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Hillcrest YMCA of Central Texas

Licensed Center in Waco, Texas. License #1785496, issued August 31, 2023.

Address
4225 Pine Ave, Waco, TX 76710
Phone
(512) 246-9622
Licensed capacity
100 children
Licensed for
Pre-Kindergarten, School
Hours
02:30 PM-06:00 PM
Days
Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri
Child care subsidies
Accepted

Programs listed with the state: School Age Care, After School Care, Snacks Provided, Part Time 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

Texas Rising Star 2-star of a possible 4

A quality rating the state awards after an on-site assessment. Four stars is the highest.

In effect since May 14, 2026. From the state's provider report of May 14, 2026.

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 16 areas it checked 2,128 standards at Hillcrest YMCA of Central Texas between August 30, 2023 and February 18, 2026 and recorded 6 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 16 areas, one by one
Area of the rulesVisitsStandards checkedViolated
Scope, administration, and communication22161
Record keeping22031
Personnel23271
Ratios and group sizes2840
Activities21260
Discipline2540
Naptime2200
Field trips2220
Nutrition and food service2860
Health practices21860
Safety practices21520
Physical facilities21420
Active play22280
Pools2540
Fire safety21280
Transportation2880

The table adds up to 2,116 of those standards. The remaining 12, 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.

Ask about an opening

This goes to Hillcrest YMCA of Central Texas 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.

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

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 10 visits to this operation since October 2017, most recently on February 18, 2026, and 6 citations.

2 of those visits began with Hillcrest YMCA of Central Texas 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.

2326
visitsvisits where something was found10 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
  • 1Medium

Every citation below records a correction.

Citations

Showing all 6. Indented text is the inspector's own, reproduced verbatim.

  1. High January 24, 2025 Correction verified March 24, 2025

    744.1201(1): Responsibilities of Employees and Caregivers - Demonstrate Competency, Good Judgment, Self-control

    During the investigation, there was sufficient evidence found to determine that a caregiver did not demonstrate competency and good judgment when she did not take off a child's jacket to see if the child's arm was injured.
  2. Medium High January 24, 2025 Correction verified March 24, 2025

    744.305(a)(2): AP Report Child Injury Requiring Medical Treatment by a Health-Care Professional or Hospitalization

    During the investigation, there was sufficient evidence found to determine that the operation did not report to Child Care Regulation within the required two-day timeframe when a child broke their arm while in care.
  3. High November 16, 2024 Correction verified January 8, 2025

    744.1205(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

    During the investigation, there was sufficient evidence to determine that children in care were not adequately supervised when a child was able to pull down the pants of another child in care.
  4. Medium High August 20, 2024 Correction verified December 2, 2024

    744.1301(5)(A): Training Requirements for Employees - 15 clock hours Annual Training for Caregivers & Site Directors

    One caregiver was missing twelve out of the required fifteen hours of annual training.
  5. Medium August 20, 2024 Correction verified August 27, 2024

    744.603(a): Children's Records Maintained

    The operation's digital records were missing emergency medical treatment authorizations and acknowledgement from parents that the operational policies were received, and one child with an allergy did not yet have an allergy emergency plan on file.
  6. Medium High August 20, 2024 Correction verified August 27, 2024

    744.401(4): Posting Requirements-Emergency Evacuation and Relocation Diagram

    The operation did not have an emergency evacuation and relocation diagram available.
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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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