Rio Hondo Head Start/Early Head Start
Licensed Center in Rio Hondo, Texas. License #1711161- 4070, issued April 1, 2021.
- Address
- 610 N Reynolds St, Rio Hondo, TX 78583
- Phone
- (956) 748-2863
- Licensed capacity
- 108 children
- Licensed for
- Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten
- Hours
- 07:30 AM-03:30 PM
- Days
- Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri
- Child care subsidies
- Not accepted
- Website
- ninosinc.org
Programs listed with the state: Meals Provided, Snacks Provided, Transportation to/from School, Field Trips.
Openings
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Texas Rising Star
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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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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 3,648 standards at Rio Hondo Head Start/Early Head Start between October 2, 2021 and October 14, 2026 and recorded 6 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 | 358 | 0 |
| Record keeping | 3 | 326 | 0 |
| Personnel | 3 | 435 | 0 |
| Ratios and group sizes | 3 | 162 | 0 |
| Activities | 3 | 108 | 0 |
| Infants | 3 | 270 | 0 |
| Toddlers | 3 | 66 | 0 |
| Pre-kindergarten | 3 | 57 | 0 |
| School-age | 3 | 60 | 0 |
| Discipline | 3 | 60 | 0 |
| Naptime | 3 | 36 | 0 |
| Field trips | 3 | 33 | 0 |
| Get well care | 2 | 54 | 0 |
| Nighttime care | 3 | 39 | 0 |
| Nutrition and food care | 2 | 90 | 0 |
| Health practices | 4 | 451 | 3 |
| Safety practices | 4 | 298 | 0 |
| Physical facilities | 2 | 150 | 0 |
| Outdoor safety | 2 | 192 | 0 |
| Pools | 2 | 54 | 0 |
| Fire safety | 3 | 203 | 0 |
| Transportation | 3 | 132 | 0 |
The table adds up to 3,634 of those standards. The remaining 14, 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.
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State inspection record
HHSC records 21 visits to this operation since October 2017, most recently on October 14, 2026, and 6 citations.
2 of those visits began with Rio Hondo Head Start/Early 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.
- 5Medium High
- 1Medium
Every citation below records a correction.
Citations
Showing all 6. Indented text is the inspector's own, reproduced verbatim.
- Medium High October 14, 2026 Correction verified October 20, 2026
746.3401(a): Annual Sanitation Inspection
Annual health inspection has not been updated. Last inspected on 9/28/2025.
- Medium December 11, 2025 Corrected at inspection
746.4003(a)(7): First Aid Kit Incomplete - Thermometer, preferably non-glass
One transportation vehicle's first aid kit is missing a themometer. CORRECTED AT INSPECTION as thermometer was added to first aid kit at the time of inspection.
- Medium High March 21, 2023 Correction verified March 30, 2023
746.3407: Maintenance of Building, Grounds and Equipment
Sanitizing home made solution is not following the product's labeling instructions for sanitizing or disinfecting.
- Medium High April 27, 2022 Correction verified April 27, 2022
746.3407: Maintenance of Building, Grounds and Equipment
Observed 4 ceiling tiles missing in a classroom.
- Medium High April 27, 2022 Correction verified May 5, 2022
746.1601: Child/ Caregiver Ratio - 13 or More Children
Observed a caregiver supervising a group of 5 Infants ages 12 months to 17 months and a group of 7 children ages 18 months to 35 months.
- Medium High October 2, 2021 Correction verified December 3, 2021
746.2803(3): Discipline - Teaches Acceptable Behavior and Self-control
Based on the information obtained standard was found non-compliance. A caregiver placed her leg on top of children's laps on more than one occasion to keep them from getting up.
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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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