Hearth Record

First Methodist Preschool

A licensed child care center in Mexia, Texas 76667

208 N Kaufman St, Mexia, Texas 76667. (254) 562-7822.

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The short answer

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

The last 24 months 16 deficiencies in 5 months of the last 36. Last cited Apr 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?

16 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 10 child care providers in Limestone County had 17.

14 inspections on record. The latest, on Apr 9, 2026: no violation found.

Rated High by Texas: Policies Comply with Rules, at the inspection on Feb 26, 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 Dec 12, 2024

Source:

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

When those deficiencies happened

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

16 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.

Apr 2, 2026: inspection2 deficiencies
  • Children Handwashing Before Eating

    “A group of children did not wash their hands before sitting down for lunch.”

    Rule 746.3417(1). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 2, 2026. Correction verified: Apr 9, 2026.

  • Safety - Electrical Outlets Covered

    “Several outlets did not have covers in them. This was corrected when the director placed covers in the outlets that were missing them.”

    Rule 746.3701(1). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 2, 2026.

Feb 24, 2026: inspection1 deficiency
  • Requirements for Feeding Infants - No Walking or Sleeping with Bottle or Cup

    “An infant was observed sleeping with a bottle. This was corrected during the inspection when the bottle was removed from the crib.”

    Rule 746.2419(7). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 24, 2026. Correction verified: Feb 27, 2026.

Feb 4, 2026: inspection5 deficiencies
  • Children Handwashing After Toileting or Diapering

    “An infant’s hands were not washed after diapering. This was corrected during the inspection when the caregiver was reminded about handwashing and they washed the infant’s hands.”

    Rule 746.3417(3). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 4, 2026. Correction verified: Feb 24, 2026.

  • Documented Annual Training- Required Content

    “One caregiver was missing training in preventing and responding to allergic reactions.”

    Rule 746.1309(e). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 18, 2026. Correction verified: Feb 10, 2026.

  • Infant Daily Report - Infant’s Mood

    “Moods were not being added to the daily Procare reports for the older infant classes.”

    Rule 746.2431(4). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 11, 2026. Correction verified: Feb 10, 2026.

  • Children’s Products- Annual Certification

    “The children’s product certification form was last signed in December 2024. This was corrected during the inspection when a new form was signed.”

    Rule 746.4135(b). Medium, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 4, 2026.

  • Use Zones - Licensed Before September 1, 2003 - Swings

    “There was outdoor furniture in the back use zone of the swing set.”

    Rule 746.4815(a)(3). Medium Low, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 11, 2026. Correction verified: Feb 24, 2026.

Feb 26, 2025: inspection4 deficiencies
  • Policies Comply with Rules

    “The parent handbook was missing information on parent’s rights and a statement that the operation is a gang-free zone.”

    Rule 746.201(1). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 12, 2025. Correction verified: Mar 11, 2025.

  • Documented Annual Training- Required Content

    “Three caregivers were missing training in several of the required content topics.”

    Rule 746.1309(e). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 17, 2025. Correction verified: Mar 20, 2025.

  • Children’s Records Maintained

    “Three children needed updated immunization records, one four-year-old was missing a hearing screening, another four-year-old was missing a hearing and vision screening, and one child did not have an emergency contact on file.”

    Rule 746.603(a). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 1, 2025. Correction verified: Mar 24, 2025.

  • Required Personnel Records

    “One caregiver was missing proof of education and three were missing pre-employment affidavits.”

    Rule 746.901. Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 5, 2025. Correction verified: Mar 11, 2025.

Feb 10, 2025: report to the state1 deficiency
  • AP Report a Child In Care Showing Signs and Symptoms of Illness Requiring Hospitalization

    “During the investigation, it was found that the operation did not report to Child Care Regulation within two days when a child in care had a seizure and required medical treatment.”

    Rule 746.305(a)(3). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 5, 2025. Correction verified: Mar 4, 2025.

Dec 12, 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

    “During the investigation, there was sufficient evidence found to determine that a child was left alone on the playground for an undetermined amount of time.”

    Rule 746.1205(a)(4). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 3, 2025. Correction verified: Jan 6, 2025.

Apr 3, 2024: inspection2 deficiencies
  • Written Feeding Instructions - Review and Update Every 30 Days

    “The written feeding instructions for three of the infants had not been updated monthly.”

    Rule 746.2421(b). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 10, 2024. Correction verified: Apr 10, 2024.

  • Infant Daily Report - Summary of Activities

    “The infants’ moods and daily activities were not being recorded in the Procare app. This was corrected during the inspection when the caregivers were shown how to add the mood and activities sections in Procare and began using them.”

    Rule 746.2431(5). Medium, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 3, 2024.

2 deficiencies older than three years
Sep 28, 2022: inspection2 deficiencies
  • Responsibilities of Caregivers - Supervision of Children

    “During the inspection children were observed watching television in a room alone while caregiver was in different classroom preparing for nap time. This was corrected during the inspection by the caregiver returning to the classroom with the children.”

    Rule 746.1203(4). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 28, 2022. Correction verified: Oct 3, 2022.

  • Chairs - Safety Straps Used if Required by Manufacturer

    “During the inspection infants/toddlers were observed eating lunch at a table without utilizing the manufacturer safety straps. This was corrected by the infants/toddlers being removed from the table.”

    Rule 746.4501(b). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 28, 2022. Correction verified: Oct 3, 2022.

All 18 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Apr 9, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Apr 2, 2026Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Feb 27, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Feb 24, 2026Inspection1 deficiency cited
Feb 4, 2026Inspection5 deficiencies cited
Oct 6, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Sep 18, 2025Report to the stateNo violation found
Aug 7, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Jul 26, 2025Report to the stateNo violation found
Feb 26, 2025Inspection4 deficiencies cited
Feb 10, 2025Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Jan 6, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Dec 16, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Dec 12, 2024Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Apr 3, 2024Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Jun 5, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Oct 3, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Sep 28, 2022Inspection2 deficiencies cited

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Mar 17, 1986.
  • Accepts state child care subsidies.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 100 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.
  • 4 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: 4-Star (the highest 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 10 child care providers in Limestone County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 17; this one had 16.
Source:

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

9 of the 10 in Limestone County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Maria Villatoro-Ventura21
Cool Cats Learning Academy34
Grandmas Academy28
Aunt Rosies Daycare LLC14
Mexia Head Start3
First Methodist Preschool This child care provider16
Wanda Webb14
Kids Kare Academy13
Wendy Sharp18
Living Proof Early Learning Center26

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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