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Spring Branch Head Start

A licensed child care center in Houston, Texas 77055

9655 Long Point Rd, Houston, Texas 77055. (713) 464-8401.

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The short answer

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

The last 24 months 8 deficiencies in 6 months of the last 36. Last cited Aug 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?

8 deficiencies cited in the last three years

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

13 inspections on record. The latest, on Aug 21, 2026: 1 deficiency cited.

Rated High by Texas: Annual Fire Inspection - Before Initial Permit Issued and Every 12 Months, at the inspection on Aug 21, 2026

Rated High by Texas: Report Situation Placing Children at Risk, at the report to the state on Oct 22, 2025

Rated High by Texas: Responsibilities of Employees and Caregivers -Demonstrate Competency, Good Judgment, Self-control, at the report to the state on Dec 7, 2023

1 more rated High; all are listed below.

Source:

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

When those deficiencies happened

8 deficiencies in 6 months of the last 36. Last cited Aug 2026. Most serious: High. The last 3 years, to Nov 5, 2026.

8 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.

Aug 21, 2026: inspection1 deficiency

  • Annual Fire Inspection - Before Initial Permit Issued and Every 12 Months

    “The operation did not have a current annual fire inspection report.”

    Rule 746.5101(a). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 4, 2026. Correction verified: Aug 26, 2026.

Oct 22, 2025: report to the state2 deficiencies

  • Report Situation Placing Children at Risk

    “Based on the information gathered during the investigation, there is sufficient evidence to support that the operation did not make a report to licensing within the timeframe.”

    Rule 746.305(a)(6). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 19, 2025. Correction verified: Dec 19, 2025.

  • Incident/Illness Report Form Shared with Parent

    “The operation did not provide a parent with an incident report within 48 hours of becoming aware of an incident.”

    Rule 746.707. Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 19, 2025. Correction verified: Dec 19, 2025.

Sep 9, 2025: inspection1 deficiency

  • Additional Surfacing Requirements for Indoor Active Play Equipment

    “In the toddlers’ classroom, there is indoor climbing equipment that is over 20 inches tall, without any shock-absorbing material underneath or around the equipment.”

    Rule 746.4915. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 23, 2025. Correction verified: Oct 6, 2025.

Jan 21, 2025: assessment1 deficiency

  • Report Number of Employees

    “A review of the Employees Who Left Employment in 2023 data from January 17, 2025, revealed that the center had not reported the number of employees who left employment in 2024 by January 15, 2025, as required.”

    Rule 746.303(b). Medium Low, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 23, 2025. Correction verified: Jan 22, 2025.

Sep 11, 2024: inspection1 deficiency

  • Child/ Caregiver Ratio - 13 or More Children

    “During the walkthrough I observed 1 caregiver supervising 17 children with a specified age group of 3 years. Ratio is 1:15. The caregiver was over ratio by 2. This was corrected when a second caregiver came into the classroom.”

    Rule 746.1601. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 11, 2024. Correction verified: Sep 20, 2024.

Dec 7, 2023: report to the state2 deficiencies

  • Responsibilities of Employees and Caregivers -Demonstrate Competency, Good Judgment, Self-control

    “The employee failed to verify the child’s mode of transportation for dismissal.”

    Rule 746.1201(1). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 31, 2024. Correction verified: Feb 2, 2024.

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

    “The child was not properly supervised when she was released to someone who was not listed on her authorized release form.”

    Rule 746.1205(a)(4). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 31, 2024. Correction verified: Feb 2, 2024.

1 deficiency older than three years
Aug 15, 2022: inspection1 deficiency

  • Required Personnel Records - Required Affidavit

    “A caregiver is missing an employee affidavit form in their personnel file.”

    Rule 746.901(4). Medium Low, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 19, 2022. Correction verified: Aug 15, 2022.

All 17 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Aug 21, 2026Inspection1 deficiency cited
Feb 19, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Feb 17, 2026Report to the stateNo violation found
Nov 5, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Oct 29, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Oct 22, 2025Report to the state2 deficiencies cited
Oct 6, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Sep 9, 2025Inspection1 deficiency cited
Jan 21, 2025Assessment1 deficiency cited
Sep 20, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Sep 11, 2024Inspection1 deficiency cited
Feb 2, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Dec 14, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Dec 7, 2023Report to the state2 deficiencies cited
Sep 13, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Aug 14, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Aug 15, 2022Inspection1 deficiency cited

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Jul 8, 2003.
  • Its permit has conditions.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten.
  • Capacity: 218 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.
  • 3 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 8.
Source:

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

12 of the 2,139 in Harris County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Spring Branch Head Start This child care provider8
Nabor House Community8
Sproutstart Academy- Spring Valley Location8
Sukyung Lee12
The Preschool at Christ the King2
Alianza Eco International School9
Idea Lab Kids Spring-Branch6
Lipp- Babble10
Clever Kiddos Child Development Center9
The Learning Experience Spring Branch11
Learn & Play Academy2
Ikids Valley Oaks6
Jp Morgan Chase Backup Center10

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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An example nursing home

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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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