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Kids Montessori Academy, LLC

A licensed child care center in Richardson, Texas 75081

1521 E Arapaho Rd, Richardson, Texas 75081. (972) 235-6930.

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The short answer

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

The last 24 months 4 deficiencies in 4 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?

4 deficiencies cited in the last three years

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

17 inspections on record. The latest, on Nov 3, 2026: no violation found.

Rated High by Texas: Prohibited Punishments - Using Inappropriate Long Period of Silence or Inactivity Including Requiring Child to Remain in a Restrictive Device, at the report to the state on Apr 18, 2024

Rated High by Texas: Responsibilities of Employees and Caregivers -Demonstrate Competency, Good Judgment, Self-control, at the report to the state on Dec 19, 2023

Source:

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

When those deficiencies happened

4 deficiencies in 4 months of the last 36. Last cited Jan 2026. Most serious: High. The last 3 years, to Nov 5, 2026.

4 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.

Jan 6, 2026: inspection1 deficiency

  • Active Play Surfacing In Use Zones - Loose Fill or Unitary Surfacing

    “The playground needs more surfacing.”

    Rule 746.4901(a). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 16, 2026. Correction verified: Mar 16, 2026.

Mar 27, 2025: inspection1 deficiency

  • Training Requirements for Employees, Caregivers, and Directors - Pediatric First Aid with Rescue Breathing

    “One employee did not have CPR and First Aid Training.”

    Rule 746.1301(a)(3)(A). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 3, 2025. Correction verified: Apr 2, 2025.

Apr 18, 2024: report to the state1 deficiency

  • Prohibited Punishments - Using Inappropriate Long Period of Silence or Inactivity Including Requiring Child to Remain in a Restrictive Device

    “Toddlers are being placed in highchairs if they are biting. The highchairs were removed from the classroom.”

    Rule 746.2805(10). High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 19, 2024.

Dec 19, 2023: report to the state1 deficiency

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

    “This rule was evaluated with regard to an investigation and a deficiency was found. Based on the information gathered, it was determined that an employee at the operation did not use good judgment when a child was grabbed by the arm.”

    Rule 746.1201(1). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 12, 2024. Correction verified: Dec 27, 2023.

12 deficiencies older than three years
Jul 10, 2023: inspection5 deficiencies

  • Each Caregiver and the Director Must Have Current Training in pediatric CPR

    “Several employees did not have current CPR training.”

    Rule 746.1315(b). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 31, 2023. Correction verified: Jul 11, 2023.

  • Transportation Safety Training -Director and Employee Complete 2 Hours Annually

    “Transportation training was unavailable for the bus driver. The operation emailed training verification for bus drivers.”

    Rule 746.1316(a). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 31, 2023. Correction verified: Jul 11, 2023.

  • Installation and Maintenance of Loose-fill Surfacing - Proper Depth Maintained

    “The loose fill on the play ground was not maintained to the proper depth of nine inches for structures over five feet. The operation emailed pictures of the loose fill at the appropriate depth.”

    Rule 746.4907(d). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 31, 2023. Correction verified: Aug 10, 2023.

  • Requirement of Gas Leak Inspection

    “The operation did not have a gas leak test on file. The operation emailed gas report.”

    Rule 746.5401. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 31, 2023. Correction verified: Jul 28, 2023.

  • Personnel Record Storage - Training Records

    “Several employees including the director did not have current annual training records. The operation emailed all necessary training for caregivers.”

    Rule 746.907(b). Medium Low, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 31, 2023. Correction verified: Jul 11, 2023.

Jan 25, 2023: report to the state2 deficiencies

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

    Rule 746.1205(a)(4). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 27, 2023. Correction verified: Feb 17, 2023.

  • Incident/Illness Report Form Shared with Parent

    Rule 746.707. Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 27, 2023. Correction verified: Feb 17, 2023.

Jan 23, 2023: report to the state2 deficiencies

  • Reporting Incidents and Violations that threaten or impair the basic health, safety or well-being of a child

    “The operation had an incident were a child wandered out of the building and did not notify licensing.”

    Rule HRC42.063(a). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 26, 2023. Correction verified: Feb 17, 2023.

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

    “The operation did not have an incident report for a child that wandered out of the building.”

    Rule 746.701(5). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 27, 2023. Correction verified: Feb 17, 2023.

Mar 2, 2022: report to the state2 deficiencies

  • Child/Caregiver Ratio - 18 Months Difference in Age

    “An older infant was mixed with a child over an 18 month age difference.”

    Rule 746.1605. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 10, 2022. Correction verified: Mar 21, 2022.

  • Parental Notification of Less Serious Injuries

    “The center did not inform a parent of a less serious injury on the day of the incident.”

    Rule 746.307(c). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 10, 2022. Correction verified: Mar 21, 2022.

Feb 16, 2022: inspection1 deficiency

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

    “At the time of the inspection, one child did not have an allergy form signed by a health care professional.”

    Rule 746.3819. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 18, 2022. Correction verified: Feb 25, 2022.

All 26 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Nov 3, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Jan 6, 2026Inspection1 deficiency cited
Aug 25, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Aug 21, 2025Report to the stateNo violation found
Jul 24, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Jul 22, 2025Report to the stateNo violation found
Mar 27, 2025Inspection1 deficiency cited
May 20, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Apr 19, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Apr 18, 2024Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Dec 21, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Dec 19, 2023Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Jul 10, 2023Inspection5 deficiencies cited
Feb 17, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Jan 26, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Jan 25, 2023Report to the state2 deficiencies cited
Jan 23, 2023Report to the state2 deficiencies cited
Sep 15, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Sep 2, 2022Report to the stateNo violation found
Aug 2, 2022InspectionNo violation found
May 12, 2022InspectionNo violation found
May 9, 2022Report to the stateNo violation found
Mar 21, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Mar 10, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Mar 2, 2022Report to the state2 deficiencies cited
Feb 16, 2022Inspection1 deficiency cited

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Aug 20, 2021.
  • Accepts state child care subsidies.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 121 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.
  • 9 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 986 child care providers in Dallas County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 2; this one had 4.
Source:

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

12 of the 986 in Dallas County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Kids Montessori Academy, LLC This child care provider4
Richardson Isd- Richardson Terrace Elementary5
Richardson Isd Dartmouth Elementary2
Flamingo Island Preschool LLC3
May Albedd0
Richardson Isd Mst Magnet School0
Little Disciples Early Learning0
Rising Stars Academy4
Care Child Development Center3
A Bright Beginning Private School3
Nam Thi Tran0
Bluebonnet Learning Center7
Thelma Henshaw23

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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