Willow Oaks Kids Academy

Licensed Center in Garland, Texas. License #1772608, issued November 17, 2023.

Address

2885 Belt Line Rd, Garland, TX 75044

Phone

(214) 501-3149

Licensed capacity

169 children

Licensed for

Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School

Hours

06:15 AM-06:30 PM

Days

Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri

Child care subsidies

Accepted

Website

willowoakskids.com

Programs listed with the state: School Age Care, Before School Care, Meals Provided, After School Care, Snacks Provided, Part Time Care, Transportation to/from School, Field Trips.

Openings

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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 July 21, 2026. From the state's provider report of October 21, 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 6,331 standards at Willow Oaks Kids Academy between May 16, 2023 and September 23, 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 22 areas, one by one

Area of the rules	Visits	Standards checked	Violated
Scope, administration, and communication	6	724	0
Record keeping	5	559	0
Personnel	6	925	0
Ratios and group sizes	8	432	0
Activities	4	144	0
Infants	5	450	0
Toddlers	5	110	0
Pre-kindergarten	4	76	0
School-age	4	80	0
Discipline	5	100	0
Naptime	4	48	0
Field trips	5	55	0
Get well care	4	108	0
Nighttime care	4	52	0
Nutrition and food care	5	225	0
Health practices	4	452	0
Safety practices	4	308	0
Physical facilities	4	300	0
Outdoor safety	6	576	0
Pools	4	108	0
Fire safety	4	271	0
Transportation	4	196	0

The table adds up to 6,299 of those standards. The remaining 32, 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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State inspection record

HHSC records 28 visits to this operation since October 2017, most recently on September 23, 2026, and 3 citations.

2 of those visits began with Willow Oaks Kids Academy 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 September 4, 2025 Correction verified September 16, 2025

   745.641: AP Background check results - Must receive notification prior to allowing subject to be present at your operation

   The operation allowed a person to have contact with the children during the hours of operation when the operation has not received the eligibilty notification from the Centralized Background Check Unit.

2. High February 11, 2025 Correction verified February 13, 2025

   746.5605(3): Safety Precautions for Loading and Unloading Children - Account for All Children

   This rule was evaluated with regard to the investigation and a deficiency was found. Based on the information gathered, it was determined that a driver who transported the children did not conduct a visual check to ensure all of the children have exited the vehicle.

3. Medium August 14, 2023 Corrected at inspection

   746.401(2): Posting Requirements - Letter or form from the most recent Licensing Inspection or Investigation

   The most recent Child Care Regulation inspection report, dated 7-24-2023 was not being posted.

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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 7, 2026. Full methodology.

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