746.303: Report Number of Employees
This standard covers reporting the number of employees who left employment. Citations describe centers that had not submitted that information by the required deadline.
Checking a daycare in Brownsville, Texas
DaycareList lists 108 child care operations in Brownsville, including 107 licensed centers and 1 home-based operations. The inspection record window runs from 2023-10-10 through 2026-10-10. During that window, 83 licensed centers had at least one citation, and 24 had no citations recorded. Across all operation types, the records include 360 citations.
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Provider totals and citation counts include all providers, including providers omitted from listings for personal-name privacy or suppression requests.
Citations dated October 10, 2023 to October 10, 2026.
Providers by type
| Provider type | Providers |
|---|---|
| Licensed Centers | 107 |
| Licensed Child-Care Homes | 1 |
Citations by HHSC risk level
| Risk weight | Citations |
|---|---|
| High | 81 |
| Medium High | 154 |
| Medium | 91 |
| Medium Low | 33 |
| Low | 1 |
| Unknown | 0 |
Most cited standards in this city
| Standard | Title | Citations | Providers |
|---|---|---|---|
| 746.303 | Report Number of Employees | 28 | 22 |
| 746.3407 | Maintenance of Building, Grounds and Equipment | 18 | 15 |
| 746.5101 | Annual Fire Inspection - Before Initial Permit Issued and Every 12 Months | 16 | 15 |
| 746.3401 | Annual Sanitation Inspection | 12 | 12 |
| 746.1205 | Supervision ensures each child?s safety, well-being, including physical proximity and auditory or visual awareness of each child?s on going activity | 9 | 8 |
| 746.5205 | Documentation of Drills | 7 | 6 |
| 746.603 | Children's Records - Health Statement | 7 | 6 |
| 745.641 | AP Background check results - Must receive notification prior to allowing subject to be present at your operation | 6 | 6 |
| 746.1201 | Responsibilities of Employees and Caregivers -Demonstrate Competency, Good Judgment, Self-control | 6 | 6 |
| 746.1601 | Child/ Caregiver Ratio - 13 or More Children | 6 | 4 |
ZIP codes by provider count
| ZIP | Providers |
|---|---|
| 78521 | 41 |
| 78520 | 37 |
| 78526 | 30 |
How to check the record
- Go to the Texas HHSC public child care search page (link below).
- Search for the daycare by name or location to find its listing.
- Open the operation details page and the inspection and compliance history page. DaycareList provider pages link to both pages.
- Read the citations listed for the operation, noting the risk weight assigned to each standard and whether the citation was corrected at the inspection.
- Read the narrative in each citation record to see what the inspector found.
- Compare the dates of inspections and citations over the years covered by the state records.
- Ask the provider questions about specific citations you read in the record.
- Report errors on a DaycareList page through the corrections page. DaycareList data is refreshed from the state through the Texas Open Data Portal; the state's own record is authoritative.
Reading records
- deficiency (citation)
- A finding that a minimum standard was not met during an inspection, investigation, or assessment.
- risk levels
- HHSC assigns each standard a risk weight of High, Medium High, Medium, Medium Low, or Low.
- corrected at inspection
- A citation record may show whether the deficiency was fixed at the time of the inspection.
- correction date
- The date shown on a citation record for when the correction was made.
- correction verified
- A citation record may show a date the correction was verified.
- technical assistance
- A citation record may show whether technical assistance was given.
- inspection vs investigation vs assessment
- Records published by the state include inspections, investigations, and assessments, along with the deficiencies cited during them.
- three-year window
- The period DaycareList uses when counting citations in its provider summaries. The state online records cover about the last five years.
- minimum standards
- The rules operations must follow. For centers they are in Texas Administrative Code Title 26, Chapter 746; for licensed and registered homes, Chapter 747. The governing statute is Texas Human Resources Code Chapter 42.
Cited standards
746.3407: Maintenance of Building, Grounds and Equipment
This standard covers maintaining buildings, grounds, and equipment. Citations describe dust and debris on vents and ceiling fans, rooms used for storage instead of child care, and damaged fencing.
746.5101: Annual Fire Inspection - Before Initial Permit Issued and Every 12 Months
This standard covers fire inspections before the initial permit is issued and annually afterward. Citations describe fire inspections that had not been completed or updated.
746.3401: Annual Sanitation Inspection
This standard covers annual sanitation inspections. Citations describe health department inspections that had not been conducted or updated.
746.1205: 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 covers supervising children, including staying close enough to hear or see their ongoing activities. Citations describe children left without supervision and injuries that occurred when caregivers did not supervise children closely.
746.5205: Documentation of Drills
This standard covers keeping documentation of drills. Citations describe missing fire drill records and drill documentation that was unavailable for review during an inspection.
746.603: Children's Records - Health Statement
This standard covers including a health statement in each child's records. Citations describe children's files that did not contain the health statement at the time of inspection.
745.641: AP Background check results - Must receive notification prior to allowing subject to be present at your operation
This standard covers receiving notification of background check results before allowing a person subject to the check to be present at the operation. Citations describe caregivers present with children before their background check results had been received.
This guide's text was drafted automatically, checked against the state records by a second automated reviewer, and spot-checked by hand; all counts are computed directly from the state data. It may contain errors. The official state record is authoritative. Records reflect only deficiencies published by the state after due process. This page does not rate or rank providers.
Data as of October 10, 2026. Corrections and removal requests