Jensen Drive Head Start
Licensed Center in Houston, Texas. License #879173- 5211, issued January 28, 2008.
- Address
- 2702 Aldine Westfield Rd, Houston, TX 77093
- Phone
- (713) 742-8952
- Licensed capacity
- 211 children
- Licensed for
- Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten
- Hours
- 07:00 AM-03:45 PM
- Days
- Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri
- Child care subsidies
- Not accepted
- Website
- avancehouston.org
Programs listed with the state: Accredited, Meals Provided, Snacks Provided.
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.
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 2,791 standards at Jensen Drive Head Start between March 8, 2022 and April 10, 2026 and recorded 10 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 | 240 | 0 |
| Record keeping | 2 | 220 | 0 |
| Personnel | 2 | 290 | 1 |
| Ratios and group sizes | 2 | 108 | 0 |
| Activities | 2 | 68 | 0 |
| Infants | 2 | 177 | 1 |
| Toddlers | 3 | 66 | 0 |
| Pre-kindergarten | 3 | 55 | 0 |
| School-age | 3 | 60 | 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 | 2 | 225 | 0 |
| Safety practices | 2 | 144 | 1 |
| Physical facilities | 3 | 224 | 0 |
| Outdoor safety | 2 | 192 | 0 |
| Pools | 2 | 54 | 0 |
| Fire safety | 2 | 135 | 1 |
| Transportation | 3 | 132 | 0 |
The table adds up to 2,773 of those standards. The remaining 18, including 6 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.
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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 15 visits to this operation since October 2017, most recently on April 10, 2026, and 10 citations.
One of those visits began with Jensen Drive Head Start 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.
- 2High
- 3Medium High
- 4Medium
- 1Medium Low
Every citation below records a correction.
Citations
Showing all 10. Indented text is the inspector's own, reproduced verbatim.
- Medium High February 3, 2026 Corrected at inspection
746.5537(a)(2): Electronic or Battery-Operated Carbon Monoxide Detector-Check All Detectors Monthly
Documentation of the testing of the carbon monoxide detector is not completed. Note: this was corrected at inspection when the director tested the equipment.
- Medium February 6, 2025 Correction verified February 11, 2025
746.2421(b): Written Feeding Instructions - Review and Update Every 30 Days
The infant classroom is not updating the infant feeding instructions every 30 days as required.
- Medium October 11, 2024 Correction verified December 18, 2024
746.2905(1): Children Not Required to Sleep - May Not Force Child to Sleep
A caregiver used force and covered the child in effort to make a child nap.
- Medium February 13, 2024 Correction verified February 16, 2024
746.501(a)(1): Written Operational Policies - Operating Times
The operations written operational policies did not address the following required topics: Hours, days, and months of operation Promotion of indoor and outdoor physical activity Emergency Preparedness Plan
- High February 6, 2024 Correction verified April 18, 2024
746.1201(1): Responsibilities of Employees and Caregivers -Demonstrate Competency, Good Judgment, Self-control
Based on the information gathered a teacher hit a child on top of the head and did not demonstrate good judgement.
- High February 6, 2024 Correction verified April 18, 2024
746.2805(5): Prohibited Punishments - Humiliating, Rejecting, Yelling
Based on the information gathered a teacher yelled at children.
- Medium High October 19, 2023 Correction verified December 5, 2023
746.3805(c)(3): Medication Records - Date, Time and Amount Given
The operation did not record the amount of medication given to a child on the dates the medication was administered from October 4, 2023-October 11,2023.
- Medium February 21, 2023 Corrected at inspection
746.3809: Medication No Longer Used
Medication for 1 child no longer enrolled needed to be returned to parents, medication for 1 child that no longer requires the medication needed to return to parent and medication for 1 child is expired needed to return to parent. Note: this was corrected at inspection when the director removed the medications from the storage bin.
- Medium High February 21, 2023 Correction verified February 27, 2023
746.5202(1): Emergency Preparedness Plan - Evacuation, relocation, and sheltering/lock-down procedures
The center's emergency preparedness plan does not include instructions for how children under 24 months will be evacuated to the relocation site in an emergency.
- Medium Low February 21, 2023 Correction verified February 27, 2023
746.1329(a): Documentation of Training Requirements - Original Training Certification Card or Letter in each Employee's personnel record
Original certificate is required for 7 out of 10 staff files for training in annual topics of Emergency Preparedness and in Understanding Building and Physical Premises Safety.
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About this record
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