Building Blocks Academy Cypress
Building Blocks Academy Cypress is a licensed child care center in Houston, TX, licensed for up to 175 children and serving infants through school-age children. It has held its Texas license since 2006. Since October 2021, state inspectors have visited 13 times and investigated 6 reports. Inspectors recorded 10 citations, 5 of them high-risk, most often for building & playground safety (5 of 10). None of them came in the last 12 months. Its last 2 inspections found no violations. Measured by risk-weighted citations per inspection, it is tied for #328 of 882 centers in Houston and better than 37% of licensed centers statewide.
Inspection record
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A child was observed wandering the hallway.
The school age playground fence was not secured at the bottom and it could caused an unsafe environment.
The operation did not have a current fire inspection available during the inspection.
The transportation vehicle did not have an alarm.
The school-age outdoor area had a pile of stacked wood by the fence that could cause an unsafe environment; The wooden bridge had uneven planks and a loose plank that caused an unsafe environment; the tree branches were hanging on top of the playground and children were swinging on them and climbing the branches and it caused a supervision issue in another area of the playground.
The outlet cover was loose from the wall in the school age classroom and caused and unsafe environment.
The operation did not have a current fire inspection available during the inspection.
There was no fire extinguisher in the transportation vehicle.
The operation did not have a current gas inspection available during the inspection.
Two infants in the infant-2 room did not have updated feeding instructions.
About this center
Common questions
Does Building Blocks Academy Cypress take infants?
Yes. Texas licenses it to care for infants through school-age children.
What are Building Blocks Academy Cypress’s hours?
6 AM to 6:30 PM, Monday through Friday, according to its state licensing record. Confirm holiday and summer hours with the center.
Does Building Blocks Academy Cypress accept child care subsidies?
Yes, according to its state licensing record.
How much does Building Blocks Academy Cypress cost?
Texas does not publish individual centers’ prices, so ask Building Blocks Academy Cypress for its current tuition. For comparison, the median full-day price at licensed centers in the Gulf Coast area, which includes Houston, is $42.60 a day for infants, $40.80 a day for toddlers and $39.40 a day for 3-year-olds (2025 Texas Child Care Market Rate Survey).
Has Building Blocks Academy Cypress had any serious violations?
Inspectors recorded 5 high-risk citations since 2021. The most recent was on Aug 6, 2025: “Supervision ensures each child’s safety, well-being, including physical proximity and auditory or visual awareness of each child’s on going activity.” Each one is listed in full above.
How does Building Blocks Academy Cypress compare with other daycares in Houston?
It is tied for #328 of 882 centers in Houston by risk-weighted citations per inspection, and is better than 37% of licensed centers statewide (out of 9,147 Texas centers with enough inspection history).
When was Building Blocks Academy Cypress last inspected?
Aug 5, 2026. No violations were found during that visit.
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Citations are quoted from Texas HHS inspection records. Many are corrected the same day, and a citation is a finding about one rule, not a judgment about a center overall.
To see the official record, search operation 855022 on Search Texas Child Care. Data refreshed Sep 30, 2026.