AlphaBEST @ Sparks ? Frisco
Licensed Center in Frisco, Texas. License #850834, issued January 24, 2006.
- Address
- 8200 Otis Dr, Frisco, TX 75036
- Phone
- (866) 300-7750
- Licensed capacity
- 65 children
- Licensed for
- School
- Hours
- 02:55 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.
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
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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 2,994 standards at AlphaBEST @ Sparks ? Frisco between February 7, 2022 and August 13, 2026 and recorded 7 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 | 3 | 319 | 0 |
| Record keeping | 3 | 301 | 0 |
| Personnel | 3 | 466 | 4 |
| Ratios and group sizes | 3 | 126 | 1 |
| Activities | 3 | 184 | 0 |
| Discipline | 3 | 82 | 0 |
| Naptime | 3 | 30 | 0 |
| Field trips | 3 | 33 | 0 |
| Nutrition and food service | 3 | 128 | 0 |
| Health practices | 3 | 278 | 0 |
| Safety practices | 3 | 218 | 0 |
| Physical facilities | 3 | 212 | 0 |
| Active play | 2 | 228 | 0 |
| Pools | 3 | 78 | 0 |
| Fire safety | 3 | 192 | 0 |
| Transportation | 3 | 113 | 0 |
The table adds up to 2,988 of those standards. The remaining 6, including 2 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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Tell me about new inspections
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State inspection record
HHSC records 8 visits to this operation since October 2017, most recently on August 13, 2026, and 7 citations.
- 2Medium High
- 5Medium
Every citation below records a correction.
Citations
Showing all 7. Indented text is the inspector's own, reproduced verbatim.
- Medium August 13, 2026 Correction verified September 21, 2026
744.1309(a)(1): Documented Annual Training-15 Hours Required Caregiver
One caregiver had 12 of 15 annual training hours required.
- Medium August 13, 2026 Correction verified September 1, 2026
744.1309(d): Documented Annual Training-Required Topics in Health and Safety
The site director lacked training in the following areas: emergency preparedness, medication administration, food allergies.
- Medium August 13, 2026 Correction verified September 21, 2026
744.1311(a): Operation and Program Director Annual Training 20 Hours Required
The program director is lacking 17 hours and 30 minutes of the required annual training.
- Medium August 13, 2026 Correction verified September 1, 2026
744.1309(c): Documented Annual Training-Required Topics prevention, recognition, and reporting of child maltreatment
The site director and a caregiver were lacking 30 minutes of training in the abuse and neglect training.
- Medium High October 3, 2024 Correction verified October 10, 2024
744.2669: Food Allergy Plan-Emergency plan for diagnosed child, signed by health care professional and parent
During the inspection, a food allergy plan was not available for a child with known food allergies.
- Medium January 12, 2023 Corrected at inspection
744.2659: Medication No Longer Used
I observed one expired child's medication in the medicine box. This was corrected when the site director removed the expired medication.
- Medium High January 12, 2023 Correction verified January 23, 2023
744.1601: Child/ Caregiver Ratio
One caregiver was observed supervising a group of 28 children. Note: The maximum size of the group was 26 children per caregiver.
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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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