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Children’s Orchard Academy on Hillside

A licensed child care center in Amarillo, Texas 79119

9175 Hillside Rd, Amarillo, Texas 79119. (806) 318-6194.

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The short answer

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

The last 24 months 10 deficiencies in 6 months of the last 36. Last cited Sep 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?

10 deficiencies cited in the last three years

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

25 inspections on record. The latest, on Oct 28, 2026: outcome pending.

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 Sep 3, 2026

Rated High by Texas: Report Situation Placing Children at Risk, at the report to the state on Sep 3, 2026

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 Jul 14, 2026

6 more rated High; all are listed below.

Source:

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

When those deficiencies happened

10 deficiencies in 6 months of the last 36. Last cited Sep 2026. Most serious: High. The last 3 years, to Nov 5, 2026.

10 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.

Sep 3, 2026: report to the state3 deficiencies
  • 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 evidence obtained during the investigation, a child was unaccounted for about 10 minutes after their classroom transitioned out of the cafeteria and back to their classroom.”

    Rule 746.1205(a)(4). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 9, 2026. Correction verified: Sep 22, 2026.

  • Report Situation Placing Children at Risk

    “Based on the evidence obtained during the investigation, a report was not made by the operation regarding a situation that placed a child at risk with being left unsupervised.”

    Rule 746.305(a)(6). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 9, 2026. Correction verified: Sep 22, 2026.

  • Incident/Illness Report Form Shared with Parent

    “An incident report was written on 8/28/2026 after a situation that places a child at risk but was not shared or signed by the parent within 2 days of the incident.”

    Rule 746.707. Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 8, 2026. Correction verified: Sep 9, 2026.

Jul 14, 2026: 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

    “Based on the evidence obtained during the investigation, staff were not aware of a child’s on-going activity and did not have visual or auditory awareness of the child, as a child was in a classroom for approximately fourteen minutes by themselves before they were found by staff.”

    Rule 746.1205(a)(4). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 12, 2026. Correction verified: Aug 20, 2026.

Jun 18, 2026: inspection1 deficiency
  • AP Initial background checks submitted - At the time you hire someone

    “An individual that had a prior eligible background check was inactivated on 06/17/2026 and has continued to be present at the operation without an eligible background check at the operation. The individual is currently inactive and requires a new background check submission to be present at the operation. The individual left the operation during the inspection.”

    Rule 745.621(a)(2). High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 18, 2026.

Jun 16, 2026: 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

    “Children were left the classroom unattended and were unsupervised in the halls and office.”

    Rule 746.1205(a)(4). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 13, 2026. Correction verified: Jul 17, 2026.

Sep 12, 2025: report to the state1 deficiency
  • Prohibited Punishments - Grabbing and Pulling

    “Based on the evidence obtained during the investigation, a caregiver would discipline by grabbing children by the arm in a rough manner.”

    Rule 746.2805(3). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 7, 2025. Correction verified: Oct 20, 2025.

Aug 13, 2025: report to the state2 deficiencies
  • Responsibilities of Caregivers - Intervene to ensure each child’s safety

    “Based on the evidence obtained during the investigation, an incident occurred where children were repeatedly climbing on shelves during nap time in the classroom and the caregiver failed to intervene. The caregiver sat on the ground instead of removing the children from the shelves to ensure their safety. The caregiver doesn?t attempt to redirect the children until after a child falls off the shelf and lands onto another child laying on their nap mat resulting in the other child crying.”

    Rule 746.1205(a)(5). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 8, 2025. Correction verified: Sep 16, 2025.

  • Prohibited Punishments - Grabbing and Pulling

    “Based on the evidence obtained during the investigation, a caregiver has grabbed multiple children by the arm in a rough manner when disciplining.”

    Rule 746.2805(3). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 8, 2025. Correction verified: Sep 16, 2025.

Apr 25, 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

    “A child walks out of the classroom and down the three halls without supervision, while the caregiver was changing a diaper in the diapering pod. Staff was unable to see and unaware he left the room.”

    Rule 746.1205(a)(4). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 13, 2025. Correction verified: May 20, 2025.

All 38 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Oct 28, 2026InspectionOutcome pending
Oct 20, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Oct 6, 2026Report to the stateOutcome pending
Sep 22, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Sep 18, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Sep 9, 2026Report to the stateNo violation found
Sep 4, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Sep 3, 2026Report to the state3 deficiencies cited
Aug 20, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Jul 17, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Jul 14, 2026Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Jun 18, 2026Inspection1 deficiency cited
Jun 16, 2026Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Feb 18, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Feb 8, 2026Report to the stateNo violation found
Jan 9, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Jan 6, 2026Report to the stateNo violation found
Jan 5, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Dec 3, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Dec 1, 2025Report to the stateNo violation found
Oct 20, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Sep 24, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Sep 23, 2025Report to the stateNo violation found
Sep 16, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Sep 12, 2025Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Aug 25, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Aug 21, 2025Report to the stateNo violation found
Aug 14, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Aug 13, 2025Report to the state2 deficiencies cited
Jul 18, 2025InspectionNo violation found
May 20, 2025InspectionNo violation found
May 2, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Apr 28, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Apr 25, 2025Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Jan 31, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Dec 18, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Oct 31, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Sep 27, 2024InspectionNo violation found

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Feb 7, 2025.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 238 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.
  • 13 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 59 child care providers in Randall County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 2; this one had 10.
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
Christy BlackmanNot given
Primrose of Amarillo Southwest2
Treehouse Childrens Academy27
Melissa Keith0
Children’s Orchard Academy on Hillside This child care provider10
Marileisy Elder2
Raisbeth Riera1
Gleiciane Silva0
Madison LoweNot given
Pavillard Learning Center8
Kristens Daycare12
Brittany BrannonNot given

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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