DaycareList lists 63 child care operations in Odessa, including 49 licensed child care centers and 14 home-based operations, across 5 ZIP codes, with most operations in Ector, Midland County. Between 2023-10-10 and 2026-10-10, state records show 201 citations across all operation types in the city. Among the licensed centers, 37 received at least one citation during this period and 12 received none. The citations are grouped by risk level: 78 high risk, 68 medium high risk, 47 medium risk, 6 medium low risk, and 2 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 how caregivers supervise children, requiring them to stay physically close and to see or hear what each child is doing. Recent citations in Odessa describe an infant room left without a caregiver, a caregiver stationed at a classroom doorway who could not watch both the classroom and a restroom down the hall at the same time, and a caregiver asleep while children were napping.
This standard sets how many caregivers must be present when a group includes thirteen or more children. State records show citations in Odessa describing classrooms that were out of ratio when inspectors walked through the operation.
This standard covers what is expected of employees and caregivers, including showing competence, judgment, and self-control around children. Recent citations in Odessa describe a caregiver who passed out while holding a child to give a bottle, causing the child to fall to the floor; children given cleaning tasks such as restroom sinks and taking out the trash; and a child placed on a nap mat in an improper way after a diaper change.
This standard requires a fire inspection before an initial permit is issued and then once every year. Recent citations in Odessa describe operations that did not have a current fire inspection report available for licensing staff to view.
This standard requires a sanitation inspection of the operation every year. State records show citations in Odessa describing operations that did not have a recent sanitation or health inspection report available for licensing staff to review.
This standard requires a fire inspection before an initial permit is issued and then once every year. Recent citations in Odessa describe operations that had not submitted proof of a yearly fire inspection or had not had a current fire inspection conducted by the local fire marshal.
This standard covers telling parents when an event placed a child at risk. Recent citations in Odessa describe parents who were not told right away after a bus carrying children side swept a truck and after a child was left unsupervised on a playground, with notice given only the next day, and one operation that did not tell parents at all after a staff member inadvertently hit a child.
This standard covers the personnel records an operation must keep for its staff. State records show citations in Odessa describing operations that did not have personnel files available for licensing staff to review and files that were missing required information.
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.