The Children's Courtyard
Licensed Center in Irving, Texas. License #505838- 810, issued August 28, 1994.
- Address
- 8560 Esters Blvd, Irving, TX 75063
- Phone
- (972) 929-2965
- Licensed capacity
- 161 children
- Licensed for
- Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School
- Hours
- 06:30 AM-06:30 PM
- Days
- Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri
- Child care subsidies
- Accepted
Programs listed with the state: School Age Care, Accredited, Meals Provided, After School Care, Snacks Provided, Drop-In Care, 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 22 areas it checked 4,005 standards at The Children's Courtyard between March 23, 2022 and October 2, 2026 and recorded 19 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 | 365 | 1 |
| Record keeping | 3 | 334 | 3 |
| Personnel | 3 | 467 | 1 |
| Ratios and group sizes | 4 | 216 | 0 |
| Activities | 4 | 140 | 0 |
| Infants | 4 | 357 | 4 |
| Toddlers | 3 | 66 | 0 |
| Pre-kindergarten | 3 | 55 | 0 |
| School-age | 3 | 60 | 0 |
| Discipline | 3 | 60 | 0 |
| Naptime | 4 | 48 | 0 |
| Field trips | 3 | 33 | 0 |
| Get well care | 3 | 81 | 0 |
| Nighttime care | 3 | 39 | 0 |
| Nutrition and food care | 3 | 135 | 0 |
| Health practices | 3 | 339 | 0 |
| Safety practices | 3 | 232 | 2 |
| Physical facilities | 3 | 225 | 0 |
| Outdoor safety | 3 | 288 | 1 |
| Pools | 3 | 84 | 0 |
| Fire safety | 3 | 203 | 0 |
| Transportation | 3 | 147 | 0 |
The table adds up to 3,974 of those standards. The remaining 31, including 7 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 The Children's Courtyard says about itself
Find quality child care at The Children's Courtyard, offering daycare, preschool, and early childhood education in a nurturing environment.
Quoted from childrenscourtyard.com, read on October 25, 2026. These are the program's own words, not ours, and we neither check nor endorse them. We found this site at the domain of the email address Texas HHSC holds for this program rather than from a website on file, so it may belong to a church, district or company that runs it.
Ask about an opening
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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 28 visits to this operation since October 2017, most recently on October 2, 2026, and 19 citations.
6 of those visits began with The Children's Courtyard 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.
- 1High
- 7Medium High
- 8Medium
- 1Medium Low
- 2Low
Every citation below records a correction.
Citations
Showing all 19. Indented text is the inspector's own, reproduced verbatim.
- High March 24, 2026 Correction verified April 15, 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
The caregiver left a child outside on the playground for 13 minutes.
- Medium High January 22, 2025 Correction verified April 21, 2025
746.4907(a)(1): Installation and Maintenance of Loose-fill Surfacing - Six Inches if Equipment 5 Ft or Less
The playground areas did not have 6 inches of loose fill.
- Low January 22, 2025 Correction verified February 5, 2025
746.901(3): Required Personnel Records - TB Test
1 out of 10 employee files reviewed did not have a TB test.
- Medium January 22, 2025 Correction verified February 5, 2025
746.2421(b): Written Feeding Instructions - Review and Update Every 30 Days
8 out of 10 infant feeding instructions reviewed were expired.
- Medium Low January 22, 2025 Correction verified February 5, 2025
746.901(4): Required Personnel Records - Required Affidavit (Form 2985)
1 out of 10 employee files reviewed did not have a notarized affidavit.
- Low January 22, 2025 Correction verified February 5, 2025
746.611(a)(1): Required Health Statement - Written, dated within past year, indicates child is physically able to participate in operation's child-care program
1 out of 10 children's files reviewed did not have a health statement.
- Medium High January 22, 2025 Correction verified February 5, 2025
746.1315(b)(1): CPR Training and Recertification Adhere to Guidelines-skill based
1 out of 10 caregivers files reviewed did not have in person CPR which allows them to practice on a CPR mannequin.
- Medium April 26, 2023 Correction verified May 9, 2023
746.501(a)(26): Written Operational Policies - Preventing and Responding to Abuse and Neglect
The operation's parent handbook did not have a section regarding Abuse/Neglect training and prevention.
- Medium April 26, 2023 Corrected at inspection
746.4135(b): Children's Products- Annual Certification
The operation did not have a current Consumer Products Safety Commission Affidavit. The violation was corrected at inspection.
- Medium High April 26, 2023 Corrected at inspection
746.3701(1): Safety - Electrical Outlets Covered
Two classroom did not have safety plugs in two outlets. One classroom was missing the electrical outlet face plate. The violations was corrected at the time of inspection. A photograph of the missing outlet face plate was taken.
- Medium April 26, 2023 Correction verified May 5, 2023
746.2421(b): Written Feeding Instructions - Review and Update Every 30 Days
Eight infants did not have updated written feeding schedules.
- Medium High March 22, 2023 Correction verified April 26, 2022
746.3407(9): Floors, ceilings and Walls in Good Repair and Clean
The floor in the gym area is littred with gum wrapers. The vinyal base board in the gym area has exposed damaged sheetrock. Photograhps were taken during the inspection.
- Medium High March 22, 2023 Correction verified April 26, 2022
746.4907(b): Installation and Maintenance of Loose-fill Surfacing - Not Over Concrete or Asphalt
The loose-fill under both tire swings is not at proper debth. Children were observed using the equipment. A Photorgrah was taken at the time of the inspection.
- Medium High March 22, 2023 Correction verified April 26, 2022
746.3407: Maintenance of Building, Grounds and Equipment
The wooden art easel has a damaged shelf with exposed screws. The small castle type structure in the in back left corner of the playground a a rotten step leading into the structure. There is also an exposed metal bolt. The drain down spout which is located ear the backdoor leading to from the gym hallway is damage and the drain cover is missing and there is standing water. The blue side on the back struct ure of the playground is leadning at the base of the slide. A photograph of each damage equipment was taken during the inspection.
- Medium July 6, 2022 Correction verified July 13, 2022
746.603(a)(4): Children's Records - Immunizations
The operation had 2 children's records that did contain up to date immunization records.
- Medium July 6, 2022 Correction verified July 13, 2022
746.2421(a): Written Feeding Instructions - Signed and Dated by Parent or Health-Care Professional
There was one infant feeding schedule that did not appear to have a parent signature on the form.
- Medium High July 6, 2022 Corrected at inspection
746.3701(1): Safety - Electrical Outlets Covered
The Preschool One classroom was missing one safety outlet cover. This was corrected at the inspection when the director replaced the missing cover in the classroom.
- Medium July 6, 2022 Correction verified July 13, 2022
746.2421(b): Written Feeding Instructions - Review and Update Every 30 Days
There were 10 infant feeding schedules that had not been reviewed and updated since initially signed in February/March.
- Medium July 6, 2022 Correction verified July 13, 2022
746.1309(e): Documented Annual Training- Required Content
The operation had 10 personnel files that did not contain the required Health and Safety Audit trainings( adminstering medication, preventing/responding to food allergies and handling and storing hazardous materials.
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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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