Cleveland Street Head Start
Licensed Center in Amarillo, Texas. License #537851, issued August 30, 2001.
- Address
- 1601 S Cleveland St, Amarillo, TX 79102
- Phone
- (806) 677-5400
- Licensed capacity
- 186 children
- Licensed for
- Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten
- Hours
- 07:45 AM-04:00 PM
- Days
- Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri
- Child care subsidies
- Not accepted
- Website
- esc16.net
Programs listed with the state: Meals Provided, Snacks Provided.
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
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 22 areas it checked 5,395 standards at Cleveland Street Head Start between February 11, 2022 and October 14, 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 | 5 | 605 | 0 |
| Record keeping | 4 | 440 | 0 |
| Personnel | 5 | 750 | 0 |
| Ratios and group sizes | 5 | 270 | 0 |
| Activities | 4 | 140 | 0 |
| Infants | 5 | 447 | 1 |
| Toddlers | 5 | 110 | 0 |
| Pre-kindergarten | 4 | 74 | 0 |
| School-age | 4 | 80 | 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 | 7 | 313 | 0 |
| Health practices | 4 | 451 | 0 |
| Safety practices | 4 | 300 | 0 |
| Physical facilities | 4 | 299 | 0 |
| Outdoor safety | 4 | 384 | 0 |
| Pools | 3 | 78 | 0 |
| Fire safety | 3 | 203 | 0 |
| Transportation | 3 | 132 | 0 |
The table adds up to 5,357 of those standards. The remaining 38, including 9 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
One short message each time Texas HHSC records an inspection here, saying that it happened and linking to the record. We do not tell you what the inspector found: a finding without whether it was corrected is misleading, and that pair belongs on the page rather than split across an email.
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 37 visits to this operation since October 2017, most recently on October 14, 2026, and 10 citations.
6 of those visits began with Cleveland Street Head Start 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
- 4Medium High
- 2Medium
Every citation below records a correction.
Citations
Showing all 10. Indented text is the inspector's own, reproduced verbatim.
- High April 23, 2026 Correction verified May 14, 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, a child left the classroom and was unsupervised in the hallway. The caregivers in the classroom were not aware that the child had exited the room.
- High November 19, 2025 Correction verified December 2, 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 evidence obtained, a caregiver failed to conduct an accurate count of the children they were responsible for when transitioning from the playground to the classroom. This resulted in one child being left on the playground for 10 minutes. Other caregivers and children remained on the playground but none of the caregivers on the playground were aware that the child was left nor that they would be responsible for ensuring responsibility for the child. The caregivers that were aware they were responsible for the child were not within physical proximity when they entered the building and lost both auditory and visual awareness of the child during those 10 minutes.
- Medium High August 26, 2025 Correction verified September 4, 2025
746.3301(i): Nutrition and Food Service - Must not serve identified foods to allergic child
Based on the evidence obtained during the investigation, caregivers did not follow food allergy protocols, and a child was served a food item on their food allergy list.
- Medium High June 5, 2025 Correction verified June 26, 2025
746.3301(i): Nutrition and Food Service - Must not serve identified foods to allergic child
Based on the evidence obtained during the investigation, a child was served a food item on their food allergy list.
- Medium High May 6, 2025 Correction verified May 15, 2025
746.3301(i): Nutrition and Food Service - Must not serve identified foods to allergic child
Based on the evidence obtained during the investigation, a child was served food that was listed on their identified foods as a known allergy to avoid.
- Medium August 27, 2024 Correction verified August 29, 2024
746.801(13): Required Records Maintained and Made Available - Gas Inspection Report
The most recent gas leak test was not available for review.
- Medium October 2, 2023 Correction verified October 10, 2023
746.2421(b): Written Feeding Instructions - Review and Update Every 30 Days
There were 7 infant feeding instructions reviewed that were not updated in the last 30 days by the parent.
- High September 7, 2023 Correction verified September 12, 2023
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 left unsupervised in an enclosed hallway for three minutes before being returned to their classroom.
- High September 7, 2023 Correction verified September 12, 2023
746.307(b)(4): Parental Communication - Situation that Placed a Child at Risk
Based on the evidence obtained, the parent was not immediately notified of a situation that placed their child at risk.
- Medium High May 23, 2023 Correction verified June 15, 2023
746.3301(i): Nutrition and Food Service - Must not serve identified foods to allergic child
Based on the evidence obtained during the investigation, two prior incidents have occurred where a child with a diagnosed food allergy were served food listed on their food allergy plan and resulted in an allergic reaction.
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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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