Ponies Playhouse
Licensed Child-Care Home in Shallowater, Texas. License #537361, issued January 28, 1999.
- Address
- 1109 Ave L, Shallowater, TX 79363
- Phone
- (806) 317-9009
- Licensed capacity
- 12 children
- Licensed for
- Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School
- Hours
- 07:30 AM-04:00 PM
- Days
- Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri
- Child care subsidies
- Not accepted
Programs listed with the state: Meals Provided, Snacks Provided, Transportation to/from School.
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 21 areas it checked 2,906 standards at Ponies Playhouse between April 11, 2022 and October 29, 2026 and recorded 8 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 | 291 | 2 |
| Record keeping | 2 | 184 | 1 |
| Personnel | 3 | 392 | 0 |
| Ratios and group sizes | 3 | 93 | 0 |
| Activities | 2 | 62 | 0 |
| Infants | 3 | 233 | 0 |
| Toddlers | 3 | 60 | 0 |
| Pre-kindergarten | 3 | 57 | 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 | 4 | 174 | 0 |
| Health practices | 3 | 329 | 0 |
| Safety practices | 3 | 223 | 1 |
| Physical facilities | 3 | 125 | 0 |
| Outdoor safety and equipment | 2 | 138 | 0 |
| Swimming pools | 2 | 46 | 0 |
| Fire safety | 4 | 208 | 0 |
| Transportation | 2 | 59 | 0 |
The table adds up to 2,899 of those standards. The remaining 7, including 4 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 6 visits to this operation since October 2017, most recently on October 29, 2026, and 8 citations.
- 3Medium High
- 5Medium
Every citation below records a correction.
Citations
Showing all 8. Indented text is the inspector's own, reproduced verbatim.
- Medium October 29, 2026 Correction verified November 3, 2026
747.603(a)(3): Children's Records - Health Statement
Four enrolled children did not have a signed Health Statement from a physician.
- Medium High October 29, 2026 Correction verified October 30, 2026
747.401(b)(1): Posting Requirements-Food Allergies Posted Prominently
A child with a food allergy does not have an allergy plan posted or available for staff.
- Medium High December 4, 2025 Correction verified December 16, 2025
747.1007(5): Primary Caregiver in Registered Home Qualifications - pediatric first-aid and pediatric CPR
During the inspection it was observed that the director did not have their current CPR/First Aid certification available for review.
- Medium High December 4, 2025 Corrected at inspection
747.5005(1): Fire Drill Monthly - Exit in 3 Minutes
During the inspection the required exit time of 3 minutes or less during fire drills could not be verified due to no documentation. This was corrected during the inspection when the director conducted a fire drill and documented the exit time of less than 3 minutes.
- Medium December 4, 2025 Correction verified December 16, 2025
747.3935(b): Children's Products- Annual Certification
During the inspection it was observed that the children's product certification form was not available for review.
- Medium January 31, 2023 Corrected at inspection
747.3935(b): Children's Products- Annual Certification
During the inspection it was observed that the primary caregiver last reviewed the CPSC website and signed the children's product certification form on 5/18/2021. This was corrected during the inspection when the director reviwed the children's product certification website and printed, completed and posted the form showing todays date.
- Medium January 31, 2023 Corrected at inspection
747.401(a)(2): Posting Requirements-Inspection Report
During the inspection it was observed that the last inspection report posted was dated 5/24/2017. This was corrected during the inspection when the director printed and posted todays inspection form.
- Medium January 31, 2023 Corrected at inspection
747.3803(b): First Aid Kit - Supplies Not Expired
During the inspection of the first aid kit a tube of triple antibiotic ointment was observed to have an expiration date of 05/2008 and a bottle of peroxide with an expiration date of 01/2020. This was corrected during the inspection when the director provided a new tube of triple antibiotic ointment and placed it in the first aid kit.
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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 7, 2026. Full methodology.
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