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Plain-English summary of cited deficiencies
State records list 5 cited deficiencies dated January 19, 2024 to September 23, 2025 (2 High, 2 Medium, 1 Medium Low risk). Correction status: 0 corrected at inspection, 5 with a correction date recorded, 0 with no correction date recorded.
High risk · Parental Communication - Situation that Placed a Child at Risk (746.307(b)(4)) Cited April 12, 2024 (correction date recorded: May 6, 2024; correction verified May 15, 2024; technical assistance given). What the record describes: The operation did not immediately notify a child's parents after leaving the child unsupervised on 4.11.24. The parents were notified on 4.15.24.
High risk · Supervision ensures each child?s safety, well-being, including physical proximity and auditory or visual awareness of each child?s on going activity (746.1205(a)(4)) Cited April 12, 2024 (correction date recorded: May 6, 2024; correction verified May 15, 2024; technical assistance given). What the record describes: A child was found unsupervised in the hallway on 4.11.24.
Medium risk · Written Operational Policies - Duration (746.501(a)(18)(B)) Cited September 23, 2025 (correction date recorded: October 7, 2025; correction verified October 13, 2025; technical assistance given). What the record describes: The written policy lacked information about indoor and outdoor physical activity duration, structured and unstructured activities, activity settings, criteria for limiting or prohibiting outdoor play during extreme weather, and a plan for physical activity when extreme weather limits or prohibits outdoor play.
Medium risk · Documented Annual Training- Required Content (746.1309(e)) Cited October 15, 2024 (correction date recorded: November 8, 2024; correction verified November 7, 2024; technical assistance given). What the record describes: All five staff files lacked documentation of required annual training topics: emergency preparedness; handling, storing, and disposing of hazardous materials; and preventing and controlling the spread of communicable diseases.
Medium Low risk · Report Number of Employees (746.303(b)) Cited January 19, 2024 (correction date recorded: January 19, 2024; correction verified January 19, 2024; technical assistance given). What the record describes: The operation did not enter information by the due date of 1/15/24.
Counts, dates, risk levels and correction status come directly from the state data. The plain-English descriptions were written automatically from the inspectors' narratives and checked against them by a second automated reviewer; they cover citations dated October 11, 2023 to October 11, 2026. They may contain errors; the official record is authoritative.
This summary is generated automatically from public HHSC records. It restates the official record and may lag behind it. The official state record is the authoritative source: official HHSC record.
Texas Health and Human Services records list 5 cited deficiencies for Fernandez Elementary Head Start in the 3 years before October 10, 2026 (2 High, 2 Medium, 1 Medium Low).
Records list 9 inspections in this window. Most recent inspection: 2026-09-23.
HHSC risk weights of citations
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HHSC assigns each standard a risk weight from Low to High. A deficiency is a finding that a minimum standard was not met.
The operational policy was reviewed to be missing a written statement regarding promotion of indoor and outdoor physical activity: The duration of physical activity at your operation, both indoor and outdoor. The type of physical activity (structured and unstructured) that…
At time of inspection five out of five staff files did not contain the following required annual topics: Emergency preparedness, Handling, storing, and disposing of hazardous materials, and preventing and controlling the spread of communicable diseases.
Corrected at inspection: No. Correction date: 2025-10-07. Correction verified: 2025-10-13.
The operational policy was reviewed to be missing a written statement regarding promotion of indoor and outdoor physical activity: The duration of physical activity at your operation, both indoor and outdoor. The type of physical activity (structured and unstructured) that children may engage in at your operation. Each setting in which your physical activity program will take place. The criteria you will use to determine when extreme weather conditions pose a significant health risk that prohibits or limits outdoor play. A plan to ensure physical activity occurs on days when extreme weather conditions prohibit or limit outdoor play.
Corrected at inspection: No. Correction date: 2024-11-08. Correction verified: 2024-11-07.
At time of inspection five out of five staff files did not contain the following required annual topics: Emergency preparedness, Handling, storing, and disposing of hazardous materials, and preventing and controlling the spread of communicable diseases.
Corrected at inspection: No. Correction date: 2024-01-19. Correction verified: 2024-01-19.
Operation did not enter information by due date 1/15/24.
Source: Texas HHSC Child Care Regulation, via data.texas.gov (CC0). See the official record: https://childcare.hhs.texas.gov/Public/InspectionAndComplianceHistory?operationId=1085753
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