By the Barnyard Gate
Licensed Center in Sachse, Texas. License #1547033, issued January 7, 2015.
- Address
- 4701 Bunker Hill Rd, Sachse, TX 75048
- Phone
- (972) 495-0416
- Licensed capacity
- 270 children
- Licensed for
- Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School
- Hours
- 06:30 AM-06:00 PM
- Days
- Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri
- Child care subsidies
- Accepted
- Website
- thebarnyardgate.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.
Openings
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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 30, 2025. From the state's provider report of November 24, 2025.
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 4,699 standards at By the Barnyard Gate between December 29, 2021 and June 25, 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 | 4 | 481 | 0 |
| Record keeping | 4 | 440 | 0 |
| Personnel | 4 | 594 | 0 |
| Ratios and group sizes | 3 | 162 | 0 |
| Activities | 3 | 104 | 0 |
| Infants | 3 | 267 | 0 |
| Toddlers | 3 | 66 | 0 |
| Pre-kindergarten | 3 | 55 | 0 |
| School-age | 3 | 60 | 0 |
| Discipline | 4 | 80 | 0 |
| Naptime | 4 | 48 | 0 |
| Field trips | 3 | 33 | 0 |
| Get well care | 3 | 81 | 0 |
| Nighttime care | 3 | 39 | 0 |
| Nutrition and food care | 4 | 179 | 0 |
| Health practices | 4 | 451 | 0 |
| Safety practices | 4 | 298 | 0 |
| Physical facilities | 4 | 299 | 0 |
| Outdoor safety | 3 | 288 | 0 |
| Pools | 4 | 108 | 0 |
| Fire safety | 4 | 271 | 1 |
| Transportation | 6 | 264 | 1 |
The table adds up to 4,668 of those standards. The remaining 31, including 8 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.
What By the Barnyard Gate says about itself
Embark on a journey of early learning excellence at The Barnyard Gate, a private school in Sachse, TX, dedicated to nurturing young minds.
Quoted from thebarnyardgate.com, read on October 25, 2026. These are the program's own words, not ours, and we neither check nor endorse them.
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State inspection record
HHSC records 34 visits to this operation since October 2017, most recently on June 25, 2026, and 10 citations.
7 of those visits began with By the Barnyard Gate 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.
- 9High
- 1Medium High
Every citation below records a correction.
Citations
Showing all 10. Indented text is the inspector's own, reproduced verbatim.
- High February 20, 2026 Correction verified March 2, 2026
746.3703(b): No Alcohol or Controlled Substances Consumed
A caregiver consumed THC from a vape that was kept in the caregiver pocket. The caregiver went in the bathroom and smoked the vape. The caregiver returned to the classroom to care for children until the operation management staff determined a vape had been used. The operation immediately terminated the caregiver once they confirmed the issue.
- High February 20, 2026 Correction verified March 2, 2026
746.3703(d): No Smoking or Use of Tobacco Including E-Cigarettes or Vaporizers
A caregiver smoked a THC vape in the child care operation.
- High October 9, 2025 Correction verified October 27, 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
Caregiver left a child unattended in the classroom for 10 minutes.
- High August 19, 2025 Correction verified September 8, 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 left unattended in the classroom for approximately 7 minutes.
- Medium High May 23, 2025 Correction verified June 5, 2025
746.1203(4): Provide care consistent with child's habits, interests, strengths, special needs, including any special supervision needs
Classroom was left unattended for approximately four minutes.
- High December 12, 2023 Correction verified January 18, 2024
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 left on the playground unattended.
- High November 14, 2022 Correction verified December 1, 2022
746.5625(b): Electronic Child Safety Alarm - installed and maintained according to manufacturer's instructions
Two of the buses used for transportation did not have active working child safety alarms.
- High November 14, 2022 Correction verified December 1, 2022
746.5101(a): Annual Fire Inspection - Before Initial Permit Issued and Every 12 Months
The operation has not had a fire inspection conducted since 8/4/21.
- High March 10, 2022 Corrected at inspection
746.2415(b): AP Cribs - Only Snug Fitting Sheet and Crib Mattress Cover Allowed if Infant Younger than 12 Months of Age
Two motion devices were observed in a playyard as a sleeping infant. This was corrected at inspection by the Director who removed the items.
- High March 8, 2022 Correction verified April 14, 2022
746.1203(4): Responsibilities of Caregivers- Supervision of Children
The standard evaluated was found to be deficient. A child was left on the playground, unattended for around 11 minutes.
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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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