Amazing Explorers Academy Goodnight Ranch
A licensed child care center in Austin, Texas 78747
8749 Vertex Blvd., Austin, Texas 78747. (512) 580-6002.
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The short answer
Record last released by Texas Workforce Commission on Nov 2, 2026.
- 11 deficiencies cited in the last three years Middle in Travis County: 3
- 4 rated High by Texas, its most serious level (needs attention)
- 9 inspections on record
- Not rated Texas Rising Star rating
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?
11 deficiencies cited in the last three years
The middle of the 624 child care providers in Travis County had 3.
9 inspections on record. The latest, on Aug 28, 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 Jul 11, 2026
Rated High by Texas: Annual Fire Inspection - Before Initial Permit Issued and Every 12 Months, at the inspection on Jul 7, 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 Jun 2, 2026
1 more rated High; all are listed below.
Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data) and inspections and investigations. Released Oct 31, 2026. Updated daily.
When those deficiencies happened
11 deficiencies in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited Jul 2026. Most serious: High. The last 3 years, to Nov 2, 2026.
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| 2024 | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
| 2025 | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
| 2026 | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov |
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Each deficiency, in Texas’s words
Grouped by visit, newest first, with the risk level Texas gave it, from Low to High.
Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data). Released Oct 31, 2026. Updated daily.
Jul 11, 2026: report to the state2 deficiencies
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Supervision ensures each child?s safety, well-being, including physical proximity and auditory or visual awareness of each child?s on going activity
“The teacher did not have an iPad to properly conduct a name to face check. The teacher was not familiar with the children in care and had been relying on the children for help with names. There was no name to face check conducted, and a child was in the restroom when the class left the classroom for 5 minutes before another parent found him alone.”
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Incident/Illness Report Form Shared with Parent
“The incident report was signed by the director on 7/6/2026, by the caregiver on 7/10/2026, and not signed by the parent.”
Jul 7, 2026: inspection2 deficiencies
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Annual Fire Inspection - Before Initial Permit Issued and Every 12 Months
“The operation did not conduct a annual fire inspection, the last inspection was June 2025.”
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Medication No Longer Used
“One child’s inhaler was expired in June 2026 and one child’s epi-pen expired May 2025.”
Jun 3, 2026: report to the state3 deficiencies
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AP Report a Child In Care Showing Signs and Symptoms of Illness Requiring Hospitalization
“This investigation found that the operation did not report to Child Care Regulation that a child was hospitalized due to being given the food they are allergic to.”
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Nutrition and Food Service - Must not serve identified foods to allergic child
“This investigation found that a child was served food they were allergic to.”
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Incident/Illness Report Form Shared with Parent
“This investigation found that the incident report was not signed or shared with parent until weeks after the incident.”
Jun 2, 2026: report to the state3 deficiencies
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Supervision ensures each child?s safety, well-being, including physical proximity and auditory or visual awareness of each child?s on going activity
“During a DFPS investigation, it was found that two toddlers were able to leave through the playground gate and run into the parking lot without adult supervision.”
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Parental Communication - Situation that Placed a Child at Risk
“During a DFPS investigation, it was found that parents were not notified immediately about 2 children getting out of the playground and running to the parking lot alone.”
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Child/ Caregiver Ratio - 13 or More Children
“During a DFPS investigation, it was found that a caregiver left her coworker out of ratio with a group of children while she went inside to get something.”
Dec 29, 2025: inspection1 deficiency
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Minimum Qualifications Employees and Caregivers - Affidavit (Form 2985)
“Two caregivers did not have their affadaivits notorized.”
All 13 visits on record
| Date | Visit | What the record says |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 28, 2026 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Jul 15, 2026 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Jul 11, 2026 | Report to the state | 2 deficiencies cited |
| Jul 7, 2026 | Inspection | 2 deficiencies cited |
| Jun 4, 2026 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Jun 3, 2026 | Report to the state | 3 deficiencies cited |
| Jun 2, 2026 | Report to the state | 3 deficiencies cited |
| Jun 2, 2026 | Report to the state | No violation found |
| Dec 29, 2025 | Inspection | 1 deficiency cited |
| Nov 6, 2025 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Oct 27, 2025 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Sep 3, 2025 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Jul 24, 2025 | Inspection | No violation found |
Is it licensed?
- Licensed Center, permit issued Jan 15, 2026.
- Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
- Capacity: 237 children.
Texas HHSC, child care operations. Released Oct 31, 2026. Updated daily.
Has Texas acted against it?
- No corrective or adverse action by Texas on record.
- 4 reports to the state on record; Texas doesn’t publish whether they were A complaint allegation the state investigated and found true: the evidence showed it more likely than not happened. Inconclusive means the evidence couldn’t show it either way. Neither inconclusive nor unsubstantiated proves it didn’t happen. Source: California Department of Social Services, complaint findings; each state’s licensing agency..
Texas HHSC, child care operations and inspections and investigations. Released Oct 31, 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.
Texas Workforce Commission, subsidy providers and Texas Rising Star. Released Nov 2, 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 11.
Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data). Released Oct 31, 2026. Updated daily.
| Place | Deficiencies, 3 years |
|---|---|
| Campus Adventures @ Bluff Springs | 2 |
| Aisd Blazier Intermediate Third Base | 7 |
| Luna Montessori | 2 |
| Amazing Explorers Academy Goodnight Ranch This child care provider | 11 |
| Claudia Gonzalez | Not given |
| Nour Khan | 1 |
| Gethsemane Lutheran Childrens | 9 |
| St Marks Episcopal Day School | 9 |
| Immanuel Lutheran Day School | 11 |
| Wesley School | 21 |
| Hope Children’s Center | 3 |
| Abiding Love Lutheran Child Development Center | 3 |
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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Texas Health and Human Services Commission, Child care operations (bc5r-88dy).
Released Oct 31, 2026 and checked Nov 2, 2026. Updated daily. Creative Commons 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication).
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Texas Health and Human Services Commission, Inspections and investigations (m5q4-3y3d).
Released Oct 31, 2026 and checked Nov 2, 2026. Updated daily. Creative Commons 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication).
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Texas Health and Human Services Commission, Deficiencies (non-compliance data) (tqgd-mf4x).
Released Oct 31, 2026 and checked Nov 2, 2026. Updated daily. Creative Commons 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication).
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Texas Workforce Commission, Subsidy providers and Texas Rising Star.
Released Nov 2, 2026 and checked Nov 2, 2026. Updated daily. No licence stated.
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