Childrens Lighthouse of Celina
Licensed Center in Celina, Texas. License #1811142, issued July 15, 2025.
- Address
- 3520 S. Dallas Parkway, Celina, TX 75009
- Phone
- (682) 900-2990
- Licensed capacity
- 241 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
- childrenslighthouse.com/celina
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
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Texas Rising Star
Texas Rising Star, entry level
In the program and not yet star-rated. This is a stage, not a low score.
In effect since August 27, 2025. From the state's provider report of October 30, 2025.
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 3,831 standards at Childrens Lighthouse of Celina between March 5, 2025 and September 9, 2026 and recorded 5 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 | 371 | 0 |
| Record keeping | 3 | 337 | 0 |
| Personnel | 3 | 476 | 0 |
| Ratios and group sizes | 3 | 162 | 0 |
| Activities | 3 | 108 | 0 |
| Infants | 3 | 270 | 1 |
| 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 | 3 | 339 | 0 |
| Safety practices | 3 | 234 | 0 |
| Physical facilities | 3 | 225 | 0 |
| Outdoor safety | 3 | 288 | 0 |
| Pools | 3 | 90 | 0 |
| Fire safety | 3 | 201 | 0 |
| Transportation | 3 | 147 | 0 |
The table adds up to 3,815 of those standards. The remaining 16, including 4 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
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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 19 visits to this operation since October 2017, most recently on October 9, 2026, and 5 citations.
4 of those visits began with Childrens Lighthouse of Celina 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.
- 4High
- 1Medium
Every citation below records a correction.
Citations
Showing all 5. Indented text is the inspector's own, reproduced verbatim.
- High August 10, 2026 Correction verified September 9, 2026
746.1201(1): Responsibilities of Employees and Caregivers -Demonstrate Competency, Good Judgment, Self-control
A caregiver fed an infant in care breastmilk intended for another infant at the operation.
- Medium July 7, 2026 Correction verified July 8, 2026
746.2421(b): Written Feeding Instructions - Review and Update Every 30 Days
Two of the eight infants in care were missing current infant feeding instructions.
- High April 6, 2026 Correction verified May 13, 2026
746.1201(1): Responsibilities of Employees and Caregivers -Demonstrate Competency, Good Judgment, Self-control
This standard was evaluated as part of an investigation and determined to be deficient. A caregiver did not demonstrate competency when operational policies were not followed, resulting in an infant being fed the wrong bottle and consuming breast milk intended for another infant.
- High January 23, 2026 Correction verified February 3, 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
A caregiver did not keep visual and/or auditory awareness of a child in care. The child was able to leave without caregiver knowledge. The child was found in the parking lot by another parent. This was a self-report.
- High July 29, 2025 Correction verified August 19, 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
Based on the information gathered during the investigation, it has been determined that child was left unattended, and caregiver was not at a physical proximity which did not allow visual and/or auditory awareness of the child in care.
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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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