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Little Stars Child Development Center

A licensed child care center in Midland, Texas 79707

8300 W. State Highway 191, Midland, Texas 79707. (432) 978-2704.

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The short answer

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

The last 24 months 9 deficiencies in 4 months of the last 36. Last cited Jul 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?

9 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 91 child care providers in Midland County had 2.

10 inspections on record. The latest, on Jul 16, 2026: 1 deficiency cited.

Rated High by Texas: Annual Fire Inspection - Before Initial Permit Issued and Every 12 Months, at the inspection on Jul 16, 2026

Source:

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

When those deficiencies happened

9 deficiencies in 4 months of the last 36. Last cited Jul 2026. 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
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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.

Jul 16, 2026: inspection1 deficiency

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

    “The operation did not have a current fire inspection report available for review. The last fire inspection was on 3/04/2025.”

    Rule 746.5101(a). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 30, 2026. Correction verified: Jul 24, 2026.

Jun 26, 2025: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Fenced Outdoor Activity Space

    “The operation no longer has a fenced outdoor area.”

    Rule 746.4305. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 10, 2025. Correction verified: Aug 7, 2025.

  • Outdoor Activity Space Accessible By Safe Route or get required approval of plan

    “The operation does not have an approved plan to maintain safety of children outdoors while the new playground is being constructed.”

    Rule 746.4311. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 10, 2025. Correction verified: Aug 7, 2025.

Jun 6, 2025: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Fenced Outdoor Activity Space

    “The operation no longer has a fenced outdoor area.”

    Rule 746.4305. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 13, 2025. Correction verified: Jun 26, 2025.

  • Outdoor Activity Space Accessible By Safe Route or get required approval of plan

    “The operation does not have an approved plan to maintain safety of children outdoors while the new playground is being constructed.”

    Rule 746.4311. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 13, 2025. Correction verified: Jun 26, 2025.

May 23, 2025: assessment2 deficiencies

  • Fenced Outdoor Activity Space

    “The operation no longer has a fenced outdoor area,”

    Rule 746.4305. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 30, 2025. Correction verified: Jun 6, 2025.

  • Outdoor Activity Space Accessible By Safe Route or get required approval of plan

    “The operation does not have an approved plan to maintain safety of children outdoors while the new playground is being constructed.”

    Rule 746.4311. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 30, 2025. Correction verified: Jun 6, 2025.

Jan 10, 2025: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Child/ Caregiver Ratio - 13 or More Children

    “There were 6 infants in the infant room with one caregiver. Specified age group is 0-11 months. Over ratio by 2 Corrected at inspection when another staff arrived.”

    Rule 746.1601. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 10, 2025. Correction verified: Jan 24, 2025.

  • Documented Annual Training Area - 24 Hours Required

    “Two caregivers did not have the required 24 hours of annual training.”

    Rule 746.1309(a). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 14, 2025. Correction verified: Feb 18, 2025.

6 deficiencies older than three years
Feb 22, 2023: inspection4 deficiencies

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

    “The operation does not have a recent fire inspection report available for review. Last inspection done was on 2/14/2022.”

    Rule 746.5101(a). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 8, 2023. Correction verified: Feb 27, 2023.

  • Training Requirements for Employees and Caregivers - 24 Annual Training

    “Four caregivers did not have the required 24 clock hours of annual training.”

    Rule 746.1301(5)(A). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 8, 2023. Correction verified: Mar 7, 2023.

  • Training Requirements for Directors 30- Annual Training

    “The Director does not have the required 30 clock hours of annual training.”

    Rule 746.1301(6)(A). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 8, 2023. Correction verified: Mar 7, 2023.

  • Child/ Caregiver Ratio - 13 or More Children

    “There were 19 children in a classroom with one caregiver. Specified age group is 3. Over ratio by 4. Corrected at inspection when another caregiver arrived.”

    Rule 746.1601. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 22, 2023.

Mar 23, 2022: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Written Feeding Instructions - Review and Update Every 30 Days

    “An infant did not have an updated feeding instruction available for review.”

    Rule 746.2421(b). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 25, 2022. Correction verified: Mar 23, 2022.

  • Written Operational Policies - Promotion of Physical Activity

    “The operation has not included the promotion of indoor and outdoor physical activity in the operational policies.”

    Rule 746.501(a)(18). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 30, 2022. Correction verified: Mar 30, 2022.

All 11 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Jul 16, 2026Inspection1 deficiency cited
Aug 7, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Jun 26, 2025Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Jun 6, 2025Inspection2 deficiencies cited
May 23, 2025Assessment2 deficiencies cited
Jan 24, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Jan 10, 2025Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Feb 2, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Mar 7, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Feb 22, 2023Inspection4 deficiencies cited
Mar 23, 2022Inspection2 deficiencies cited

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Aug 14, 2009.
  • Its permit has conditions.
  • Accepts state child care subsidies.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 58 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.
  • 0 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: 2-Star (the first 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 91 child care providers in Midland County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 2; this one had 9.
Source:

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

12 of the 91 in Midland County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Little Stars Child Development Center This child care provider9
Janet RhoadsNot given
Tender Steps Daycare & Preschool3
Kabets Bilingual Childcare1
YMCA Greathouse1
YMCA Scharbauer0
YMCA Fasken0
YMCA Rusk0
YMCA Bush0
YMCA Parker1
Melanie YanezNot given
YMCA Northwest1
Blessing Chinonso NwachukwuNot given

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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