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Noah’s Ark Daycare

A licensed child care center in Del Rio, Texas 78840

903 Cantu Rd, Del Rio, Texas 78840. (830) 775-3219.

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The short answer

Record last released by Texas Workforce Commission on Nov 2, 2026.

The last 24 months 7 deficiencies in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited Aug 2024. 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?

7 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 18 child care providers in Val Verde County had 8.

14 inspections on record. The latest, on Oct 8, 2026: outcome pending.

Rated High by Texas: Prohibited Punishments - Grabbing and Pulling, at the report to the state on Aug 21, 2024

Source:

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data) and inspections and investigations. Released Oct 31, 2026. Updated daily.

When those deficiencies happened

7 deficiencies in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited Aug 2024. Most serious: High. The last 3 years, to Nov 2, 2026.

7 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 Oct 31, 2026. Updated daily.

Aug 21, 2024: report to the state1 deficiency

  • Prohibited Punishments - Grabbing and Pulling

    “The center was cited for a caregiver inappropriately seating a child.”

    Rule 746.2805(3). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 18, 2024. Correction verified: Sep 27, 2024.

Jun 21, 2024: report to the state1 deficiency

  • Nutrition and Food Service - Food not a reward

    “A caregiver was giving a child food as a reward.”

    Rule 746.3301(h). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 15, 2024. Correction verified: Aug 22, 2024.

Apr 5, 2024: inspection5 deficiencies

  • Required Admission Information - Potential complications

    “3 of 6 children did not have information in regards to special care needs filled out on their admission form.”

    Rule 746.605(13)(B)(iii). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 12, 2024. Correction verified: Apr 11, 2024.

  • Immunization Records, Exceptions, and Exemptions Current

    “3 of 6 children did not have required immuzations on file.”

    Rule 746.613(b). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 19, 2024. Correction verified: Apr 19, 2024.

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

    “A screen was on with a moving objects while children were sleeping in one room. This was corrected at inspection when the caregiver turned off the screen.”

    Rule 746.2207(c)(4). Medium, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 5, 2024.

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

    “3 children were sleeping on different cots that were not assigned to them in accordance with the number chart on wall for cots. This was corrected at inspection when caregiver moved children to assigned cots.”

    Rule 746.4503(b). Medium, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 5, 2024.

  • Required Admission Information - Physician Information

    “2 of the 6 children did not have an emergency care facility address or phone number in records on file.”

    Rule 746.605(11). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 12, 2024. Correction verified: Apr 11, 2024.

6 deficiencies older than three years
Jul 20, 2023: inspection1 deficiency

  • Child/Caregiver Ratio - 18 Months Difference in Age

    “A 15 month old infant was combined with a 10 year old child in a classroom for naptime and there were a total of 35 children in the entire daycare.”

    Rule 746.1605(1). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 20, 2023. Correction verified: Aug 11, 2023.

May 23, 2023: report to the state1 deficiency

  • Child/ Caregiver Ratio - 13 or More Children

    “A caregiver was left alone with 27 children between the ages of toddler to school-age children. The max amount of children one caregiver can have is 26 children.”

    Rule 746.1601. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 22, 2023. Correction verified: Jul 20, 2023.

May 3, 2023: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Child/ Caregiver Ratio - 13 or More Children

    “A toddler classroom has 1 caregiver present with 11 children with an age gorup of 18-23 months. This was corrected during the inspection when 2 children were moved to another room.”

    Rule 746.1601. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 3, 2023.

  • Immunization Records, Exceptions, and Exemptions Current

    “8 children’s files were reviewed, 1 file was missing current shot records.”

    Rule 746.613(b). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 19, 2023. Correction verified: May 9, 2023.

Jun 17, 2022: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Naptime Child/Caregiver Ratio - Additional Employee Required

    “A classroom during naptime had been reduced by half, but there was no other caregiver available in the building. Corrected at inspection: Caregiver came back from lunch and the ratio was corrected.”

    Rule 746.1613(a)(4). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 17, 2022.

  • Director’s Absence - Caregiver in Charge Knows Responsibilities

    “Person in charge was unable to get files to be reviewed during the inspection.”

    Rule 746.1013(a)(2). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 17, 2022. Correction verified: Jun 17, 2022.

All 18 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Oct 8, 2026InspectionOutcome pending
Nov 13, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Nov 21, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Sep 27, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Aug 22, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Aug 21, 2024Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Jun 25, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Jun 21, 2024Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Apr 5, 2024Inspection5 deficiencies cited
Aug 11, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Jul 20, 2023Inspection1 deficiency cited
May 26, 2023InspectionNo violation found
May 23, 2023Report to the state1 deficiency cited
May 3, 2023Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Jun 17, 2022Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Apr 11, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Apr 1, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Mar 28, 2022Report to the stateNo violation found

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Jul 29, 2003.
  • Accepts state child care subsidies.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 76 children.
Source:

Texas HHSC, child care operations. Released Oct 31, 2026. Updated daily.

Has Texas acted against it?

  • No corrective or adverse action by Texas on record.
  • 4 reports to the state on record; Texas doesn’t publish whether they were .
Source:

Texas HHSC, child care operations and inspections and investigations. Released Oct 31, 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: 2-Star (the first of three levels).
Source:

Texas Workforce Commission, subsidy providers and Texas Rising Star. Released Nov 2, 2026. Updated daily.

How does it compare nearby?

  • Among 18 child care providers in Val Verde County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 8; this one had 7.
Source:

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data). Released Oct 31, 2026. Updated daily.

12 of the 18 in Val Verde County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Noah’s Ark Daycare This child care provider7
Creative Learning Educational Childcare4
J.d.’s Academy3
Kids Zone Preschool & Youth Center, LLC19
Wonderland Daycare Center, Inc.10
Wonderland Daycare Center, Inc. #212
The Learning Express Center LLC #14
Mimi’s Learning Center2
Kid’s Playhouse Child Care and Learning Center9
Sunnyside Childcare & Academy LLC15
Kids R Kids Daycare11
Emmazing Kids Childcare & Learning Center9
Bright Beginnings Daycare2

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 2, 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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