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Cadence Academy Preschool

A licensed child care center in Houston, Texas 77095

12300 Queenston Blvd, Houston, Texas 77095. (281) 213-9300.

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The short answer

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

The last 24 months 15 deficiencies in 8 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?

15 deficiencies cited in the last three years

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

22 inspections on record. The latest, on Sep 11, 2026: no violation found.

Rated High by Texas: Supervision ensures each child?s safety, well-being, including physical proximity and auditory or visual awareness of each child?s on going activity, at the report to the state on Jul 27, 2026

Rated High by Texas: Supervision ensures each child?s safety, well-being, including physical proximity and auditory or visual awareness of each child?s on going activity, at the report to the state on Jun 13, 2025

Rated High by Texas: Annual Fire Inspection - Before Initial Permit Issued and Every 12 Months, at the inspection on Jun 13, 2025

4 more rated High; all are listed below.

Source:

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

When those deficiencies happened

15 deficiencies in 8 months of the last 36. Last cited Jul 2026. Most serious: High. The last 3 years, to Nov 5, 2026.

15 deficiencies by month over the last 3 years. Each cell is one month.
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2023 Dec
2024 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2025 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2026 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNov

Hover or focus a month to read it.

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 27, 2026: report to the state1 deficiency
  • Supervision ensures each child?s safety, well-being, including physical proximity and auditory or visual awareness of each child?s on going activity

    “Based on the information gathered in the investigation, there’s sufficient evidence the caregiver did not maintain supervision and a child was left unsupervised in the classroom.”

    Rule 746.1205(a)(4). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 25, 2026. Correction verified: Sep 11, 2026.

Nov 17, 2025: inspection4 deficiencies
  • Maintenance of Building, Grounds and Equipment

    “The children furniture in multiple classrooms are not being properly maintained and the material on the furniture is peeling.”

    Rule 746.3407. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 28, 2025. Correction verified: Dec 1, 2025.

  • Safety - Electrical Outlets Covered

    “Two out of seven classrooms did not have the outlets covered. Note: This was corrected at inspection when the director child proof covered the outlets.”

    Rule 746.3701(1). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 17, 2025.

  • Sheltering Drill For Severe Weather-Four times a calendar year

    “There was no sheltering drills practiced at the operation.”

    Rule 746.5205(2). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 21, 2025. Correction verified: Nov 18, 2025.

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

    “There were no sheltering for lock downs practiced at the operation.”

    Rule 746.5205(3). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 21, 2025. Correction verified: Nov 18, 2025.

Jun 13, 2025: report to the state1 deficiency
  • Supervision ensures each child?s safety, well-being, including physical proximity and auditory or visual awareness of each child?s on going activity

    “Based on the information gathered, there’s sufficient evidence to support a child was left unsupervised in the classroom.”

    Rule 746.1205(a)(4). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 10, 2025. Correction verified: Jul 22, 2025.

Jun 13, 2025: inspection1 deficiency
  • Annual Fire Inspection - Before Initial Permit Issued and Every 12 Months

    “The operation did not have a current fire inspection available for review.”

    Rule 746.5101(a). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 1, 2025. Correction verified: Sep 18, 2025.

Jun 12, 2025: report to the state1 deficiency
  • Supervision ensures each child?s safety, well-being, including physical proximity and auditory or visual awareness of each child?s on going activity

    “Based on the information gathered in the investigation, there’s sufficient evidence supervision was not being maintained, and two children were unsupervised.”

    Rule 746.1205(a)(4). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 23, 2025. Correction verified: Jul 9, 2025.

Dec 12, 2024: inspection3 deficiencies
  • Maintenance of Building, Grounds and Equipment

    “The outdoor area had a flat table device with water in it, planting soil was left out and accessible, and the water sprinkler head was lying in the grass were children were running, and it could have caused a tripping hazard. The rug in the Preschool room was rolled up on the ends, and was a tripping hazard. Corrected at inspection. All items were moved from the playground and the rug was removed from the room.”

