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Elsie Steele

Registered Child-Care Home in Killeen, Texas. License #533687, issued December 12, 1997.

Address
2101 Prestige Loop, Killeen, TX 76549
Phone
(254) 383-8713
Licensed capacity
12 children
Licensed for
Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School
Hours
05:30 AM-06:00 PM
Days
Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri
Child care subsidies
Not accepted

Programs listed with the state: After School Care, Night Care.

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 2,107 standards at Elsie Steele between January 25, 2022 and September 4, 2025 and recorded 12 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 rulesVisitsStandards checkedViolated
Scope, administration, and communication21922
Record keeping21912
Personnel22770
Ratios and group sizes2620
Activities2660
Infants21581
Toddlers2400
Pre-kindergarten2380
School-age2340
Discipline2380
Naptime2220
Field trips2240
Nighttime care2320
Nutrition2880
Health practices22200
Safety practices21561
Physical facilities2861
Outdoor safety and equipment21380
Swimming pools2520
Fire safety21040
Transportation2780

The table adds up to 2,096 of those standards. The remaining 11, including 5 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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We email you a copy, and tell you honestly whether it reached them. Texas HHSC has no email address on file for about two programs in five, and for those the phone number above is the faster route.

Tell me about new inspections

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State inspection record

HHSC records 5 visits to this operation since October 2017, most recently on September 4, 2025, and 12 citations.

2225
visitsvisits where something was found5 recorded visits since October 2017. More visits does not mean a worse program: how often the state comes depends on the license type, the program's age and whether anyone complained.
  • 2High
  • 3Medium High
  • 7Medium

Every citation below records a correction.

Citations

Showing all 12. Indented text is the inspector's own, reproduced verbatim.

  1. Medium August 19, 2025 Correction verified September 29, 2025

    747.603(a)(1): Children's Records - Enrollment Agreement

    2 children's enrollment agreements were incomplete for parent signatures, emergency medical information, parent's rights and water safety permission.
  2. High August 19, 2025 Correction verified September 4, 2025

    747.2326(a)(1): Infant May Not Sleep in a Restrictive Device

    Two children were observed asleep in a restrictive device. One child was removed and placed on a cot, the other child left with a parent.
  3. Medium High August 19, 2025 Correction verified September 29, 2025

    747.207(1): Policies Comply with Rules

    Operational polices was missing information for parent's rights, outdoor policies, release of children, medication policies, emergency preparedness plan, suspension, illness, open door policy, parent participation, gang free zones, the child abuse hot line and the local telephone number and address of the nearest regulations office.
  4. Medium August 19, 2025 Correction verified September 4, 2025

    747.4303(a): Individual Cot, Bed, or Mat for Each Walking Child Through 4 Years of Age

    A child was observed asleep in a restrictive device during naptime. This was corrected during the inspection when the child was pick up by the parent.
  5. Medium August 23, 2023 Correction verified September 25, 2023

    747.605(11): Required Admission Information - Physician Information

    During the inspection, 4 children's records were evaluated and found to be deficient. Each record was missing the signed health statement, and the special needs statement. There were no signature pages from the parents on the back pages of the enrollment agreement.
  6. Medium August 23, 2023 Correction verified October 3, 2023

    747.501(10): Written Operational Policies - Procedures for Parents Review Licensing Rules and Reports

    During the inspection, the operation did not have an up to date copy of the operational policies and procedures. Multiple additions were missing: the promotion of outdoor activities, the emergency preparedness plan, exclusion policy, the local licensing location and number, the Child and Abuse Hot line, parent visitation, medication, animals, and handling medical emergencies,
  7. Medium High August 23, 2023 Correction verified September 25, 2023

    747.3703(a): Animals at Center - Documentation of Vaccinations

    During the inspection an dog was present in the home. This was found to be deficient. There was no record of a current vaccination record on file. The last vaccine was 06/11/2020.
  8. Medium January 26, 2022 Correction verified February 7, 2022

    747.901: Personnel Records

    During the inspection it was found that the operation did not have a personnel record for substitute caregiver.
  9. Medium January 26, 2022 Corrected at inspection

    747.2105(a): Screen Time Activities - Not Used for Under Two

    During the inspection it was found that the operation was utilizing screen time for children not used for under two. This was corrected at inspection when the television was turned off and an alternative activity was provided.
  10. Medium January 25, 2022 Correction verified February 7, 2022

    747.501(2): Written Operational Policies - Exclusion Criteria

    During the investigation it was found that the operation did not have an exclusion criteria listed in the operational policies.
  11. Medium High January 25, 2022 Correction verified February 7, 2022

    747.203: Primary Caregiver's Absence - Qualified Caregiver in Charge

    During the investigation it was found that the operation was not utilizing an qualified caregiver.
  12. High January 25, 2022 Correction verified February 11, 2022

    745.621(a)(7): AP Initial background checks submitted - At the time you become aware of anyone requiring a background check under 745.605

    During the inspection it was found that the caregiver did not complete background check for persons that required background checks that were associated with the operation.
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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 7, 2026. Full methodology.

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