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Blaze Christian Academy

A licensed child care center in Montgomery, Texas 77356

20423 Eva St, Montgomery, Texas 77356. (936) 597-4230.

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The short answer

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

The last 24 months 2 deficiencies in 1 month of the last 36. Last cited Nov 2024. Most serious: Medium 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?

3 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 232 child care providers in Montgomery County had 3.

8 inspections on record. The latest, on Oct 29, 2026: no violation found.

Source:

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

When those deficiencies happened

2 deficiencies in 1 month of the last 36. Last cited Nov 2024. Most serious: Medium High. The last 3 years, to Nov 5, 2026.

2 deficiencies by month over the last 3 years. Each cell is one month.
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2023 Dec
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2025 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
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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.

Nov 4, 2024: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Emergency Preparedness Plan - Evacuation, relocation, and sheltering/lock-down procedures

    “The emergency preparedness plan does not address how children with special needs will be evacuated.”

    Rule 746.5202(1). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 8, 2024. Correction verified: Nov 7, 2024.

  • Fire Drill Monthly - Exit in 3 Minutes

    “Fire drills for August, Sept., and October were completed in 4 minutes.”

    Rule 746.5205(1). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 8, 2024. Correction verified: Nov 6, 2024.

Nov 7, 2023: inspection1 deficiency

  • Children’s Products- Annual Certification

    “CPSC was expired. It was last signed in 2021. Note: This was corrected when the CPSC form was signed during the inspection.”

    Rule 746.4135(b). Medium, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 17, 2023.

12 deficiencies older than three years
May 12, 2023: report to the state5 deficiencies

  • Responsibilities of Employees and Caregivers -Demonstrate Competency, Good Judgment, Self-control

    “A teacher did not demonstrate self-control when she pushed several children by the foot and grabbed one child aggressively and put him down on the ground.”

    Rule 746.1201(1). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 11, 2023. Correction verified: Aug 21, 2023.

  • Prohibited Punishments - Humiliating, Rejecting, Yelling

    “Based on the information gathered a teacher was rejecting children during circle time per video.”

    Rule 746.2805(5). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 11, 2023. Correction verified: Aug 21, 2023.

  • Training Requirements for Employees, Caregivers, and Directors - Pre-Service Training

    “Based on the information gathered a new employee did not have 24 hours of annual training.”

    Rule 746.1301(a)(2)(A). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 25, 2023. Correction verified: Aug 21, 2023.

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

    “A food allergy plan is not signed by the parent or doctor.”

    Rule 746.3819. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 7, 2023. Correction verified: Jul 13, 2023.

  • Licensing Incident/Illness Report Form - Situations Placing Children at Risk

    “Based on the information gathered licensing was not notified when a child was injured.”

    Rule 746.701(5). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 7, 2023. Correction verified: Jul 13, 2023.

Nov 9, 2022: inspection1 deficiency

  • AP Background check results - Must receive notification prior to allowing subject to be present at your operation

    “A teacher in the Green Room was teaching 2 year olds without an eligibility letter. The background check was submitted during the inspection.”

    Rule 745.641. High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 11, 2022.

Nov 17, 2021: inspection6 deficiencies

  • Smoke Detectors Testing

    “There is no documentation that the smoke detectors have been tested monthly.”

    Rule 746.5319. High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 3, 2021. Correction verified: Nov 30, 2021.

  • Sheltering Drill For Severe Weather-Four times a calendar year

    “A sheltering drill for severe weather has not been completed for the year.”

    Rule 746.5205(2). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 3, 2021. Correction verified: Dec 2, 2021.

  • Sheltering Drills for Lock-Down-4 times in a calendar year

    “Only 2 lockdown drills have been completed this year.”

    Rule 746.5205(3). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 3, 2021. Correction verified: Dec 2, 2021.

  • Emergency Evacuation and Relocation Diagram - Designated Location Inside

    “The relocation diagram does not show a designated place inside the building incase of an emergency weather occurrence.”

    Rule 746.5207(a)(4). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 3, 2021. Correction verified: Nov 30, 2021.

  • Inspect Fire Extinguishers Monthly

    “There is no documentation showing the fire extinguisher have been check.”

    Rule 746.5307(a). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 3, 2021. Correction verified: Nov 30, 2021.

  • Electronic or Battery-Operated Carbon Monoxide Detector-Check All Detectors Monthly

    “The carbon monoxide detector has not been tested each month.”

    Rule 746.5537(a)(2). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 3, 2021. Correction verified: Nov 30, 2021.

All 9 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Oct 29, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Nov 4, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Nov 4, 2024Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Nov 7, 2023Inspection1 deficiency cited
Aug 21, 2023InspectionNo violation found
May 16, 2023InspectionNo violation found
May 12, 2023Report to the state5 deficiencies cited
Nov 9, 2022Inspection1 deficiency cited
Nov 17, 2021Inspection6 deficiencies cited

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Nov 18, 2020.
  • Licensed for ages: Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 170 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.
  • 1 report 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 232 child care providers in Montgomery County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 3; this one had 3.
Source:

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

11 of the 232 in Montgomery County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Montgomery Little Bears1
Go-N-Play, LLC8
The Bear Cave at Montgomery Little Bears1
Blaze Christian Academy This child care provider3
Lone Star Christian Academy9
A B C Academy, LLC1
Tomorrow’s Promise Preschool0
Saint James Episcopal Day School10
Woodlands Tree House Preschool LLC2
Woodlands Montessori4
South Montgomery County YMCA4
Kids R Kids # 51 of Legends Ranch7

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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