The records cover 67 child care operations in Tyler, including 50 licensed centers and 17 home-based operations. The inspection window runs from 2023-10-10 through 2026-10-10. Across all operation types, the records include 254 citations. Among licensed centers, 39 had at least one citation during this window, while 11 had none recorded during the window.
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 caregivers staying close enough to children and remaining aware of their activities through sight or hearing. Citations in Tyler records describe a caregiver sleeping while supervising, children without supervision in a restroom, and a child left unattended in a classroom.
This standard covers how many children a caregiver may care for, with attention to the children's ages. Citations in Tyler records describe groups of children whose staffing did not meet the child-to-caregiver ratio requirements.
This standard covers reviewing and updating written infant feeding instructions. Citations in Tyler records describe feeding instructions that had not been updated and forms that needed updates from parents.
This standard covers the prohibition on grabbing or pulling children as punishment. Citations in Tyler records describe caregivers grabbing children by the arm as discipline.
This standard covers the prohibition on harsh, cruel, or unusual punishment. Citations in Tyler records describe yelling at children, pulling a child's ear as punishment, and hitting a child's hand.
This standard covers maintaining buildings, grounds, and equipment. Citations in Tyler records describe a playground gate that did not latch properly and holes in classroom walls.
This standard covers operating child care without the required listing. Citations in Tyler records describe regular care for unrelated children in a home without a permit.
This standard covers receiving notice of a person's eligibility from the background check unit before allowing that person to be present at the operation. Citations in Tyler records describe caregivers present with pending or inactive background checks and employees caring for children before an eligibility notice was received.
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.