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Tree House Academy

A licensed child care center in Richmond, Texas 77406

2334 Pecan Park Dr, Richmond, Texas 77406. (832) 595-8500.

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The short answer

Record last released by Texas Workforce Commission on Nov 2, 2026.

The last 24 months 14 deficiencies in 6 months of the last 36. Last cited Oct 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 480 child care providers in Fort Bend County had 4.

14 inspections on record. The latest, on Oct 29, 2026: no violation found.

Rated High by Texas: Activities for Infants - Not in Restrictive Device for more than 15 Minutes, at the inspection on Oct 21, 2026

Rated High by Texas: Requirements for Feeding Infants - Never Prop Bottles, at the inspection on Oct 21, 2026

Rated High by Texas: Annual Fire Inspection - Before Initial Permit Issued and Every 12 Months, at the inspection on Feb 15, 2024

1 more rated High; all are listed below.

Source:

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data) and inspections and investigations. Released Oct 31, 2026. Updated daily.

When those deficiencies happened

14 deficiencies in 6 months of the last 36. Last cited Oct 2026. Most serious: High. The last 3 years, to Nov 2, 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 Oct 31, 2026. Updated daily.

Oct 21, 2026: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Activities for Infants - Not in Restrictive Device for more than 15 Minutes

    “An infant was in a bouncer for over fifteen minutes.”

    Rule 746.2417(2)(B). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 21, 2026. Correction verified: Oct 29, 2026.

  • Requirements for Feeding Infants - Never Prop Bottles

    “A bottle was propped on a blanket in the infant room.”

    Rule 746.2419(3). High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 21, 2026.

Jan 21, 2026: inspection3 deficiencies

  • Training Requirements for Employees, Caregivers, and Directors - Transportation training

    “One staff in charge of transportation did not have completed annual transportation training. Note: completed during the inspection time.”

    Rule 746.1301(a)(7)(A). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 21, 2026.

  • Written Operational Policies - Promotion of Physical Activity

    “Promotion of indoor and outdoor physical activity policy was incomplete.”

    Rule 746.501(a)(18). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 4, 2026. Correction verified: Feb 6, 2026.

  • Required Records Maintained and Made Available - Infant Feeding Instructions

    “One child was missing feeding instructions information.”

    Rule 746.801(2). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 4, 2026. Correction verified: Feb 6, 2026.

Feb 12, 2025: inspection1 deficiency

  • Fire Extinguishers Serviced

    “Fire extinguishers were last inspected October 2023 and require annual inspections. Annual inspection is past due.”

    Rule 746.5307(b). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 26, 2025. Correction verified: Feb 19, 2025.

Jan 23, 2025: assessment1 deficiency

  • Report Number of Employees

    “A review of the Employees Who Left Employment in 2024 data revealed that the center had not reported the number of employees who left employment in 2024 by January 15, 2025, as required.”

    Rule 746.303(b). Medium Low, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 23, 2025. Correction verified: Jan 24, 2025.

Mar 6, 2024: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Designating Director

    “There has not been a qualified Director at the center since November 2023. Since a qualified Director has not been in charge of the center the operation has been cited for emergency practices that have been overlooked. Assistance was requested by center staff for emergency drills. The fire drill was not conducted because management did not assist the center staff.”

    Rule 746.201(4). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 11, 2024. Correction verified: Mar 13, 2024.

  • Fire Drill Monthly - Exit in 3 Minutes

    “At follow up, there was not a fire drill conducted in February 2024.”

    Rule 746.5205(1). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 13, 2024. Correction verified: Mar 13, 2024.

Feb 15, 2024: inspection5 deficiencies

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

    “The fire inspection was last conducted 2/7/2023 and is now expired.”

    Rule 746.5101(a). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 1, 2024. Correction verified: Apr 12, 2024.

  • Employment affidavit regarding inappropriate relationship with minor

    “5 employees hired after September 30, 2023, did not have this affidavit in their file.”

    Rule HRC 42.0563. High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 22, 2024. Correction verified: Mar 6, 2024.

  • Maintenance of Building, Grounds and Equipment

    “The school age playground had a lot of trash accumulated on the side in the grass. The school age child was kicking the trash during inspection.”

    Rule 746.3407. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 19, 2024. Correction verified: Mar 6, 2024.

