Tarrant County Kids at Ellis

Licensed Center in Arlington, Texas. License #1797251, issued December 16, 2024.

Address

2601 Shadow Ridge Dr, Arlington, TX 76006

Phone

(817) 253-4573

Licensed capacity

50 children

Licensed for

Pre-Kindergarten, School

Hours

03:15 PM-06:00 PM

Days

Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri

Child care subsidies

Accepted

Website

tckids.org

Programs listed with the state: School Age Care, Before School Care, After School Care, Snacks Provided.

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.

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In the program and not yet star-rated. This is a stage, not a low score.

In effect since August 18, 2026. From the state's provider report of October 29, 2026.

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 3,715 standards at Tarrant County Kids at Ellis between May 23, 2024 and October 27, 2026 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 16 areas, one by one

Area of the rules	Visits	Standards checked	Violated
Scope, administration, and communication	3	321	0
Record keeping	3	306	0
Personnel	3	492	0
Ratios and group sizes	3	126	0
Activities	3	189	0
Discipline	3	81	0
Naptime	3	30	0
Field trips	3	33	0
Nutrition and food service	4	172	0
Health practices	4	372	0
Safety practices	4	306	0
Physical facilities	4	284	0
Active play	4	456	0
Pools	4	108	0
Fire safety	4	256	0
Transportation	4	176	0

The table adds up to 3,708 of those standards. The remaining 7, 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.

Changes we have recorded

Texas HHSC publishes the register as it stands today and overwrites it, so nothing in the state's own data shows that a figure used to be different. We compare the register against the previous day's copy and keep what moved. We have been doing that since October 24, 2026.

1. October 30, 2026Hours “07:30 AM-06:00 PM” to “03:15 PM-06:00 PM”

Each date is the day we first saw the new value, not the day the program changed anything or the day the state recorded it. A change made in February can appear in the register in May. We do not know which, so we do not say.

What Tarrant County Kids at Ellis says about itself

To enroll in TCK Camps click below to start the registration process.

Quoted from tckids.org, 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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State inspection record

HHSC records 12 visits to this operation since October 2017, most recently on October 27, 2026, and 3 citations.

One of those visits began with Tarrant County Kids at Ellis 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.

Every citation below records a correction.

Citations

Showing all 3. Indented text is the inspector's own, reproduced verbatim.

1. High July 3, 2026 Correction verified July 21, 2026

   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

   There was not adequate supervision in the classroom when the caregiver did not see two children behaving inappropriately in the classroom.

2. Medium August 23, 2024 Correction verified September 4, 2024

   744.2002(9): Care Requirements 5 or More Hours - No Long Waiting Periods

   Children were not kept engaged in activities for over 30 minutes while the caregiver was not present at the operation.

3. Medium High August 23, 2024 Correction verified September 4, 2024

   744.1005(a)(4): Director Responsibilities - Employees Supervised

   The program director did not ensure supplies were present at the operation as needed. The site director left the operation without ensuring a caregiver was present to supervise the children.

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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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