Carrie Johnson
Registered Child-Care Home in Amarillo, Texas. License #1556644, issued January 28, 2015.
- Address
- 1104 S Avondale St, Amarillo, TX 79106
- Phone
- (806) 372-5462
- Licensed capacity
- 12 children
- Licensed for
- Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School
- Hours
- 07:15 AM-05:30 PM
- Days
- Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri
- Child care subsidies
- Not accepted
Programs listed with the state: School Age Care, Meals Provided, Snacks Provided, Drop-In Care, Part Time Care, Transportation to/from School, Field Trips.
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
Texas Rising Star is voluntary, and a program joins it by applying. It is tied to accepting child care scholarships, so most programs that are not in it never applied rather than failed. Roughly three in five licensed programs in Texas have no rating.
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 21 areas it checked 3,092 standards at Carrie Johnson between August 19, 2022 and November 18, 2025 and recorded 16 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 21 areas, one by one
| Area of the rules | Visits | Standards checked | Violated |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scope, administration, and communication | 3 | 292 | 2 |
| Record keeping | 3 | 276 | 2 |
| Personnel | 3 | 392 | 2 |
| Ratios and group sizes | 3 | 93 | 1 |
| Activities | 3 | 95 | 0 |
| Infants | 3 | 233 | 0 |
| Toddlers | 3 | 60 | 0 |
| Pre-kindergarten | 3 | 55 | 0 |
| School-age | 3 | 51 | 0 |
| Discipline | 3 | 57 | 0 |
| Naptime | 3 | 33 | 0 |
| Field trips | 3 | 36 | 1 |
| Nighttime care | 3 | 48 | 0 |
| Nutrition | 3 | 131 | 0 |
| Health practices | 3 | 329 | 0 |
| Safety practices | 3 | 225 | 1 |
| Physical facilities | 3 | 125 | 0 |
| Outdoor safety and equipment | 3 | 207 | 0 |
| Swimming pools | 3 | 81 | 0 |
| Fire safety | 3 | 156 | 0 |
| Transportation | 3 | 98 | 0 |
The table adds up to 3,073 of those standards. The remaining 19, 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 7 visits to this operation since October 2017, most recently on November 18, 2025, and 16 citations.
One of those visits began with Carrie Johnson 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.
- 2High
- 7Medium High
- 7Medium
Every citation below records a correction.
Citations
Showing all 16. Indented text is the inspector's own, reproduced verbatim.
- Medium November 18, 2025 Correction verified December 9, 2025
747.801(4): Records Maintained and Made Available - Menus
The last three months of menus were not available to be reviewed as the September month was not available upon request. The last three months of sign in and out logs was not avaiable for review as the September month was not available for review upon request.
- Medium High November 18, 2025 Correction verified December 9, 2025
747.501(6): Written Operational Policies - Safe Sleep for Infants
A child in care did not have proof of the parent receiving information regarding the safe sleep for infants policy, the parent's rights, and the animals in the home.
- Medium High March 21, 2025 Correction verified April 4, 2025
747.1303(6)(A): Training Requirements for Primary Caregiver and Substitute that transports - Transportation Training
The two-hour transportation training was not available for review for three adults that provide transportation to children in care.
- Medium High March 21, 2025 Correction verified April 4, 2025
747.1701: Child/ Caregiver Ratio - Registered Child Care Home
There were eight children present at inspection. There was one child that was birth to 17 months of age and a total of 7 children that were 18 months to 5 years old when the max number of children that can be present that are 18 months to five years of age is 5 total children. Therefore, the provider was over by two children for the daily ratio regardless of there being more than one caregiver present due to the permit type issued to the operation.
- Medium March 21, 2025 Correction verified April 4, 2025
747.501(9): Written Operational Policies - Parent Rights
The parent's rights form was reviewed. The operational policies regarding information to parents about the pets/animals in the home was recited as it has not been completed.
- Medium March 21, 2025 Correction verified April 4, 2025
747.1309(a): Primary Caregiver Annual Training -30 Hours Required
The permit holder did was lacking 5 hours of training within the most complete training year of 1/28/2024 - 1/28/2025.
- Medium High March 21, 2025 Correction verified April 4, 2025
747.605(15): Required Admission Information-Child's allergies and Completed Food Allergy Plan
A child that is in and the parent had noted on the admission form that the child has a food allergy did not have the food allergy in file for review.
- Medium March 21, 2025 Corrected at inspection
747.603(a)(4): Children's Records - Immunizations
A child file reviewed did not have any immunizations in file for a child that is in care. **This was corrected at inspection when the parent provided an immunization record for the child to the operation.
- High March 21, 2025 Correction verified April 3, 2025
745.641: AP Background check results - Must receive notification prior to allowing subject to be present at your operation
A household member that resides in the home and is older than 14 years of age has been doing so without an eligible notification from the background check unit.
- Medium February 26, 2025 Correction verified March 21, 2025
747.1309(a): Primary Caregiver Annual Training -30 Hours Required
The permit holder did was lacking 5 hours of training within the most complete training year of 1/28/2024 - 1/28/2025.
- High February 26, 2025 Corrected at inspection
747.2901(a)(4): Field Trips -First Aid Kit
The first aid kit was missing a thermometer and scissors. **These were provided by the provider and placed in the first aid kit in the vehicle.
- Medium February 26, 2025 Correction verified March 21, 2025
747.603(a)(2): Children's Records - Admission Information
A child present at inspection did not have a file available for review.
- Medium High February 26, 2025 Correction verified March 21, 2025
747.3501: Safety - Areas Free From Hazards
A small plastic pool was observed not stored out of children's reach. Additionally, there was a dead chicken next to the pool in a play yard that had been used by children previously.
- Medium February 26, 2025 Correction verified March 21, 2025
747.501(9): Written Operational Policies - Parent Rights
The operation has not provided the Parent's Rights information to parents as required of the operational policies and did not include a policy with iinformation to parents about the promotion of physical activities. Additionally, updates are required for the policy to pets/animals in the home.
- Medium High February 26, 2025 Correction verified March 21, 2025
747.1303(6)(A): Training Requirements for Primary Caregiver and Substitute that transports - Transportation Training
The transportation training was not available for two caregivers that provide transportation training to children in care.
- Medium High February 26, 2025 Correction verified March 21, 2025
747.1701: Child/ Caregiver Ratio - Registered Child Care Home
There were seven children present at inspection. There was one child that was birth to 17 months of age and a total of 6 children that were 18 months to 5 years old when the mac number of children that can be present that are 18 months to five years of age is 5 total children, therefore, the provider was over by one child for daily ratio.
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About this record
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