The Academy at Craig Ranch
Licensed Center in McKinney, Texas. License #1674209, issued December 21, 2018.
- Address
- 6101 Stacy Rd, McKinney, TX 75070
- Phone
- (972) 363-0202
- Licensed capacity
- 300 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
- academyatcraigranch.org
Programs listed with the state: School Age Care, Before School Care, Meals Provided, After School Care, Snacks Provided, 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 3,884 standards at The Academy at Craig Ranch between November 29, 2021 and August 14, 2026 and recorded 47 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 | 3 | 358 | 0 |
| Record keeping | 3 | 326 | 6 |
| Personnel | 3 | 442 | 1 |
| Ratios and group sizes | 3 | 162 | 0 |
| Activities | 3 | 104 | 0 |
| Infants | 4 | 357 | 0 |
| Toddlers | 3 | 66 | 0 |
| Pre-kindergarten | 3 | 55 | 0 |
| School-age | 3 | 60 | 0 |
| Discipline | 3 | 60 | 0 |
| Naptime | 3 | 36 | 0 |
| Field trips | 3 | 33 | 0 |
| Get well care | 2 | 54 | 0 |
| Nighttime care | 3 | 39 | 0 |
| Nutrition and food care | 3 | 134 | 0 |
| Health practices | 3 | 338 | 0 |
| Safety practices | 3 | 222 | 0 |
| Physical facilities | 3 | 224 | 0 |
| Outdoor safety | 3 | 288 | 0 |
| Pools | 3 | 78 | 0 |
| Fire safety | 3 | 203 | 0 |
| Transportation | 3 | 132 | 0 |
The table adds up to 3,771 of those standards. The remaining 113, including 40 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.
- October 30, 2026Administrator recorded as “Diana Aguilar”
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 The Academy at Craig Ranch says about itself
Faith-Centered Education | The Academy at Craig Ranch
Quoted from academyatcraigranch.org, read on October 25, 2026. These are the program's own words, not ours, and we neither check nor endorse them.
Ask about an opening
This goes to The Academy at Craig Ranch and nobody else. They reply to you directly: we do not sit in the middle of it, and we never pass your details on or sell them.
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 72 visits to this operation since October 2017, most recently on October 20, 2026, and 47 citations.
14 of those visits began with The Academy at Craig Ranch 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.
- 23High
- 15Medium High
- 9Medium
Every citation below records a correction.
Citations
Showing the 25 most recent of 47. Indented text is the inspector's own, reproduced verbatim.
- High August 14, 2026 Correction verified September 24, 2026
746.1201(1): Responsibilities of Employees and Caregivers -Demonstrate Competency, Good Judgment, Self-control
A caregiver dropped a nicotine pouch in the childcare area and a child later put this nicotine pouch into their mouth.
- Medium High August 14, 2026 Correction verified September 24, 2026
746.3701: Safety - Areas Free From Hazards
A child was able to pick up and put in their mouth a nicotine pouch that had been left out on the floor of a childcare area at the operation.
- Medium High August 5, 2026 Correction verified August 21, 2026
746.3403: Documentation of Annual Sanitation Inspection
The operation does not have a current annual sanitation/health inspection. Last inspection is noted April 2025.
- High August 5, 2026 Corrected at inspection
745.641: AP Background check results - Must receive notification prior to allowing subject to be present at your operation
Two caregivers with a pending background check was observed working in a classroom with a group of children. The deficiency was corrected during inspection when the caregivers left the building.
- Medium High August 5, 2026 Correction verified August 21, 2026
746.605(15): Required Admission Information-Child's allergies and Completed Food Allergy Plan
Two children with diagnosis food allergies did not have a complete F.A.R.E./emergency allergy plan from a health care professional on file.
- Medium High August 5, 2026 Corrected at inspection
746.3417(3): Children Handwashing After Toileting or Diapering
A caregiver did not wash an child's hands after a diaper change. The deficiency was corrected during the inspection when it was brought to the caregivers attention to washed the child's hands with soap and running water to help prevent the spread of germs.
- High August 5, 2026 Correction verified August 21, 2026
746.605(11): Required Admission Information - Emergency Medical Authorization
A child's admission information did not list a parent signature for authorization for emergency medical treatment in the event of a parent cannot be reached to arrange for emergency medical care.
- Medium August 5, 2026 Correction verified August 21, 2026
746.605(13): Required Admission Information - School Information for School-age Child
Two children that attend public school did not have name and contact number of the public school.
