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Happy Days Childcare and Preschool

A licensed child care center in Amarillo, Texas 79109

4461 Ridgecrest Cir, Amarillo, Texas 79109. (806) 670-1443.

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The short answer

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

The last 24 months 5 deficiencies in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited Apr 2026. 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?

5 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 59 child care providers in Randall County had 2.

23 inspections on record. The latest, on Jul 2, 2026: no violation found.

Rated High by Texas: AP Initial background checks submitted - At the time you hire someone, at the assessment on Jan 7, 2026

Source:

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

When those deficiencies happened

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

5 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.

Apr 21, 2026: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Food Allergy Emergency Plan Signed by Parents and Health Care Professional

    “A food allergy plan did not have the doctor’s signature.”

    Rule 746.3819. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 1, 2026. Correction verified: May 12, 2026.

  • Notification of Change in Space

    “The operation added a class space and did not notify licensing before the change happened.”

    Rule 746.301(2). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 21, 2026. Correction verified: May 12, 2026.

Jan 7, 2026: assessment1 deficiency

  • AP Initial background checks submitted - At the time you hire someone

    “A caregiver was present and working without an active background check submitted.”

    Rule 745.621(a)(2). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 8, 2026. Correction verified: Jan 20, 2026.

Apr 16, 2024: report to the state1 deficiency

  • Written Activity Plan - No Long Waiting Periods

    “Based on the information obtained there is sufficient evidence to support the claim that children are left in the bucket seats for prolonged periods of time without planned activities and opportunities to move freely in the room.”

    Rule 746.2205(a)(4). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 15, 2024. Correction verified: May 21, 2024.

Apr 4, 2024: report to the state1 deficiency

  • Caregiver Qualification Age Exemption Attends High School - Enrolled in Child-care Career Program Approved by TEA/TEPSAC

    “An employee was hired and worked, without being enrolled in a child-care career program.”

    Rule 746.1109(b)(3)(A). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 3, 2024. Correction verified: May 3, 2024.

1 deficiency older than three years
Jan 6, 2023: inspection1 deficiency

  • Required Personnel Records

    “Out of 10 personnel records reviewed, five records were lacking photo identification in the file. Three of the staff had their photo id copied and added to their file at inspection. Nine records was lacking documentation of pre service and orientation training with signatures for the employee and trainer. Four records was lacking proof of educational qualifications.”

    Rule 746.901. Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 13, 2023. Correction verified: Jan 9, 2023.

All 36 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Jul 2, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Jul 2, 2026Report to the stateNo violation found
May 26, 2026InspectionNo violation found
May 6, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Apr 21, 2026Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Jan 7, 2026Assessment1 deficiency cited
Jan 2, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Dec 31, 2025Report to the stateNo violation found
Dec 18, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Sep 10, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Sep 9, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Sep 5, 2025Report to the stateNo violation found
Jun 11, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Sep 26, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Sep 24, 2024Report to the stateNo violation found
Aug 28, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Jun 10, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Jun 7, 2024Report to the stateNo violation found
May 21, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Apr 24, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Apr 22, 2024Report to the stateNo violation found
Apr 16, 2024Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Apr 12, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Apr 4, 2024Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Nov 15, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Jan 6, 2023Inspection1 deficiency cited
Dec 6, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Dec 4, 2022Report to the stateNo violation found
Jun 16, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Jun 3, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Jun 2, 2022Report to the stateNo violation found
Mar 7, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Mar 4, 2022Report to the stateNo violation found
Feb 1, 2022Report to the stateNo violation found
Jan 3, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Nov 22, 2021InspectionNo violation found

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Jan 21, 2022.
  • Accepts state child care subsidies.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 148 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.
  • 12 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?

  • Texas Rising Star: 2-Star (the first of three levels).
Source:

Texas Workforce Commission, subsidy providers and Texas Rising Star. Released Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.

How does it compare nearby?

  • Among 59 child care providers in Randall County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 2; this one had 5.
Source:

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

11 of the 59 in Randall County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Jacqueline Faye GallegosNot given
Wee Care0
Abc Learning Center 12
Marketta Lynn FlowersNot given
Carey StarksNot given
Happy Days Childcare and Preschool This child care provider5
Treehouse Childrens Academy12
Storyland Preschool & Child Care Center3
Stephen McneilNot given
Two Little Feet2
New Beginnings Preschool & Child Development Center2
Camp Learn1

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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