Carpenter Hill Early Learning Center
A licensed child care center in Buda, Texas 78610
4410 Ranch Rd 967, Buda, Texas 78610. (512) 268-8509.
Watch and the shortlist are kept with a free account, on every device. Your watch list. Texas’s own record is on its child care search.
The short answer
Record last released by Texas HHSC on Oct 20, 2026.
- 7 deficiencies cited in the last three years Middle in Hays County: 2
- 1 rated High by Texas, its most serious level (needs attention)
- 8 inspections on record
- 3-Star Texas Rising Star rating
Each figure’s source sits beside it, in its section below.
What these words mean5
- Inspection (survey)
- A visit by state inspectors, often unannounced, who check a place against the rules it must meet. For nursing homes and other places Medicare pays, CMS calls these visits surveys: a standard survey of a nursing home comes at least every 15 months, and a complaint survey whenever a complaint calls for one. Source: CMS; 42 CFR 488.308.
- Deficiency, citation, violation
- What inspectors write up when a place didn’t meet a rule: the rule, what they saw, and when. CMS calls it a deficiency; states may say citation or violation. It is the inspectors’ finding, not a court’s, and the place is usually asked for a plan to correct it. Source: CMS, statement of deficiencies (Form CMS-2567); each state’s licensing agency.
- Texas’s risk levels
- Texas gives each child care deficiency a risk level, by how likely it is to harm a child: Low, Medium Low, Medium, Medium High or High. High is its most serious. Source: Texas Health and Human Services Commission, Child Care Regulation.
- Licence status
- Whether the state’s licence lets the place operate now, in the state’s own words: licensed, on probation (allowed to keep operating on conditions, after problems), provisional, pending or expired. Source: Each state’s licensing agency.
- Capacity
- The most people the licence or certification lets the place care for at once: residents, children, beds or apartments, as the state counts them. It isn’t how many are there now. Source: Each state’s licensing agency.
What did inspectors find?
7 deficiencies cited in the last three years
The middle of the 124 child care providers in Hays County had 2.
8 inspections on record. The latest, on Apr 2, 2026: no violation found.
Rated High by Texas: Responsibilities of Caregivers - Know children responsible for, at the inspection on Mar 12, 2026
Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data) and inspections and investigations. Released Oct 20, 2026. Updated daily.
When those deficiencies happened
7 deficiencies in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited Mar 2026. Most serious: High. The last 3 years, to Oct 20, 2026.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Nov | Dec | ||||||||||
| 2024 | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
| 2025 | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
| 2026 | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct |
Hover or focus a month to read it.
Hearth Record drew this from the dates and levels in the source’s own records.
Each deficiency, in Texas’s words
Grouped by visit, newest first, with the risk level Texas gave it, from Low to High.
Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data). Released Oct 20, 2026. Updated daily.
Mar 12, 2026: inspection1 deficiency
-
Responsibilities of Caregivers - Know children responsible for
“In two classrooms, the teachers made mistakes on how old their youngest and oldest were.”
Apr 7, 2025: inspection3 deficiencies
-
Training Requirements for Employees, Caregivers, and Directors - Pediatric CPR
“Of the 5 employee files, none had the required 24 hours of training hours for their past training year. The director had all training needed.”
-
Nutrition and Food Service - Meal and Snack Schedule
“Due to the food program requirements, there needs to be many changes to the snack calendar to replace grain based desserts and desserts to food with less added sugar more whole grains. Foods needing tobe replaced would be: apple, cinnimon straws, taco puffs, veggie straws, pirates booty, vanilla wafers, nutrigrain bars.”
-
Immunizations-Immunization record must include the child’s name and birth date
“Of the 6 children’s files, 2 did not have updated immunization records.”
May 8, 2024: inspection3 deficiencies
-
Nutrition and Food Service - Follow Meal Patterns
“The operation did not have an updated snack menu that follows the requirements of the USDA food program.”
-
Required Records Maintained and Made Available - Personnel and Training Records
“Some of the operation’s personnel and training records were not available to review at the inspection today”
-
Required Records Maintained and Made Available - Playground Maintenance Records
“The operation did not have a recent playground maintenance checklist.”
1 deficiency older than three years
Aug 11, 2023: inspection1 deficiency
-
AP Background check results - Must receive notification prior to allowing subject to be present at your operation
“A caregiver was observed caring for children without an active, eligible background check.”
