Building Blocks Academy Cypress
Licensed Center in Houston, Texas. License #855022, issued April 19, 2006.
- Address
- 17800 West Rd, Houston, TX 77095
- Phone
- (281) 550-8811
- Licensed capacity
- 175 children
- Licensed for
- Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School
- Hours
- 06:00 AM-06:30 PM
- Days
- Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri
- Child care subsidies
- Accepted
- Website
- better-beginnings.com
Programs listed with the state: After School Care, 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
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 July 28, 2026. From the state's provider report of July 28, 2026.
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 2,930 standards at Building Blocks Academy Cypress between November 16, 2021 and August 5, 2026 and recorded 10 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 | 2 | 242 | 0 |
| Record keeping | 2 | 225 | 0 |
| Personnel | 2 | 313 | 1 |
| Ratios and group sizes | 3 | 162 | 0 |
| Activities | 3 | 104 | 0 |
| Infants | 3 | 267 | 1 |
| Toddlers | 3 | 66 | 0 |
| Pre-kindergarten | 3 | 55 | 0 |
| School-age | 3 | 60 | 0 |
| Discipline | 2 | 40 | 0 |
| Naptime | 2 | 24 | 0 |
| Field trips | 2 | 22 | 0 |
| Get well care | 2 | 54 | 0 |
| Nighttime care | 2 | 26 | 0 |
| Nutrition and food care | 2 | 90 | 0 |
| Health practices | 2 | 226 | 1 |
| Safety practices | 2 | 154 | 0 |
| Physical facilities | 3 | 224 | 0 |
| Outdoor safety | 2 | 192 | 0 |
| Pools | 2 | 54 | 0 |
| Fire safety | 3 | 203 | 2 |
| Transportation | 2 | 98 | 2 |
The table adds up to 2,901 of those standards. The remaining 29, 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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State inspection record
HHSC records 19 visits to this operation since October 2017, most recently on August 5, 2026, and 10 citations.
One of those visits began with Building Blocks Academy Cypress 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.
- 5High
- 4Medium High
- 1Medium
Every citation below records a correction.
Citations
Showing all 10. Indented text is the inspector's own, reproduced verbatim.
- Medium High August 6, 2025 Correction verified August 11, 2025
746.3407: Maintenance of Building, Grounds and Equipment
The school age playground fence was not secured at the bottom and it could caused an unsafe environment.
- High August 6, 2025 Correction verified August 15, 2025
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
A child was observed wandering the hallway.
- High September 4, 2024 Correction verified February 19, 2025
746.5101(a): Annual Fire Inspection - Before Initial Permit Issued and Every 12 Months
The operation did not have a current fire inspection available during the inspection.
- High August 9, 2024 Correction verified September 4, 2024
746.5101(a): Annual Fire Inspection - Before Initial Permit Issued and Every 12 Months
The operation did not have a current fire inspection available during the inspection.
- High August 9, 2024 Correction verified September 4, 2024
746.5625(a): Electronic Child Safety Alarm - is equipped in each vehicle
The transportation vehicle did not have an alarm.
- Medium High August 9, 2024 Correction verified August 16, 2024
746.3701(1): Safety - Electrical Outlets Covered
The outlet cover was loose from the wall in the school age classroom and caused and unsafe environment.
- Medium High August 9, 2024 Correction verified September 4, 2024
746.3407: Maintenance of Building, Grounds and Equipment
The school-age outdoor area had a pile of stacked wood by the fence that could cause an unsafe environment; The wooden bridge had uneven planks and a loose plank that caused an unsafe environment; the tree branches were hanging on top of the playground and children were swinging on them and climbing the branches and it caused a supervision issue in another area of the playground.
- Medium High August 9, 2024 Correction verified September 4, 2024
746.5401: Requirement of Gas Leak Inspection
The operation did not have a current gas inspection available during the inspection.
- High August 9, 2024 Correction verified September 4, 2024
746.5617(a)(5): Required Equipment in Vehicles - Fire Extinguisher
There was no fire extinguisher in the transportation vehicle.
- Medium September 14, 2022 Correction verified September 28, 2022
746.2421(b): Written Feeding Instructions - Review and Update Every 30 Days
Two infants in the infant-2 room did not have updated feeding instructions.
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About this record
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