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Little Learners Christian Daycare

A licensed child care center in Big Spring, Texas 79720

105 Spring Creek Rd, Big Spring, Texas 79720. (432) 213-4530.

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The short answer

Record last released by Texas HHSC on Oct 24, 2026.

The last 24 months 1 deficiency in 1 month of the last 36. Last cited Aug 2025. Most serious: Medium Low. 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?

1 deficiency cited in the last three years

The middle of the 8 child care providers in Howard County had 3.5.

7 inspections on record. The latest, on Aug 4, 2026: no violation found.

Source:

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data) and inspections and investigations. Released Oct 24, 2026. Updated daily.

When those deficiencies happened

1 deficiency in 1 month of the last 36. Last cited Aug 2025. Most serious: Medium Low. The last 3 years, to Oct 24, 2026.

1 deficiency by month over the last 3 years. Each cell is one month.
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2023 NovDec
2024 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2025 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2026 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOct

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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 24, 2026. Updated daily.

Aug 6, 2025: inspection1 deficiency

  • Required Personnel Records - Required Affidavit (Form 2912)

    “Two employees hired after September 2023 do not have the preemployment affidavit in their files.”

    Rule 746.901(5). Medium Low, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 8, 2025. Correction verified: Aug 7, 2025.

7 deficiencies older than three years
Aug 23, 2023: inspection3 deficiencies

  • Training Requirements for Employees, Caregivers, and Directors - 24 Annual training

    “One caregiver employed several years, has only 18 hours annual training for the previous year. The caregiver lacks six hours.”

    Rule 746.1301(a)(5)(A). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 25, 2023. Correction verified: Aug 24, 2023.

  • Screen Time Activities - May Supplement Activities Not Replace

    “Children were watching a movie not related to a lesson, without caregiver guidance during drop off time.”

    Rule 746.2207(b). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 23, 2023. Correction verified: Sep 19, 2023.

  • Written Feeding Instructions - Signed and Dated by Parent or Health-Care Professional

    “One infant did not have parent signed infant feeding instructions. One infant’s feeding instructions expired on 8.5/23.”

    Rule 746.2421(a). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 24, 2023. Correction verified: Aug 24, 2023.

Aug 25, 2022: inspection4 deficiencies

  • Responsibilities of Caregivers - Supervision of Children

    “A caregiver left a 2 year old toddler class of four children alone for less than one minute to walk to the office.”

    Rule 746.1203(4). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 25, 2022. Correction verified: Sep 9, 2022.

  • Each Caregiver and the Director Must Have Current Training in pediatric CPR

    “A new caregiver without CPR/First Aid certification was left alone with a group of toddlers in a classroom for at least two hours.”

    Rule 746.1315(b). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 25, 2022. Correction verified: Sep 9, 2022.

  • Food Allergy Emergency Plan Signed by Parents and Health Care Professional

    “A child with sever food allergies, requiring an EpiPen, does not have a food allergy emergency plan in the file.”

    Rule 746.3819. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 26, 2022. Correction verified: Sep 9, 2022.

  • Children’s Records - Immunizations

    “One out of 10 children’s files evaluated did not have immunization record in the file.”

    Rule 746.603(a)(4). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 29, 2022. Correction verified: Sep 9, 2022.

All 7 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Aug 4, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Aug 6, 2025Inspection1 deficiency cited
Aug 15, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Sep 19, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Aug 23, 2023Inspection3 deficiencies cited
Sep 9, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Aug 25, 2022Inspection4 deficiencies cited

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Feb 4, 2010.
  • Licensed for ages: Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 30 children.
Source:

Texas HHSC, child care operations. Released Oct 24, 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 Oct 24, 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 Oct 24, 2026. Updated daily.

How does it compare nearby?

  • Among 8 child care providers in Howard County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 3.5; this one had 1.
Source:

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data). Released Oct 24, 2026. Updated daily.

8 of the 8 in Howard County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Big Spring Family YMCA1
Bauer School Readiness Academy3
Howard Cottage (Howard College Child Development Center)2
Big Spring YMCA Kids Academy5
Jhs Texas Operations LLC DBA Jack & Jill School Child Care C11
Lisa HooperNot given
New Hope Christian School4
Little Learners Christian Daycare This child care provider1
Westside Community Dcc11

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 Oct 24, 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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