Hearth Record

The Little Blue Montessori School

A licensed child care center in Austin, Texas 78744

7504 Colton Bluff Springs Rd, Austin, Texas 78744. (512) 608-1548.

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The short answer

Record last released by Texas HHSC on Oct 30, 2026.

The last 24 months 4 deficiencies in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited Dec 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?

4 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 624 child care providers in Travis County had 3.

11 inspections on record. The latest, on Dec 10, 2025: 1 deficiency cited.

Source:

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data) and inspections and investigations. Released Oct 30, 2026. Updated daily.

When those deficiencies happened

4 deficiencies in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited Dec 2025. Most serious: Medium High. The last 3 years, to Oct 30, 2026.

4 deficiencies by month over the last 3 years. Each cell is one month.
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2023 NovDec
2024 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2025 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2026 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOct

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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 Oct 30, 2026. Updated daily.

Dec 10, 2025: inspection1 deficiency

  • Children’s Products- Annual Certification

    “The product certification was last signed 8/1/2023.”

    Rule 746.4135(b). Medium, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 10, 2025.

Feb 13, 2025: inspection1 deficiency

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

    “At follow up inspection, there was not 6 inches of loose fill surrounding the play structure.”

    Rule 746.4901(a). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 24, 2025. Correction verified: Mar 24, 2025.

Jan 29, 2025: inspection2 deficiencies

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

    “At inspection, their was not 6 inches of loose fill on the playground at the base of the slide.”

    Rule 746.4901(a). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 12, 2025. Correction verified: Feb 13, 2025.

  • Documented Annual Training- Required Content

    “At inspection, employee files did not show proof of hazardous materials training.”

    Rule 746.1309(e). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 12, 2025. Correction verified: Feb 12, 2025.

4 deficiencies older than three years
Oct 3, 2023: inspection4 deficiencies

  • Responsibilities of Caregivers - Know number of children responsible for

    “One caregiver did not know how many children were present in the classroom.”

    Rule 746.1205(a)(2). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 3, 2023. Correction verified: Oct 16, 2023.

  • Child/ Caregiver Ratio - 13 or More Children

    “One classroom was out of ratio during the inspection when one of the two caregivers left the classroom. The second caregiver returned to the classroom bringing the group into ratio.”

    Rule 746.1601. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 3, 2023. Correction verified: Oct 16, 2023.

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

    “One child in care with a known allergy did not have an emergency allergy plan that was signed by a health care professional.”

    Rule 746.3819. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 17, 2023. Correction verified: Oct 11, 2023.

  • Required Personnel Records- Meets Requirements

    “Two staff personnel records did not have documentation showing how the employee meets the minimum education requirements.”

    Rule 746.901(2). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 24, 2023. Correction verified: Oct 11, 2023.

All 13 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Dec 10, 2025Inspection1 deficiency cited
Mar 24, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Feb 13, 2025Inspection1 deficiency cited
Jan 29, 2025Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Jul 23, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Jun 6, 2024Report to the stateNo violation found
May 23, 2024InspectionNo violation found
May 21, 2024Report to the stateNo violation found
Dec 14, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Nov 14, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Oct 16, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Oct 3, 2023Inspection4 deficiencies cited
Sep 8, 2023InspectionNo violation found

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Feb 13, 2024.
  • Licensed for ages: Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 39 children.
Source:

Texas HHSC, child care operations. Released Oct 30, 2026. Updated daily.

Has Texas acted against it?

  • No corrective or adverse action by Texas on record.
  • 2 reports to the state on record; Texas doesn’t publish whether they were .
Source:

Texas HHSC, child care operations and inspections and investigations. Released Oct 30, 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 Oct 30, 2026. Updated daily.

How does it compare nearby?

  • Among 624 child care providers in Travis County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 3; this one had 4.
Source:

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data). Released Oct 30, 2026. Updated daily.

12 of the 624 in Travis County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
The Little Blue Montessori School This child care provider4
Dora Gallegos6
Sunrise Academy II7
Uphaus YMCA4
Bilingual Childcare11
Uphaus Child Development Center2
Eva Nohemy Padilla Ruiz2
Perez Eac YMCA1
Little Explorers Childcare2
Kindercare at Bergstrom Tech3
Jemie Johnson Vaughn2
Rainbow Scholars Academy LLC2
Del Valle Isd South Child Development Center0

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 Oct 30, 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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