Edinburg North Head Start Center
Licensed Center in Edinburg, Texas. License #831573- 5371, issued March 30, 2004.
- Address
- 3500 E Fm 2812, Edinburg, TX 78539
- Phone
- (956) 383-0665
- Licensed capacity
- 147 children
- Licensed for
- Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School
- Hours
- 07:00 AM-04:30 PM
- Days
- Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri
- Child care subsidies
- Not accepted
- Website
- hchsp.org
Programs listed with the state: Meals Provided, Snacks Provided, Transportation to/from School, Field Trips.
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 3,457 standards at Edinburg North Head Start Center between January 28, 2022 and May 18, 2026 and recorded 11 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 | 2 | 242 | 0 |
| Record keeping | 2 | 225 | 1 |
| Personnel | 2 | 313 | 0 |
| Ratios and group sizes | 2 | 108 | 0 |
| Activities | 2 | 68 | 0 |
| Infants | 2 | 177 | 0 |
| Toddlers | 2 | 44 | 0 |
| Pre-kindergarten | 2 | 36 | 0 |
| School-age | 2 | 40 | 0 |
| Discipline | 2 | 40 | 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 | 4 | 296 | 0 |
| Physical facilities | 4 | 299 | 0 |
| Outdoor safety | 4 | 384 | 0 |
| Pools | 3 | 78 | 0 |
| Fire safety | 4 | 271 | 0 |
| Transportation | 3 | 147 | 0 |
The table adds up to 3,429 of those standards. The remaining 28, including 10 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, 2026City “BERTRAM” to “EDINBURG”
- October 30, 2026Address “3500 EAST FARM-TO-MARKET 243” to “3500 E FM 2812”
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 Edinburg North Head Start 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.
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 20 visits to this operation since October 2017, most recently on May 19, 2026, and 11 citations.
2 of those visits began with Edinburg North Head Start Center 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.
- 4High
- 3Medium High
- 4Medium
Every citation below records a correction.
Citations
Showing all 11. Indented text is the inspector's own, reproduced verbatim.
- Medium High May 7, 2026 Corrected at inspection
746.3701: Safety - Areas Free From Hazards
A nail was found in the outdoor play area. Corrected at Inspection: The nail was removed during the inspection.
- Medium April 21, 2026 Correction verified May 5, 2026
746.801(3): Required Records Maintained and Made Available - Personnel and Training Records
Training records were not available for review.
- High March 25, 2026 Correction verified April 2, 2026
746.1205(a)(2): Responsibilities of Caregivers - Know number of children responsible for
A caregiver supervising a group of children during the naptime did not know how many children were in the group. When asked for the number of children present in the room the caregiver stated there were 17 children, however there were only 16 children present.
- Medium March 25, 2026 Correction verified April 2, 2026
746.2207(c)(4): Screen Time Activities - Not Used During Eating or Rest Times
A child was observed watching You Tube videos on a tablet while laying down on a mat during the naptime in a pre-k classroom.
- High March 12, 2026 Correction verified April 21, 2026
746.1201(1): Responsibilities of Employees and Caregivers -Demonstrate Competency, Good Judgment, Self-control
Based on the information obtained during the investigation, it was determined that caregivers did not demonstrate good judgment when the caregivers allowed a child to remain asleep an hour and fifty-one minutes past the scheduled naptime resulting in the child being left unsupervised in the classroom during a practice fire drill evacuation.
- High March 12, 2026 Correction verified April 21, 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
Based on the information obtained during the investigation, it was determined that two caregivers left a child unsupervised in a classroom for 6 minutes during a practice fire drill evacuation.
- Medium High May 8, 2025 Correction verified May 14, 2025
746.3407: Maintenance of Building, Grounds and Equipment
During inspection, it was noted that two of the three outdoor play areas contained a significant amount of bird droppings, which hindered a classroom's ability to engage in outdoor activities. Additionally, plastic wrappers were found scattered on the ground, and there was broken play equipment in the area designated for children. A bird nest was also observed in the metal shade structure above the outdoor play area. All six classrooms, the hallway, and the kitchen were found to have dead insects in the light ceiling panels.
- Medium May 8, 2025 Correction verified May 8, 2025
746.801(3): Required Records Maintained and Made Available - Personnel and Training Records
Training certificates were not available for review for three teachers.
- High December 13, 2022 Correction verified January 18, 2023
746.2805: Prohibited Punishments - No Harsh, Cruel or Unusual
Based on evidence gathered during the investigation two caregivers used prohibited methods of guidance at the operation. A caregiver forcibly redirected a child and pushed child while in care at the operation. Another caregiver grabbed a child with force as a form of guidance.
- Medium High January 28, 2022 Correction verified February 10, 2022
746.1315(b): Each Caregiver and the Director Must Have Current Training in pediatric CPR
CPR/1st aid training was expired for one caregiver present during inspection. Training expired 1/25/2022. NOTE: Training has been scheduled for 2/4/2022.
- Medium January 28, 2022 Correction verified February 4, 2022
746.2207(c)(1): Screen Time Activities - Related to Planned Activities
4 children in two different classrooms were watching cartoons on a computer not related to planned activities. NOTE: Caregivers transitioned with the children to another activity.
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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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