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Hiram Clarke Head Start

A licensed child care center in Houston, Texas 77045

3810 W Fuqua St, Houston, Texas 77045. (713) 491-6178.

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The short answer

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

The last 24 months 3 deficiencies in 2 months of the last 36. Last cited Jan 2025. Most serious: Medium 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?

3 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 2,139 child care providers in Harris County had 4.

6 inspections on record. The latest, on Sep 2, 2026: no violation found.

Source:

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

When those deficiencies happened

3 deficiencies in 2 months of the last 36. Last cited Jan 2025. Most serious: Medium High. The last 3 years, to Nov 5, 2026.

3 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.

Jan 17, 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 19, 2025. Correction verified: Jan 27, 2025.

Oct 10, 2024: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Inspect Fire Extinguishers Monthly

    “The operation could not provide documentation to support that fire extinguishers are checked monthly.”

    Rule 746.5307(a). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 31, 2024. Correction verified: Oct 28, 2024.

  • Electronic or Battery-Operated Carbon Monoxide Detector-Check All Detectors Monthly

    “The operation could not provide documentation to support that carbon monoxide detectors are checked monthly.”

    Rule 746.5537(a)(2). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 31, 2024. Correction verified: Oct 28, 2024.

2 deficiencies older than three years
Nov 3, 2022: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Required Admission Information - Emergency Contact

    “2 out of 4 children’s records evaluated did not contain the address of the emergency contact person.”

    Rule 746.605(6). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 17, 2022. Correction verified: Nov 17, 2022.

  • Written Operational Policies - Promotion of Physical Activity

    “The operational policies does not contain the following information: - Duration of physical activities indoors and outdoors - A plan to ensure physical activity occurs on days when extreme weather conditions prohibit or limit outdoor play”

    Rule 746.501(a)(18). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 17, 2022. Correction verified: Nov 17, 2022.

All 7 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Sep 2, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Sep 10, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Jan 17, 2025Assessment1 deficiency cited
Oct 10, 2024Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Oct 12, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Nov 3, 2022Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Nov 18, 2021InspectionNo violation found

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Jun 8, 2010.
  • Licensed for ages: Pre-Kindergarten.
  • Capacity: 68 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 2139 child care providers in Harris County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 4; this one had 3.
Source:

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

12 of the 2,139 in Harris County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Hiram Clarke Head Start This child care provider3
The Imani School4
Faith Kidz7
Key Concepts Kan Learning Center1
Nakisha Price Ferguson0
Loadz of Love22
Jumping Jacks Learning Center21
Starbright Preschool2
DBA First Advantage Learning24
Lakesha Wilson0
Doris Gardner Ratliff Ctr for Child Development16
Martin Luther King Pre-Kindergarten Asp4
Shalom Child Care9

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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Replies

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How to read a record

Four things every record does, shown on an example record made up for this guide.

An example record, made up for this guide

An example nursing home

Made up for this guide: no real place is shown

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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