Licensed child care center · public record
Tadpole Childrens Academy
Wichita Falls, Texas. The state’s inspection record for this operation, from Texas Health and Human Services Child Care Regulation, in plain English.
18 state inspections, last 2 years
28 deficiencies on the state’s summary
22 high or medium-high risk
September 29, 2026 most recent inspection
The operation
- Type
- Licensed child care center
- State permit
- Full Permit, issued January 29, 2013
- Capacity
- 227 children
- Ages served
- Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School
- Hours
- Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri · 06:00 AM-05:30 PM
- Accepts child care subsidies
- Yes
- Conditions on the permit
- Yes
- Corrective action listed
- No
- Adverse action listed
- No
- Temporarily closed
- No
- State operation number
- 1475806
Where
921 Scott Ave
Wichita Falls, TX 76301
Deficiencies by risk level
The state’s own summary counts for this operation, as published in the HHSC operations file.
Citations on the record
Each standard the state found not met, newest first, with its risk level and when it was corrected. Showing the newest 25 of 28.
| Inspection | Risk | Standard |
|---|---|---|
| April 7, 2026 | Medium | 746.2207(c)(4) - Screen Time Activities - Not Used During Eating or Rest Times State’s note: “During a monitoring inspection, a child was found to be using a tablet during nap/rest time.” |
| April 7, 2026 | Medium High | 746.2419(7) - Requirements for Feeding Infants - No Walking or Sleeping with Bottle or Cup State’s note: “During a monitoring inspection completed this date there were infants found to be sleeping with their bottles.” |
| May 16, 2025 | High | 746.1201(4) - AP Responsibilities of Employees and Caregivers -Ensure No Child Abused, Neglected, or Exploited State’s note: “This standard was found deficient as part of a DFPS investigation.” |
| May 16, 2025 | Medium High | 746.1605(1) - Child/Caregiver Ratio - 18 Months Difference in Age State’s note: “During a DFPS Investigation, it was determined that there were infants on the playground at the same time as older (Pre-K age) children which were more than 18 months older than the youngest child.” |
| May 16, 2025 | High | 746.1205(a)(1) - Responsibilities of Caregivers - Know children responsible for State’s note: “During a DFPS Investigation, it was determined that multiple caregivers were not aware of which children they were individually responsible for while outside in the playground area.” |
| May 16, 2025 | High | 746.1205(a)(4) - Supervision ensures each child?s safety, well-being, including physical proximity and auditory or visual awareness of each child?s on going activity State’s note: “During a DFPS Investigation, it was found that a 1yo child was left unsupervised on the playground area.” |
| August 9, 2024 | Medium High | 746.1301(a)(3)(A) - Training Requirements for Employees, Caregivers, and Directors - Pediatric First Aid with Rescue Breathing State’s note: “During the investigation, it was discovered that a new employee without valid CPR/First Aid certification was allowed to be left alone unsupervised with children in care.” |
| August 9, 2024 | Medium High | 746.1203(3)(D) - Personal use of electronic devices, such as cell phones, MP3 players, tablets, and video games State’s note: “During this investigation, screenshots of a group text among 10 caregivers were reviewed. These images showed active texting sent between caregivers while they were supervising children in care in various rooms.” |
| June 6, 2024 | Medium | 746.307(c) - Parental Notification of Less Serious Injuries State’s note: “A child in care was found to have obtained an injury and the parent was not notified.” |
| April 30, 2024 | High | 746.1205(a)(4) - Supervision ensures each child?s safety, well-being, including physical proximity and auditory or visual awareness of each child?s on going activity State’s note: “During this inspection, there were two staff member laying on the floor in the infant room. One staff member appeared to be asleep and was woke up by another staff member. Upon review of the video footage of the room, that infant teacher could be observed on camera appearing to fall asleep from 1:26pm to when I walked into the room around 1:47pm.” |
| April 30, 2024 | Medium High | 746.1203(3)(D) - Personal use of electronic devices, such as cell phones, MP3 players, tablets, and video games State’s note: “During this inspection, I again observed an infant teacher to be using their phone for personal use instead of activily supervising children in their care. Upon review of the video footage of the room, another infant teacher was also on her phone for personal use prior to my entry into the room.” |
| April 30, 2024 | Medium High | 746.3417(3) - Children Handwashing After Toileting or Diapering State’s note: “During a secondary walkthrough of an infant room, a caregiver was observed to not wash an infant's hands following a diaper change.” |
| April 17, 2024 | Medium High | 746.1203(3)(D) - Personal use of electronic devices, such as cell phones, MP3 players, tablets, and video games State’s note: “During this inspection, I observed an infant teacher to be using their phone for personal use instead of activily supervising children in their care.” |
