Growing Tree Academy
Licensed Center in Houston, Texas. License #878152, issued January 28, 2008.
- Address
- 5310 Elm St, Houston, TX 77081
- Phone
- (713) 665-9722
- Licensed capacity
- 102 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
- thegrowingtreeacademy.com
Programs listed with the state: Before School Care, After School Care, Snacks Provided, Transportation to/from School.
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 3,198 standards at Growing Tree Academy between March 8, 2022 and October 7, 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 | 2 | 242 | 0 |
| Record keeping | 3 | 334 | 0 |
| Personnel | 3 | 465 | 0 |
| Ratios and group sizes | 2 | 108 | 0 |
| Activities | 3 | 104 | 0 |
| Infants | 2 | 180 | 0 |
| Toddlers | 3 | 66 | 0 |
| Pre-kindergarten | 2 | 38 | 0 |
| School-age | 2 | 40 | 0 |
| Discipline | 2 | 40 | 0 |
| Naptime | 2 | 24 | 0 |
| Field trips | 2 | 22 | 0 |
| Get well care | 3 | 81 | 0 |
| Nighttime care | 3 | 39 | 0 |
| Nutrition and food care | 2 | 90 | 0 |
| Health practices | 3 | 338 | 1 |
| Safety practices | 2 | 154 | 0 |
| Physical facilities | 2 | 150 | 0 |
| Outdoor safety | 3 | 288 | 1 |
| Pools | 3 | 84 | 0 |
| Fire safety | 3 | 203 | 0 |
| Transportation | 2 | 98 | 0 |
The table adds up to 3,188 of those standards. The remaining 10, including 3 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 Growing Tree Academy says about itself
We are a daycare that gives children a clean and happy environment to learn and play and empowers parents with webcam access and attentive service. Call Today!
Quoted from thegrowingtreeacademy.com, read on October 25, 2026. These are the program's own words, not ours, and we neither check nor endorse them.
Ask about an opening
This goes to Growing Tree Academy and nobody else. They reply to you directly: we do not sit in the middle of it, and we never pass your details on or sell them.
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 12 visits to this operation since October 2017, most recently on October 7, 2026, and 5 citations.
- 1High
- 3Medium High
- 1Medium
Every citation below records a correction.
Citations
Showing all 5. Indented text is the inspector's own, reproduced verbatim.
- Medium High October 7, 2026 Reported corrected October 14, 2026, not yet verified
746.4901(a): Active Play Surfacing In Use Zones - Loose Fill or Unitary Surfacing
There are climbing and sliding structures that do not have a loose fill or unitary surface underneath them.
- Medium High October 7, 2026 Reported corrected October 21, 2026, not yet verified
746.2407: Infant Care Area Furnishings and Equipment -Use of Safety Straps
The feeding table in the older infant room was missing the safety straps in the feeding seats per manufacturers design.
- Medium High October 7, 2026 Reported corrected October 21, 2026, not yet verified
746.3401(a): Annual Sanitation Inspection
Health Sanitation Inspection was not current and was last conducted 3/2025.
- Medium November 1, 2022 Correction verified November 8, 2022
746.801(5): Required Records Maintained and Made Available - Employees' Attendance
Sign-in/out logs for the director was not made available for review. According to the caregiver in charge, it is unknown if a log of attendance for the director is kept.
- High November 1, 2022 Correction verified November 2, 2022
745.635(3): AP Background ck determination - If provisionally eligible w/conditions or eligible w/conditions you must restrict duties per conditions/restrictions
A caregiver with a conditional background check was observed in be alone with a group of 6 children 23m-2yrs. NOTE: The caregiver went on break during the inspection and was placed in another group with a caregiver when they returned.
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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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