Monahans Head Start
A licensed child care center in Monahans, Texas 79756
804 S Dwight Ave, Monahans, Texas 79756. (432) 943-2454.
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The short answer
Record last released by Texas HHSC on Oct 27, 2026.
- 3 deficiencies cited in the last three years Middle in Ward County: 4
- 3 rated High by Texas, its most serious level (needs attention)
- 14 inspections on record
- Not rated Texas Rising Star rating
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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 child care providers in Ward County had 4.
14 inspections on record. The latest, on Apr 14, 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 Oct 17, 2025
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 Sep 30, 2025
Rated High by Texas: Parental Communication - Situation that Placed a Child at Risk, at the report to the state on Sep 30, 2025
Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data) and inspections and investigations. Released Oct 27, 2026. Updated daily.
When those deficiencies happened
3 deficiencies in 2 months of the last 36. Last cited Oct 2025. Most serious: High. The last 3 years, to Oct 27, 2026.
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| 2025 | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
| 2026 | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct |
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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.
Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data). Released Oct 27, 2026. Updated daily.
Oct 17, 2025: report to the state1 deficiency
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Supervision ensures each child?s safety, well-being, including physical proximity and auditory or visual awareness of each child?s on going activity
“This standard was found to be out of compliance when the caregivers left a child outside for approximately 1 - 2 minutes.”
Sep 30, 2025: report to the state2 deficiencies
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Supervision ensures each child?s safety, well-being, including physical proximity and auditory or visual awareness of each child?s on going activity
“This standard was found to be out of compliance when caregivers left a child sleeping in the classroom alone for over 5 minutes.”
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Parental Communication - Situation that Placed a Child at Risk
“This standard was found to be out of compliance. The parent was not notified immediately or six minutes later at pick up, that their child was left unsupervised. The parent was notified 41 minutes after staff became aware of the incident.”
5 deficiencies older than three years
Oct 24, 2023: report to the state2 deficiencies
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Responsibilities of Employees and Caregivers -Demonstrate Competency, Good Judgment, Self-control
“This standard was evaluated and found to be out of compliance when an operation staff grabbed the back of a child’s shirt with both hands at the back of the shoulders to lift and force the child to walk forward, causing the child to trip and fall and the staff to fall on the child.”
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Parental Notification of Less Serious Injuries
“This standard was evaluated and found to be out of compliance when the operation failed to communicate with the parent of a child, that a staff accidentally fell on the child.”
Oct 12, 2023: report to the state1 deficiency
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Supervision ensures each child?s safety, well-being, including physical proximity and auditory or visual awareness of each child?s on going activity
“This standard was evaluated and found to be out of compliance when caregivers left a child napping in the classroom for a time period of less than one minute.”
Jan 6, 2022: report to the state1 deficiency
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Report Outbreak of Communicable Illness
“Operation failed to notify licensing of a reportable communicable illness within the required timeframe.”
Nov 9, 2021: inspection1 deficiency
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Written Operational Policies - Promotion of Physical Activity
“The child care center’s operational policies did not include the promotion of indoor and outdoor physical activity.”
All 19 visits on record
| Date | Visit | What the record says |
|---|---|---|
| Apr 14, 2026 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Nov 5, 2025 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Oct 21, 2025 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Oct 17, 2025 | Report to the state | 1 deficiency cited |
| Oct 2, 2025 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Sep 30, 2025 | Report to the state | 2 deficiencies cited |
| Apr 23, 2025 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Aug 29, 2024 | Inspection | No violation found |
| May 2, 2024 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Feb 5, 2024 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Dec 4, 2023 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Oct 24, 2023 | Report to the state | 2 deficiencies cited |
| Oct 19, 2023 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Oct 12, 2023 | Report to the state | 1 deficiency cited |
| Oct 10, 2023 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Sep 7, 2023 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Oct 25, 2022 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Jan 6, 2022 | Report to the state | 1 deficiency cited |
| Nov 9, 2021 | Inspection | 1 deficiency cited |
Is it licensed?
- Licensed Center, permit issued Mar 15, 2011.
- Licensed for ages: Pre-Kindergarten, School.
- Capacity: 60 children.
Texas HHSC, child care operations. Released Oct 27, 2026. Updated daily.
Has Texas acted against it?
- No corrective or adverse action by Texas on record.
- 5 reports to the state on record; Texas doesn’t publish whether they were A complaint allegation the state investigated and found true: the evidence showed it more likely than not happened. Inconclusive means the evidence couldn’t show it either way. Neither inconclusive nor unsubstantiated proves it didn’t happen. Source: California Department of Social Services, complaint findings; each state’s licensing agency..
Texas HHSC, child care operations and inspections and investigations. Released Oct 27, 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.
Texas Workforce Commission, subsidy providers and Texas Rising Star. Released Oct 27, 2026. Updated daily.
How does it compare nearby?
- Among 2 child care providers in Ward County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 4; this one had 3.
Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data). Released Oct 27, 2026. Updated daily.
| Place | Deficiencies, 3 years |
|---|---|
| Dora Salgado | Not given |
| Nana T’s Learning Center, Inc. | 5 |
| Monahans Head Start This child care provider | 3 |
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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Texas Health and Human Services Commission, Child care operations (bc5r-88dy).
Released Oct 27, 2026 and checked Oct 27, 2026. Updated daily. Creative Commons 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication).
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Texas Health and Human Services Commission, Inspections and investigations (m5q4-3y3d).
Released Oct 27, 2026 and checked Oct 27, 2026. Updated daily. Creative Commons 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication).
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Texas Health and Human Services Commission, Deficiencies (non-compliance data) (tqgd-mf4x).
Released Oct 27, 2026 and checked Oct 27, 2026. Updated daily. Creative Commons 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication).
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Texas Workforce Commission, Subsidy providers and Texas Rising Star.
Released Oct 27, 2026 and checked Oct 27, 2026. Updated daily. No licence stated.
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