By the Barnyard Gate
A licensed child care center in Forney, Texas 75126
552 FM 740, Forney, Texas 75126. (972) 552-2276.
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The short answer
Record last released by Texas HHSC on Nov 5, 2026.
- 10 deficiencies cited in the last three years Middle in Kaufman County: 1
- 5 rated High by Texas, its most serious level (needs attention)
- 24 inspections on record
- 3-Star Texas Rising Star rating
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?
10 deficiencies cited in the last three years
The middle of the 83 child care providers in Kaufman County had 1.
24 inspections on record. The latest, on Sep 18, 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 17, 2025
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 3, 2025
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 Sep 29, 2025
2 more rated High; all are listed below.
Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data) and inspections and investigations. Released Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.
When those deficiencies happened
10 deficiencies in 6 months of the last 36. Last cited May 2026. Most serious: High. The last 3 years, to Nov 5, 2026.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
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| 2023 | Dec | |||||||||||
| 2024 | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
| 2025 | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
| 2026 | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov |
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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.
Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data). Released Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.
May 8, 2026: report to the state1 deficiency
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Provide care consistent with child’s habits, interests, strengths, special needs, including any special supervision needs
“A five year old child was left in the classroom for twenty minutes.”
Feb 13, 2026: inspection1 deficiency
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Safety Requirements of SCPE - Supervison
“The operation failed to have a caregiver on the second floor of the indoor playscape.”
Feb 12, 2026: report to the state2 deficiencies
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Safety - Areas Free From Hazards
“The indoor playscape had two areas with torn materials. One was the flat woven straps and the other was a fabric structure that the children walk over.”
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Safety Requirements of SCPE - Supervison
“A caregiver was not assigned to supervise the second level of the indoor play area. A child received an injury which required medical attention.”
Oct 17, 2025: report to the state1 deficiency
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Supervision ensures each child?s safety, well-being, including physical proximity and auditory or visual awareness of each child?s on going activity
“This standard was evaluated as part of an investigation and was found deficient. A child was left unattended in the classroom.”
Oct 3, 2025: report to the state1 deficiency
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Supervision ensures each child?s safety, well-being, including physical proximity and auditory or visual awareness of each child?s on going activity
“This standard was evaluated as part of an investigation and was found deficient. A child was left unattended on the playground.”
Sep 29, 2025: report to the state1 deficiency
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Supervision ensures each child?s safety, well-being, including physical proximity and auditory or visual awareness of each child?s on going activity
“This standard was evaluated as part of an investigation and was found deficient. A child was left unattended in the hallway.”
Apr 29, 2025: report to the state1 deficiency
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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 left unattended on the playground for approximately 8 minutes.”
Sep 11, 2024: report to the state2 deficiencies
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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 left unattended in the classroom for approximately 15 minutes.”
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Positive Methods of Discipline and Guidance - Brief Supervised Separation
“A child was left in time out for approximately 15 minutes.”
5 deficiencies older than three years
Aug 28, 2023: report to the state1 deficiency
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Responsibilities of Employees and Caregivers -Demonstrate Competency, Good Judgment, Self-control
“This standard was reviewed in part of a report an found to be deficient. A caregiver did not use good judgment when they physically redirected a child, causing the child to receive an injury.”
Nov 28, 2022: report to the state1 deficiency
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Policies for Release of Children - Record Identity of Person
“The operation did not record the identity of a person listed on the pick up list.”
May 6, 2022: report to the state2 deficiencies
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Prohibited Punishments - Humiliating, Rejecting, Yelling
“This standard was reviewed in part of a report and found to be deficient. A caregiver yelled at children in care in the classroom.”
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Requirements for Feeding Infants-Hold through 6-months
“This standard was reviewed in part of a report and found deficient. Caregivers routinely allowed infants younger than six months to hold their own bottle while in a bouncer seat.”
