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Havenwood Nature School

A licensed child care center in Dripping Springs, Texas 78620

1000 Hays Country Acres Rd, Dripping Springs, Texas 78620. (512) 894-9855.

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The short answer

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

The last 24 months 2 deficiencies in 2 months of the last 36. Last cited Oct 2026. 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?

2 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 124 child care providers in Hays County had 2.

14 inspections on record. The latest, on Oct 7, 2026: 1 deficiency cited.

Source:

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

When those deficiencies happened

2 deficiencies in 2 months of the last 36. Last cited Oct 2026. 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.
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 7, 2026: assessment1 deficiency

  • Safety - Areas Free From Hazards

    “The bottom portion of the fence in the yard has a gap between the ground and fence. The jagged edge of the wood is exposed.”

    Rule 746.3701. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 16, 2026. Correction verified: Oct 7, 2026.

Jan 29, 2024: report to the state1 deficiency

  • Safety - Areas Free From Hazards

    “A child sustained a burn injury after touching a heat lamp, located in the goat pen.”

    Rule 746.3701. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 22, 2024. Correction verified: Mar 26, 2024.

10 deficiencies older than three years
Oct 18, 2023: report to the state6 deficiencies

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

    “A caregiver had access to children with without an active background check.”

    Rule 745.641. High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 14, 2023. Correction verified: Nov 30, 2023.

  • AP Responsibilities of Employees and Caregivers -Ensure No Child Abused, Neglected, or Exploited

    “During a DFPS investigation, there was sufficient evidence to support that a caregiver neglected a child in care.”

    Rule 746.1201(4). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 14, 2023. Correction verified: Nov 30, 2023.

  • Supervision ensures each child?s safety, well-being, including physical proximity and auditory or visual awareness of each child?s on going activity

    “Caregivers were not adequately supervising when an infant was allowed to play with a Ziploc bag.”

    Rule 746.1205(a)(4). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 14, 2023. Correction verified: Nov 30, 2023.

  • Report Situation Placing Children at Risk

    “The operation did not report when an infant ingested two pills.”

    Rule 746.305(a)(6). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 14, 2023. Correction verified: Nov 30, 2023.

  • Child Becomes Ill in Care and Requires Immediate Treatment or Hospitalization - Contact EMS or take to ER

    “A caregiver waited over 30 minutes to call poison control after an infant ingested two pills.”

    Rule 746.3605(b)(1). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 14, 2023. Correction verified: Nov 30, 2023.

  • Safety - Areas Free From Hazards

    “A caregiver’s purse was sitting in a cubby with the strap accessible to infants. An infant was able to pull on the strap causing the purse to fall. The infant dug through the purse, opened a Ziploc bag, and ingested two pills.”

    Rule 746.3701. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 14, 2023. Correction verified: Nov 30, 2023.

Dec 1, 2022: report to the state4 deficiencies

  • Responsibilities of Caregivers - Supervision of Children

    “Caregivers did not take into account hazards and maintain adequate supervision which allowed a child in care to be attacked by a rooster.”

    Rule 746.1203(4). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 28, 2022. Correction verified: Jan 3, 2023.

  • Safety - Bodies of Water Inaccessible to Children

    “Caregivers allowed children access to an area with a body of water.”

    Rule 746.3701(8). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 28, 2022. Correction verified: Jan 3, 2023.

  • AP Report Child Injury Requiring Medical Treatment by a Health-Care Professional or Hospitalization

    “The operation did not report a child injury that required medical treatment by a Health-Care professional.”

    Rule 746.305(a)(2). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 28, 2022. Correction verified: Jan 3, 2023.

  • Animals at Center - No Contact with Chickens, Ducks, Reptiles

    “Children in care were allowed contact with chickens and ducks at the operation.”

    Rule 746.3905(a). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 28, 2022. Correction verified: Jan 3, 2023.

All 25 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Oct 7, 2026Assessment1 deficiency cited
Oct 2, 2026Report to the stateNo violation found
Jul 14, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Jul 13, 2026Report to the stateNo violation found
Mar 10, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Jul 15, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Dec 16, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Aug 8, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Mar 26, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Mar 6, 2024Report to the stateNo violation found
Feb 11, 2024Report to the stateNo violation found
Feb 6, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Jan 29, 2024Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Dec 11, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Nov 30, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Oct 18, 2023Report to the state6 deficiencies cited
Jul 27, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Jul 24, 2023Report to the stateNo violation found
Jan 3, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Dec 28, 2022Report to the stateNo violation found
Dec 5, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Dec 1, 2022Report to the state4 deficiencies cited
Oct 19, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Apr 5, 2022Report to the stateNo violation found
Nov 5, 2021InspectionNo violation found

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Dec 21, 2020.
  • Accepts state child care subsidies.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 313 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.
  • 10 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 star-rated in Texas Rising Star (TWC’s code: ELD).
Source:

Texas Workforce Commission, subsidy providers and Texas Rising Star. Released Nov 5, 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 2.
Source:

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

11 of the 124 in Hays County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Pathways School at Dsmc1
Primrose School of Dripping Springs4
Moxie Gymnastics and Cheer3
Havenwood Nature School This child care provider2
Oaksong School of the Hill Country2
Havenwood Nature School West2
Over Yonder Nature School11
The Prep School of Headwaters7
Your Growing Child0
Dripping Springs Educators Child Development Center5
Sunset Canyon Baptist Church Preschool0
Holy Spirit Episcopal 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

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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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