Children's Orchard Academy on Hillside
Licensed Center in Amarillo, Texas. License #1803308, issued February 7, 2025.
- Address
- 9175 Hillside Rd, Amarillo, TX 79119
- Phone
- (806) 318-6194
- Licensed capacity
- 238 children
- Licensed for
- Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School
- Hours
- 06:30 AM-06:30 PM
- Days
- Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri
- Child care subsidies
- Not accepted
- Website
- childrensorchardacademy.com
Programs listed with the state: School Age Care, Meals Provided, After School Care, Snacks Provided, 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
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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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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 4,430 standards at Children's Orchard Academy on Hillside between September 27, 2024 and November 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 | 3 | 372 | 0 |
| Record keeping | 3 | 342 | 0 |
| Personnel | 3 | 481 | 0 |
| Ratios and group sizes | 4 | 216 | 0 |
| Activities | 4 | 144 | 0 |
| Infants | 4 | 360 | 0 |
| Toddlers | 3 | 66 | 0 |
| Pre-kindergarten | 3 | 57 | 0 |
| School-age | 3 | 60 | 0 |
| Discipline | 3 | 60 | 0 |
| Naptime | 3 | 36 | 0 |
| Field trips | 3 | 33 | 0 |
| Get well care | 3 | 81 | 0 |
| Nighttime care | 3 | 39 | 0 |
| Nutrition and food care | 3 | 135 | 0 |
| Health practices | 4 | 452 | 0 |
| Safety practices | 4 | 312 | 0 |
| Physical facilities | 4 | 300 | 0 |
| Outdoor safety | 4 | 384 | 0 |
| Pools | 3 | 90 | 0 |
| Fire safety | 3 | 203 | 0 |
| Transportation | 3 | 147 | 0 |
The table adds up to 4,370 of those standards. The remaining 60, including 10 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 Children's Orchard Academy on Hillside says about itself
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Quoted from childrensorchardacademy.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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Tell me about new inspections
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State inspection record
HHSC records 39 visits to this operation since October 2017, most recently on November 5, 2026, and 10 citations.
2 of those visits began with Children's Orchard Academy on Hillside 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
Every citation below records a correction.
Citations
Showing all 10. Indented text is the inspector's own, reproduced verbatim.
- High September 3, 2026 Correction verified September 22, 2026
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
Based on the evidence obtained during the investigation, a child was unaccounted for about 10 minutes after their classroom transitioned out of the cafeteria and back to their classroom.
- High September 3, 2026 Correction verified September 22, 2026
746.305(a)(6): Report Situation Placing Children at Risk
Based on the evidence obtained during the investigation, a report was not made by the operation regarding a situation that placed a child at risk with being left unsupervised.
- Medium September 3, 2026 Correction verified September 9, 2026
746.707: Incident/Illness Report Form Shared with Parent
An incident report was written on 8/28/2026 after a situation that places a child at risk but was not shared or signed by the parent within 2 days of the incident.
- High July 14, 2026 Correction verified August 20, 2026
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
Based on the evidence obtained during the investigation, staff were not aware of a child's on-going activity and did not have visual or auditory awareness of the child, as a child was in a classroom for approximately fourteen minutes by themselves before they were found by staff.
- High June 18, 2026 Corrected at inspection
745.621(a)(2): AP Initial background checks submitted - At the time you hire someone
An individual that had a prior eligible background check was inactivated on 06/17/2026 and has continued to be present at the operation without an eligible background check at the operation. The individual is currently inactive and requires a new background check submission to be present at the operation. The individual left the operation during the inspection.
- High June 16, 2026 Correction verified July 17, 2026
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
Children were left the classroom unattended and were unsupervised in the halls and office.
- High September 12, 2025 Correction verified October 20, 2025
746.2805(3): Prohibited Punishments - Grabbing and Pulling
Based on the evidence obtained during the investigation, a caregiver would discipline by grabbing children by the arm in a rough manner.
- High August 13, 2025 Correction verified September 16, 2025
746.1205(a)(5): Responsibilities of Caregivers - Intervene to ensure each child's safety
Based on the evidence obtained during the investigation, an incident occurred where children were repeatedly climbing on shelves during nap time in the classroom and the caregiver failed to intervene. The caregiver sat on the ground instead of removing the children from the shelves to ensure their safety. The caregiver doesn?t attempt to redirect the children until after a child falls off the shelf and lands onto another child laying on their nap mat resulting in the other child crying.
- High August 13, 2025 Correction verified September 16, 2025
746.2805(3): Prohibited Punishments - Grabbing and Pulling
Based on the evidence obtained during the investigation, a caregiver has grabbed multiple children by the arm in a rough manner when disciplining.
- High April 25, 2025 Correction verified May 20, 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 walks out of the classroom and down the three halls without supervision, while the caregiver was changing a diaper in the diapering pod. Staff was unable to see and unaware he left the room.
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About this record
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