ACTIVE POOR Compliance

Southern Littles Academy, LLC

702 E EXPRESSWAY 83 STE B21, DONNA, TX 78537

License #1720253 | Expires: Nov 3, 2021

Day Care Center
Type
50
Capacity
22
Inspections
13
Violations

Compliance Summary

3
Critical
3
Serious
3
Moderate
4
Minor

Inspection History

Date Type Result Violations
Jan 22, 2026 OTHER Violations Found 1
Jun 11, 2025 Annual Inspection Compliant 0
May 16, 2025 Annual Inspection Compliant 0
Nov 8, 2024 Annual Inspection Compliant 0
Aug 7, 2024 Annual Inspection Compliant 0
Apr 29, 2024 Annual Inspection Compliant 0
Apr 18, 2024 Annual Inspection Violations Found 1
Mar 20, 2024 Annual Inspection Compliant 0
Feb 26, 2024 Annual Inspection Compliant 0
Feb 23, 2024 OTHER Violations Found 2
Oct 11, 2023 Annual Inspection Compliant 0
Oct 10, 2023 Annual Inspection Compliant 0
Sep 29, 2023 OTHER Compliant 0
Aug 31, 2023 Annual Inspection Compliant 0
Oct 10, 2022 Annual Inspection Violations Found 3
Apr 11, 2022 Annual Inspection Compliant 0
Apr 8, 2022 Annual Inspection Violations Found 2
Feb 25, 2022 OTHER Violations Found 1
Sep 30, 2021 Annual Inspection Compliant 0
Aug 6, 2021 Annual Inspection Compliant 0
Jul 15, 2021 Annual Inspection Violations Found 1
May 14, 2021 Annual Inspection Violations Found 2

Violation Details

Minor Corrected

A review of the Employees Who Left Employment in 2025 data from January 20, 2026, determined the center had not reported the number of employees who left employment in 2025 by January 15, 2026, as required.

Corrected: Jan 30, 2026

Serious Corrected

A caregiver did not wash her hands between diaper changes.

Corrected: Apr 19, 2024

Moderate Corrected

This standard was found deficient as a group of children were observed watching television during operational hours.

Corrected: Mar 18, 2024

Critical Corrected

This standard was found deficient as an infant child was left unsupervised in the classroom for less than a minute. Please note: Child was unharmed.

Corrected: Mar 18, 2024

Minor Corrected

Out of the staff files reviewed, two staff were lacking the required affidavit.

Corrected: Oct 17, 2022

Serious Corrected

Out of the children's files reviewed, two had incomplete information for the person to contact in case of an emergency. (NOTE: corrected during inspection by calling parent for missing information.)

Corrected: Oct 10, 2022

Minor Corrected

Out of the staff files reviewed, 2 were lacking verification of a TB test.

Corrected: Oct 17, 2022

Critical Corrected

A caregiver did not use good judgement by allowing all infants to sleep with blankets. (NOTE: Caregiver removed all blankets.)

Corrected: Apr 8, 2022

Critical Corrected

There were 3 infants asleep in their assigned cribs/playpens who had blankets in with them.

Corrected: Apr 8, 2022

Minor Corrected

A review of the Employees Who Left Employment in 2021 data from February 23, 2022, revealed that the center had not reported the number of employees who left employment in 2021 by February 22, 2022, as required.

Corrected: Feb 25, 2022

Moderate Corrected

Reviewed staff records: 3 out of 4 staff do not have the child abuse and neglect training.

Serious Corrected

Facility does not have a qualfied director.

Moderate Corrected

Parent handbook is missing the vaccine preventable disease section.

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Data Source: texas_dfps — Last updated: Mar 4, 2026
Data is provided as-is from public government records. It may not reflect changes since the last inspection.