The figures for Carrollton include 88 child care operations: 54 licensed centers and 34 home-based operations. From 2023-10-10 through 2026-10-10, the records include 402 citations across all operation types. Among licensed centers, 44 had at least one citation during that period, and 10 had no citations during that period. The selected standards and recent citations below describe topics covered by citations in these records.
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, including staying physically near children and remaining aware of their activities through sight or sound. Recent citations in Carrollton describe children left alone in a gym or classroom and a child who left a classroom without supervision.
This standard covers receiving notification of background check results before allowing a person to be present at the operation. Recent citations in Carrollton describe caregivers with pending background checks and an employee without a background check being alone with children.
This standard covers required topics in a primary caregiver's annual training. Recent citations in Carrollton describe missing training or documentation for topics such as preventing the spread of communicable diseases, administering medication, and understanding buildings and physical premises.
This standard covers employee and caregiver competence, judgment, and self-control. Recent citations in Carrollton describe rough handling of infants in frustration and placing a child over a gate, which resulted in the child falling.
This standard covers documentation of required annual training topics for caregivers. Recent citations in Carrollton describe missing training documentation and staff needing current training in administering medication.
This standard covers an annual sanitation inspection. Recent citations in Carrollton describe operations that did not have a current sanitation or health inspection.
This standard covers immunization records in children's files. Recent citations in Carrollton describe missing immunization records or records that needed updating.
This standard covers a food allergy emergency plan for a child with a diagnosed food allergy, signed by a health care professional and a parent. Recent citations in Carrollton describe children identified as having food allergies whose files did not contain these plans.
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.