DaycareList lists 66 child care operations in Grand Prairie, including 31 licensed child care centers and 35 home-based operations, a group that covers licensed child care homes, registered child care homes, and listed family homes. These operations sit across 5 ZIP codes, and most are in Dallas, Ellis, Tarrant County. State records from 2023-10-10 through 2026-10-10 show 331 citations across all operation types in the city. Among licensed centers, 25 received at least one citation during this window, while 6 had none. Citations are grouped by risk weight: 84 were high, 120 were medium high, 110 were medium, 3 were medium low, and 14 were low.
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 requires supervision that supports each child's safety and well-being, with caregivers staying in physical proximity and keeping auditory or visual awareness of each child's ongoing activity. Recent citations in Grand Prairie describe a caregiver standing in a doorway watching two classrooms at once, and caregivers who were not aware that a child's hair was being pulled out while the child was in care.
This standard requires the areas children use to be free of hazards. Recent citations in Grand Prairie describe an outdoor area with a barbed wire fence, a stick in the ground, nails in a cup, and a lawn mower, a backyard with a bucket of used cigarettes, sharp gardening tools, and loose pieces of wood, and a fireplace poker within reach of children.
This standard requires an operation to receive background check results before allowing the person checked to be present at the operation. Recent citations in Grand Prairie describe an employee present with access to children before an initial background check was completed, a primary caregiver with no results on file, and a household member, a spouse, with no results on file.
This standard requires a written health statement for each child, dated within the past year, showing that the child is physically able to take part in the operation's child care program. Recent citations in Grand Prairie describe reviews of children's files in which some files did not have a health statement.
This standard requires each child's immunization records, along with any allowed exceptions or exemptions, to be current. Recent citations in Grand Prairie describe reviews of children's records in which some files were missing immunization records or updated immunizations.
This standard requires a health statement to be kept on file for each child. Recent citations in Grand Prairie describe student files that were missing a health statement.
This standard requires the operation to provide proof of liability insurance coverage every year, by the anniversary date of the policy's issuance. Recent citations in Grand Prairie describe providers that did not submit their verification of liability insurance on time.
This standard covers the responsibilities of employees and caregivers, including demonstrating competency, judgment, and self-control. Recent citations in Grand Prairie describe a caregiver kicking a toddler's nap cot, a caregiver changing one child in close proximity to another child during toileting, and a caregiver leaving a child unsupervised in a rocking chair.
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.