  • Fire Drill Monthly - Exit in 3 Minutes

    “Fire drills were not conducted between May to October 2023.”

    Rule 746.5205(1). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 29, 2024. Correction verified: Mar 6, 2024.

  • Sheltering Drills for Lock-Down-4 times in a calendar year

    “Lockdown drills were not conducted 2 times in 2023.”

    Rule 746.5205(3). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 29, 2024. Correction verified: Mar 6, 2024.

6 deficiencies older than three years
Feb 27, 2023: inspection3 deficiencies

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

    “A caregiver was present without a background check,”

    Rule 745.641. High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 27, 2023. Correction verified: Feb 27, 2023.

  • Training Requirements for Directors 30- Annual Training

    “Director is missing 13.75 hours of annual training.”

    Rule 746.1301(6)(A). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 27, 2023. Correction verified: Feb 28, 2023.

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

    “The pre-k playground does not have a sufficient depth of 6 inches of mulch under and around the play structure. The schooler playground does not have a sufficient depth of 9 inches of mulch under and around the play structure.”

    Rule 746.4907(d). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 27, 2023. Correction verified: Apr 14, 2023.

Feb 2, 2023: report to the state1 deficiency

  • Floors, ceilings and Walls in Good Repair and Clean

    “During inspection of the classrooms, I observed four occupied classrooms with dirty, unsanitary areas that were accessible to children. These areas included walls behind the trash where the trash can is, the bathrooms and toilets, and floor area near diaper changing table in the 2’s class. The white covering on the particle board beneath the handwashing sink in the school age classroom is breaking and chipping.”

    Rule 746.3407(9). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 17, 2023. Correction verified: Feb 27, 2023.

Mar 2, 2022: assessment1 deficiency

  • Report Number of Employees

    “A review of the Employees Who Left Employment in 2021 data from February 23, 2022, revealed that the center had not reported the number of employees who left employment in 2021 by February 22, 2022, as required.”

    Rule 746.303(b). Medium Low, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 7, 2022. Correction verified: Mar 3, 2022.

Mar 1, 2022: inspection1 deficiency

  • AP Cribs - Only Snug Fitting Sheet and Crib Mattress Cover Allowed if Infant Younger than 12 Months of Age

    “There was a 5 month old infant observed in the crib with 2 toys while sleeping.”

    Rule 746.2415(b). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 4, 2022. Correction verified: Mar 3, 2022.

All 19 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Oct 29, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Oct 21, 2026Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Jan 21, 2026Inspection3 deficiencies cited
Feb 12, 2025Inspection1 deficiency cited
Jan 23, 2025Assessment1 deficiency cited
May 21, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Mar 13, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Mar 6, 2024Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Feb 15, 2024Inspection5 deficiencies cited
Jan 17, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Jan 3, 2024Report to the stateNo violation found
Feb 27, 2023Inspection3 deficiencies cited
Feb 6, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Feb 2, 2023Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Jun 8, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Jun 7, 2022Report to the stateNo violation found
Mar 4, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Mar 2, 2022Assessment1 deficiency cited
Mar 1, 2022Inspection1 deficiency cited

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued May 4, 2009.
  • Its permit has conditions.
  • Accepts state child care subsidies.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 171 children.
Source:

Texas HHSC, child care operations. Released Oct 31, 2026. Updated daily.

Has Texas acted against it?

  • No corrective or adverse action by Texas on record.
  • 3 reports to the state on record; Texas doesn’t publish whether they were .
Source:

Texas HHSC, child care operations and inspections and investigations. Released Oct 31, 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 2, 2026. Updated daily.

How does it compare nearby?

  • Among 480 child care providers in Fort Bend County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 4; this one had 14.
Source:

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data). Released Oct 31, 2026. Updated daily.

12 of the 480 in Fort Bend County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Tree House Academy This child care provider14
Funshine Academy4
Tw Davis YMCA Austin Elementary0
Mamaluz’s Learning Center1
Goddard School Long Meadow Farm9
Meadow Montessori School, Inc.2
Gingerbread House/Bentley After-School Program11
Primrose School at Waterside Estates7
Ivy Kids at Long Meadow Farms7
Discovery Early Learning Center12
Bellavision Montessori School12
Jennifer TaylorNot given
Harvest Green Montessori School5

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 2, 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 8, 2026. Updated monthly.

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