| April 4, 2024 | Medium | 746.2207(a) - Screen Time Activities - Not Used for Under Two State’s note: “During inspection of a 18-24 month group of children, screentime was being used on a tablet attached to the wall. This was corrected at inspection when it was turned off.” |
| September 21, 2023 | Medium | 746.707 - Incident/Illness Report Form Shared with Parent State’s note: “The incident report was not signed by the parent.” |
| September 21, 2023 | High | 746.5605(4) - AP Safety Precautions for Loading and Unloading Children - No Child Unattended State’s note: “It was determined that a child in care was left unattended in a vehicle owned and operated by the operation.” |
| September 21, 2023 | High | 746.5625(a) - Electronic Child Safety Alarm - is equipped in each vehicle State’s note: “It was determined during the investigation that the vehicle used to transport the children in care did not have an electronic child safety alarm installed.” |
| September 21, 2023 | High | 746.1201(4) - AP Responsibilities of Employees and Caregivers -Ensure No Child Abused, Neglected, or Exploited State’s note: “It was determined throughout the course of the DFPS Investigation that a child in care was neglectfully supervised.” |
| June 13, 2023 | Medium High | 746.1203(3)(D) - Personal use of electronic devices, such as cell phones, MP3 players, tablets, and video games State’s note: “It was determine during the course of the investigation that a caregiver did use their phones for personal use while working in the classroom with children.” |
| October 12, 2022 | Medium | 746.1613(a) - Reduction of child/caregiver naptime ratio by 50% allowed, If 13 or more children in care, children are 18 mo. or older and other standards met State’s note: “A room with 7 children, ages 12-18 months, was observed to have one caregiver supervising children in a reduced ratio classroom. This was corrected at inspection when another caregiver entered the room.” |
| October 12, 2022 | Medium High | 746.5101(b) - Annual Fire Inspection - Conducted by Fire Marshal State’s note: “The operation was lacking a current fire inspection.” |
| March 22, 2022 | Medium High | 746.2409(a)(1) - Safety Requirements for Cribs - Snug Fitting, Firm, Flat Mattress Designed for Use in Crib State’s note: “Several of the infant playyards contained matresses that were not designed by the manufactuer, causing the mattress to not fit snugly in the playyard. This was corrected at inspection when the mattresses were removed from the playyards. One infant crib had a loose fitted sheet causing the sheet to bunch up on the mattress. This was corrected at inspectio…” |
| March 22, 2022 | High | 746.2415(b) - AP Cribs - Only Snug Fitting Sheet and Crib Mattress Cover Allowed if Infant Younger than 12 Months of Age State’s note: “A crib that an infant under the 12 months of age was resting in contained a large toy for the infants entertainment. This was corrected at inspection when a cargiver removed toy from the crib.” |
| March 22, 2022 | Medium High | 746.2407 - Infant Care Area Furnishings and Equipment -Use of Safety Straps State’s note: “During lunch time there were 4 infants in the kidney bean shaped toddler table that were not buckled in.” |
| March 22, 2022 | High | 746.2417(2)(B) - Activities for Infants - Not in Restrictive Device for more than 15 Minutes State’s note: “An infant was in a bouncer for a period of at least 30 minutes or more. This was stated by the caregiver in the infant room. This was corrected at inspection when the caregiver removed the infant from the restrictive device.” |
Recent inspections and visits
- September 29, 2026 Inspection · deficiency found: No
- August 26, 2026 Inspection · deficiency found: No
- July 21, 2026 Inspection · deficiency found: No
- June 18, 2026 Inspection · deficiency found: No
- May 26, 2026 Inspection · deficiency found: No
- April 21, 2026 Inspection · deficiency found: No
- April 7, 2026 Inspection · deficiency found: Yes
- March 25, 2026 Inspection · deficiency found: No
- February 23, 2026 Inspection · deficiency found: No
- January 23, 2026 Inspection · deficiency found: No
- December 16, 2025 Inspection · deficiency found: No
- November 17, 2025 Inspection · deficiency found: No
- October 22, 2025 Inspection · deficiency found: No
- August 20, 2025 Inspection · deficiency found: No
- July 25, 2025 Inspection · deficiency found: No
How many times has the state inspected Tadpole Childrens Academy?
Texas HHSC's file lists 18 inspections in the last two years, the most recent on September 29, 2026. 2 of the inspections and other visits in that period are marked as having found a deficiency.
Does Tadpole Childrens Academy have deficiencies on its record?
The state's summary for this operation lists 28: 10 high-risk, 12 medium-high-risk, 6 medium-risk. Each one is listed below with its date and whether it was corrected.
Is this a rating?
No. This page shows the State of Texas's own public records, summarized. It is not a rating, a review or our opinion. Ask the operation or HHSC about anything here.
About this record. Public record from the Texas Health and Human Services Commission, Child Care Regulation: the operations file, the inspections file and the non-compliance file on data.texas.gov, read daily. We summarize the state’s counts and quote its words; we don’t rate, rank or review anyone. For the official record or a complaint, go to HHSC Child Care Regulation. Is this your operation, and is something wrong? Tell us.
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