergency contact information on their admission forms.”

    Rule 746.605(6). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 13, 2022. Correction verified: Jan 5, 2022.

  • Screen Time Activities - Not Used During Eating or Rest Times

    “A child was observed on a tablet during nap time.”

    Rule 746.2207(c)(4). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 13, 2022. Correction verified: Jan 12, 2022.

  • Children’s Records - Immunizations

    “One child’s immunization record was not current in their file.”

    Rule 746.603(a)(4). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 13, 2022. Correction verified: Jan 11, 2022.

All 22 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
May 12, 2026InspectionNo violation found
May 8, 2026Report to the stateNo violation found
Jan 7, 2026Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Jul 8, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Nov 27, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Oct 15, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Oct 4, 2024Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Aug 28, 2024Inspection1 deficiency cited
May 29, 2024Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Mar 25, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Mar 14, 2024Report to the stateNo violation found
Dec 4, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Aug 30, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Jun 15, 2023InspectionNo violation found
May 9, 2023Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Dec 21, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Dec 6, 2022Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Feb 18, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Jan 12, 2022Inspection1 deficiency cited
Jan 3, 2022Assessment1 deficiency cited
Dec 23, 2021Report to the state4 deficiencies cited
Dec 8, 2021Inspection6 deficiencies cited

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Dec 11, 2002.
  • Accepts state child care subsidies.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 88 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.
  • 6 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 206 child care providers in Brazoria County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 4; this one had 5.
Source:

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

11 of the 206 in Brazoria County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Discovery Days Learning Center0
A Better Class Learning Academy12
Kids Academy Learning Center24
Klassy Kids Lighthouse Child Development Academy This child care provider5
Kingdom Class Academy7
Chapelwood Weekday Ministries6
Happy Faces Early Learning Center - Garland Dr4
Sharon Lee Gray0
Phuong Nguyen3
Kids Campus Child Care3
Children’s Choice Learning Center10
Lifeguard Christian Home Childcare2

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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