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Star Kids Education and Day Care Center

A licensed child care center in La Marque, Texas 77568

720 Main St, La Marque, Texas 77568. (409) 933-4848.

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The short answer

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

The last 24 months 14 deficiencies in 5 months of the last 36. Last cited Mar 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?

14 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 127 child care providers in Galveston County had 5.

8 inspections on record. The latest, on Mar 20, 2026: no violation found.

Rated High by Texas: Electronic Child Safety Alarm - is equipped in each vehicle, at the inspection on Mar 6, 2026

Rated High by Texas: Prohibited Punishments - No Harsh, Cruel or Unusual, at the report to the state on Feb 17, 2025

Rated High by Texas: AP Background check results - Must receive notification prior to allowing subject to be present at your operation, at the inspection on Apr 22, 2024

Source:

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

When those deficiencies happened

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

14 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.

Mar 6, 2026: inspection6 deficiencies

  • Electronic Child Safety Alarm - is equipped in each vehicle

    “The daycare van #4 is missing an electronic child safety alarm.”

    Rule 746.5625(a). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 20, 2026. Correction verified: Mar 20, 2026.

  • Requirement of Gas Leak Inspection

    “The daycare is lacking current gas pipe test, last one expired on 2/29/2026.”

    Rule 746.5401. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 27, 2026. Correction verified: Mar 20, 2026.

  • Liability Insurance Maintained

    “I did not observe current liability insurance available for review.”

    Rule 746.201(8). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 20, 2026. Correction verified: Mar 20, 2026.

  • Required Records Maintained and Made Available - Sanitation Inspection Report

    “I did not observe most recent sanitation inspection, last one expired 10/16/2025.”

    Rule 746.801(12). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 20, 2026. Correction verified: Mar 6, 2026.

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

    “One of the staff records evaluated was missing annual training hours for 2024-2025 available for review.”

    Rule 746.801(3). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 20, 2026. Correction verified: Mar 20, 2026.

  • Minimum Qualifications Employees and Caregivers - Affidavit (Form 2985)

    “One of the staff records evaluated was missing a notarized affidavit on file.”

    Rule 746.1105(3). Low, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 20, 2026. Correction verified: Mar 20, 2026.

Mar 13, 2025: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Child/Caregiver Ratio - 18 Months Difference in Age

    “I observe 21 children combined for naptime and youngest was 15-months and oldest was nine years old. The difference between youngest and oldest child cannot be more 18-months difference. Note: corrected during inspection.”

    Rule 746.1605(1). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 13, 2025.

  • Installation and Maintenance of Loose-fill Surfacing - Proper Depth Maintained

    “The mulch under climbing equipment in playground area must be maintained at proper depth.”

    Rule 746.4907(d). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 27, 2025. Correction verified: Mar 28, 2025.

Feb 17, 2025: report to the state2 deficiencies

  • Prohibited Punishments - No Harsh, Cruel or Unusual

    “Based on the information obtained during the investigation, it was determined that inappropriate discipline was being used at the operation by a caregiver.”

    Rule 746.2805. High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 17, 2025. Correction verified: Mar 28, 2025.

  • Parental Notification of Less Serious Injuries

    “Based on the information obtained during the investigation, there was an altercation between two children during outdoor play where one child was thrown to the ground, and this was not reported to parent during pick up time.”

    Rule 746.307(c). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 17, 2025. Correction verified: Mar 28, 2025.

Jan 17, 2025: 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 24, 2025. Correction verified: Jan 21, 2025.

Apr 22, 2024: inspection3 deficiencies

  • AP Background check results - Must receive notification prior to allowing subject to be present at your operation

    “One caregiver present in the older infant room did not have a background check.”

    Rule 745.641. High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 22, 2024. Correction verified: Apr 22, 2024.

  • Safety - Areas Free From Hazards

    “Inspectors discovered work tools within children’s storage that is used for personal belongings. This was located in the school aged classroom. Note: Corrected when caregiver removed the tools.”

    Rule 746.3701. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 22, 2024.

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

    “All four of the Personnel files inspected did not have current required training hours.”

    Rule 746.801(3). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 29, 2024. Correction verified: Apr 29, 2024.

8 deficiencies older than three years
Apr 25, 2023: inspection7 deficiencies

  • Maintenance of Building, Grounds and Equipment

    “I observe play structure in the playground that was missing a set of pedals and a seat accessible to children.”

    Rule 746.3407. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 2, 2023. Correction verified: May 1, 2023.

  • Installation and Maintenance of Loose-fill Surfacing - Proper Depth Maintained

    “The mulch around the playground climbing equipment must be maintained at proper depth.”

    Rule 746.4907(d). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 6, 2023. Correction verified: May 2, 2023.

  • Emergency Evacuation and Relocation Diagram - Posted in Each Room

    “The evacuation and relocation diagram was not posted in the school age and toddler rooms. Note: corrected when diagram posted in each room.”

    Rule 746.5207(b). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 25, 2023.

  • Required Admission Information - Emergency Contact

    “Four children’s records evaluated were missing emergency contact’s address on file.”

    Rule 746.605(6). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 2, 2023. Correction verified: May 1, 2023.

  • Children’s Records - Immunizations

    “Two children’s records evaluated were missing immunization records.”

    Rule 746.603(a)(4). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 2, 2023. Correction verified: May 1, 2023.

  • Required Admission Information - School Information for School-age Child

    “Five children’s records evaluated were missing school’s name and phone number on file.”

    Rule 746.605(14). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 2, 2023. Correction verified: May 1, 2023.

  • Required Records Maintained and Made Available - Employees’ Attendance

    “I did not observe documentation of director arrival and departure times at the center. Note: corrected when director provided attendance record.”

    Rule 746.801(5). Medium, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 25, 2023.

Feb 1, 2023: assessment1 deficiency

  • Report Number of Employees

    “A review of the Employees Who Left Employment in 2022 survey data revealed that the center had not reported the number of employees who left employment in 2022.”

    Rule 746.303(b). Medium Low, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 3, 2023. Correction verified: Feb 1, 2023.

All 12 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Mar 20, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Mar 6, 2026Inspection6 deficiencies cited
Mar 28, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Mar 13, 2025Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Feb 20, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Feb 17, 2025Report to the state2 deficiencies cited
Jan 17, 2025Assessment1 deficiency cited
Apr 22, 2024Inspection3 deficiencies cited
Apr 25, 2023Inspection7 deficiencies cited
Feb 1, 2023Assessment1 deficiency cited
May 3, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Apr 22, 2022Report to the stateNo violation found

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Aug 29, 2008.
  • Its permit has conditions.
  • Accepts state child care subsidies.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 89 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.
  • 2 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: 4-Star (the highest 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 127 child care providers in Galveston County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 5; this one had 14.
Source:

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

12 of the 127 in Galveston County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Star Kids Education and Day Care Center This child care provider14
Smile & Learn Klubhouse LLC8
Aww Better Child Care Center12
Nancy’s Day Care10
Building Blocks Academy11
Kidz Paradize15
Montgomery Kiddie Academy LLC53
K.b Kids Preschool & Daycare5
Babies 2 T.o.t.s15
Anita’s Angels13
YMCA @ Laird Elementary0
Start Smart Academy # 20
Start Smart Academy #10

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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