Children's Lighthouse at Heritage
Licensed Center in Fort Worth, Texas. License #1582418, issued February 25, 2016.
- Address
- 4851 Shiver Rd, Fort Worth, TX 76244
- Phone
- (817) 741-7444
- Licensed capacity
- 291 children
- Licensed for
- Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School
- Hours
- 06:30 AM-06:30 PM
- Days
- Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri
- Child care subsidies
- Not accepted
- Website
- childrenslighthouse.com/heritage
Programs listed with the state: School Age Care, Before School Care, Meals Provided, After School Care, Snacks Provided, Part Time Care, Transportation to/from School, Field Trips.
The state records conditions on this permit . What these mean.
Openings
This program has not told us about its openings. We only publish what a program confirms itself, so there is nothing here yet. Ring them to ask.
Texas Rising Star
No Texas Rising Star rating
Texas Rising Star is voluntary, and a program joins it by applying. It is tied to accepting child care scholarships, so most programs that are not in it never applied rather than failed. Roughly three in five licensed programs in Texas have no rating.
This says nothing about the quality of this program. What the state has assessed about it is the inspection record below.
Where this is
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The pin is where the US Census geocoder placed this address. About one in eight is interpolated along a street rather than resolved to a building, so treat it as the right block rather than the right doorway. How we source this.
What inspectors checked
Texas HHSC records how many individual standards it evaluated in each area of the rules, and how many it found violated. Across 22 areas it checked 3,848 standards at Children's Lighthouse at Heritage between September 29, 2021 and September 25, 2026 and recorded 21 violations. Those correspond to the citations listed above that were recorded from 2021 onward; anything older than that is in the citation list but not in these counts.
The 22 areas, one by one
| Area of the rules | Visits | Standards checked | Violated |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scope, administration, and communication | 3 | 365 | 0 |
| Record keeping | 3 | 334 | 4 |
| Personnel | 3 | 467 | 0 |
| Ratios and group sizes | 3 | 162 | 0 |
| Activities | 3 | 108 | 0 |
| Infants | 3 | 270 | 0 |
| Toddlers | 3 | 66 | 0 |
| Pre-kindergarten | 4 | 76 | 0 |
| School-age | 4 | 80 | 0 |
| Discipline | 3 | 60 | 0 |
| Naptime | 3 | 36 | 0 |
| Field trips | 3 | 33 | 0 |
| Get well care | 3 | 81 | 0 |
| Nighttime care | 3 | 39 | 0 |
| Nutrition and food care | 3 | 134 | 0 |
| Health practices | 3 | 338 | 0 |
| Safety practices | 3 | 220 | 1 |
| Physical facilities | 3 | 224 | 0 |
| Outdoor safety | 3 | 288 | 0 |
| Pools | 3 | 78 | 0 |
| Fire safety | 3 | 203 | 0 |
| Transportation | 3 | 132 | 0 |
The table adds up to 3,794 of those standards. The remaining 54, including 16 of the violations, were recorded under the state's own catch-all heading, “Individual Standards Evaluated”, which names no area. They are reported here rather than folded into an area above, because the state did not say which area they belong to and we are not going to decide for it.
A high number of standards checked is not a compliment and a low one is not a criticism: how many apply depends on a program's size, its ages served and what the inspector was there to look at. We publish the two counts the state published and do not turn them into a score. This data begins in 2021, which is later than the inspection history above it.
Changes we have recorded
Texas HHSC publishes the register as it stands today and overwrites it, so nothing in the state's own data shows that a figure used to be different. We compare the register against the previous day's copy and keep what moved. We have been doing that since October 24, 2026.
- October 30, 2026Administrator “Kelly Dean” to “”
Each date is the day we first saw the new value, not the day the program changed anything or the day the state recorded it. A change made in February can appear in the register in May. We do not know which, so we do not say.
Ask about an opening
This goes to Children's Lighthouse at Heritage and nobody else. They reply to you directly: we do not sit in the middle of it, and we never pass your details on or sell them.
Tell me about new inspections
One short message each time Texas HHSC records an inspection here, saying that it happened and linking to the record. We do not tell you what the inspector found: a finding without whether it was corrected is misleading, and that pair belongs on the page rather than split across an email.
We ask for nothing but the address, and we send a confirmation first. Your list is never shown to this program, never sold, and every message has a link to stop. An inspection is routine: programs are visited on a schedule and after a complaint, and a visit is not a finding.
State inspection record
HHSC records 41 visits to this operation since October 2017, most recently on October 19, 2026, and 21 citations.
6 of those visits began with Children's Lighthouse at Heritage reporting something to the state itself rather than HHSC finding it. We publish that because it is part of the record and the state records it separately, not because it is good or bad: a program with none may have had nothing to report. 3,674 of the 12,933 programs listed here have at least one.
- 11High
- 4Medium High
- 5Medium
- 1Medium Low
Every citation below records a correction.
Citations
Showing all 21. Indented text is the inspector's own, reproduced verbatim.
- Medium Low September 25, 2026 Correction verified October 28, 2026
746.901(4): Required Personnel Records - Required Affidavit (Form 2985)
Two of the ten staff files reviewed did not have a notarized Affidavit for Applicants for Employment (Form 2985) on file.
- High August 10, 2026 Correction verified September 25, 2026
746.305(a)(6): Report Situation Placing Children at Risk
Based on the investigation findings, this standard was reviewed and found to be in non-compliance with The Minimum Standards for Child Care Centers. The operation did not report to Child Care Regulation concerns that a caregiver grabbed a child's arm.
