The Color Box Child Learning Center
Licensed Center in Hondo, Texas. License #1686128, issued August 26, 2019.
- Address
- 3230 Fm 462 S, Hondo, TX 78861
- Phone
- (830) 426-8000
- Licensed capacity
- 242 children
- Licensed for
- Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School
- Hours
- 06:30 AM-06:00 PM
- Days
- Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri
- Child care subsidies
- Accepted
- Website
- thecolorboxclc.com
Programs listed with the state: School Age Care, Before School Care, Meals Provided, After School Care, Snacks Provided, Drop-In Care, 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
Texas Rising Star 3-star of a possible 4
A quality rating the state awards after an on-site assessment. Four stars is the highest.
In effect since January 1, 2025. From the state's provider report of October 26, 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 22 areas it checked 3,155 standards at The Color Box Child Learning Center between May 24, 2022 and December 11, 2025 and recorded 4 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 | 0 |
| Personnel | 3 | 435 | 0 |
| Ratios and group sizes | 3 | 162 | 0 |
| Activities | 3 | 104 | 0 |
| Infants | 3 | 267 | 1 |
| Toddlers | 3 | 66 | 0 |
| Pre-kindergarten | 2 | 36 | 0 |
| School-age | 2 | 40 | 0 |
| Discipline | 2 | 40 | 0 |
| Naptime | 2 | 24 | 0 |
| Field trips | 2 | 22 | 0 |
| Get well care | 3 | 81 | 0 |
| Nighttime care | 2 | 26 | 0 |
| Nutrition and food care | 3 | 134 | 0 |
| Health practices | 2 | 225 | 0 |
| Safety practices | 2 | 142 | 0 |
| Physical facilities | 2 | 149 | 0 |
| Outdoor safety | 2 | 192 | 0 |
| Pools | 3 | 78 | 0 |
| Fire safety | 2 | 136 | 0 |
| Transportation | 2 | 83 | 0 |
The table adds up to 3,126 of those standards. The remaining 29, 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.
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Tell me about new inspections
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State inspection record
HHSC records 21 visits to this operation since October 2017, most recently on December 11, 2025, and 4 citations.
One of those visits began with The Color Box Child Learning Center 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
- 2Medium High
- 1Medium
Every citation below records a correction.
Citations
Showing all 4. Indented text is the inspector's own, reproduced verbatim.
- Medium December 12, 2024 Corrected at inspection
746.4503(a): Individual Cot, Bed, or Mat for Each Walking Child Through 4 Years of Age
Several nap mats were observed to be torn with the foam exposed. This was corrected at inspection when the torn nap mats were replaced.
- Medium High October 13, 2023 Correction verified October 23, 2023
746.3701: Safety - Areas Free From Hazards
A disinfectant light was on the shelf above one of the cribs at child's reach where if a child stands or pulls on the cord, the lamp could fall into the crib, creating a hazard.
- Medium High December 27, 2022 Corrected at inspection
746.2419(6): Requirements for Feeding Infants - Label Bottles/Cups
The bottles in the infant room lacked a labels with the infants name. CI: This was corrected at inspection when the bottles were all labeled with the infants name.
- High June 6, 2022 Correction verified June 15, 2022
746.1203(4): Responsibilities of Caregivers- Supervision of Children
Supervision was not appropriate at the time of inspection and at the time of the incident.A caregiver turned her back without having a hand on the child on the changing table. The children were observed hitting each other with very little intervention.
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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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