Upbring Head Start (Texas City)
Licensed Center in Texas City, Texas. License #1820242, issued February 2, 2026.
- Address
- 10000 Emmett F Lowry Expy Ste 1388, Texas City, TX 77591
- Phone
- (409) 402-0444
- Licensed capacity
- 55 children
- Licensed for
- Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten
- Hours
- 07:30 AM-03:00 PM
- Days
- Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri
- Child care subsidies
- Not accepted
- Website
- upbring.org
Programs listed with the state: Meals Provided, Snacks Provided.
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
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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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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 3,156 standards at Upbring Head Start (Texas City) between July 31, 2025 and August 31, 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 rules | Visits | Standards checked | Violated |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scope, administration, and communication | 2 | 247 | 0 |
| Record keeping | 2 | 223 | 1 |
| Personnel | 2 | 315 | 0 |
| Ratios and group sizes | 2 | 108 | 0 |
| Activities | 2 | 72 | 0 |
| Infants | 2 | 180 | 0 |
| Toddlers | 2 | 44 | 0 |
| Pre-kindergarten | 2 | 38 | 0 |
| School-age | 2 | 40 | 0 |
| Discipline | 2 | 40 | 0 |
| Naptime | 2 | 24 | 0 |
| Field trips | 3 | 33 | 0 |
| Get well care | 3 | 81 | 0 |
| Nighttime care | 3 | 39 | 0 |
| Nutrition and food care | 3 | 135 | 0 |
| Health practices | 3 | 339 | 1 |
| Safety practices | 3 | 234 | 0 |
| Physical facilities | 3 | 225 | 0 |
| Outdoor safety | 3 | 288 | 0 |
| Pools | 3 | 90 | 0 |
| Fire safety | 3 | 201 | 0 |
| Transportation | 3 | 147 | 0 |
The table adds up to 3,143 of those standards. The remaining 13, including 5 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.
What Upbring Head Start (Texas City) says about itself
Upbring delivers prevention-focused support that helps families stay stable and children safe before challenges become crises.
Quoted from upbring.org, read on October 25, 2026. These are the program's own words, not ours, and we neither check nor endorse them.
Ask about an opening
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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 12 visits to this operation since October 2017, most recently on October 15, 2026, and 7 citations.
2 of those visits began with Upbring Head Start (Texas City) 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.
- 3High
- 1Medium High
- 2Medium
- 1Medium Low
Every citation below records a correction.
Citations
Showing all 7. Indented text is the inspector's own, reproduced verbatim.
- Medium High August 31, 2026 Correction verified September 2, 2026
746.3401(a): Annual Sanitation Inspection
At time of inspection, operation had not had a current Sanitiation Inspection. The last inspection was conducted on 7/25/2025.
- High February 19, 2026 Correction verified March 25, 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 interviews conducted two children were able to walk away from the restroom and were left unsupervised for three minutes.
- Medium February 10, 2026 Correction verified February 19, 2026
746.701(5): Licensing Incident/Illness Report Form - Situations Placing Children at Risk
Licensing Incident Report form for child that was left unsupervised was not completed.
- High February 10, 2026 Correction verified February 19, 2026
746.1205(a)(2): Responsibilities of Caregivers - Know number of children responsible for
Based on information provided, one out of the three caregivers did not know the number of children they were responsible at the time of the incident.
- Medium February 10, 2026 Correction verified February 19, 2026
746.707: Incident/Illness Report Form Shared with Parent
Licensing Incident Report form was not shared with parent or signed.
- High February 10, 2026 Correction verified February 19, 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 video footage provided. Child was left unsupervised for three minutes.
- Medium Low January 12, 2026 Correction verified January 13, 2026
746.901(4): Required Personnel Records - Required Affidavit (Form 2985)
At time of inspection, director did not have Notariized Affidavit form 2985 in file.
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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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