- Medium August 5, 2026 Correction verified August 21, 2026
746.603(a)(1): Children's Records - Enrollment Agreement
A child file did not have acknowledgement from a parent validating that the center's operational policies were received and/or obtained.
- Medium High August 5, 2026 Corrected at inspection
746.3415(4): Employee Handwashing After Diapering a Child
A caregiver did not wash their hands with soap and running water after changing a child's diaper. The deficiency was corrected during the inspection when it was brought to the caregivers attention to wash their hands to prevent the spread of germs when transition to changing other child's diaper or working with a groupn of children.
- Medium High August 5, 2026 Corrected at inspection
746.3417(4): Children Handwashing After Outdoor Activities
A group of young children did not wash their hands after returning to the classroom after outdoor play but instead the children transition to circle time. The caregivers corrected the deficiency during the inspection when it was brought to their attention to wash the children hands with soap and running water after outdoor play.
- Medium High August 5, 2026 Correction verified August 21, 2026
746.605(6): Required Admission Information - Emergency Contact
A child's file did not a persons name, address, and phone of who to reach when the parent is not available during an emergency.
- Medium August 5, 2026 Correction verified August 21, 2026
746.801(10): Required Records Maintained and Made Available - Safety Documentation for Emergency Drills, Fire Extinguishers, & Smoke Detectors
The a record of the emergency practices such as fire, weather, lockdown drills, fire extiguisher checks, CO and smoke detector test were not available.
- Medium August 5, 2026 Correction verified September 3, 2026
746.1309(a): Documented Annual Training Area - 24 Hours Required
A caregiver is lacking 22 annual training hours from 5/5/2025 to 5/5/2026.
- High June 26, 2026 Correction verified August 5, 2026
746.1205(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
It was determined that the that a two-year-old left the classroom and the caregivers present were not aware of it.
- Medium High May 15, 2026 Correction verified June 3, 2026
746.1316(a): Transportation Safety Training -Director and Employee Complete 2 Hours Annually
It was determined in the investigation that the operation director did not have transportation training completed that was up to date and not expired.
- High May 15, 2026 Correction verified July 1, 2026
746.5605(4): AP Safety Precautions for Loading and Unloading Children - No Child Unattended
It was determined during the investigation that a child was left unattended and alone on the bus.
- High March 27, 2026 Correction verified April 27, 2026
746.1201(1): Responsibilities of Employees and Caregivers -Demonstrate Competency, Good Judgment, Self-control
During the investigation it was determined that a caregiver did not demonstrate competency and self-control with a child in care.
- High March 27, 2026 Correction verified April 27, 2026
746.2805(3): Prohibited Punishments - Grabbing and Pulling
During the investigation it was determined that a caregiver grabbed and pulled a child due to the child's behavior.
- High November 14, 2025 Correction verified December 12, 2025
746.1205(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
Based on the interviews with the staff and the parent of the victim, a caregiver did not adequately supervise a young child which resulted in a young child finger being smash in the corner of a restroom door. The young child received an amputation fracture on their right ring finger.
- Medium August 13, 2025 Correction verified September 12, 2025
746.1309(a): Documented Annual Training Area - 24 Hours Required
A caregiver lacks 19 clock hours of annual training from April 18, 2024 to April 14, 2025. A caregiver lacks 21 clock hours of annual training from August 6, 2024 to August 6, 2025. A caregiver is lacks 21 clock hours of annual training from October 14, 2023 to October 14, 2024.
- Medium June 25, 2025 Correction verified July 8, 2025
746.701(4): Licensing Incident/Illness Report Form - Communicable Diseases
A young child/victim did not have a written incident report on file.
- High June 20, 2025 Correction verified July 22, 2025
746.1205(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
Based on interviews with the staff and a parent, a young child was not adequately supervised which resulted in a young child taking another young child's bottle during a feeding a proceeded to drink the young child formula.
- Medium June 20, 2025 Correction verified July 14, 2025
746.701(5): Licensing Incident/Illness Report Form - Situations Placing Children at Risk
Based on the interviews with staff, the management did not have a written incident report of a situation the placed a child at risk.
- High May 13, 2025 Correction verified June 6, 2025
746.1205(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
Based on interviews with staff and other collaterals, and a video, the operation was not in compliance with the standard evaluated. A young child was left alone in a classroom unsupervised.
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