Lou's Daycare
Licensed Child-Care Home in The Colony, Texas. License #1786817, issued June 5, 2024.
- Address
- 4508 Lakecrest Dr, The Colony, TX 75056
- Phone
- (469) 288-7878
- Licensed capacity
- 12 children
- Licensed for
- Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School
- Hours
- 06:30 AM-05:30 PM
- Days
- Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri
- Child care subsidies
- Not accepted
Programs listed with the state: Meals Provided, After School 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
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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 3,673 standards at Lou's Daycare between November 10, 2023 and April 6, 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 21 areas, one by one
| Area of the rules | Visits | Standards checked | Violated |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scope, administration, and communication | 4 | 382 | 1 |
| Record keeping | 4 | 375 | 3 |
| Personnel | 4 | 543 | 0 |
| Ratios and group sizes | 4 | 124 | 0 |
| Activities | 4 | 132 | 0 |
| Infants | 4 | 316 | 0 |
| Toddlers | 4 | 80 | 0 |
| Pre-kindergarten | 4 | 76 | 0 |
| School-age | 4 | 68 | 0 |
| Discipline | 3 | 57 | 0 |
| Naptime | 3 | 33 | 0 |
| Field trips | 4 | 48 | 0 |
| Nighttime care | 3 | 48 | 0 |
| Nutrition | 3 | 132 | 0 |
| Health practices | 3 | 330 | 0 |
| Safety practices | 3 | 233 | 0 |
| Physical facilities | 3 | 129 | 0 |
| Outdoor safety and equipment | 3 | 207 | 0 |
| Swimming pools | 3 | 75 | 0 |
| Fire safety | 3 | 156 | 2 |
| Transportation | 3 | 117 | 0 |
The table adds up to 3,661 of those standards. The remaining 12, including 0 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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State inspection record
HHSC records 7 visits to this operation since October 2017, most recently on April 6, 2026, and 6 citations.
- 4Medium High
- 1Medium
- 1Medium Low
Every citation below records a correction.
Citations
Showing all 6. Indented text is the inspector's own, reproduced verbatim.
- Medium April 6, 2026 Correction verified April 8, 2026
747.801(7): Records Maintained and Made Available - Safety Drills Documentation
The operation does not have documentation of drills conducted for this year.
- Medium High April 30, 2024 Correction verified May 1, 2024
747.605(13): Required Admission Information - Special Needs Statement
Two children's files are missing the special care statement.
- Medium High November 10, 2023 Correction verified December 15, 2023
747.5003(1): Emergency Preparedness Plan - Evacuation, Relocation and Sheltering Procedures
The emergency preparedness plan was not available for review during the inspection.
- Medium High November 10, 2023 Correction verified December 5, 2023
747.207(1): Policies Comply with Rules
The operational policies were not available for review during the inspection.
- Medium Low November 10, 2023 Correction verified November 20, 2023
747.905(2): Personnel Records for Household Members - Orientation
One household member does not have orientation completed.
- Medium High November 10, 2023 Correction verified November 14, 2023
747.5103: Must Have at Least One 3A-40BC Dry Chemical Fire Extinguisher or Fire Extinguisher Approved by Fire Marshal
The fire extinguisher was no longer usable with the arrow being in the recharge direction.
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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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