    Rule 746.3407. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 12, 2024.

  • Education Outside of U.S.

    “One out of five staff files had outside education did not show the equivalence to the U.S. in the documents.”

    Rule 746.1111. Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 12, 2025. Correction verified: Jan 17, 2025.

  • Required Personnel Records - Required Affidavit (Form 2912)

    “Three out of five staff files did not have the pre-affidavit in them.”

    Rule 746.901(5). Medium Low, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 12, 2024. Correction verified: Dec 13, 2024.

Apr 23, 2024: report to the state1 deficiency
  • Supervision ensures each child?s safety, well-being, including physical proximity and auditory or visual awareness of each child?s on going activity

    “Based on the information provided in the investigation, there’s sufficient evidence supervision was not maintained when the child was able to open the exit door leading to the playground unsupervised twice in two different classrooms.”

    Rule 746.1205(a)(4). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 22, 2024. Correction verified: May 24, 2024.

Feb 18, 2024: report to the state1 deficiency
  • Children Not Required to Sleep - May Not Force Child to Sleep

    “Based on the information gathered during the investigation, there’s sufficient evidence the caregiver forced the child head down during naptime.”

    Rule 746.2905(1). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 3, 2024. Correction verified: Apr 10, 2024.

Jan 9, 2024: report to the state1 deficiency
  • Supervision ensures each child?s safety, well-being, including physical proximity and auditory or visual awareness of each child?s on going activity

    “Based on the information provided, there’s sufficient evidence the child was left unattended in the classroom.”

    Rule 746.1205(a)(4). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 29, 2024. Correction verified: Feb 5, 2024.

Dec 14, 2023: inspection1 deficiency
  • Electronic Child Safety Alarm - installed and maintained according to manufacturer’s instructions

    “The alarm was not working on the bus during the evaluation of transportation”

    Rule 746.5625(b). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 18, 2023. Correction verified: Dec 19, 2023.

1 deficiency older than three years
Jun 24, 2022: report to the state1 deficiency
  • CPR Training and Recertification Adhere to Guidelines-skill based

    “Based on the information gathered during the investigation, one out of the three CPR/First Aid cards was completed on line and not practiced with a manikin.”

    Rule 746.1315(b)(1). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 26, 2022. Correction verified: Aug 1, 2022.

All 35 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Sep 11, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Aug 21, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Aug 14, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Aug 12, 2026Report to the stateNo violation found
Jul 31, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Jul 27, 2026Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Nov 21, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Nov 17, 2025Inspection4 deficiencies cited
Aug 6, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Jul 22, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Jul 9, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Jun 16, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Jun 13, 2025Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Jun 13, 2025Inspection1 deficiency cited
Jun 12, 2025Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Dec 12, 2024Inspection3 deficiencies cited
Jul 1, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Jun 20, 2024Report to the stateNo violation found
May 24, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Apr 25, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Apr 23, 2024Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Apr 10, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Feb 23, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Feb 18, 2024Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Feb 8, 2024Report to the stateNo violation found
Feb 5, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Jan 12, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Jan 9, 2024Report to the stateNo violation found
Jan 9, 2024Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Dec 14, 2023Inspection1 deficiency cited
Jan 20, 2023Report to the stateNo violation found
Dec 22, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Jun 24, 2022Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Jun 8, 2022Report to the stateNo violation found
Jan 12, 2022InspectionNo violation found

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Jun 10, 2011.
  • Accepts state child care subsidies.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 297 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.
  • 13 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: 3-Star (the middle 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 2139 child care providers in Harris County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 4; this one had 15.
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
Cadence Academy Preschool This child care provider15
Kim Lien Nguyen1
West Montessori School of Copperfield3
Cornerstone Preschool2
King’s Castle1
Ngan Kim Ngo1
Patricia AdaclogNot given
Nakia Singleton0
Cypress Falls High School1
Foundation Learning Academy- Queenston17
Kids ‘r’ Kids of Copperfield4
Primrose School of Copperfield3
Minh Pham10

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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