🧸 Texas Child Care & Daycare Operation Leads — HHSC Licensing Directory

📊 Example output (real run)

A real record from a live run — clean structured data, exported as CSV / JSON / Excel or via API.

Turn the State of Texas's official child-care licensing registry into a clean, ready-to-import B2B lead list. This Actor pulls every licensed center, licensed/registered child-care home, and listed family home in Texas directly from the Texas Health & Human Services Child Care Licensing (CCL) open-data feed — the same registry parents use to check licensing status, refreshed by the state itself. Returns operation name, director, phone, website, full address, county, license type, capacity, ages served, programs offered, hours, and a rolled-up inspection/deficiency safety signal for every operation.

No scraping, no Cloudflare, no login wall. The source is a first-party government open-data API (data.texas.gov), so this Actor runs fast, reliably, and never breaks from a site redesign.

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💡 Who buys Texas child-care leads?

Childcare is a regulated, high-turnover, ~15,000-operation Texas market and one of the most under-served B2B prospecting categories on the Store. This Actor was built for the vendors who sell into it:

• Childcare liability & general-liability insurance agents prospecting licensed operations
• Background-check / fingerprinting vendors (Sterling, IntelliCorp-style) selling staff-screening compliance
• Center-management & tuition software (Procare/Brightwheel-style) building outbound pipelines
• Curriculum, classroom-supply, and CACFP food-program vendors targeting centers by capacity/county
• Licensing consultants & compliance coaches helping operators clear corrective actions
• Franchise developers & investors sizing childcare supply and competition density by county
• Parents & journalists doing due diligence via the built-in safety/deficiency flag

Every record drops straight into Instantly, Apollo, HubSpot, GoHighLevel, Salesforce, or a spreadsheet.

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✨ Why this Actor

• 🏛️ First-party government source — pulled live from the official Texas HHSC CCL open-data API, not scraped HTML. No anti-bot risk, no breakage.
• 🚸 Full childcare universe — licensed centers, licensed/registered child-care homes, listed family homes, plus optional residential-care/child-placing-agency types.
• 🛡️ Built-in safety signal — every record is tagged Clear, Minor Findings, or Review Recommended from the state's own inspection/deficiency/corrective-action/adverse-action history. No other childcare lead tool surfaces this.
• 📇 Real contact data — director name, phone, and website where the operation has one on file.
• 🎯 Precise filtering — by county, city, operation type, minimum capacity, and active-only status.
• 💵 Predictable Pay-Per-Result — pay only for the leads you keep. No monthly subscription.

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🚀 How to use

1. (Optional) Pick an Operation Type — leave on "All child-care types" for the full universe, or narrow to Licensed Center for daycare centers/preschools specifically.
2. (Optional) Enter a County (e.g. HARRIS, TRAVIS, DALLAS) and/or City to target a metro.
3. Leave Active Operations Only on to skip closed operations, or turn it off for a historical pull.
4. (Optional) Set a Minimum Capacity to target larger centers only.
5. Set Max Results and click Start.
6. Export the dataset as CSV, JSON, or Excel, or pull it via the Apify API.

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🧾 Example output

{
  "operationName": "Endeavor Montessori School",
  "operationType": "Licensed Center",
  "directorName": "Maria Ribeiro",
  "phone": "5125720400",
  "website": "",
  "addressLine": "18817 N Heatherwilde Blvd Bldg 2",
  "city": "Pflugerville",
  "county": "Travis",
  "state": "TX",
  "zipCode": "78660",
  "licenseNumber": "1706632",
  "typeOfIssuance": "Full Permit",
  "issuanceDate": "2020-12-14",
  "status": "Active",
  "totalCapacity": 249,
  "agesServed": "Infant,Toddler,Pre-Kindergarten,School",
  "programsOffered": "School Age Care,Before School Care,Meals Provided,After School Care,Snacks Provided,Drop-In Care,Part Time Care",
  "hoursOfOperation": "07:00 AM-05:30 PM",
  "daysOfOperation": "Mon,Tue,Wed,Thu,Fri",
  "acceptsChildCareSubsidies": false,
  "safetyFlag": "Review Recommended",
  "totalInspections": 19,
  "totalDeficiencies": 30,
  "correctiveActionOnFile": false,
  "adverseActionOnFile": false,
  "sourceUrl": "https://data.texas.gov/Social-Services/HHSC-CCL-Daycare-and-Residential-Operations-Data/bc5r-88dy"
}

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📋 Output fields

Field	Description
operationName	Business/operation name
operationType	Licensed Center, Licensed Child-Care Home, Registered Child-Care Home, Listed Family Home, General Residential Operation, or Child Placing Agency
directorName	Administrator/director on file, where reported
phone	Contact phone number
website	Operation website, where reported
addressLine / city / county / state / zipCode	Physical location
licenseNumber	State operation/license number
typeOfIssuance	Initial, Full Permit, Probationary, etc.
issuanceDate	Date the current permit/license was issued
status	Active or Inactive/Closed
totalCapacity	Licensed capacity (number of children)
agesServed	Age groups the operation is licensed to serve
programsOffered	Programs on file (before/after school, meals, drop-in, part-time, etc.)
hoursOfOperation / daysOfOperation	Published operating schedule
acceptsChildCareSubsidies	Whether the operation accepts state child-care subsidies
safetyFlag	Clear, Minor Findings, or Review Recommended — derived from the state's own inspection history
totalInspections	Total state inspections on file
totalDeficiencies	Total deficiencies across all severity tiers
correctiveActionOnFile / adverseActionOnFile	Whether the operation currently has a corrective or adverse action
sourceUrl	Link to the official HHSC open-data source for verification

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💰 Pricing

This Actor uses Pay-Per-Result — you pay only for the leads you actually receive, with no monthly subscription. It calls a lightweight first-party JSON API (no browsers, no proxies required to render), so compute cost stays minimal and pricing stays predictable even at statewide scale (15,000+ operations).

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🎯 Tips for better lists

• Filter to Licensed Center for the classic daycare-center/preschool segment most insurance, software, and supply vendors target.
• Use safetyFlag to route "Review Recommended" operations to compliance/consulting offers and "Clear" operations to growth/expansion offers.
• Set a minCapacity of 50+ to target larger centers with dedicated admin staff and bigger software/insurance budgets.
• Leave activeOnly on unless you specifically need historical/closed operations for market-sizing.

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❓ FAQ

Where does the data come from? The official Texas Health & Human Services Child Care Licensing (CCL) open-data feed at data.texas.gov, maintained and refreshed by the state itself. Every record includes a sourceUrl back to the dataset for verification.

How current is the data? This is the same registry the state publishes for parents checking licensing status — it reflects current permits, inspections, and closures as the state updates them.

Does this include daycares outside Texas? Not yet — this Actor is Texas-specific because Texas publishes one of the richest, cleanest open child-care datasets (including inspection/deficiency history). Other states may follow.

Is this legal / compliant? Yes — this is public government licensing data, not personal/private information. Always follow applicable outreach regulations (CAN-SPAM, TCPA) for how you contact the leads.

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