The Learning Experience
A licensed child care center in McKinney, Texas 75070
4501 S Ridge Rd, McKinney, Texas 75070. (214) 592-0210.
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The short answer
Record last released by Texas HHSC on Nov 5, 2026.
- 18 deficiencies cited in the last three years Middle in Collin County: 2
- 6 rated High by Texas, its most serious level (needs attention)
- 21 inspections on record
- Not rated Texas Rising Star rating
Each figure’s source sits beside it, in its section below.
What these words mean5
- Inspection (survey)
- A visit by state inspectors, often unannounced, who check a place against the rules it must meet. For nursing homes and other places Medicare pays, CMS calls these visits surveys: a standard survey of a nursing home comes at least every 15 months, and a complaint survey whenever a complaint calls for one. Source: CMS; 42 CFR 488.308.
- Deficiency, citation, violation
- What inspectors write up when a place didn’t meet a rule: the rule, what they saw, and when. CMS calls it a deficiency; states may say citation or violation. It is the inspectors’ finding, not a court’s, and the place is usually asked for a plan to correct it. Source: CMS, statement of deficiencies (Form CMS-2567); each state’s licensing agency.
- Texas’s risk levels
- Texas gives each child care deficiency a risk level, by how likely it is to harm a child: Low, Medium Low, Medium, Medium High or High. High is its most serious. Source: Texas Health and Human Services Commission, Child Care Regulation.
- Licence status
- Whether the state’s licence lets the place operate now, in the state’s own words: licensed, on probation (allowed to keep operating on conditions, after problems), provisional, pending or expired. Source: Each state’s licensing agency.
- Capacity
- The most people the licence or certification lets the place care for at once: residents, children, beds or apartments, as the state counts them. It isn’t how many are there now. Source: Each state’s licensing agency.
What did inspectors find?
18 deficiencies cited in the last three years
The middle of the 647 child care providers in Collin County had 2.
21 inspections on record. The latest, on Jun 1, 2026: no violation found.
Rated High by Texas: Supervision ensures each child?s safety, well-being, including physical proximity and auditory or visual awareness of each child?s on going activity, at the report to the state on May 2, 2024
Rated High by Texas: Parental Communication - Situation that Placed a Child at Risk, at the report to the state on May 2, 2024
Rated High by Texas: Report Situation Placing Children at Risk, at the report to the state on Apr 25, 2024
3 more rated High; all are listed below.
Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data) and inspections and investigations. Released Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.
When those deficiencies happened
18 deficiencies in 5 months of the last 36. Last cited May 2025. Most serious: High. The last 3 years, to Nov 5, 2026.
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| 2025 | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
| 2026 | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov |
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Hearth Record drew this from the dates and levels in the source’s own records.
Each deficiency, in Texas’s words
Grouped by visit, newest first, with the risk level Texas gave it, from Low to High.
Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data). Released Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.
May 29, 2025: inspection3 deficiencies
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Child/ Caregiver Ratio - 13 or More Children
“A caregiver is responsible for supervising a group of infants ranging from 5 months to 17 months with a specified age-group of 11 months. The ratio for 0-11 months is 4 to 1. The deficiency was corrected during the inspection when the second caregiver returned to the classroom.”
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Nutrition and Food Service - Follow Meal Patterns
“During the inspection, 2 pre-k classes are not served meat/protein alternative during lunch. The menu did not list a protein served for the day. The meal patterns established by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Child and Adult Care Food Program are not followed.”
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Children’s Records - Immunizations
“A child did not have a immunization record on file.”
Jul 29, 2024: inspection2 deficiencies
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Documented Annual Training Area - 24 Hours Required
“A careegiver lacks 24 annual training hours from September 2022 to September 2023. A caregiver lacks 22 annual training horus from November 2022 to November 2023. A caregiver lacks 21 annual training hours from September 2022 to September 2023. A caregiver lacks 4.5 annual training hours from April 2023 to April 2024. A caregiver lacks 19 annual training hours from August 2022 to August 2023.”
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Children’s Records - Health Statement
“A child did not have a health statement on file.”
Jul 11, 2024: inspection4 deficiencies
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Transportation Safety Training -Director and Employee Complete 2 Hours Annually
“A driver does not have current transportation training.”
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Requirement of Gas Leak Inspection
“The operation does not have a current gas inspection.”
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Children’s Records - Health Statement
“A child did not have a health statement on file.”
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Children’s Records - Immunizations
“A child did not have shot records or an immunization exemption form on file.”
Jun 12, 2024: inspection1 deficiency
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Arrangement of Napping Equipment - Not Blocking Entrances or Exits
“A child was observed napping in front of an entrance and exit door. Placing a child to nap in front of an exit door poses a risk of a child being walked on and injured during an emergency evacuation. The director immediately moved the child in an appropriate nap area in the classroom.”
May 2, 2024: report to the state3 deficiencies
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Supervision ensures each child?s safety, well-being, including physical proximity and auditory or visual awareness of each child?s on going activity
“Based on the interviews with staff, the operation was found to been out of compliance with the minimum standards for a licensed childcare center. 4 young children were left in a classroom unsupervised.”
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Parental Communication - Situation that Placed a Child at Risk
“The operation did not notify 4 children parents of a situation that placed them at risk at the time of the incident. The children were left unattended in a classroom. The deficiency was corrected during the inspection when the director contacted the parents by phone.”
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Incident/Illness Report Form Shared with Parent
“Management did share an incident report with the parents of 4 children of an incident that placed that children at risk. The children were left in a classroom unattended.”
