Melanie Sanders
Registered Child-Care Home in Amarillo, Texas. License #1022769, issued September 9, 2009.
- Address
- 5006 Shawnee Trl, Amarillo, TX 79109
- Phone
- (806) 376-5550
- Licensed capacity
- 12 children
- Licensed for
- Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School
- Hours
- 07:00 AM-05:30 PM
- Days
- Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri
- Child care subsidies
- Not accepted
Programs listed with the state: School Age Care, Meals Provided, 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
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 3,047 standards at Melanie Sanders between November 10, 2021 and November 7, 2025 and recorded 3 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 | 3 | 282 | 0 |
| Record keeping | 3 | 275 | 1 |
| Personnel | 3 | 387 | 0 |
| Ratios and group sizes | 3 | 93 | 0 |
| Activities | 3 | 95 | 0 |
| Infants | 3 | 230 | 0 |
| Toddlers | 3 | 60 | 0 |
| Pre-kindergarten | 3 | 55 | 0 |
| School-age | 3 | 51 | 0 |
| Discipline | 3 | 57 | 0 |
| Naptime | 3 | 33 | 0 |
| Field trips | 3 | 36 | 0 |
| Nighttime care | 3 | 48 | 0 |
| Nutrition | 3 | 131 | 0 |
| Health practices | 3 | 329 | 0 |
| Safety practices | 3 | 223 | 1 |
| Physical facilities | 3 | 125 | 0 |
| Outdoor safety and equipment | 3 | 207 | 1 |
| Swimming pools | 3 | 75 | 0 |
| Fire safety | 3 | 156 | 0 |
| Transportation | 3 | 98 | 0 |
The table adds up to 3,046 of those standards. The remaining 1, 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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Tell me about new inspections
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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 3 visits to this operation since October 2017, most recently on November 7, 2025, and 3 citations.
- 1High
- 2Medium High
Every citation below records a correction.
Citations
Showing all 3. Indented text is the inspector's own, reproduced verbatim.
- Medium High November 3, 2023 Correction verified November 6, 2023
747.3703(a): Animals at Center - Documentation of Vaccinations
One pet did not have current pet vaccinations in file for review.
- Medium High November 3, 2023 Corrected at inspection
747.4607(a): Measurement of Use Zone for Swings - in Front and Rear
The use zone for a stationary equipment was observed and the use zone for swings on the stationary equipment did not meet the required use zone as it did not extend twice the height of the vertical distance from the swing beam to the surface below as it required to be 16 feet and only measured 13 feet. **This was corrected at inspection when the swings were rolled and are no longer accessible to the children as they are out of reach.
- High November 3, 2023 Correction verified November 7, 2023
747.605(12): Required Admission Information - Emergency Medical Authorization
One child's file did not have any information regarding the emergency medical authorization. One child's file did not have the addresses listed for the individuals listed as emergency contacts by the parent.
Do you have a child enrolled here?
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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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