A Place to Grow
Licensed Center in El Paso, Texas. License #1417906- 10751, issued February 26, 2013.
- Address
- 12001 Tierra Este Dr, El Paso, TX 79938
- Phone
- (915) 855-6227
- Licensed capacity
- 192 children
- Licensed for
- Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School
- Hours
- 06:00 AM-06:00 PM
- Days
- Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri
- Child care subsidies
- Accepted
- Website
- aplacetogrowep.com
Programs listed with the state: School Age Care, Before School Care, Meals Provided, After School Care, Snacks Provided, Part Time Care, Transportation to/from School, Field Trips.
The state records conditions on this permit . What these mean.
Openings
This program has not told us about its openings. We only publish what a program confirms itself, so there is nothing here yet. Ring them to ask.
Texas Rising Star
No Texas Rising Star rating
Texas Rising Star is voluntary, and a program joins it by applying. It is tied to accepting child care scholarships, so most programs that are not in it never applied rather than failed. Roughly three in five licensed programs in Texas have no rating.
This says nothing about the quality of this program. What the state has assessed about it is the inspection record below.
Where this is
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The pin is where the US Census geocoder placed this address. About one in eight is interpolated along a street rather than resolved to a building, so treat it as the right block rather than the right doorway. How we source this.
What inspectors checked
Texas HHSC records how many individual standards it evaluated in each area of the rules, and how many it found violated. Across 22 areas it checked 5,644 standards at A Place to Grow between February 11, 2022 and July 2, 2026 and recorded 9 violations. Those correspond to the citations listed above that were recorded from 2021 onward; anything older than that is in the citation list but not in these counts.
The 22 areas, one by one
| Area of the rules | Visits | Standards checked | Violated |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scope, administration, and communication | 4 | 489 | 0 |
| Record keeping | 3 | 327 | 0 |
| Personnel | 5 | 727 | 2 |
| Ratios and group sizes | 5 | 270 | 0 |
| Activities | 5 | 180 | 0 |
| Infants | 6 | 534 | 1 |
| Toddlers | 4 | 88 | 0 |
| Pre-kindergarten | 6 | 112 | 0 |
| School-age | 3 | 60 | 0 |
| Discipline | 5 | 100 | 0 |
| Naptime | 2 | 24 | 0 |
| Field trips | 2 | 22 | 0 |
| Get well care | 2 | 54 | 0 |
| Nighttime care | 4 | 52 | 0 |
| Nutrition and food care | 5 | 224 | 0 |
| Health practices | 5 | 563 | 0 |
| Safety practices | 6 | 444 | 0 |
| Physical facilities | 6 | 448 | 0 |
| Outdoor safety | 4 | 384 | 0 |
| Pools | 2 | 54 | 0 |
| Fire safety | 4 | 271 | 1 |
| Transportation | 4 | 196 | 0 |
The table adds up to 5,623 of those standards. The remaining 21, including 5 of the violations, were recorded under the state's own catch-all heading, “Individual Standards Evaluated”, which names no area. They are reported here rather than folded into an area above, because the state did not say which area they belong to and we are not going to decide for it.
A high number of standards checked is not a compliment and a low one is not a criticism: how many apply depends on a program's size, its ages served and what the inspector was there to look at. We publish the two counts the state published and do not turn them into a score. This data begins in 2021, which is later than the inspection history above it.
Ask about an opening
This goes to A Place to Grow and nobody else. They reply to you directly: we do not sit in the middle of it, and we never pass your details on or sell them.
Tell me about new inspections
One short message each time Texas HHSC records an inspection here, saying that it happened and linking to the record. We do not tell you what the inspector found: a finding without whether it was corrected is misleading, and that pair belongs on the page rather than split across an email.
We ask for nothing but the address, and we send a confirmation first. Your list is never shown to this program, never sold, and every message has a link to stop. An inspection is routine: programs are visited on a schedule and after a complaint, and a visit is not a finding.
State inspection record
HHSC records 17 visits to this operation since October 2017, most recently on July 2, 2026, and 9 citations.
One of those visits began with A Place to Grow reporting something to the state itself rather than HHSC finding it. We publish that because it is part of the record and the state records it separately, not because it is good or bad: a program with none may have had nothing to report. 3,674 of the 12,933 programs listed here have at least one.
- 1High
- 7Medium High
- 1Medium
Every citation below records a correction.
Citations
Showing all 9. Indented text is the inspector's own, reproduced verbatim.
- Medium High November 7, 2023 Correction verified February 1, 2024
746.401(10): Required Postings-Child's Food Allergies
During DFPS investigation it was determined that a child had a food allergy, and this was not posted as required. It was also determined that four other children had food allergies, and they also were not posted as required.
- High November 7, 2023 Correction verified February 1, 2024
746.1201(4): AP Responsibilities of Employees and Caregivers -Ensure No Child Abused, Neglected, or Exploited
This standard was found deficient as part of a DFPS Investigation. A caregiver was found Reason To Believe for Neglectful Supervision of a child in care.
- Medium High November 7, 2023 Correction verified February 1, 2024
746.3301(i): Nutrition and Food Service - Must not serve identified foods to allergic child
During a DFPS investigation, it was determined that a child in care was given a food item to which they are allergic. The child's file states the child is allergic to peanuts, and a caregiver gave this child a Snicker's candy/bar.
- Medium High November 7, 2023 Correction verified February 1, 2024
746.3819: Food Allergy Emergency Plan Signed by Parents and Health Care Professional
During a DFPS investigation, it was determined that a child in care had a known food allergy that was diagnosed by a health-care professional, and the operation did not have a food allergy emergency plan for this child.
- Medium High November 7, 2023 Correction verified February 1, 2024
746.3301(h): Nutrition and Food Service - Food not a reward
During a DFPS investigation it was determined that a caregiver used food as a reward. This caregiver gave a child in care a Snicker's as a reward for cleaning.
- Medium High February 8, 2023 Corrected at inspection
746.5205(1): Fire Drill Monthly - Exit in 3 Minutes
Fire safety form indicated that monthly fire drill for January was missing. A monthly fire drill under 3 minutes was conducted during inspection.
- Medium High February 8, 2023 Correction verified February 23, 2023
746.1315(b): Each Caregiver and the Director Must Have Current Training in pediatric CPR
Director's CPR/First Aid expired on12/2022.
- Medium February 8, 2023 Correction verified February 23, 2023
746.2421(b): Written Feeding Instructions - Review and Update Every 30 Days
One infant currently not ready for table food was missing the February 2023 updated infant feeding signature on the form.
- Medium High February 8, 2023 Correction verified February 23, 2023
746.1301(5)(A): Training Requirements for Employees and Caregivers - 24 Annual Training
One out of four employee files was missing five hours of annual training from October 5, 2021 - October 5, 2022.
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About this record
Every figure on this page comes from the Texas HHSC Child Care Regulation open data published at data.texas.gov, reproduced as the state recorded it. We do not grade, score or rank programs. A citation is a finding by a state inspector on a given day; it is not a judgment about a program today, and the correction status beside each one is part of the record. This page reflects data retrieved on November 8, 2026. Full methodology.
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