DaycareList lists 568 child care operations in Austin, including 459 licensed centers and 109 home-based operations. These operations sit across 42 ZIP codes, and most fall in Hays, Travis, Williamson County. State records for the window from 2023-10-10 to 2026-10-10 show 2,481 citations across all operation types. Within that window, 340 licensed centers received at least one citation, while 119 received none. Citations were grouped by risk level, with 597 at High risk, 1,093 at Medium High risk, 677 at Medium risk, 76 at Medium Low risk, and 38 at Low risk.
Provider totals and citation counts include all providers, including providers omitted from listings for personal-name privacy or suppression requests.
Citations dated October 10, 2023 to October 10, 2026.
Go to the Texas HHSC public child care search page (link below).
Search for the daycare by name or location to find its listing.
Open the operation details page and the inspection and compliance history page. DaycareList provider pages link to both pages.
Read the citations listed for the operation, noting the risk weight assigned to each standard and whether the citation was corrected at the inspection.
Read the narrative in each citation record to see what the inspector found.
Compare the dates of inspections and citations over the years covered by the state records.
Ask the provider questions about specific citations you read in the record.
Report errors on a DaycareList page through the corrections page. DaycareList data is refreshed from the state through the Texas Open Data Portal; the state's own record is authoritative.
Reading records
deficiency (citation)
A finding that a minimum standard was not met during an inspection, investigation, or assessment.
risk levels
HHSC assigns each standard a risk weight of High, Medium High, Medium, Medium Low, or Low.
corrected at inspection
A citation record may show whether the deficiency was fixed at the time of the inspection.
correction date
The date shown on a citation record for when the correction was made.
correction verified
A citation record may show a date the correction was verified.
technical assistance
A citation record may show whether technical assistance was given.
inspection vs investigation vs assessment
Records published by the state include inspections, investigations, and assessments, along with the deficiencies cited during them.
three-year window
The period DaycareList uses when counting citations in its provider summaries. The state online records cover about the last five years.
minimum standards
The rules operations must follow. For centers they are in Texas Administrative Code Title 26, Chapter 746; for licensed and registered homes, Chapter 747. The governing statute is Texas Human Resources Code Chapter 42.
This standard covers supervision of children, including staying physically close and being able to see or hear each child as activities happen. Citations in Austin records describe caregivers who were not supervising the children in their care, a teacher who did not know the children well enough to do a name-to-face check, a child who was in the restroom when a class left the classroom, and a child left in a classroom without the teacher knowing.
This standard covers having an annual sanitation inspection on record for the operation. Citations in Austin records describe operations that could not provide a copy of a recent custodial or sanitation inspection, could not provide one on a second request, or did not have a current inspection.
This standard covers waiting for background check results before allowing a person to be present at the operation with children. Citations in Austin records describe a caregiver who was present with access to children before background check results arrived, a caregiver present with children who had not yet been cleared by the Centralized Background Check Unit, and a volunteer present without an active background check.
This standard covers making sure each caregiver's file documents annual training on required topics. Citations in Austin records describe caregiver files missing training on medication administration, food allergies, hazardous materials, and infant SIDS and shaken baby, files missing certificates for handling, storing, and disposing of hazardous materials, and several caregivers missing required topics.
This standard covers having a food allergy emergency plan, sometimes called a FARE form or Allergy Action Plan, signed by both the parent and a health care professional. Citations in Austin records describe a FARE form that was more than a year old, forms missing both the parent and medical professional signatures, and allergy action plans not signed by both the parent and the health care provider.
This standard covers completing an annual fire inspection before a permit is first issued and again every twelve months after that. Citations in Austin records describe operations with no annual fire inspection on file, a fire inspection that had expired after twelve months, and an expired inspection with a past inspection date listed in the narrative.
This standard covers giving medication from its original container with the child's name and date on the label. Citations in Austin records describe EpiPens kept outside their original prescription containers and a child with an expired EpiPen that did not have the original labeled container with the medication.
This standard covers the caregiver to child ratio at operations with thirteen or more children. Citations in Austin records describe groups of toddlers and infants left with one caregiver beyond the number that caregiver could watch alone, and a caregiver who stepped away and left a coworker over ratio with a group of children.
This guide's text was drafted automatically, checked against the state records by a second automated reviewer, and spot-checked by hand; all counts are computed directly from the state data. It may contain errors. The official state record is authoritative. Records reflect only deficiencies published by the state after due process. This page does not rate or rank providers.