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The Pillars Christian Learning Center

A licensed child care center in McKinney, Texas 75072

1570 S Independence Pkwy, McKinney, Texas 75072. (469) 712-6720.

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The short answer

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

The last 24 months 7 deficiencies in 5 months of the last 36. Last cited Aug 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?

7 deficiencies cited in the last three years

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

13 inspections on record. The latest, on Oct 23, 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 Aug 6, 2026

Rated High by Texas: AP Background ck determination - If provisionally eligible w/conditions or eligible w/conditions you must restrict duties per conditions/restrictions, at the inspection on Jul 9, 2026

Rated High by Texas: Responsibilities of Employees and Caregivers -Demonstrate Competency, Good Judgment, Self-control, at the report to the state on Feb 26, 2026

1 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

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

7 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.

Aug 6, 2026: report to the state2 deficiencies
  • 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 in care was left outside of the operation unsupervised on the playground.”

    Rule 746.1205(a)(4). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 28, 2026. Correction verified: Sep 2, 2026.

  • Nutrition and Food Service - Drinking water available at every snack, mealtime, and during and after active play

    “During the investigation, it was discovered that the operation was not ensuring the children have access to water during outdoor play.”

    Rule 746.3301(f)(1). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 28, 2026. Correction verified: Sep 4, 2026.

Jul 9, 2026: inspection2 deficiencies
  • AP Background ck determination - If provisionally eligible w/conditions or eligible w/conditions you must restrict duties per conditions/restrictions

    “During the inspection, a caregiver was alone in the classroom with children; the caregiver had a provisional status on their background check that stated the caregiver could not be alone with children. During the inspection, the operation placed an additional caregiver in the classroom with the caregiver.”

    Rule 745.635(3). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 9, 2026. Correction verified: Jul 9, 2026.

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

    “During the inspection, personnel and training records were not available for six of the ten employee records that needed to be reviewed.”

    Rule 746.801(3). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 30, 2026. Correction verified: Jul 29, 2026.

Feb 26, 2026: report to the state1 deficiency
  • Responsibilities of Employees and Caregivers -Demonstrate Competency, Good Judgment, Self-control

    “This standard was evaluated during the investigation and was found to be deficient. A caregiver did not use good judgement when the caregiver took inappropriate pictures of a child in care.”

    Rule 746.1201(1). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 27, 2026. Correction verified: May 14, 2026.

Jan 15, 2026: inspection1 deficiency
  • Annual Fire Inspection - Before Initial Permit Issued and Every 12 Months

    “During the inspection, it was found that the operation had last had an annual fire inspection more than a year prior.”

    Rule 746.5101(a). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 12, 2026. Correction verified: Feb 26, 2026.

Apr 16, 2025: inspection1 deficiency
  • Installation and Maintenance of Loose-fill Surfacing - Nine Inches if Equipment Greater Than 5 Ft.

    “During the inspection, the largest play structure had no to small amounts of loose fill in the use zones. The height of the play structure requires at least 9 inches of loose fill.”

    Rule 746.4907(a)(2). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 7, 2025. Correction verified: May 20, 2025.

All 17 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Oct 23, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Sep 2, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Aug 19, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Aug 17, 2026Report to the stateNo violation found
Aug 7, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Aug 6, 2026Report to the state2 deficiencies cited
Jul 23, 2026Report to the stateNo violation found
Jul 9, 2026Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Apr 17, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Mar 11, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Feb 26, 2026Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Jan 15, 2026Inspection1 deficiency cited
Jun 17, 2025InspectionNo violation found
May 20, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Apr 16, 2025Inspection1 deficiency cited
Mar 13, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Jan 8, 2025InspectionNo violation found

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Jul 11, 2025.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 222 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.
  • 4 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 star-rated in Texas Rising Star (TWC’s code: ELD).
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 7.
Source:

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

12 of the 647 in Collin County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
The Pillars Christian Learning Center This child care provider7
YMCA at Scott Elementary10
Nanas Day Care8
Anne KinserNot given
Adventure Kids Playcare24
Beary Best Home Daycare1
Little Steps Montessori28
Kids in Bloom1
Martha Amaya1
Kids R Kids Learning Academy of West Mckinney15
Alphabest @ Furr ? Prosper1
Kids USA Montessori Frisco0
Everbrook Academy16

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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