Ice Castles Too, Inc. Learning Center & Child Care
A licensed child care center in El Paso, Texas 79924
9112 Alps Dr, El Paso, Texas 79924. (915) 757-2740.
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The short answer
Record last released by Texas HHSC on Nov 5, 2026.
- 13 deficiencies cited in the last three years Middle in El Paso County: 2
- 4 rated High by Texas, its most serious level (needs attention)
- 16 inspections on record
- 4-Star 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?
13 deficiencies cited in the last three years
The middle of the 371 child care providers in El Paso County had 2.
16 inspections on record. The latest, on Sep 23, 2026: no violation found.
Rated High by Texas: Electronic Child Safety Alarm - Driver or designated employee conduct walk-through and visual check of vehicle, at the inspection on Aug 17, 2026
Rated High by Texas: Safety Requirements for Active Play Equipment - No Pinch, Crush, or Shear Points, at the inspection on Sep 4, 2025
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 Apr 15, 2025
1 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
9 deficiencies in 4 months of the last 36. Last cited Aug 2026. Most serious: High. The last 3 years, to Nov 5, 2026.
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| 2024 | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
| 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.
Aug 17, 2026: inspection2 deficiencies
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Electronic Child Safety Alarm - Driver or designated employee conduct walk-through and visual check of vehicle
“While observing transportation drivers unload children, drivers did not walk through the van to turn off the child safety alarm. Drivers walked on the outside of the van, opened the back door and turned off the alarm”
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Cots, Beds, Mats Labeled With Child’s Name
“In two classrooms, the mats/cots being used by children napping were not labeled with the child’s named or were not properly numbered.”
Sep 4, 2025: inspection2 deficiencies
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Safety Requirements for Active Play Equipment - No Pinch, Crush, or Shear Points
“Active play area for pre-school children has a play structure with a pinch hazard and shear points in the presence of children. This was corrected at inspection when director covered the pinch and shear points with duct tape.”
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Documented Annual Training- Required Content
“In review of employee records, two caregivers did not have proof of training in all six areas of section e. Two employees did not have proof of training in the spread of communicable disease and understanding building and physical premises safety.”
Apr 15, 2025: report to the state1 deficiency
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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
“A child was not properly supervised on the playground when the child fell down causing a cut over the eyebrow that required medical treatment.”
Oct 3, 2024: inspection4 deficiencies
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Documentation of Gas Leak Inspection
“Operation did not have a current gas inspection available for review. Gas inspection on site was completed 04/18/2022.”
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Documented Annual Training- Required Content
“In checking records for HASA, four personnel records did not contain proof of training in administering medicaation, food allergy, or hazardous material.”
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Children’s Products- Annual Certification
“Operation did not have a current consumer product safety commission form available for review. Operation had form 2885 dated 2022. This was corrected at inspection when director reviewed the CPSC web site and completed form 2885 provided by inspector.”
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Cots, Beds, Mats Labeled With Child’s Name
“In the red room of children 3 and 4 years old, cots were not numbered according to list posted. This was corrected at inspection when caregiver labeled all cots with numbers.”
Nov 8, 2023: inspection4 deficiencies
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Safety Requirements for Active Play Equipment - No Pinch, Crush, or Shear Points
“A spiral slide on the school age play structure has three areas with shear points close to the bottom of the slide. This was corrected at inspection when the director covered the shear areas with tape, leaving no shear points accessible to children. A guide to Play Ground Hazards document was provided to director via email.”
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Food Allergy Emergency Plan Signed by Parents and Health Care Professional
“Operation did not have a food allergy emergency plan signed by a health care professional and parent available for review for a child who has documented food allergies.”
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Required Postings-Child’s Food Allergies
“The operation did not have a child’s allergy to peanuts and pistachios posted. This was corrected at inspection when a caretaker printed and posted a list of the child’s allergies.”
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Required Admission Information - Physician Information
“One child’s files did not contain the health care professionals name, address or phone number.”
3 deficiencies older than three years
Dec 1, 2022: inspection1 deficiency
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Documentation of Fire Inspection
“Fire drills were not documented for the last few months. This was corrected at inspection when a fire drill was conducted within three minutes and documented.”
Apr 12, 2022: inspection2 deficiencies
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Annual Fire Inspection - Before Initial Permit Issued and Every 12 Months
“The operaiton’s fire inspection has expired as of 1/26/22.”
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Children’s Records - Health Statement
“One out of ten children’s files checked did not have a medical health statement on file available for review.”
All 21 visits on record
| Date | Visit | What the record says |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 23, 2026 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Aug 17, 2026 | Inspection | 2 deficiencies cited |
| Sep 4, 2025 | Inspection | 2 deficiencies cited |
| Jun 10, 2025 | Inspection | No violation found |
| May 5, 2025 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Apr 22, 2025 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Apr 15, 2025 | Report to the state | 1 deficiency cited |
| Jan 9, 2025 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Oct 3, 2024 | Inspection | 4 deficiencies cited |
| Nov 8, 2023 | Inspection | 4 deficiencies cited |
| Oct 17, 2023 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Oct 9, 2023 | Report to the state | No violation found |
| Aug 21, 2023 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Aug 16, 2023 | Report to the state | No violation found |
| Dec 29, 2022 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Dec 27, 2022 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Dec 17, 2022 | Report to the state | No violation found |
| Dec 1, 2022 | Inspection | 1 deficiency cited |
| Aug 19, 2022 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Aug 16, 2022 | Report to the state | No violation found |
| Apr 12, 2022 | Inspection | 2 deficiencies cited |
Is it licensed?
- Licensed Center, permit issued Nov 8, 2019.
- Accepts state child care subsidies.
- Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
- Capacity: 164 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.
- 5 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?
- Texas Rising Star: 4-Star (the highest of three levels).
Texas Workforce Commission, subsidy providers and Texas Rising Star. Released Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.
How does it compare nearby?
- Among 371 child care providers in El Paso County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 2; this one had 13.
Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data). Released Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.
| Place | Deficiencies, 3 years |
|---|---|
| Wee Care | 11 |
| John E Uxer Head Start Site | 15 |
| Kims Day Care | 7 |
| Flying Colors Learning Center #5 | 6 |
| A Place to Grow III | 8 |
| Hollywood Kids Day Care | 8 |
| Paradise Learning Center | 8 |
| Nancys Daycare | 4 |
| Coras Day Care | 8 |
| Branon Head Start | 1 |
| Sun City Child Development Center | 20 |
| Ice Castles Too, Inc. Learning Center & Child Care This child care provider | 13 |
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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