Hearth Record

A-1 Montessori Academy

A licensed child care center in Houston, Texas 77077

12805 Westheimer Rd, Houston, Texas 77077. (832) 350-6409.

Texas’s own record, on its child care search

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 Nov 5, 2026.

The last 24 months 12 deficiencies in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited Jan 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?

17 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 2,139 child care providers in Harris County had 4.

9 inspections on record. The latest, on Oct 19, 2026: outcome pending.

Rated High by Texas: No Asphalt or Concrete Under Climbing Equipment Unless Unitary Surfacing Covers Use Zone, at the inspection on Oct 21, 2025

Rated High by Texas: Annual Fire Inspection - Before Initial Permit Issued and Every 12 Months, at the inspection on Oct 21, 2025

Rated High by Texas: Required Admission Information - Release Information, at the inspection on Nov 14, 2023

Source:

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data) and inspections and investigations. Released Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.

When those deficiencies happened

12 deficiencies in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited Jan 2026. Most serious: High. The last 3 years, to Nov 5, 2026.

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

Hover or focus a month to read it.

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 Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.

Jan 23, 2026: assessment1 deficiency

  • Report Number of Employees

    “A review of the Employees Who Left Employment in 2025 data from January 20, 2026, revealed that the center had not reported the number of employees who left employment in 2025 by January 15, 2026, as required.”

    Rule 746.303(b). Medium Low, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 6, 2026. Correction verified: Feb 18, 2026.

Oct 21, 2025: inspection7 deficiencies

  • No Asphalt or Concrete Under Climbing Equipment Unless Unitary Surfacing Covers Use Zone

    “Observed a playground structure with slides with a loose fill surfacing installed over concrete.”

    Rule 746.4601(8). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 4, 2025. Correction verified: Nov 3, 2025.

  • Annual Fire Inspection - Before Initial Permit Issued and Every 12 Months

    “Last fire inspection was conducted on 1/31/24. There was not a current fire inspection report for licensing to review.”

    Rule 746.5101(a). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 4, 2025. Correction verified: Nov 14, 2025.

  • Required Admission Information - Emergency Contact

    “Three out of four children files reviewed did not have an emergency contact address available for licensing to review.”

    Rule 746.605(6). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 4, 2025. Correction verified: Oct 22, 2025.

  • Children’s Products- Annual Certification

    “The last annual certification was done 1/3/2023.”

    Rule 746.4135(b). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 4, 2025. Correction verified: Nov 6, 2025.

  • Required Admission Information - Physician Information

    “One out of four children files reviewed did not have a physician or emergency facility listed for licensing to review.”

    Rule 746.605(10). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 4, 2025. Correction verified: Oct 29, 2025.

  • Health Statement on File within 1 Week of Admission

    “Three out of four children files reviewed did not have a health statement available for licensing to review.”

    Rule 746.611(b). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 4, 2025. Correction verified: Oct 29, 2025.

  • Required Personnel Records- Meets Requirements

    “Two out of three caregivers did not have the education requirements available for licensing to review.”

    Rule 746.901(2). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 4, 2025. Correction verified: Oct 29, 2025.

Nov 7, 2024: inspection4 deficiencies

  • Documented Annual Training - Caregivers of Children Under 24 Months Required

    “Three caregivers did not have the required SIDS training certificates available for review.”

    Rule 746.1309(d). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 21, 2024. Correction verified: Nov 25, 2024.

  • Director Annual Training - Caring for children under 24 months

    “Director did not have the required SIDS training certificates available for review.”

    Rule 746.1311(d). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 21, 2024. Correction verified: Nov 25, 2024.

  • Documented Annual Training - Remaining training hour topics

    “Three caregivers did not have the required HASA training certificates available for review. 1. Emergency preparedness 2. Preventing and controlling the spread of communicable diseases. 3. Administering medication 4. Preventing and responding to emergencies due to food or an allergic reaction. 5. Handling, storing, and disposing of hazardous materials.”

    Rule 746.1309(f). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 21, 2024. Correction verified: Nov 25, 2024.

  • Director Annual Training - Additional required topics

    “Director did not have the required HASA trainings certificates available to review. 1. Emergency preparedness 2. Preventing and controlling the spread of communicable diseases. 3. Administering medication 4. Preventing and responding to emergencies due to food or an allergic reaction. 5. Handling, storing, and disposing of hazardous materials.”

    Rule 746.1311(e). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 21, 2024. Correction verified: Nov 25, 2024.

Nov 14, 2023: inspection5 deficiencies

  • Required Admission Information - Release Information

    “While reviewing 4 children’s files; I observed there to be no person listed for the child to be released to for pickup.”