Jan 7, 2022: report to the state1 deficiency
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Report Outbreak of Communicable Illness
“The operation has had a total of 10 confirmed COVID-19 cases that were not reported to Child Care Licensing and the local health authority.”
All 38 visits on record
| Date | Visit | What the record says |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 18, 2026 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Sep 2, 2026 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Aug 30, 2026 | Report to the state | No violation found |
| May 14, 2026 | Inspection | No violation found |
| May 14, 2026 | Report to the state | No violation found |
| May 11, 2026 | Inspection | No violation found |
| May 8, 2026 | Report to the state | 1 deficiency cited |
| Apr 15, 2026 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Mar 12, 2026 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Feb 27, 2026 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Feb 13, 2026 | Inspection | 1 deficiency cited |
| Feb 12, 2026 | Report to the state | 2 deficiencies cited |
| Nov 13, 2025 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Oct 17, 2025 | Report to the state | 1 deficiency cited |
| Oct 17, 2025 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Oct 7, 2025 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Oct 3, 2025 | Report to the state | 1 deficiency cited |
| Oct 1, 2025 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Sep 29, 2025 | Report to the state | 1 deficiency cited |
| Jun 18, 2025 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Jun 16, 2025 | Report to the state | No violation found |
| Apr 29, 2025 | Report to the state | 1 deficiency cited |
| Oct 24, 2024 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Sep 12, 2024 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Sep 11, 2024 | Report to the state | 2 deficiencies cited |
| Jul 31, 2024 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Sep 21, 2023 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Aug 30, 2023 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Aug 28, 2023 | Report to the state | 1 deficiency cited |
| Nov 30, 2022 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Nov 28, 2022 | Report to the state | 1 deficiency cited |
| Oct 31, 2022 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Jun 15, 2022 | Inspection | No violation found |
| May 9, 2022 | Inspection | No violation found |
| May 6, 2022 | Report to the state | 2 deficiencies cited |
| Feb 17, 2022 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Jan 11, 2022 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Jan 7, 2022 | Report to the state | 1 deficiency cited |
Is it licensed?
- Licensed Center, permit issued Jul 16, 2007.
- Accepts state child care subsidies.
- Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
- Capacity: 284 children.
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.
- 14 reports to the state on record; Texas doesn’t publish whether they were A complaint allegation the state investigated and found true: the evidence showed it more likely than not happened. Inconclusive means the evidence couldn’t show it either way. Neither inconclusive nor unsubstantiated proves it didn’t happen. Source: California Department of Social Services, complaint findings; each state’s licensing agency..
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).
Texas Workforce Commission, subsidy providers and Texas Rising Star. Released Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.
How does it compare nearby?
- Among 83 child care providers in Kaufman County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 1; this one had 10.
Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data). Released Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.
| Place | Deficiencies, 3 years |
|---|---|
| By the Barnyard Gate This child care provider | 10 |
| Eangee Anderson | 1 |
| Janel Lapp | Not given |
| Smart Start Montessori School | 12 |
| April Hicks | 10 |
| Christy Marie Hardy | 0 |
| Primrose School of Forney at Gateway | 17 |
| The Goddard School of Forney | 10 |
| Heartland Home Daycare | 11 |
| Children’s Lighthouse of Forney | 15 |
| Dunkin Academy of Forney | 13 |
| Sonia Moore | 0 |
| Jenny Powell | 7 |
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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Texas Health and Human Services Commission, Child care operations (bc5r-88dy).
Released Nov 5, 2026 and checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily. Creative Commons 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication).
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Texas Health and Human Services Commission, Inspections and investigations (m5q4-3y3d).
Released Nov 5, 2026 and checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily. Creative Commons 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication).
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Texas Health and Human Services Commission, Deficiencies (non-compliance data) (tqgd-mf4x).
Released Nov 5, 2026 and checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily. Creative Commons 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication).
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Texas Workforce Commission, Subsidy providers and Texas Rising Star.
Released Nov 5, 2026 and checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily. No licence stated.
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