- High August 10, 2026 Correction verified September 25, 2026
746.2805(1): Prohibited Punishments - Corporal Punishment
Based on the investigation findings, this standard was reviewed and found to be in non-compliance with The Minimum Standards for Child Care Centers. A caregiver grabbed a child by the back of the shirt and pulled them back.
- Medium July 23, 2026 Corrected at inspection
746.1615: Child/Caregiver Ratio - Opening/Closing
At 7:23 am, during the walk-through of the operation, I observed 23 children in Room 5. There are 4 children who are 2 years old. The teacher confirmed the children's ages. The operation corrected this deficiency after I question the opening mix group ratio.
- Medium July 13, 2026 Correction verified September 10, 2026
746.521(2): Parent right to file a complaint
Based on the investigation findings, this standard was reviewed and found noncompliant with the Minimum Standards for Child Care Centers. The operation disenrolled the family because the family filed a complaint.
- Medium High July 13, 2026 Correction verified September 10, 2026
746.521(11): Parent right to be free from retaliatory action
Based on the investigation findings, this standard was reviewed and found noncompliant with the Minimum Standards for Child Care Centers. The operation disenrolled the family because the parent filed a report with Child Care Regulation.
- Medium High July 8, 2026 Corrected at inspection
746.3701: Safety - Areas Free From Hazards
During the walkthrough, I observed that Room 7 children's bathroom (children aged from 2 to 4 years old) has cleaning supplies (Swiffer mop with cleaning solution) attached) in the children's bathroom.
- High June 26, 2026 Corrected at inspection
745.635(3): AP Background ck determination - If provisionally eligible w/conditions or eligible w/conditions you must restrict duties per conditions/restrictions
A caregiver with provisional eligibility was observed to be caring for a group a children with no other qualified caregiver in the room with them. This was corrected during the inspection.
- High May 13, 2026 Correction verified June 26, 2026
746.305(a)(6): Report Situation Placing Children at Risk
Based on the investigation findings, this standard was reviewed and found to be in non-compliance with The Minimum Standards for Child Care Centers. The operation did not report a situation that may have placed a child at risk when they did not notify Child Care Regulation that concerns were expressed about a staff member hitting a child on their hand.
- High May 13, 2026 Correction verified June 26, 2026
745.635(3): AP Background ck determination - If provisionally eligible w/conditions or eligible w/conditions you must restrict duties per conditions/restrictions
Based on the investigation findings, this standard was reviewed and found to be in non-compliance with The Minimum Standards for Child Care Centers. A caregiver who is provisionally eligible with conditions did not follow one of the listed conditions when they were left alone in charge of the care of a group of children.
- High April 22, 2026 Correction verified June 2, 2026
746.1205(a)(4): Supervision ensures each child?s safety, well-being, including physical proximity and auditory or visual awareness of each child?s on going activity
A caregiver failed to provide supervision, resulting in the child being in the bathroom for over an hour.
- High March 5, 2026 Correction verified April 14, 2026
746.1205(a)(4): Supervision ensures each child?s safety, well-being, including physical proximity and auditory or visual awareness of each child?s on going activity
A caregiver was observed to leave a class of children unsupervised for approximately 3-5 minutes.
- Medium October 16, 2025 Correction verified October 22, 2025
746.3809: Medication No Longer Used
During the monitoring visit, the operation had three medications that were expired for children enrolled in the operation.
- High December 31, 2024 Corrected at inspection
746.5617(a)(6): Required Equipment in Vehicles - First-aid Kit
All vans were missing complete first aid kits. This was corrected when the director added missing items to make each kit complete.
- High July 26, 2024 Correction verified August 16, 2024
746.1201(1): Responsibilities of Employees and Caregivers -Demonstrate Competency, Good Judgment, Self-control
The caregiver did not exercise good judgment to assist the child off of the cots.
- Medium April 11, 2023 Correction verified April 14, 2023
746.901(2): Required Personnel Records- Meets Requirements
One of the staff files was missing proof of education.
- Medium April 11, 2023 Correction verified April 14, 2023
746.901(8): Required Personnel Records- Photo Identification
One of the staff files was missing a photo ID.
- High April 11, 2023 Correction verified April 11, 2023
746.605(12): Required Admission Information - Emergency Medical Authorization
Three of the children's files that were reviewed did not have the emergency treatment completed and signed.
- Medium High June 1, 2022 Correction verified June 28, 2022
746.3301(i): Nutrition and Food Service - Must not serve identified foods to allergic child
There were at least three incidents where a child was served food he was allergic to. The first incident a child was given a snack that had an allergy warning because it was made with milk. The second incident occurred when the same child was given a cookie that contained milk and eggs. The child is allergic to both ingredients. Another child was given a muffin made from milk. The child is allergic to milk.
- High June 1, 2022 Correction verified June 28, 2022
746.1201(1): Responsibilities of Employees and Caregivers -Demonstrate Competency, Good Judgment, Self-control
A caregiver did not demonstrate competency when she ignored a food allergy notification that is posted in the room. She was aware that the child is only supposed to eat food brought from home. She was seen on video giving the child a cookie that was bought by the facility. As a result the child had an allergic reaction and was taken to urgent care. There were two other incidents where the allergy notification was ignored. The same child was given a snack food that contained milk. The sibling, also allergic to milk was given a product containing milk. These actions also resulted in an allergic reaction.
- Medium High September 29, 2021 Corrected at inspection
746.305(a)(4): Report Outbreak of Communicable Illness
The facility failed to report a positve case of COVID at the facility.
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About this record
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