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Building Blocks Academy Cypress

A licensed child care center in Houston, Texas 77095

17800 West Rd, Houston, Texas 77095. (281) 550-8811.

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The short answer

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

The last 24 months 9 deficiencies in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited Aug 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?

9 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 5, 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 inspection on Aug 6, 2025

Rated High by Texas: Annual Fire Inspection - Before Initial Permit Issued and Every 12 Months, at the inspection on Sep 4, 2024

Rated High by Texas: Annual Fire Inspection - Before Initial Permit Issued and Every 12 Months, at the inspection on Aug 9, 2024

2 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

9 deficiencies in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited Aug 2025. Most serious: High. The last 3 years, to Nov 5, 2026.

9 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 6, 2025: inspection2 deficiencies

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

    “A child was observed wandering the hallway.”

    Rule 746.1205(a)(4). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 6, 2025. Correction verified: Aug 15, 2025.

  • Maintenance of Building, Grounds and Equipment

    “The school age playground fence was not secured at the bottom and it could caused an unsafe environment.”

    Rule 746.3407. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 3, 2025. Correction verified: Aug 11, 2025.

Sep 4, 2024: inspection1 deficiency

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

    “The operation did not have a current fire inspection available during the inspection.”

    Rule 746.5101(a). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 13, 2025. Correction verified: Feb 19, 2025.

Aug 9, 2024: inspection6 deficiencies

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

    “The operation did not have a current fire inspection available during the inspection.”

    Rule 746.5101(a). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 13, 2025. Correction verified: Sep 4, 2024.

  • Required Equipment in Vehicles - Fire Extinguisher

    “There was no fire extinguisher in the transportation vehicle.”

    Rule 746.5617(a)(5). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 23, 2024. Correction verified: Sep 4, 2024.

  • Electronic Child Safety Alarm - is equipped in each vehicle

    “The transportation vehicle did not have an alarm.”

    Rule 746.5625(a). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 23, 2024. Correction verified: Sep 4, 2024.

  • Maintenance of Building, Grounds and Equipment

    “The school-age outdoor area had a pile of stacked wood by the fence that could cause an unsafe environment; The wooden bridge had uneven planks and a loose plank that caused an unsafe environment; the tree branches were hanging on top of the playground and children were swinging on them and climbing the branches and it caused a supervision issue in another area of the playground.”

    Rule 746.3407. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 23, 2024. Correction verified: Sep 4, 2024.

  • Safety - Electrical Outlets Covered

    “The outlet cover was loose from the wall in the school age classroom and caused and unsafe environment.”

    Rule 746.3701(1). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 13, 2024. Correction verified: Aug 16, 2024.

  • Requirement of Gas Leak Inspection

    “The operation did not have a current gas inspection available during the inspection.”

    Rule 746.5401. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 23, 2024. Correction verified: Sep 4, 2024.

1 deficiency older than three years
Sep 14, 2022: inspection1 deficiency

  • Written Feeding Instructions - Review and Update Every 30 Days

    “Two infants in the infant-2 room did not have updated feeding instructions.”

    Rule 746.2421(b). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 21, 2022. Correction verified: Sep 28, 2022.

All 19 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Aug 5, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Aug 15, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Aug 6, 2025Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Jun 27, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Jun 23, 2025Report to the stateNo violation found
Jun 16, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Jun 5, 2025Report to the stateNo violation found
Sep 4, 2024Inspection1 deficiency cited
Aug 9, 2024Inspection6 deficiencies cited
Jun 29, 2024Report to the stateNo violation found
Oct 9, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Sep 26, 2023Report to the stateNo violation found
Sep 6, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Dec 15, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Dec 7, 2022Report to the stateNo violation found
Sep 14, 2022Inspection1 deficiency cited
Nov 23, 2021InspectionNo violation found
Nov 18, 2021InspectionNo violation found
Nov 16, 2021Report to the stateNo violation found

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Apr 19, 2006.
  • Its permit has conditions.
  • Accepts state child care subsidies.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 175 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?

  • 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 9.
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
Building Blocks Academy Cypress This child care provider9
Kim Lien Nguyen1
West Montessori School of Copperfield3
Cornerstone Preschool2
King’s Castle1
Ngan Kim Ngo1
Patricia AdaclogNot given
Nakia Singleton0
Cypress Falls High School1
Foundation Learning Academy- Queenston17
Kids ‘r’ Kids of Copperfield4
Primrose School of Copperfield3
Minh Pham10

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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