About Texas Daycare Check

Inspection records for every licensed daycare in Houston, Dallas-Fort Worth, San Antonio and Austin, in plain words.

Where the data comes from

All records come from the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC), Child Care Regulation, published as open data on data.texas.gov under CC0 (public domain):

• Daycare and residential operations (bc5r-88dy): name, address, phone, ages, hours, capacity, subsidy.
• Inspections, investigations and assessments (m5q4-3y3d): one row per visit, with its date.
• Non-compliance (tqgd-mf4x): one row per citation, with the rule, risk level, correction and the inspector's note.

The state updates these files about daily. This copy was taken on Nov 12, 2026; the state's data was last updated Nov 12, 2026.

What is listed

Active operations in the 4 metro areas (Houston: Harris, Fort Bend and Montgomery counties; Dallas-Fort Worth: Dallas, Tarrant, Collin and Denton counties; San Antonio: Bexar County; Austin: Travis and Williamson counties): 5437 licensed centers (including before/after-school and school-age programs), 961 licensed child-care homes and 1236 registered child-care homes. Listed family homes (751) are not included: the state does not inspect them on a routine schedule, so there is no inspection record to show. Foster and residential operations are not daycares and are left out.

How we write it up

• The rule text, risk level, dates and the inspector's notes are shown as the state recorded them.
• The plain-English line above each rule is ours, written from the state's description of that rule.
• The record summary counts the last 24 months only, using fixed rules explained in the guide. It is not a grade.
• Areas come from each daycare's city and ZIP code. A ZIP that spans two neighbourhoods goes to the one most people would name.

Corrections and provider responses

Inspection records can only be changed by the state. If a listing's phone, hours or website is out of date, or you want to add openings, tuition or a response to a citation, use "Claim or fix this listing" on the daycare's page.

Privacy

No cookies and no ad trackers. The site keeps an anonymous random id in your browser to count page views, searches and taps on Call, Website and Directions, so we can tell which pages help. Messages sent through the claim form are used only to answer them.

If you ask for an alert on a daycare's page ("Email me when this daycare gets a new inspection"), we store your email address and the daycares you chose. We first send one email with a confirmation link and nothing else until you confirm. After that you get at most one plain-text email a day, and only when the state's record for a daycare you chose has changed. We use the address for nothing else, do not sell or share it, and every email has a one-click unsubscribe link. You follow up to 20 daycares per address.