Apr 25, 2024: report to the state3 deficiencies
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Report Situation Placing Children at Risk
“Based on a DFPS investigation, it was determined that management did not report to Child Care Regulations a situation that placed a child at risk within 2 days of the occurrence.”
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Parental Communication - Situation that Placed a Child at Risk
“Based on a DFPS investigation, it was determined that management did not immediately notify the parent of a child that was in a situation that placed the child at risk.”
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Storage of Medication - Inaccessible to Children
“Based on a DFPS investigation, it was determined that a young child had access to medication.”
Apr 24, 2024: report to the state2 deficiencies
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Storage of Medication - Inaccessible to Children
“Based on interviews with the staff and the parent, a caregiver observed a young mobile infant with a pill in the child’s mouth as the child was crawling during floor time.”
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Infant Daily Report - Share with Parent
“Based on documents provided, the operation did not maintain a daily report on ,4/23/2024, to share with a young infant’s parents.”
4 deficiencies older than three years
Aug 29, 2023: inspection3 deficiencies
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Annual Fire Inspection - Before Initial Permit Issued and Every 12 Months
“The operation’s last documented fire inspection by the local Fire Marshal was on 4/3/21. No other record of a recent inspection was available for review.”
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Children’s Records - Immunizations
“At the time of inspection, five children enrolled into care full time did not have their most current, based on their age, immunizations on file available for review.”
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Children’s Records - Vision and Hearing Screening
“Two children did not have the required vision and hearing screenings on file for review.”
Jun 13, 2022: report to the state1 deficiency
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Prohibited Punishments - Humiliating, Rejecting, Yelling
“Based on a review of the information a caregiver at the operation did not deny that she yelled at the children.”
All 27 visits on record
| Date | Visit | What the record says |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 2026 | Inspection | No violation found |
| May 15, 2026 | Inspection | No violation found |
| May 14, 2026 | Report to the state | No violation found |
| Nov 25, 2025 | Inspection | No violation found |
| May 29, 2025 | Inspection | 3 deficiencies cited |
| Dec 12, 2024 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Dec 2, 2024 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Nov 6, 2024 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Oct 30, 2024 | Report to the state | No violation found |
| Aug 7, 2024 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Jul 29, 2024 | Inspection | 2 deficiencies cited |
| Jul 11, 2024 | Inspection | 4 deficiencies cited |
| Jun 12, 2024 | Inspection | 1 deficiency cited |
| Jun 6, 2024 | Inspection | No violation found |
| May 14, 2024 | Inspection | No violation found |
| May 7, 2024 | Inspection | No violation found |
| May 6, 2024 | Inspection | No violation found |
| May 2, 2024 | Report to the state | 3 deficiencies cited |
| Apr 25, 2024 | Report to the state | 3 deficiencies cited |
| Apr 25, 2024 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Apr 24, 2024 | Report to the state | 2 deficiencies cited |
| Sep 27, 2023 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Aug 29, 2023 | Inspection | 3 deficiencies cited |
| Oct 14, 2022 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Aug 9, 2022 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Jun 13, 2022 | Report to the state | 1 deficiency cited |
| Mar 1, 2022 | Inspection | No violation found |
Is it licensed?
- Licensed Center, permit issued Feb 2, 2015.
- Accepts state child care subsidies.
- Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
- Capacity: 188 children.
Texas HHSC, child care operations. Released Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.
Has Texas acted against it?
- No corrective or adverse action by Texas on record.
- 6 reports to the state on record; Texas doesn’t publish whether they were A complaint allegation the state investigated and found true: the evidence showed it more likely than not happened. Inconclusive means the evidence couldn’t show it either way. Neither inconclusive nor unsubstantiated proves it didn’t happen. Source: California Department of Social Services, complaint findings; each state’s licensing agency..
Texas HHSC, child care operations and inspections and investigations. Released Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.
Who does the caring?
- Texas doesn’t publish staffing levels for individual providers. State rules set staff-to-child ratios by age.
Who owns it?
- Texas’s open data doesn’t list owners.
How is it rated?
- Not rated in Texas Rising Star.
Texas Workforce Commission, subsidy providers and Texas Rising Star. Released Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.
How does it compare nearby?
- Among 647 child care providers in Collin County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 2; this one had 18.
Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data). Released Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.
| Place | Deficiencies, 3 years |
|---|---|
| YMCA at Comstock Elementary | 9 |
| The Learning Experience This child care provider | 18 |
| Psa Mckinney | 0 |
| Heartland Montessori Academy | 5 |
| Mckinney Academy | 13 |
| Xplor | 7 |
| Revathi Potluri | 9 |
| Childrens Lighthouse of Mckinney | 23 |
| The Academy at Craig Ranch | 43 |
| Naushaba Alam | Not given |
| Auntie Audreys House | 0 |
| Laura Vargas | 8 |
What the record doesn’t say
- Texas doesn’t publish whether a complaint was substantiated.
- Texas rates some paperwork slips as High risk, so read what was actually cited.
- Texas doesn’t publish staffing levels or owners for individual providers.
Sources
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Texas Health and Human Services Commission, Child care operations (bc5r-88dy).
Released Nov 5, 2026 and checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily. Creative Commons 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication).
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Texas Health and Human Services Commission, Inspections and investigations (m5q4-3y3d).
Released Nov 5, 2026 and checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily. Creative Commons 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication).
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Texas Health and Human Services Commission, Deficiencies (non-compliance data) (tqgd-mf4x).
Released Nov 5, 2026 and checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily. Creative Commons 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication).
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Texas Workforce Commission, Subsidy providers and Texas Rising Star.
Released Nov 5, 2026 and checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily. No licence stated.
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