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Daretha's House Child Care & Learning Center

Licensed Center in Leonard, Texas. License #1631463, issued January 20, 2017.

Address
2385 Fm 896, Leonard, TX 75452
Phone
(903) 587-0018
Licensed capacity
136 children
Licensed for
Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School
Hours
06:00 AM-06:00 PM
Days
Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri
Child care subsidies
Accepted

Programs listed with the state: School Age Care, Before School Care, Meals Provided, After School Care, Snacks Provided, Drop-In Care, Skill Classes, Part Time Care, Transportation to/from School.

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

Texas Rising Star 4-star of a possible 4

A quality rating the state awards after an on-site assessment. Four stars is the highest.

In effect since August 27, 2025. From the state's provider report of October 27, 2026.

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 3,523 standards at Daretha's House Child Care & Learning Center between January 13, 2022 and November 2, 2026 and recorded 7 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 rulesVisitsStandards checkedViolated
Scope, administration, and communication22420
Record keeping33343
Personnel34670
Ratios and group sizes31620
Activities2720
Infants32671
Toddlers3660
Pre-kindergarten3550
School-age2400
Discipline3600
Naptime2240
Field trips2220
Get well care2540
Nighttime care2260
Nutrition and food care31340
Health practices33380
Safety practices32200
Physical facilities32240
Outdoor safety43840
Pools2540
Fire safety21350
Transportation2980

The table adds up to 3,478 of those standards. The remaining 45, including 3 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.

Ask about an opening

This goes to Daretha's House Child Care & Learning Center 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.

We email you a copy, and tell you honestly whether it reached them. Texas HHSC has no email address on file for about two programs in five, and for those the phone number above is the faster route.

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 14 visits to this operation since October 2017, most recently on November 2, 2026, and 7 citations.

222526
visitsvisits where something was found14 recorded visits since October 2017. More visits does not mean a worse program: how often the state comes depends on the license type, the program's age and whether anyone complained.
  • 1High
  • 4Medium High
  • 2Medium

Every citation below records a correction.

Citations

Showing all 7. Indented text is the inspector's own, reproduced verbatim.

  1. Medium July 1, 2026 Correction verified July 15, 2026

    746.603(a)(2): Children's Records - Admission Information

    A sampling of children records were evaluated. One child's record lacked emergency care authorization; one child's record's lacked a health statement; and one child's immunization record was observed incomplete.
  2. Medium July 1, 2026 Correction verified July 7, 2026

    746.2421(a): Written Feeding Instructions - Signed and Dated by Parent or Health-Care Professional

    Seven infant feeding instructions had not been updated by the parent or a health care professional in the past 30 days.
  3. Medium High March 24, 2026 Correction verified May 30, 2026

    746.1301(a)(4)(A): Training Requirements for Employees, Caregivers, and Directors - Pediatric CPR

    This standard was reviewed as part of an investigation and found deficient. One caregiver did not have current CPR training.
  4. Medium High March 24, 2026 Correction verified July 1, 2026

    746.2431: Infant Daily Report - Share with Parent

    This standard was reviewed as part of an investigation and found deficient. It was determined that infant daily reports have not been consistently shared with parents. In addition, it was determined that staff are not consistently completing infant daily reports in their entirety prior to sharing with parents.
  5. Medium High March 24, 2026 Correction verified May 30, 2026

    746.1315(b)(1): CPR Training and Recertification Adhere to Guidelines-skill based

    This standard was reviewed as part of an investigation and found deficient. One caregiver's CPR training did not consist of consist of a curriculum that incudes use of a CPR manikin and both written and hands-on skill-based instruction, practice, and testing.
  6. High July 2, 2025 Correction verified September 2, 2025

    746.613(a): Required Immunizations

    The file of one child was missing the following : immunizations: Hep B(1) and PCV (1)
  7. Medium High August 24, 2023 Correction verified September 11, 2023

    746.613(b): Immunization Records, Exceptions, and Exemptions Current

    Two out of ten child records evaluated did not have updated immunzation records. The following immunizations were missing- Child 1- MMR (1), Varicella (1); Child 2- PCV(1), Varicella (1)
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About this record

Every figure on this page comes from the Texas HHSC Child Care Regulation open data published at data.texas.gov, reproduced as the state recorded it. We do not grade, score or rank programs. A citation is a finding by a state inspector on a given day; it is not a judgment about a program today, and the correction status beside each one is part of the record. This page reflects data retrieved on November 8, 2026. Full methodology.

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