The Learning Experience
Licensed Center in McKinney, Texas. License #1544226, issued February 2, 2015.
- Address
- 4501 S Ridge Rd, McKinney, TX 75070
- Phone
- (214) 592-0210
- Licensed capacity
- 188 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, Meals Provided, After School Care, Snacks Provided, 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
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
A map of this address loads when you ask for it. Nothing is requested from the map host until then, so opening this page does not tell anyone which program you were reading about.
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 3,257 standards at The Learning Experience between June 13, 2022 and May 15, 2026 and recorded 22 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 | 357 | 0 |
| Record keeping | 3 | 326 | 2 |
| Personnel | 3 | 435 | 1 |
| Ratios and group sizes | 2 | 108 | 1 |
| Activities | 2 | 72 | 0 |
| Infants | 3 | 267 | 0 |
| Toddlers | 3 | 66 | 0 |
| Pre-kindergarten | 3 | 55 | 0 |
| School-age | 2 | 40 | 0 |
| Discipline | 3 | 60 | 0 |
| Naptime | 2 | 24 | 0 |
| Field trips | 2 | 22 | 0 |
| Get well care | 2 | 54 | 0 |
| Nighttime care | 2 | 26 | 0 |
| Nutrition and food care | 2 | 90 | 1 |
| Health practices | 2 | 226 | 0 |
| Safety practices | 3 | 220 | 0 |
| Physical facilities | 2 | 150 | 0 |
| Outdoor safety | 3 | 288 | 0 |
| Pools | 2 | 54 | 0 |
| Fire safety | 2 | 135 | 1 |
| Transportation | 3 | 132 | 0 |
The table adds up to 3,207 of those standards. The remaining 50, including 16 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.
Ask about an opening
This goes to The Learning Experience 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 27 visits to this operation since October 2017, most recently on June 1, 2026, and 22 citations.
3 of those visits began with The Learning Experience 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.
- 8High
- 6Medium High
- 7Medium
- 1Low
Every citation below records a correction.
Citations
Showing all 22. Indented text is the inspector's own, reproduced verbatim.
- Medium High May 29, 2025 Correction verified June 4, 2025
746.3301(b): Nutrition and Food Service - Follow Meal Patterns
During the inspection, 2 pre-k classes are not served meat/protein alternative during lunch. The menu did not list a protein served for the day. The meal patterns established by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Child and Adult Care Food Program are not followed.
- Medium High May 29, 2025 Corrected at inspection
746.1601: Child/ Caregiver Ratio - 13 or More Children
A caregiver is responsible for supervising a group of infants ranging from 5 months to 17 months with a specified age-group of 11 months. The ratio for 0-11 months is 4 to 1. The deficiency was corrected during the inspection when the second caregiver returned to the classroom.
- Medium May 29, 2025 Correction verified June 4, 2025
746.603(a)(4): Children's Records - Immunizations
A child did not have a immunization record on file.
- Medium July 29, 2024 Correction verified August 19, 2024
746.1309(a): Documented Annual Training Area - 24 Hours Required
A careegiver lacks 24 annual training hours from September 2022 to September 2023. A caregiver lacks 22 annual training horus from November 2022 to November 2023. A caregiver lacks 21 annual training hours from September 2022 to September 2023. A caregiver lacks 4.5 annual training hours from April 2023 to April 2024. A caregiver lacks 19 annual training hours from August 2022 to August 2023.
- Medium July 29, 2024 Correction verified August 7, 2024
746.603(a)(3): Children's Records - Health Statement
A child did not have a health statement on file.
- Medium High July 11, 2024 Correction verified July 29, 2024
746.1316(a): Transportation Safety Training -Director and Employee Complete 2 Hours Annually
A driver does not have current transportation training.
- Medium High July 11, 2024 Correction verified July 29, 2024
746.5401: Requirement of Gas Leak Inspection
The operation does not have a current gas inspection.
