Melissa KinderCare
Licensed Center in Melissa, Texas. License #1816051, issued December 19, 2025.
- Address
- 3404 Sky Ridge Ln, Melissa, TX 75454
- Phone
- (469) 905-3690
- Licensed capacity
- 275 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
- kindercare.com
Programs listed with the state: School Age Care, Before School Care, Meals Provided, After School Care, Snacks Provided, Skill Classes, Part Time Care, Transportation to/from School, Field Trips.
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.
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 2,888 standards at Melissa KinderCare between May 29, 2025 and August 10, 2026 and recorded 13 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 | 248 | 0 |
| Record keeping | 2 | 223 | 0 |
| Personnel | 2 | 321 | 0 |
| Ratios and group sizes | 3 | 162 | 0 |
| Activities | 3 | 108 | 0 |
| Infants | 3 | 270 | 1 |
| Toddlers | 3 | 66 | 0 |
| Pre-kindergarten | 3 | 57 | 0 |
| School-age | 3 | 60 | 0 |
| Discipline | 3 | 60 | 0 |
| Naptime | 3 | 36 | 0 |
| Field trips | 3 | 33 | 0 |
| Get well care | 3 | 81 | 0 |
| Nighttime care | 3 | 39 | 0 |
| Nutrition and food care | 2 | 90 | 1 |
| Health practices | 2 | 226 | 1 |
| Safety practices | 2 | 156 | 0 |
| Physical facilities | 2 | 150 | 1 |
| Outdoor safety | 2 | 192 | 1 |
| Pools | 2 | 60 | 0 |
| Fire safety | 2 | 134 | 2 |
| Transportation | 2 | 98 | 0 |
The table adds up to 2,870 of those standards. The remaining 18, including 6 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 Melissa KinderCare says about itself
Discover KinderCare’s daycare, childcare, and preschool programs. Find a location near you and schedule a tour today.
Quoted from kindercare.com, read on October 25, 2026. These are the program's own words, not ours, and we neither check nor endorse them.
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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 13 visits to this operation since October 2017, most recently on August 11, 2026, and 13 citations.
One of those visits began with Melissa KinderCare 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.
- 4High
- 7Medium High
- 2Medium
Every citation below records a correction.
Citations
Showing all 13. Indented text is the inspector's own, reproduced verbatim.
- Medium High August 10, 2026 Corrected at inspection
746.1301(a)(3)(A): Training Requirements for Employees, Caregivers, and Directors - Pediatric First Aid with Rescue Breathing
A caregiver at the operation had continued working with children after her first aid certification had expired. The caregiver no longer works at the operation.
- Medium High August 10, 2026 Corrected at inspection
746.1301(a)(4)(A): Training Requirements for Employees, Caregivers, and Directors - Pediatric CPR
A caregiver at the operation had continued working with children after her CPR certification had expired. The caregiver no longer works at the operation.
- High January 29, 2026 Correction verified February 11, 2026
745.641: AP Background check results - Must receive notification prior to allowing subject to be present at your operation
A person was present and caring for children without receiving notification from the CBCU that the person is eligible to be present. This was corrected during the inspection when the person left the building.
- Medium High January 27, 2026 Corrected at inspection
746.305(a)(2): AP Report Child Injury Requiring Medical Treatment by a Health-Care Professional or Hospitalization
This standard was evaluated during the investigation and was found to be deficient. The operation did not report the injury to CCR.
- Medium November 13, 2025 Correction verified December 19, 2025
746.4913: Required Documentation for Unitary Surfacing Materials
The operation does not have unitary surfacing documentation on file.
- Medium High November 13, 2025 Correction verified December 15, 2025
746.3301(b): Nutrition and Food Service - Follow Meal Patterns
The operation's weekly menul was missing the following componets: Breakfast- Grain- two days, Lunch- Meat or meat alternative- two days, Lunch- Fruit- one day.
- High September 11, 2025 Corrected at inspection
745.635(3): AP Background ck determination - If provisionally eligible w/conditions or eligible w/conditions you must restrict duties per conditions/restrictions
The background check status of a caregiver includes a condition which states that this person may only be supervised by a person with no conditions regarding his or her presence at the operation. During the inspection the caregiver was caring for children in a classroom along with another caregiver who did not have an eligible background check status. This was corrected during the inspection when a caregiver with an eligible background check status replaced the caregiver without an eligible background check status in the classroom.
- High September 11, 2025 Corrected at inspection
745.641: AP Background check results - Must receive notification prior to allowing subject to be present at your operation
During the inspection two caregivers were present and caring for children without the operation receiving notification from the criminal background check unit that they were eligible to be present and caring for children. This was corrected when the caregivers left the building during the inspection.
- Medium High May 29, 2025 Correction verified June 4, 2025
746.3407: Maintenance of Building, Grounds and Equipment
This standard was found to be deficient after it was observed that a toilet rail in a classroom needs repair. Additionally, the playground area has an outdoor faucet box missing a cover. Loos materials were stored near an entrance , creating a tripping hazard, and a ceiling tile was missing in a classroom , exposing pipes and wiring.
- Medium High May 29, 2025 Correction verified June 4, 2025
746.5207(a)(2): Emergency Evacuation and Relocation Diagram - Two Exits from Each Room
This standard was found to be defieicent after the operation did not have emgency evacuation diagrams with two exit paths from each room during the inspection.
- High May 29, 2025 Correction verified June 4, 2025
746.5101(a): Annual Fire Inspection - Before Initial Permit Issued and Every 12 Months
This standard was found to be deficient as the operation was not able to provide a current fire inspection during the application inspection.
- Medium High May 29, 2025 Correction verified June 4, 2025
746.2403(2): Infant Care Area - Safe, Open Floor Space
This standard was found to be deficient as both infant classrooms were not set up to include safe, open floor space for floor time play during the inspection.
- Medium May 29, 2025 Correction verified June 4, 2025
746.4503(b): Cots, Beds, Mats Labeled With Child's Name
This standard was found to be deficient after the operation's sleeping cots were not properly labeled or identified.
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About this record
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