AlphaBEST @ Lykins ? Celina
Licensed Center in Celina, Texas. License #1676675, issued February 5, 2019.
- Address
- 550 S Utah St, Celina, TX 75009
- Phone
- (866) 300-7750
- Licensed capacity
- 60 children
- Licensed for
- Pre-Kindergarten, School
- Hours
- 02:30 PM-06:30 PM
- Days
- Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri
- Child care subsidies
- Accepted
- Website
- alphabest.org
Programs listed with the state: School Age Care, After School Care, Snacks Provided, Part Time Care.
Openings
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Texas Rising Star
No Texas Rising Star rating
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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 16 areas it checked 4,311 standards at AlphaBEST @ Lykins ? Celina between December 9, 2021 and August 19, 2026 and recorded 15 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 16 areas, one by one
| Area of the rules | Visits | Standards checked | Violated |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scope, administration, and communication | 4 | 424 | 2 |
| Record keeping | 4 | 400 | 3 |
| Personnel | 4 | 640 | 2 |
| Ratios and group sizes | 6 | 252 | 0 |
| Activities | 5 | 310 | 0 |
| Discipline | 5 | 136 | 0 |
| Naptime | 4 | 40 | 0 |
| Field trips | 4 | 44 | 0 |
| Nutrition and food service | 3 | 128 | 1 |
| Health practices | 4 | 371 | 0 |
| Safety practices | 4 | 297 | 0 |
| Physical facilities | 4 | 283 | 0 |
| Active play | 4 | 456 | 0 |
| Pools | 4 | 108 | 0 |
| Fire safety | 4 | 256 | 0 |
| Transportation | 4 | 157 | 0 |
The table adds up to 4,302 of those standards. The remaining 9, including 7 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.
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State inspection record
HHSC records 14 visits to this operation since October 2017, most recently on August 19, 2026, and 15 citations.
2 of those visits began with AlphaBEST @ Lykins ? Celina 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
- 1Medium High
- 12Medium
- 1Low
Every citation below records a correction.
Citations
Showing all 15. Indented text is the inspector's own, reproduced verbatim.
- High December 11, 2025 Correction verified December 17, 2025
744.1205(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
This standard was found to be deficient. Two children were unattended by AlphaBest Staff for a brief period of time while they went outside to a portable classroom. A Lykins staff directed the children back to AlphaBest care.
- Medium High September 3, 2025 Corrected at inspection
744.303(4): Report Change in Director
The operation failed to notify licensing the current site director is no longer employeed.
- Medium September 3, 2025 Correction verified September 18, 2025
744.801(7): Required Records Maintained and Made Available - Playground Maintenance Records
The playground checklist was not available for review during the visit.
- Medium September 3, 2025 Correction verified September 18, 2025
744.801(9): Required Records Maintained and Made Available - Safety Documentation for Emergency Drills, Fire Extinguishers, and Smoke Detectors
The emergency drills were not available for review during the visit.
- Medium November 1, 2024 Correction verified November 15, 2024
744.801(2): Required Records Maintained and Made Available - Personnel and Training Records
This standard was reviewed as part of a follow up and found deficient. The operation did not provided information for a previous citation: Required documents were missing during the visit and were not available for review.
- Medium November 1, 2024 Correction verified November 15, 2024
744.1309(a)(1): Documented Annual Training-15 Hours Required Caregiver
This standard was reviewed as part of a follow up and found deficient. The operation did not provided information for a previous citation: 2 out of 6 staff did not have the required annual training available for review.
- Medium November 1, 2024 Correction verified November 17, 2024
744.401(2): Posting Requirements- Letter or form from the most recent licensing inspection or investigation.
This standard was reviewed as part of a follow up and found deficient. The operation did not provided information for a previous citation: The last inspection available for review was the one for year 2022. No other inspection was available during the visit.
- Medium October 3, 2024 Correction verified November 1, 2024
744.1309(a)(1): Documented Annual Training-15 Hours Required Caregiver
2 out of 6 staff did not have the required annual training available for review.
- Medium October 3, 2024 Correction verified November 1, 2024
744.801(2): Required Records Maintained and Made Available - Personnel and Training Records
Required documents were missing during the visit and were not available for review.
- Medium September 25, 2024 Correction verified November 1, 2024
744.401(2): Posting Requirements- Letter or form from the most recent licensing inspection or investigation.
The last inspection available for review was the one for year 2022. No other inspection was available during the visit.
- Medium September 13, 2024 Correction verified October 3, 2024
744.801(2): Required Records Maintained and Made Available - Personnel and Training Records
Two out of three staff did not have the required annual training available for review. One had 12 out of 15 required annual training. Second staff had 3.75 out of 20 hours.
- Medium November 15, 2023 Correction verified December 21, 2023
744.901(8): Required Personnel Records- Photo Identification
A caregiver did not have a photo id on file.
- Medium November 15, 2023 Correction verified December 21, 2023
744.1309(a)(1): Documented Annual Training-15 Hours Required Caregiver
A caregiver lacked 10 annual training hours for 8/31/2022 to 8/31/2023.
- Low November 15, 2023 Correction verified December 21, 2023
744.1103(3): Minimum Qualifications Employees and Caregivers - Affidavit
A caregiver did not have a notarized affidavit on file.
- Medium November 28, 2022 Corrected at inspection
744.2413(2): Daily Menus - May Rotate if Keep Record of Dates Menus Used
The snack menu did not list the snack served today, 11/28/2022. The director corrected the deficiency during the inspection by listing the snack that was served.
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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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