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Willow Montessori Academy

A licensed child care center in Dallas, Texas 75235

2404 Empire Central, Dallas, Texas 75235. (214) 444-7009.

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The short answer

Record last released by Texas HHSC on Nov 5, 2026.

The last 24 months 5 deficiencies in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited Oct 2025. 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?

5 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 986 child care providers in Dallas County had 2.

12 inspections on record. The latest, on Sep 10, 2026: no violation found.

Rated High by Texas: Prohibited Punishments - Corporal Punishment, at the report to the state on Oct 24, 2025

Source:

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

When those deficiencies happened

5 deficiencies in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited Oct 2025. Most serious: High. The last 3 years, to Nov 5, 2026.

5 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 Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.

Oct 24, 2025: report to the state1 deficiency

  • Prohibited Punishments - Corporal Punishment

    “This standard was evaluated during an investigation and was determined to be deficient. A review of video surveillance footage revealed that a caregiver hit a child across the head.”

    Rule 746.2805(1). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 6, 2025. Correction verified: Nov 13, 2025.

Sep 17, 2025: inspection2 deficiencies

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

    “An outdoor structure that consisted of a slide and climbing that measured over 5 feet, did not have the required 9 inches of loose-fill. There was not sufficient enough loose-fill around the structure to rake in place at the time of the inspection.”

    Rule 746.4907(a)(2). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 3, 2025. Correction verified: Oct 1, 2025.

  • Required Personnel Records - Required Affidavit (Form 2985)

    “One staff file was missing the required Affidavit (Form 2985), which is a sworn statement confirming the employee has been informed that a fingerprint-based criminal history check is required, consents to the check, and understands they cannot work unsupervised with children until cleared.”

    Rule 746.901(4). Medium Low, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 24, 2025. Correction verified: Sep 22, 2025.

Dec 1, 2023: assessment2 deficiencies

  • Annual Sanitation Inspection

    “The center does not have a current sanitation inspection as required. The inspection was due by 2/2023”

    Rule 746.3401(a). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 22, 2024. Correction verified: Jan 10, 2024.

  • Requirement of Gas Leak Inspection

    “The center does not have a current gas inspection as required. The inspection was due in 5/2023,”

    Rule 746.5401. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 15, 2023. Correction verified: Dec 6, 2023.

2 deficiencies older than three years
Apr 18, 2022: report to the state1 deficiency

  • Responsibilities of Caregivers- Supervision of Children

    “During naptime, staff from the two toddler rooms are allowed to go to lunch at the same time leaving the children without a caregiver in either room. Instead of having staff in the rooms, the center was relying on the surveillance system to monitor the children in the front of the building.”

    Rule 746.1203(4). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 28, 2022. Correction verified: May 3, 2022.

Jan 7, 2022: inspection1 deficiency

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

    “An outdoor structure that consisted of a slide and climbing that measured over 5 feet, did not have the required 9 inches of loose-fill. There was not sufficient enough loose-fill around the structure to rake in place at the time of the inspection.”

    Rule 746.4907(a)(2). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 7, 2022. Correction verified: Feb 7, 2022.

All 15 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Sep 10, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Nov 13, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Oct 27, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Oct 24, 2025Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Sep 17, 2025Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Nov 4, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Dec 14, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Dec 1, 2023Assessment2 deficiencies cited
Nov 6, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Nov 18, 2022InspectionNo violation found
May 3, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Apr 21, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Apr 18, 2022Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Feb 7, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Jan 7, 2022Inspection1 deficiency cited

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Jan 28, 2020.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
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.
  • 2 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?

  • Not rated in Texas Rising Star.
Source:

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

How does it compare nearby?

  • Among 986 child care providers in Dallas County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 2; this one had 5.
Source:

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

11 of the 986 in Dallas County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Callier Child Development Program4
Hope Day School1
Willow Montessori Academy This child care provider5
YMCA @ Uplift Williams8
Youth Conversion @ Biomedical Preparatory2
Jannah Abdul-HakimNot given
Kce Champions LLC @ Onesimo Hernandez0
My Small Wonders #3184
First Step Learning Center6
Center of Hope Crystal Cdc5
Saint Christopher Montessori11
Legacy Kids Academy0

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 5, 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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