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Cadence Academy, La Porte

A licensed child care center in La Porte, Texas 77571

3902 Underwood Rd, La Porte, Texas 77571. (281) 479-4660.

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The short answer

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

The last 24 months 8 deficiencies in 4 months of the last 36. Last cited Nov 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?

8 deficiencies cited in the last three years

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

8 inspections on record. The latest, on Mar 4, 2026: no violation found.

Rated High by Texas: Smoke-Detection System, at the inspection on Dec 1, 2023

Source:

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

When those deficiencies happened

8 deficiencies in 4 months of the last 36. Last cited Nov 2025. 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.

Nov 19, 2025: inspection1 deficiency

  • Required Records Maintained and Made Available - Sanitation Inspection Report

    “I did not observe most recent sanitation inspection report available for review.”

    Rule 746.801(12). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 3, 2025. Correction verified: Nov 19, 2025.

Nov 25, 2024: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Cots, Beds, Mats Labeled With Child’s Name

    “I observe four sleeping mats with children napping that were not labeled. Note: corrected during inspection.”

    Rule 746.4503(b). Medium, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 25, 2024.

  • Required Records Maintained and Made Available - Safety Documentation for Emergency Drills, Fire Extinguishers, & Smoke Detectors

    “The record for emergency drills and smoke / carbone monoxide detector tested was not maintained.”

    Rule 746.801(10). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 9, 2024. Correction verified: Dec 5, 2024.

Jan 18, 2024: assessment1 deficiency

  • Report Number of Employees

    “The operation had not submitted the total number of employees who ceased working at the operation the previous calendar year by January 15, 2024.”

    Rule 746.303(b). Medium Low, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 22, 2024. Correction verified: Jan 22, 2024.

Dec 1, 2023: inspection4 deficiencies

  • Smoke-Detection System

    “The smoke detector in the school-age classroom was not operating. Note: corrected during inspection when batteries replaced.”

    Rule 746.5311(a). High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 1, 2023.

  • Maintenance of Building, Grounds and Equipment

    “The bottom section of wall in four year old classroom contain water stains presenting health hazard. The gate in the front of the playground was also not closing properly.”

    Rule 746.3407. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 16, 2023. Correction verified: Dec 8, 2023.

  • Posting of Activity Plan

    “The activity plan was not posted in toddler and four year old classroom. Note: corrected during inspection.”

    Rule 746.2209. Medium, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 1, 2023.

  • Written Feeding Instructions - Review and Update Every 30 Days

    “The infant feeding instructions was not updated every 30 days as required for two infant in care.”

    Rule 746.2421(b). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 5, 2023. Correction verified: Dec 5, 2023.

7 deficiencies older than three years
Jul 25, 2023: inspection1 deficiency

  • Responsibilities of Caregivers - Know number of children responsible for

    “During inspection the caregiver in the infant room provided inaccurate number of children in the classroom. Note: corrected during inspection.”

    Rule 746.1205(a)(2). High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 25, 2023.

Dec 23, 2022: assessment1 deficiency

  • Required Records Maintained and Made Available - Personnel and Training Records

    “Four personnel records missing information including trainings.”

    Rule 746.801(3). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 30, 2022. Correction verified: Dec 30, 2022.

Dec 7, 2022: inspection4 deficiencies

  • Requirements for Feeding Infants - Other Use of Handwashing Sink

    “I observe three small feeding spoons inside the hand-washing sink. Note: corrected at inspection.”

    Rule 746.2419(8). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 7, 2022.

  • Posting of Activity Plan

    “The activity plan was not posted in several classrooms. Note: corrected at inspection.”

    Rule 746.2209. Medium, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 7, 2022.

  • Children’s Records - Immunizations

    “Three children’s records evaluated missing shot records.”

    Rule 746.603(a)(4). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 14, 2022. Correction verified: Dec 14, 2022.

  • Required Records Maintained and Made Available - Personnel and Training Records

    “Four personnel records missing information including trainings.”

    Rule 746.801(3). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 14, 2022. Correction verified: Dec 23, 2022.

Dec 8, 2021: inspection1 deficiency

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

    “The operation has not had an annual fire inspection conducted since 1/20/2020.”

    Rule 746.5101(a). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 5, 2022. Correction verified: Dec 8, 2021.

All 13 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Mar 4, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Feb 24, 2026Report to the stateNo violation found
Nov 19, 2025Inspection1 deficiency cited
Dec 10, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Dec 4, 2024Report to the stateNo violation found
Nov 25, 2024Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Jan 18, 2024Assessment1 deficiency cited
Dec 1, 2023Inspection4 deficiencies cited
Jul 25, 2023Inspection1 deficiency cited
Jul 12, 2023Report to the stateNo violation found
Dec 23, 2022Assessment1 deficiency cited
Dec 7, 2022Inspection4 deficiencies cited
Dec 8, 2021Inspection1 deficiency cited

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Jul 15, 2003.
  • Accepts state child care subsidies.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 201 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?

  • Texas Rising Star: 3-Star (the middle of three levels).
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
Cadence Academy, La Porte This child care provider8
Cynthia Hennessy4
Ms. Litha’s Child Care Center17
Wise Old Owl Learning Center9
High Achievers Learning Center28
Kce Champions LLC @ Bayshore Elementary5
Barbara Yamila Alvarez-CoureauxNot given
Holly Liane Mcgee1
Little Steps - Bayshore3
Rainbow Express Learning Academy7
Funcare Children’s Center0
La Porte Head Start11
Kce Champions @ Lomax Elementary7

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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