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Castle Montessori of Mckinney

A licensed child care center in McKinney, Texas 75071

6151 Virginia Pkwy, McKinney, Texas 75071. (972) 529-1222.

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The short answer

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

The last 24 months 11 deficiencies in 7 months of the last 36. Last cited Oct 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?

12 deficiencies cited in the last three years

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

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

Rated High by Texas: Supervision ensures each child?s safety, well-being, including physical proximity and auditory or visual awareness of each child?s on going activity, at the report to the state on Aug 28, 2026

Rated High by Texas: Parental Communication - Situation that Placed a Child at Risk, at the report to the state on Aug 28, 2026

Rated High by Texas: Supervision ensures each child?s safety, well-being, including physical proximity and auditory or visual awareness of each child?s on going activity, at the report to the state on Jul 9, 2026

4 more rated High; all are listed below.

Source:

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

When those deficiencies happened

11 deficiencies in 7 months of the last 36. Last cited Oct 2026. Most serious: High. The last 3 years, to Nov 5, 2026.

11 deficiencies by month over the last 3 years. Each cell is one month.
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2023 Dec
2024 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2025 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2026 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNov

Hover or focus a month to read it.

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 6, 2026: inspection1 deficiency
  • Safety - Electrical Outlets Covered

    “During the inspection, outlets accessible to children were lacking outlet covers in two classrooms.”

    Rule 746.3701(1). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 6, 2026. Correction verified: Oct 8, 2026.

Aug 28, 2026: report to the state3 deficiencies
  • Supervision ensures each child?s safety, well-being, including physical proximity and auditory or visual awareness of each child?s on going activity

    “This standard was evaluated during the investigation and was found to be deficient. A child was left in a classroom by two caregivers unsupervised for more than five minutes.”

    Rule 746.1205(a)(4). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 21, 2026. Correction verified: Oct 8, 2026.

  • Parental Communication - Situation that Placed a Child at Risk

    “This standard was evaluated during the investigation and was found to be deficient. The operation did not notify the parents of a child who had been left in a classroom immediately after the incident occurred. The operation informed the child’s parents at pick up, which was 52 minutes after the incident occurred.”

    Rule 746.307(b)(4). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 21, 2026. Correction verified: Oct 8, 2026.

  • Incident/Illness Report Form Shared with Parent

    “This standard was evaluated during the investigation and was found to be deficient. The operation did not share an incident report with the child’s parents until four days after the incident occurred.”

    Rule 746.707. Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 21, 2026. Correction verified: Oct 8, 2026.

Jul 9, 2026: report to the state1 deficiency
  • Supervision ensures each child?s safety, well-being, including physical proximity and auditory or visual awareness of each child?s on going activity

    “A child in care was left unsupervised in a hallway at the operation.”

    Rule 746.1205(a)(4). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 7, 2026. Correction verified: Aug 20, 2026.

May 19, 2026: report to the state1 deficiency
  • Supervision ensures each child?s safety, well-being, including physical proximity and auditory or visual awareness of each child?s on going activity

    “Based on interviews with the staff and the parent of the victim, the staff left a child alone unsupervised in the gym. The child left the gym and was observed running down the hall by a collateral witness.”

    Rule 746.1205(a)(4). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 12, 2026. Correction verified: Jun 25, 2026.

Aug 7, 2025: report to the state1 deficiency
  • Infant Daily Report - Times and Amount of Food

    “This standard was evaluated as part of the investigation and was found to be deficient. On 7/30/2025, a caregiver recorded on an infant daily report that an infant took 4 ounces of milk when the infant did not take their bottle at the feeding; the caregiver did not communicate on the daily report that the infant did not take the milk.”

    Rule 746.2431(2). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 29, 2025. Correction verified: Sep 3, 2025.

Sep 10, 2024: inspection1 deficiency
  • AP Background check results - Must receive notification prior to allowing subject to be present at your operation

    “During the investigation inspection, a new employee was in the classroom with the children. The person had a pending status for their background check. This was corrected at inspection when the person left the classroom and the operation.”

    Rule 745.641. High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 10, 2024.

Dec 15, 2023: report to the state3 deficiencies
  • Prohibited Punishments - No Harsh, Cruel or Unusual

    “This standard was evaluated during the investigation and was found to be deficient. A caregiver patted a child forcefully on the back during nap time as a form of punishment.”

    Rule 746.2805. High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 13, 2023. Correction verified: Jan 26, 2024.

  • Prohibited Punishments - Grabbing and Pulling

    “This standard was evaluated during the investigation and was found to be deficient. A caregiver pulled a child by the arms up aggressively while getting to the child up from a nap mat, then pulled the child’s arm aggressively again to get the child to come with them.”

    Rule 746.2805(3). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 13, 2024. Correction verified: Jan 26, 2024.

  • Positive Methods of Discipline and Guidance - Redirecting Behavior

    “This standard was evaluated during the investigation and was found to be deficient. Positive methods of discipline and guidance were not used during an occurrence of a child needing redirection.”

    Rule 746.2803(4)(C). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 13, 2024. Correction verified: Jan 26, 2024.

Nov 7, 2023: inspection1 deficiency
  • Children’s Records - Immunizations

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

    Rule 746.603(a)(4). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 14, 2023. Correction verified: Nov 13, 2023.

2 deficiencies older than three years
Nov 3, 2023: report to the state2 deficiencies
  • Prohibited Punishments - Humiliating, Rejecting, Yelling

    “The standard was evaluated with regards to a standard investigation and was found not in compliance the Minimum Standards for Licensed Childcare Centers. Based on interviews with staff, a caregiver in the 3- to 5-year-old class yelled at children out of frustration.”

    Rule 746.2805(5). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 29, 2023. Correction verified: Dec 13, 2023.

  • Positive Methods of Discipline and Guidance - Redirecting Behavior

    “The standard was evaluated with regards to a standard investigation and was found not in compliance the Minimum Standards for Licensed Childcare Centers. Based on interviews with staff, a caregiver in the 3 to 5 years old class did not use positive statements to redirect a child’s behavior but instead the caregiver placed the child outside of the classroom with the door closed.”

    Rule 746.2803(4)(C). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 29, 2023. Correction verified: Dec 13, 2023.

All 28 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Oct 8, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Oct 6, 2026Inspection1 deficiency cited
Sep 1, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Aug 28, 2026Report to the state3 deficiencies cited
Aug 20, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Jul 10, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Jul 9, 2026Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Jun 25, 2026InspectionNo violation found
May 20, 2026InspectionNo violation found
May 19, 2026Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Jan 30, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Aug 11, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Aug 7, 2025Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Feb 26, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Feb 24, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Sep 10, 2024Inspection1 deficiency cited
Sep 6, 2024Report to the stateNo violation found
Aug 22, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Feb 20, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Jan 30, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Jan 18, 2024Report to the stateNo violation found
Jan 9, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Dec 18, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Dec 15, 2023Report to the state3 deficiencies cited
Dec 13, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Nov 7, 2023Inspection1 deficiency cited
Nov 3, 2023Report to the state2 deficiencies cited
Jul 25, 2023InspectionNo violation found

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Feb 29, 2024.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 177 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.
  • 8 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 12.
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
Castle Montessori of Mckinney This child care provider12
Gabriels Little Angels Preschool0
Heritage Learning Center2
Alphabest @ Baker ? Prosper6
Lake Forest Childcare Inc.31
Alphabest @ Hughes ? Prosper0
Christin ChoNot given
Little Giants Daycare0
Sprouts Preschool3
Little Gems Montessori5
Mother Hen Daycare3
Goddard School1
Ivy Vine Preschool0

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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