Barnyard Kids Learning Center
Licensed Center in Hawkins, Texas. License #1742769, issued January 26, 2023.
- Address
- 180 Betty St, Hawkins, TX 75765
- Phone
- (903) 769-0663
- Licensed capacity
- 63 children
- Licensed for
- Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School
- Hours
- 07:00 AM-06:00 PM
- Days
- Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri
- Child care subsidies
- Accepted
Programs listed with the state: School Age Care, Meals Provided, After School Care.
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
Texas Rising Star 3-star of a possible 4
A quality rating the state awards after an on-site assessment. Four stars is the highest.
In effect since October 1, 2024. From the state's provider report of August 3, 2026.
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 5,525 standards at Barnyard Kids Learning Center between June 7, 2022 and September 29, 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 22 areas, one by one
| Area of the rules | Visits | Standards checked | Violated |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scope, administration, and communication | 5 | 597 | 0 |
| Record keeping | 4 | 432 | 0 |
| Personnel | 4 | 564 | 0 |
| Ratios and group sizes | 5 | 270 | 0 |
| Activities | 4 | 136 | 0 |
| Infants | 5 | 444 | 1 |
| Toddlers | 4 | 88 | 0 |
| Pre-kindergarten | 4 | 72 | 0 |
| School-age | 4 | 80 | 0 |
| Discipline | 5 | 100 | 0 |
| Naptime | 4 | 48 | 0 |
| Field trips | 5 | 55 | 0 |
| Get well care | 5 | 135 | 0 |
| Nighttime care | 5 | 65 | 0 |
| Nutrition and food care | 5 | 223 | 0 |
| Health practices | 4 | 450 | 0 |
| Safety practices | 5 | 364 | 1 |
| Physical facilities | 5 | 373 | 0 |
| Outdoor safety | 4 | 384 | 0 |
| Pools | 4 | 102 | 0 |
| Fire safety | 5 | 339 | 2 |
| Transportation | 4 | 166 | 0 |
The table adds up to 5,487 of those standards. The remaining 38, including 3 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
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 34 visits to this operation since October 2017, most recently on September 29, 2026, and 7 citations.
3 of those visits began with Barnyard Kids Learning Center 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.
- 5Medium High
- 1Medium
- 1Medium Low
Every citation below records a correction.
Citations
Showing all 7. Indented text is the inspector's own, reproduced verbatim.
- Medium July 7, 2023 Correction verified July 31, 2023
746.5205(4): Documentation of Drills
At the inspection, the documentation for practice drills were not available to Child Care Regulation.
- Medium High July 7, 2023 Correction verified July 31, 2023
746.3701(5): Safety - Play Materials and Equipment Safe
At the inspection, children were playing on the playground with broken stackable blocks and tubes that could cause injury to a child. The operation corrected at inspection by removing the play equipment from the playground.
- Medium High July 7, 2023 Correction verified July 31, 2023
746.5205(1): Fire Drill Monthly - Exit in 3 Minutes
At the inspection, the practice drills for fire safety have not been conducted in several months.
- Medium High July 7, 2023 Correction verified July 31, 2023
746.2419(8): Requirements for Feeding Infants - Other Use of Handwashing Sink
At the inspection, the infant and toddler teachers were preparing lunch plates from the diaper changing table. This was corrected at inspection.
- Medium Low December 14, 2022 Correction verified January 3, 2023
746.901(4): Required Personnel Records - Required Affidavit
At the inspection, 1 out of 6 personnel records reviewed did not have a notarized affidavit.
- Medium High September 19, 2022 Correction verified October 5, 2022
746.305(a)(4): Report Outbreak of Communicable Illness
This standard was evaluated as part of an investigation and found to be deficient. The operation failed to report a staff member testing positive for Covid-19.
- Medium High September 19, 2022 Correction verified October 5, 2022
746.307(d): Parental Notification of Communicable Disease
This standard was evaluated as part of an investigation and was found deficient. The operation failed to inform parents of a positive case of Covid-19 at the operation.
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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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