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Alphabest @ Lykins ? Celina

A licensed child care center in Celina, Texas 75009

550 S Utah St, Celina, Texas 75009. (866) 300-7750.

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The short answer

Record last released by Texas HHSC on Nov 5, 2026.

The last 24 months 11 deficiencies in 5 months of the last 36. Last cited Dec 2025. Most serious: High. Every month

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?

14 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 647 child care providers in Collin County had 2.

9 inspections on record. The latest, on Aug 19, 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 Dec 11, 2025

Source:

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data) and inspections and investigations. Released Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.

When those deficiencies happened

11 deficiencies in 5 months of the last 36. Last cited Dec 2025. Most serious: High. The last 3 years, to Nov 5, 2026.

11 deficiencies by month over the last 3 years. Each cell is one month.
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2023 Dec
2024 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2025 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2026 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNov

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No visit on record Visited, nothing cited A stronger orange is more serious, on its source’s own levels, read onto four bands: from the least serious it publishes to the most
Source:

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.

Source:

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data). Released Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.

Dec 11, 2025: report to the state1 deficiency

  • 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 was found to be deficient. Two children were unattended by AlphaBest Staff for a brief period of time while they went outside to a portable classroom. A Lykins staff directed the children back to AlphaBest care.”

    Rule 744.1205(a)(4). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 17, 2025. Correction verified: Dec 17, 2025.

Sep 3, 2025: inspection3 deficiencies

  • Report Change in Director

    “The operation failed to notify licensing the current site director is no longer employeed.”

    Rule 744.303(4). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 3, 2025.

  • Required Records Maintained and Made Available - Playground Maintenance Records

    “The playground checklist was not available for review during the visit.”

    Rule 744.801(7). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 10, 2025. Correction verified: Sep 18, 2025.

  • Required Records Maintained and Made Available - Safety Documentation for Emergency Drills, Fire Extinguishers, and Smoke Detectors

    “The emergency drills were not available for review during the visit.”

    Rule 744.801(9). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 10, 2025. Correction verified: Sep 18, 2025.

Nov 1, 2024: assessment3 deficiencies

  • Documented Annual Training-15 Hours Required Caregiver

    “This standard was reviewed as part of a follow up and found deficient. The operation did not provided information for a previous citation: 2 out of 6 staff did not have the required annual training available for review.”

    Rule 744.1309(a)(1). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 15, 2024. Correction verified: Nov 15, 2024.

  • Posting Requirements- Letter or form from the most recent licensing inspection or investigation.

    “This standard was reviewed as part of a follow up and found deficient. The operation did not provided information for a previous citation: The last inspection available for review was the one for year 2022. No other inspection was available during the visit.”

    Rule 744.401(2). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 15, 2024. Correction verified: Nov 17, 2024.

  • Required Records Maintained and Made Available - Personnel and Training Records

    “This standard was reviewed as part of a follow up and found deficient. The operation did not provided information for a previous citation: Required documents were missing during the visit and were not available for review.”

    Rule 744.801(2). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 15, 2024. Correction verified: Nov 15, 2024.

Oct 3, 2024: assessment2 deficiencies

  • Documented Annual Training-15 Hours Required Caregiver

    “2 out of 6 staff did not have the required annual training available for review.”

    Rule 744.1309(a)(1). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 18, 2024. Correction verified: Nov 1, 2024.

  • Required Records Maintained and Made Available - Personnel and Training Records

    “Required documents were missing during the visit and were not available for review.”

    Rule 744.801(2). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 25, 2024. Correction verified: Nov 1, 2024.

Sep 25, 2024: inspection1 deficiency

  • Posting Requirements- Letter or form from the most recent licensing inspection or investigation.

    “The last inspection available for review was the one for year 2022. No other inspection was available during the visit.”

    Rule 744.401(2). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 2, 2024. Correction verified: Nov 1, 2024.

Sep 13, 2024: assessment1 deficiency

  • Required Records Maintained and Made Available - Personnel and Training Records

    “Two out of three staff did not have the required annual training available for review. One had 12 out of 15 required annual training. Second staff had 3.75 out of 20 hours.”

    Rule 744.801(2). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 27, 2024. Correction verified: Oct 3, 2024.

Nov 15, 2023: inspection3 deficiencies

  • Documented Annual Training-15 Hours Required Caregiver

    “A caregiver lacked 10 annual training hours for 8/31/2022 to 8/31/2023.”

    Rule 744.1309(a)(1). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 1, 2023. Correction verified: Dec 21, 2023.

  • Required Personnel Records- Photo Identification

    “A caregiver did not have a photo id on file.”

    Rule 744.901(8). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 1, 2023. Correction verified: Dec 21, 2023.

  • Minimum Qualifications Employees and Caregivers - Affidavit

    “A caregiver did not have a notarized affidavit on file.”

    Rule 744.1103(3). Low, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 1, 2023. Correction verified: Dec 21, 2023.

1 deficiency older than three years
Nov 28, 2022: inspection1 deficiency

  • Daily Menus - May Rotate if Keep Record of Dates Menus Used

    “The snack menu did not list the snack served today, 11/28/2022. The director corrected the deficiency during the inspection by listing the snack that was served.”

    Rule 744.2413(2). Medium, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 28, 2022.

All 14 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Aug 19, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Dec 17, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Dec 12, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Dec 11, 2025Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Nov 24, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Nov 21, 2025Report to the stateNo violation found
Sep 3, 2025Inspection3 deficiencies cited
Nov 1, 2024Assessment3 deficiencies cited
Oct 3, 2024Assessment2 deficiencies cited
Sep 25, 2024Inspection1 deficiency cited
Sep 13, 2024Assessment1 deficiency cited
Nov 15, 2023Inspection3 deficiencies cited
Nov 28, 2022Inspection1 deficiency cited
Dec 9, 2021InspectionNo violation found

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Feb 5, 2019.
  • Accepts state child care subsidies.
  • Licensed for ages: Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 60 children.
Source:

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.
  • 2 reports to the state on record; Texas doesn’t publish whether they were .
Source:

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.
Source:

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 14.
Source:

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data). Released Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.

11 of the 647 in Collin County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Michelle GamblinNot given
Alphabest @ Lykins ? Celina This child care provider14
Alphabest @ O?dell - Celina8
Alphabest @ Johnson-Prosper7
The Goddard School of Celina3
Light Farms Montessori8
Celina Montessori Academy10
Happy House Montessori Child Care8
Monica EstepNot given
Alphabest @ Martin - Celina6
Starlight Sprouts13
Kk’s Child Care1

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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Source:

This copy of the record was made on Nov 5, 2026.

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Not fully inspected in over two years (CMS flag)

11 health citations at the latest inspection cycle

The state average is 14.3.

Source:

CMS, State and US Averages and Health Deficiencies. Released Oct 28, 2026. Updated monthly.

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