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Shining Stars Montessori

A licensed child care center in McKinney, Texas 75070

5450 Collin Mckinney Pkwy, McKinney, Texas 75070. (469) 410-7600.

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The short answer

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

The last 24 months 15 deficiencies in 4 months of the last 36. Last cited Oct 2025. 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?

17 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 647 child care providers in Collin County had 2.

17 inspections on record. The latest, on Sep 11, 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

15 deficiencies in 4 months of the last 36. Last cited Oct 2025. Most serious: Medium High. The last 3 years, to Nov 5, 2026.

15 deficiencies by month over the last 3 years. Each cell is one month.
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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 9, 2025: inspection3 deficiencies
  • Each Caregiver and the Director Must Have Current Training in pediatric first aid with rescue breathing and choking.

    “A caregiver does not have current pediatric first aid training.”

    Rule 746.1315(a). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 16, 2025. Correction verified: Oct 17, 2025.

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

    “A caregiver does not have current pediatric CPR training.”

    Rule 746.1315(b). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 16, 2025. Correction verified: Oct 17, 2025.

  • Emergency Preparedness Plan - Essential Documentation

    “The emergency preparedness plan did not include procedures for evacuating with essential documentation such as parent contact information and emergency medical authorization for each child that would be present during an emergency evacuation. Have this information prevent posing a child at risk and providing parent notification.”

    Rule 746.5202(3). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 16, 2025. Correction verified: Oct 17, 2025.

Sep 24, 2025: inspection4 deficiencies
  • Emergency Preparedness Plan - Essential Documentation

    “The emergency preparedness plan did not include procedures for evacuating with essential documentation such as parent contact information and emergency medical authorization for each child that would be present during an emergency evacuation. Have this information prevent posing a child at risk and providing parent notification.”

    Rule 746.5202(3). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 1, 2025. Correction verified: Oct 9, 2025.

  • Required Records Maintained and Made Available - Sanitation Inspection Report

    “The current health inspection report was not available.”

    Rule 746.801(12). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 1, 2025. Correction verified: Oct 9, 2025.

  • Required Records Maintained and Made Available - Personnel and Training Records

    “Four caregivers annual training certificates were not available for CCR to review.”

    Rule 746.801(3). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 1, 2025. Correction verified: Oct 9, 2025.

  • Required Personnel Records - Required Affidavit (Form 2912)

    “Three caregivers did not have a pre-affidavit of employment on file.”

    Rule 746.901(5). Medium Low, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 1, 2025. Correction verified: Oct 9, 2025.

Aug 1, 2025: report to the state1 deficiency
  • Safety - Areas Free From Hazards

    “Based on the interviews with the staff, parent, child witness, the victim, and the video, the operation was found not to be in compliance with the standard evaluated. A young child found a small round object in the gym and placed the small round object in their nose. The young child received treatment from a health care professional to retrieve the small object out of the young child’s nostril.”

    Rule 746.3701. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 29, 2025. Correction verified: Sep 12, 2025.

Oct 28, 2024: inspection3 deficiencies
  • Arrangement of Napping Equipment - Not Blocking Entrances or Exits

    “A child in a primary classroom was asleep on their cot placed in front of the back door. This was corrected at inspection when the caregiver moved the child to a different area in the room.”

    Rule 746.2909(1). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 28, 2024.

  • Adequate Lighting During Naptime

    “A primary classroom had a curtain hanging over the window causing the room not to have adequeate light in the classroom during naptime.This was corrected at inspection when the caregiver removed the curtain from the window.”

    Rule 746.2911. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 28, 2024.

  • Reduction of child/caregiver naptime ratio by 50% allowed, If 13 or more children in care, children are 18 mo. or older and other standards met

    “A classroom reduced the ratio by 50% with a 12 month old present in the group ranging from 12 to 24 months. The ratio was 9 to 1. Ratios during nap time can only be reduced by 50% for children 18 months and older in a group. The deficiency was corrected during the inspection when a second teacher was placed in the classroom to supervise the children.”

    Rule 746.1613(a). Medium, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 28, 2024.

Oct 16, 2024: inspection4 deficiencies
  • Reduction of child/caregiver naptime ratio by 50% allowed, If 13 or more children in care, children are 18 mo. or older and other standards met

    “A classroom reduced the ratio by 50% with a 12 month old present in the group ranging from 12 to 24 months. The ratio was 10 to 1. Ratios during nap time can only be reduced by 50% for children 18 months and older in a group. The deficiency was corrected during the inspection when a second teacher was placed in the classroom to supervise 10 children ranging from 12 to 24 months.”

