746.603: Children's Records Maintained
This standard covers keeping children's records. Recent citations in McAllen describe children's files that were unavailable for review or missing parent rights forms.
Checking a daycare in McAllen, Texas
DaycareList lists 75 child care operations in McAllen, including 56 licensed centers and 19 home-based operations. The reporting window runs from 2023-10-10 to 2026-10-10. During that window, 46 licensed centers have at least one citation and 10 have no citations. Across all operation types, state records show 386 citations.
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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.
Providers by type
| Provider type | Providers |
|---|---|
| Licensed Centers | 56 |
| Licensed Child-Care Homes | 11 |
| Listed Family Homes | 2 |
| Registered Child-Care Homes | 6 |
Citations by HHSC risk level
| Risk weight | Citations |
|---|---|
| High | 56 |
| Medium High | 176 |
| Medium | 145 |
| Medium Low | 6 |
| Low | 3 |
| Unknown | 0 |
Most cited standards in this city
| Standard | Title | Citations | Providers |
|---|---|---|---|
| 746.603 | Children's Records Maintained | 15 | 12 |
| 746.3407 | Maintenance of Building, Grounds and Equipment | 13 | 10 |
| 746.901 | Required Personnel Records | 12 | 10 |
| 746.1205 | Supervision ensures each child?s safety, well-being, including physical proximity and auditory or visual awareness of each child?s on going activity | 9 | 9 |
| 746.5101 | Annual Fire Inspection - Before Initial Permit Issued and Every 12 Months | 8 | 8 |
| 746.1301 | Training Requirements for Employees, Caregivers, and Directors - 24 Annual training | 7 | 6 |
| 746.1601 | Child/ Caregiver Ratio - 13 or More Children | 7 | 6 |
| 746.603 | Tracking System or Sign-in and Sign-out Logs | 7 | 6 |
| 746.1309 | Documented Annual Training- Required Content | 6 | 5 |
| 747.1305 | Caregivers Required Annual Training-Required Topics without hour restriction | 6 | 4 |
ZIP codes by provider count
| ZIP | Providers |
|---|---|
| 78501 | 37 |
| 78504 | 28 |
| 78503 | 10 |
How to check the record
- 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.
Cited standards
746.3407: Maintenance of Building, Grounds and Equipment
This standard covers maintaining buildings, grounds, and equipment. Recent citations in McAllen describe dust and debris on vents, peeling paint, and water damage on ceiling tiles.
746.901: Required Personnel Records
This standard covers required personnel records. Recent citations in McAllen describe staff files that were unavailable for review or missing affidavits or a translation of a foreign high school diploma.
746.1205: Supervision ensures each child?s safety, well-being, including physical proximity and auditory or visual awareness of each child?s on going activity
This standard covers caregiver supervision, including being near children and keeping track of their activities through sight or sound. Recent citations in McAllen describe children left unsupervised in a restroom or unattended in a classroom.
746.5101: Annual Fire Inspection - Before Initial Permit Issued and Every 12 Months
This standard covers a fire inspection before the initial permit is issued and annually afterward. Recent citations in McAllen identify the dates of the most recent fire inspections.
746.1301: Training Requirements for Employees, Caregivers, and Directors - 24 Annual training
This standard covers annual training requirements for employees, caregivers, and directors. Recent citations in McAllen describe staff files missing documentation of training on topics such as allergies, emergency preparedness, and transportation.
746.1601: Child/ Caregiver Ratio - 13 or More Children
This standard covers how many children each caregiver may care for, taking the children's ages into account. Recent citations in McAllen describe groups exceeding the allowed number of children per caregiver and a nap-time group whose ages did not meet the stated limit.
746.603: Tracking System or Sign-in and Sign-out Logs
This standard covers tracking children's attendance through a tracking system or sign-in and sign-out logs. Recent citations in McAllen describe logs that were not maintained or did not include all children present, with some entries completed during the inspection.
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.
Data as of October 10, 2026. Corrections and removal requests