Start Smart Academy #1

Licensed Center in La Marque, Texas. License #870794, issued March 21, 2007.

Address

525 Texas Ave, La Marque, TX 77568

Phone

(409) 935-0406

Licensed capacity

180 children

Licensed for

Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School

Hours

06:00 AM-06:00 PM

Days

Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri

Child care subsidies

Not accepted

Programs listed with the state: School Age Care, Before School Care, Meals Provided, After School Care, Snacks Provided, Drop-In Care, Part Time Care, 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

Texas Rising Star 3-star of a possible 4

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

In effect since January 23, 2026. From the state's provider report of January 23, 2026.

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 2,767 standards at Start Smart Academy #1 between February 14, 2022 and April 29, 2026 and recorded 1 violation. 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	0
Ratios and group sizes	2	108	0
Activities	3	104	0
Infants	2	177	0
Toddlers	2	44	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	2	89	0
Health practices	2	225	0
Safety practices	3	220	0
Physical facilities	2	149	0
Outdoor safety	3	288	0
Pools	3	84	0
Fire safety	1	68	0
Transportation	2	83	0

The table adds up to 2,753 of those standards. The remaining 14, including 1 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.

1. October 31, 2026Hours “05:30 AM-06:00 PM” to “06:00 AM-06:00 PM”

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.

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State inspection record

HHSC records 9 visits to this operation since October 2017, most recently on May 1, 2026, and 1 citation.

Every citation below records a correction.

Citations

Showing all 1. Indented text is the inspector's own, reproduced verbatim.

1. Medium High February 14, 2022 Correction verified February 22, 2022

   746.3407(9): Floors, ceilings and Walls in Good Repair and Clean

   In the school age and toddler classroom the paint was chipping on several walls. A photo was taken in each classsroom.

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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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