    Rule 746.1613(a). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 16, 2024. Correction verified: Oct 28, 2024.

  • Installation and Maintenance of Loose-fill Surfacing - Posts Marked to Proper Depth

    “The equipment support post were not marked to ensure the surfacing is maintained at the appropropriate depth.”

    Rule 746.4907(c). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 23, 2024. Correction verified: Oct 28, 2024.

  • Children’s Records - Health Statement

    “A child did not have a health statement on file. The health statement validate that the child has been examined by a health care professional and is health to participate in a child care program.”

    Rule 746.603(a)(3). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 23, 2024. Correction verified: Oct 28, 2024.

  • Children’s Records - Immunizations

    “A child did not have shot records on file.”

    Rule 746.603(a)(4). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 23, 2024. Correction verified: Oct 28, 2024.

Nov 13, 2023: inspection2 deficiencies
  • Director Annual Training 30 Hours Required

    “The director completed 15.5 hours of annual training.”

    Rule 746.1311(a). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 13, 2023. Correction verified: Nov 16, 2023.

  • Written Feeding Instructions - Review and Update Every 30 Days

    “Three of the four infants had current feeding schedules. This was corrected at inspection when the parent emailed a copy of the missing feeding schedule for the one infant who did not have a current feeding schedule.”

    Rule 746.2421(b). Medium, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 13, 2023.

4 deficiencies older than three years
Mar 22, 2023: report to the state1 deficiency
  • Prohibited Punishments - Corporal Punishment

    The inspectors’ words, 95 words

    “This standard was tasked over for this investigation and found to be deficient. After review of the video footage from the date and time of the allegation, it was determined that the caregiver did somewhat hit or smack the child on his side leg before picking him up and taking over the sink. At the time of the investigation inspection compliance had already been met, as the caregiver was dismissed immediately following the incident the day before. A new caregiver is now present in the classroom and additional training has been provided to the caregivers.”

    Rule 746.2805(1). High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 23, 2023.

Dec 15, 2022: inspection2 deficiencies
  • Annual Fire Inspection - Conducted by Fire Marshal

    “The school’s last fire inspection by a local fire marshal with the City of McKinney was on 6/23/21. No other fire inspection has been conducted at the center at this time.”

    Rule 746.5101(b). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 29, 2022. Correction verified: Dec 27, 2022.

  • Children’s Records - Immunizations

    “At the time of inspection, two children did not have their most current immunization records on file for review, according to the age.”

    Rule 746.603(a)(4). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 29, 2022. Correction verified: Jan 6, 2023.

Jun 22, 2022: inspection1 deficiency
  • Installation and Maintenance of Loose-fill Surfacing - Proper Depth Maintained

    “At the time of inspection the playground area where the slide/climb play structure is located has rubber mulch that below the required 6 inches for the height of the structure.”

    Rule 746.4907(d). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 6, 2022. Correction verified: Jul 7, 2022.

All 23 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Sep 11, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Oct 9, 2025Inspection3 deficiencies cited
Sep 24, 2025Inspection4 deficiencies cited
Aug 14, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Aug 13, 2025Report to the stateNo violation found
Aug 7, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Aug 4, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Aug 1, 2025Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Oct 28, 2024Inspection3 deficiencies cited
Oct 16, 2024Inspection4 deficiencies cited
Dec 22, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Dec 20, 2023Report to the stateNo violation found
Nov 13, 2023Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Apr 24, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Apr 20, 2023Report to the stateNo violation found
Mar 23, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Mar 22, 2023Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Dec 15, 2022Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Jun 22, 2022Inspection1 deficiency cited
Mar 15, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Mar 14, 2022Report to the stateNo violation found
Mar 7, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Nov 22, 2021InspectionNo violation found

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Dec 2, 2021.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 100 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.
  • 6 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 647 child care providers in Collin County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 2; this one had 17.
Source:

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

12 of the 647 in Collin County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Shining Stars Montessori This child care provider17
YMCA at Comstock Elementary9
The Learning Experience18
Psa Mckinney0
Heartland Montessori Academy5
Mckinney Academy13
Xplor7
Revathi Potluri9
Childrens Lighthouse of Mckinney23
The Academy at Craig Ranch43
Naushaba AlamNot given
Auntie Audreys House0
Laura Vargas8

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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