All 10 visits on record
| Date | Visit | What the record says |
|---|---|---|
| Apr 2, 2026 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Mar 12, 2026 | Inspection | 1 deficiency cited |
| Apr 7, 2025 | Inspection | 3 deficiencies cited |
| May 8, 2024 | Inspection | 3 deficiencies cited |
| Sep 22, 2023 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Sep 19, 2023 | Report to the state | No violation found |
| Aug 11, 2023 | Inspection | 1 deficiency cited |
| Nov 18, 2022 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Nov 15, 2022 | Report to the state | No violation found |
| Sep 2, 2022 | Inspection | No violation found |
Is it licensed?
- Licensed Center, permit issued Feb 8, 2016.
- Accepts state child care subsidies.
- Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten.
- Capacity: 45 children.
Texas HHSC, child care operations. Released Oct 20, 2026. Updated daily.
Has Texas acted against it?
- No corrective or adverse action by Texas on record.
- 2 reports to the state on record; Texas doesn’t publish whether they were A complaint allegation the state investigated and found true: the evidence showed it more likely than not happened. Inconclusive means the evidence couldn’t show it either way. Neither inconclusive nor unsubstantiated proves it didn’t happen. Source: California Department of Social Services, complaint findings; each state’s licensing agency..
Texas HHSC, child care operations and inspections and investigations. Released Oct 20, 2026. Updated daily.
Who does the caring?
- Texas doesn’t publish staffing levels for individual providers. State rules set staff-to-child ratios by age.
Who owns it?
- Texas’s open data doesn’t list owners.
How is it rated?
- Texas Rising Star: 3-Star (the middle of three levels).
Texas Workforce Commission, subsidy providers and Texas Rising Star. Released Oct 20, 2026. Updated daily.
How does it compare nearby?
- Among 124 child care providers in Hays County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 2; this one had 7.
Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data). Released Oct 20, 2026. Updated daily.
| Place | Deficiencies, 3 years |
|---|---|
| The Sunshine Cottage Preschool & Development Center | 13 |
| Carpenter Hill Early Learning Center This child care provider | 7 |
| Jack C Hays High School Child Development Center | 0 |
| Barton Middle School Early Learning Ctr. | 5 |
| The Learning Experience | 6 |
| Buda Early Learning Center | 0 |
| Pfluger Eac YMCA | 1 |
| Tom Green Eac YMCA | 1 |
| Elm Grove Eac YMCA | 8 |
| Buda Elementary Eac YMCA | 3 |
| Kiddie Academy of Buda | 18 |
| Sunfield Eac YMCA | 1 |
What the record doesn’t say
- Texas doesn’t publish whether a complaint was substantiated.
- Texas rates some paperwork slips as High risk, so read what was actually cited.
- Texas doesn’t publish staffing levels or owners for individual providers.
Sources
-
Texas Health and Human Services Commission, Child care operations (bc5r-88dy).
Released Oct 20, 2026 and checked Oct 20, 2026. Updated daily. Creative Commons 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication).
-
Texas Health and Human Services Commission, Inspections and investigations (m5q4-3y3d).
Released Oct 20, 2026 and checked Oct 20, 2026. Updated daily. Creative Commons 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication).
-
Texas Health and Human Services Commission, Deficiencies (non-compliance data) (tqgd-mf4x).
Released Oct 20, 2026 and checked Oct 20, 2026. Updated daily. Creative Commons 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication).
-
Texas Workforce Commission, Subsidy providers and Texas Rising Star.
Released Oct 20, 2026 and checked Oct 20, 2026. Updated daily. No licence stated.
If you believe something here is wrong, a correction starts with the agency whose record this copies: Texas HHSC or Texas Workforce Commission. Texas’s own record is on its child care search. If Hearth Record copied something wrongly, it will fix it and log the correction publicly, with its date: how corrections work.
This copy of the record was made on Oct 20, 2026.
From the provider
The public record above comes first. Anything the provider adds will appear here, below it, and say who wrote it.
Replies
None. Replies aren’t open yet. When they open, the provider will be able to answer any finding for free, and the reply will show beside that finding, unedited and dated.
Paid listing
None. Paid listings aren’t open yet. When they open, anything paid for will say “Paid by the provider”, and paying will never change a finding, a rating or the order of results.