For childcare providers
Every licensed program in Texas is already listed here, with the state's own inspection record, whether or not you ever talk to us. What you can add is the part the state does not publish: whether you have a place today.
Claiming is free and always will be
A claimed listing lets you correct your hours and ages, confirm your openings, and publish a response beside any citation on your record. We would rather have accurate data than a subscription from a program that cannot spare one.
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What we will not sell you
- A rating. We do not grade, score or rank programs, and no amount of money changes that. The only star rating on this site is Texas Rising Star, which the state awards.
- Removal of a citation. The inspection record is the state's and we publish it as recorded. You can answer any item on it, free, and your answer appears directly under that citation.
- Reviews. There are none on this site and we are not adding them, so there is nothing to manage and nothing to be afraid of.
- Parents' details. We never sell inquiry data. An inquiry goes to you and nowhere else.
Plans
Prices are monthly and in US dollars. Cancel from your own dashboard at any time; a canceled plan runs to the end of the period you paid for.
Claimed
Free
- Correct your hours, days and ages
- Confirm your openings, which parents see dated
- Answer any citation on your record
- Inquiries emailed to you as they arrive
- Your three most recent inquiries kept in the dashboard
Verified
$49/month
- Everything in Claimed
- Your full inquiry inbox, kept and searchable
- Your tuition published on your page, dated, in the one place parents look
- Photos of your rooms (being built, not yet available)
Featured
$149–$399/month
- Everything in Verified
- A paid slot on your city and facet pages, labeled as paid
- Waitlist capture when you are full (being built, not yet available)
The Featured price depends on your licensed capacity
Taken from the state register, not from anything you tell us, so there is nothing to negotiate and nothing to prove.
| Licensed capacity | Price |
|---|---|
| up to 100 children | $149/month |
| 101 to 200 | $249/month |
| 201 or more | $399/month |
Inquiries are never charged for
There is no per-inquiry fee and no cap. A parent's question reaches you by email whether you subscribe or not, because a directory where half the programs never answer is no use to the parent reading it. What a subscription buys is everything around that: the inbox that keeps them, your tuition and photos on your page, and the paid slot if you want one.
We considered charging per inquiry and decided against it. It would have meant a paying program paying more than the free listing next door for the same families, which is not a bill anybody should have to explain.
Why a parent is on your page
They came for the state inspection record and the price of care in your city, which are the two things nobody publishes clearly. They stay for the one thing only you can answer: whether there is a place for their child's age, now. A program that confirms its openings weekly is the program that gets the inquiry.
Questions
Something on our record is wrong. Can you fix it?
Not directly, and that is the honest answer: we publish the state's data as the state recorded it, so a correction has to go through Texas HHSC first and then reaches us on the next nightly refresh. In the meantime you can publish a response beside the item, free, and we will help you word nothing, because it is your statement, not ours.
Will paying move us up the list?
It puts you in a separate block at the top of your city page that is labeled Paid placement and says plainly that it is not a recommendation. It does not reorder the main list, which stays ordered by recently confirmed openings and then licensed capacity. If that is not worth the money to you, do not buy it.
Who are you?
ChildCareTX, a Texas company. We publish the state's childcare licensing and inspection record for all 12,933 licensed programs, with the openings providers confirm themselves. How we handle the data.
Claim your listing The link goes to the email address Texas HHSC has on file for your program, which is how we know it is you. No address on your record? We call the phone number on it instead. Already claimed yours? Sign in.