- Medium July 11, 2024 Correction verified July 29, 2024
746.603(a)(3): Children's Records - Health Statement
A child did not have a health statement on file.
- Medium July 11, 2024 Correction verified July 29, 2024
746.603(a)(4): Children's Records - Immunizations
A child did not have shot records or an immunization exemption form on file.
- Medium High June 12, 2024 Corrected at inspection
746.2909(1): Arrangement of Napping Equipment - Not Blocking Entrances or Exits
A child was observed napping in front of an entrance and exit door. Placing a child to nap in front of an exit door poses a risk of a child being walked on and injured during an emergency evacuation. The director immediately moved the child in an appropriate nap area in the classroom.
- Medium May 2, 2024 Correction verified May 23, 2024
746.707: Incident/Illness Report Form Shared with Parent
Management did share an incident report with the parents of 4 children of an incident that placed that children at risk. The children were left in a classroom unattended.
- High May 2, 2024 Corrected at inspection
746.307(b)(4): Parental Communication - Situation that Placed a Child at Risk
The operation did not notify 4 children parents of a situation that placed them at risk at the time of the incident. The children were left unattended in a classroom. The deficiency was corrected during the inspection when the director contacted the parents by phone.
- High May 2, 2024 Correction verified June 6, 2024
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 staff, the operation was found to been out of compliance with the minimum standards for a licensed childcare center. 4 young children were left in a classroom unsupervised.
- High April 25, 2024 Correction verified June 12, 2024
746.305(a)(6): Report Situation Placing Children at Risk
Based on a DFPS investigation, it was determined that management did not report to Child Care Regulations a situation that placed a child at risk within 2 days of the occurrence.
- High April 25, 2024 Correction verified June 14, 2024
746.307(b)(4): Parental Communication - Situation that Placed a Child at Risk
Based on a DFPS investigation, it was determined that management did not immediately notify the parent of a child that was in a situation that placed the child at risk.
- High April 25, 2024 Correction verified June 12, 2024
746.3807(1): Storage of Medication - Inaccessible to Children
Based on a DFPS investigation, it was determined that a young child had access to medication.
- Medium High April 24, 2024 Correction verified June 6, 2024
746.2431: Infant Daily Report - Share with Parent
Based on documents provided, the operation did not maintain a daily report on ,4/23/2024, to share with a young infant's parents.
- High April 24, 2024 Correction verified June 6, 2024
746.3807(1): Storage of Medication - Inaccessible to Children
Based on interviews with the staff and the parent, a caregiver observed a young mobile infant with a pill in the child's mouth as the child was crawling during floor time.
- Medium August 29, 2023 Correction verified September 12, 2023
746.603(a)(4): Children's Records - Immunizations
At the time of inspection, five children enrolled into care full time did not have their most current, based on their age, immunizations on file available for review.
- High August 29, 2023 Correction verified September 6, 2023
746.5101(a): Annual Fire Inspection - Before Initial Permit Issued and Every 12 Months
The operation's last documented fire inspection by the local Fire Marshal was on 4/3/21. No other record of a recent inspection was available for review.
- Low August 29, 2023 Correction verified September 12, 2023
746.603(a)(6): Children's Records - Vision and Hearing Screening
Two children did not have the required vision and hearing screenings on file for review.
- High June 13, 2022 Correction verified August 9, 2022
746.2805(6): Prohibited Punishments - Humiliating, Rejecting, Yelling
Based on a review of the information a caregiver at the operation did not deny that she yelled at the children.
Do you have a child enrolled here?
If The Learning Experience confirms you are enrolled, you can tell us what you actually pay. We publish price ranges by city and age so other families know what to expect, and the only reliable source for that is people paying it.
There are no reviews on this site and we are not adding them. We publish the state's inspection record and facts families confirm, not opinions. Your address is never shown publicly; it goes to the program so they can confirm you, and nowhere else.
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.
Operate this program? Write to corrections@childcaretx.com and we will publish your response beside any record here.