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Smart Start Montessori School

A licensed child care center in Forney, Texas 75126

10674 FM 1641, Forney, Texas 75126. (972) 357-7766.

Texas’s own record, on its child care search

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The short answer

Record last released by Texas Workforce Commission on Nov 2, 2026.

The last 24 months 12 deficiencies in 4 months of the last 36. Last cited Aug 2026. Most serious: High. Every month

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?

12 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 83 child care providers in Kaufman County had 1.

11 inspections on record. The latest, on Aug 12, 2026: 1 deficiency cited.

Rated High by Texas: Required Immunizations, at the inspection on Dec 11, 2025

Source:

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data) and inspections and investigations. Released Oct 31, 2026. Updated daily.

When those deficiencies happened

12 deficiencies in 4 months of the last 36. Last cited Aug 2026. Most serious: High. The last 3 years, to Nov 2, 2026.

12 deficiencies by month over the last 3 years. Each cell is one month.
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2023 Dec
2024 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2025 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2026 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNov

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No visit on record Visited, nothing cited A stronger orange is more serious, on its source’s own levels, read onto four bands: from the least serious it publishes to the most
Source:

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.

Source:

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data). Released Oct 31, 2026. Updated daily.

Aug 12, 2026: inspection1 deficiency

  • Food Allergy Emergency Plan Signed by Parents and Health Care Professional

    “Three children with food allergies, did not have food allergy plans signed by a health care professional.”

    Rule 746.3819. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 26, 2026. Correction verified: Aug 31, 2026.

Dec 11, 2025: inspection6 deficiencies

  • Required Immunizations

    “1 of the 10 child files reviewed did not have shot records”

    Rule 746.613(a). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 2, 2026. Correction verified: Jan 14, 2026.

  • Documented Annual Training Area - 24 Hours Required

    “1 of the 9 staff files had training that expired 10/17/25. 6 of the 9 staff files reviewed had training that expired 8/8/25.”

    Rule 746.1309(a). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 2, 2026. Correction verified: Jan 14, 2026.

  • Health Statement on File within 1 Week of Admission

    “1 of the 10 child files reviewed did not have a health statement”

    Rule 746.611(b). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 2, 2026. Correction verified: Jan 14, 2026.

  • Required Personnel Records - Photo Identification

    “5 of the 9 staff files did not have a copy of the staff’s photo identification.”

    Rule 746.901(9). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 2, 2026. Correction verified: Jan 14, 2026.

  • Required Personnel Records - Required Affidavit (Form 2985)

    “1 of the 9 staff files did not have the notarized affidavit.”

    Rule 746.901(4). Medium Low, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 2, 2026. Correction verified: Jan 14, 2026.

  • Required Personnel Records - Required Affidavit (Form 2912)

    “3 of the 9 staff files reviewed did not have the preemployment affidavit.”

    Rule 746.901(5). Medium Low, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 2, 2026. Correction verified: Jan 14, 2026.

Feb 21, 2024: inspection4 deficiencies

  • Training Requirements for Employees, Caregivers, and Directors - 30 Annual Training

    “The Director of the operation did not have 30 hours of annual training on file for review.”

    Rule 746.1301(a)(6)(A). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 6, 2024. Correction verified: Mar 6, 2024.

  • Safety - Play Materials and Equipment Safe

    “A garden on the playground had some barbed wire sticking out.”

    Rule 746.3701(5). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 28, 2024. Correction verified: Mar 6, 2024.

  • Children’s Products-Posting of CPSC website

    “The operation did not have the CPSC form posted but did review the website and sign the form at the inspection.”

    Rule 746.4135(c). Medium, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 21, 2024.

  • Documentation of Training Requirements - Date

    “Caregivers had training certificates stating they completed 24 hours of annual training but there were no dates on the certificates.”

    Rule 746.1329(b)(2). Medium Low, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 28, 2024. Correction verified: Mar 4, 2024.

Jan 19, 2024: assessment1 deficiency

  • Report Number of Employees

    “The operation failed to complete the employees who left survey for 2023 in a timely manner.”

    Rule 746.303(b). Medium Low, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 19, 2024. Correction verified: Jan 19, 2024.

3 deficiencies older than three years
Feb 28, 2023: inspection3 deficiencies

  • Measurement of Use Zone for Slides - Six Feet High or Less

    “One slide had 4 feet 4 inches clearance at the bottom of the slide.”

    Rule 746.4805(b). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 10, 2023. Correction verified: Mar 10, 2023.

  • Installation and Maintenance of Loose-fill Surfacing - Nine Inches if Equipment Greater Than 5 Ft.

    “Loose fill was less than 9” for the large playground in all the use zone areas.”

    Rule 746.4907(a)(2). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 10, 2023. Correction verified: Mar 10, 2023.

  • Installation and Maintenance of Loose-fill Surfacing - Posts Marked to Proper Depth

    “Posts were not marked to show levels of loose fill”

    Rule 746.4907(c). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 10, 2023. Correction verified: Mar 10, 2023.

All 15 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Aug 12, 2026Inspection1 deficiency cited
Apr 16, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Apr 15, 2026Report to the stateNo violation found
Dec 11, 2025Inspection6 deficiencies cited
Aug 12, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Jan 21, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Feb 21, 2024Inspection4 deficiencies cited
Jan 19, 2024Assessment1 deficiency cited
Jun 12, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Jun 8, 2023Report to the stateNo violation found
May 23, 2023InspectionNo violation found
May 19, 2023Report to the stateNo violation found
Feb 28, 2023Inspection3 deficiencies cited
May 4, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Feb 17, 2022InspectionNo violation found

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Sep 2, 2016.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 102 children.
Source:

Texas HHSC, child care operations. Released Oct 31, 2026. Updated daily.

Has Texas acted against it?

  • No corrective or adverse action by Texas on record.
  • 3 reports to the state on record; Texas doesn’t publish whether they were .
Source:

Texas HHSC, child care operations and inspections and investigations. Released Oct 31, 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?

  • Not rated in Texas Rising Star.
Source:

Texas Workforce Commission, subsidy providers and Texas Rising Star. Released Nov 2, 2026. Updated daily.

How does it compare nearby?

  • Among 83 child care providers in Kaufman County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 1; this one had 12.
Source:

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data). Released Oct 31, 2026. Updated daily.

11 of the 83 in Kaufman County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Eangee Anderson1
Janel LappNot given
Smart Start Montessori School This child care provider12
April Hicks10
Christy Marie Hardy0
Primrose School of Forney at Gateway17
The Goddard School of Forney10
Heartland Home Daycare11
Children’s Lighthouse of Forney15
Dunkin Academy of Forney13
Sonia Moore0
Jenny Powell7

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

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Source:

This copy of the record was made on Nov 2, 2026.

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Not fully inspected in over two years (CMS flag)

11 health citations at the latest inspection cycle

The state average is 14.3.

Source:

CMS, State and US Averages and Health Deficiencies. Released Oct 28, 2026. Updated monthly.

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