    Rule 746.605(7). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 28, 2023. Correction verified: Nov 30, 2023.

  • Maintenance of Building, Grounds and Equipment

    “The ceiling tiles were missing upon arrival. This was corrected at inspection when the director placed the tiles back into place.”

    Rule 746.3407. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 14, 2023.

  • Safety - Areas Free From Hazards

    “The children were outside the room and exposed to safety hazards while the building was under conctruction.”

    Rule 746.3701. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 28, 2023. Correction verified: Nov 15, 2023.

  • Required Admission Information - Emergency Contact

    “While reviewing 4 children’s files; I observed no address for emergency contact for the 4 children.”

    Rule 746.605(6). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 28, 2023. Correction verified: Nov 30, 2023.

  • Immunization Records, Exceptions, and Exemptions Current

    “While reviewing 4 children’s records; one child was not up to date on shot records.”

    Rule 746.613(b). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 28, 2023. Correction verified: Dec 4, 2023.

6 deficiencies older than three years
Dec 5, 2022: inspection3 deficiencies

  • First Aid Kit - Incomplete Kit

    “The first aid kit is incomplete. It is missing a guide to first aid handbook, antiseptic solution, wipes and other essential items.”

    Rule 746.4003(a). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 16, 2022. Correction verified: Dec 12, 2022.

  • First Aid Kit - Supplies Not Expired

    “The first aid kit had items that were expired.”

    Rule 746.4003(b). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 16, 2022. Correction verified: Dec 12, 2022.

  • Children’s Products- Annual Certification

    “The operation has not complete their annual children product certification since 01/15/2021.”

    Rule 746.4135(b). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 16, 2022. Correction verified: Dec 6, 2022.

Feb 25, 2022: assessment1 deficiency

  • Report Number of Employees

    “A review of the Employees Who Left Employment in 2021 data from February 23,2022, revealed that the center had not reported the number of employees who left employment in 2021 by February 22, 2022, as required.”

    Rule 746.303(b). Medium Low, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 1, 2022. Correction verified: Mar 3, 2022.

Jan 6, 2022: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Daily Menus - Record Comparable Substitutions

    “The daily menu was not updated with substitutions made to the lunch served today. Note: The Director updated the daily menu with substitutions made to today’s lunch.”

    Rule 746.3313(1). Medium, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 6, 2022.

  • Children’s Records - Admission Information

    “A child’s record evaluated does not have a complete admission form.”

    Rule 746.603(a)(2). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 7, 2022. Correction verified: Jan 7, 2022.

All 11 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Oct 19, 2026InspectionOutcome pending
Jan 23, 2026Assessment1 deficiency cited
Oct 21, 2025Inspection7 deficiencies cited
Nov 7, 2024Inspection4 deficiencies cited
Feb 1, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Jan 30, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Nov 14, 2023Inspection5 deficiencies cited
Dec 5, 2022Inspection3 deficiencies cited
Jun 7, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Feb 25, 2022Assessment1 deficiency cited
Jan 6, 2022Inspection2 deficiencies cited

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Feb 2, 2018.
  • Its permit has conditions.
  • Accepts state child care subsidies.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 97 children.
Source:

Texas HHSC, child care operations. Released Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.

Has Texas acted against it?

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

Texas HHSC, child care operations and inspections and investigations. Released Nov 5, 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: 4-Star (the highest of three levels).
Source:

Texas Workforce Commission, subsidy providers and Texas Rising Star. Released Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.

How does it compare nearby?

  • Among 2139 child care providers in Harris County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 4; this one had 17.
Source:

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data). Released Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.

11 of the 2,139 in Harris County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Ashford Child Enrichment Center9
Jewish Community Ctr West Houston9
After 3 After School Programs1
The Goddard School7
Tiny Feet Child Care13
Kce Champions @ Shadowbriar Elementary6
America’s Choice Children Center24
A-1 Montessori Academy This child care provider17
Kingdom Kids Learning Center0
Computer Kids Westheimer22
My Kids Daycare15
The Village School0

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

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.

Source:

This copy of the record was made on Nov 5, 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.

How to read a record

Four things every record does, shown on an example record made up for this guide.

An example record, made up for this guide

An example nursing home

Made up for this guide: no real place is shown

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.

From the homeNone yet. Replies and paid listings aren’t open, and when they open they will sit here, below the record.

1 of 4

Every fact names its source.

Who published it, when, and how often it changes sit beside each fact, with a link to the agency’s own file.

Sign in

A free account keeps your watch list, shortlists, comparisons and saved searches on every device, and can email you when something you watch changes. Browsing never needs one.