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Y School Age Sippel Elementary

A licensed child care center in Schertz, Texas 78108

420 Fairlawn Ave, Schertz, Texas 78108. (210) 831-3811.

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The short answer

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

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

7 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 82 child care providers in Guadalupe County had 4.

8 inspections on record. The latest, on Sep 22, 2026: 3 deficiencies cited.

Rated High by Texas: Responsibilities of Caregivers - Know Group Responsible For, at the inspection on Aug 27, 2026

Rated High by Texas: Responsibilities of Caregivers - Know Group Responsible For, at the inspection on Aug 17, 2026

Source:

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

When those deficiencies happened

7 deficiencies in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited Sep 2026. Most serious: High. The last 3 years, to Nov 5, 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 Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.

Sep 22, 2026: assessment3 deficiencies

  • Training Requirements for Employees - Pre-Service

    “One out of three staff members did not have pre-service training available for review.”

    Rule 744.1301(a)(2)(A). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 1, 2026. Correction verified: Sep 28, 2026.

  • Documented Annual Training-Required Topics prevention, recognition, and reporting of child maltreatment

    “When reviewing staff files, one staff member did not have the required abuse and neglect training available for review.”

    Rule 744.1309(c). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 25, 2026. Correction verified: Sep 28, 2026.

  • Documented Annual Training-1 Hours prevention, recognition, and reporting of child maltreatment

    “When reviewing staff files, the annual training on abuse and neglect was not available for review.”

    Rule 744.1311(c). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 25, 2026. Correction verified: Sep 28, 2026.

Sep 10, 2026: inspection1 deficiency

  • Director - Multi-Site Operations

    “A site director has not yet been assigned to this location, and the necessary paperwork has not been provided despite multiple requests.”

    Rule 744.1003(a). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 10, 2026. Correction verified: Sep 17, 2026.

Aug 27, 2026: inspection1 deficiency

  • Responsibilities of Caregivers - Know Group Responsible For

    “Re-citing: One caregiver reported having 14 children in her group, after counting multiple time she had 13 in children in her care. The second caregiver mentioned she had 17 children in care, after counting multiple times, the amount of children present in her group was 16. Neither caregiver stated the correct amount of children in there care.”

    Rule 744.1205(a)(1). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 3, 2026. Correction verified: Sep 10, 2026.

Aug 17, 2026: inspection1 deficiency

  • Responsibilities of Caregivers - Know Group Responsible For

    “One caregiver reported having 18 children in her group, while a second caregiver mentioned she had 20 children. The third caregiver indicated that there were 15 children in her group. Initially, this totaled 53 children. However, after counting several times, I found that there were only 48 children present. The person in charge insisted there were 53 children, but the caregivers then recalled that some children had left for the day, which led to a revised total of 48 children.”

    Rule 744.1205(a)(1). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 17, 2026. Correction verified: Aug 27, 2026.

Nov 25, 2025: assessment1 deficiency

  • Documented Annual Training-Required Topics in Health and Safety

    “Three out of the four staff files reviewed did not have the required topics in health and safety available for review for the previous training year. Note: This was corrected at inspection when health and safety trainings were added from the current training year which cannot be counted again for a different training year.”

    Rule 744.1309(d). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 25, 2025. Correction verified: Nov 25, 2025.

All 10 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Sep 22, 2026Assessment3 deficiencies cited
Sep 10, 2026Inspection1 deficiency cited
Aug 27, 2026Inspection1 deficiency cited
Aug 17, 2026Inspection1 deficiency cited
Nov 25, 2025Assessment1 deficiency cited
Aug 26, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Aug 18, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Aug 26, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Sep 7, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Sep 29, 2022InspectionNo violation found

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Feb 19, 2009.
  • Accepts state child care subsidies.
  • Licensed for ages: Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 120 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?

  • Not rated in Texas Rising Star.
Source:

Texas Workforce Commission, subsidy providers and Texas Rising Star. Released Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.

How does it compare nearby?

  • Among 82 child care providers in Guadalupe County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 4; this one had 7.
Source:

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

12 of the 82 in Guadalupe County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Y School Age Sippel Elementary This child care provider7
Kids Academy18
Lisa Rush1
Little Cowboys and Tiaras Daycare7
Melissa Lynn TimberlakeNot given
Y School Age @ Cibolo Valley3
Hortense Nevins-Martins1
Brighter Futures Learning Center19
Y School Age @ Jordan5
Y School Age @ Schlather4
Jeannette Sanchez7
Caitlin WrightNot given
Cibolo Valley Baptist Church Preschool9

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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