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Hillcrest Childrens Academy

A licensed child care center in Austin, Texas 78759

3838 Steck Ave, Austin, Texas 78759. (512) 598-9421.

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The short answer

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

The last 24 months 12 deficiencies in 5 months of the last 36. Last cited Sep 2026. Most serious: High. Every month

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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 624 child care providers in Travis County had 3.

9 inspections on record. The latest, on Sep 30, 2026: 1 deficiency cited.

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 Feb 4, 2026

Source:

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

When those deficiencies happened

12 deficiencies in 5 months of the last 36. Last cited Sep 2026. Most serious: High. The last 3 years, to Oct 30, 2026.

12 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.

Sep 30, 2026: inspection1 deficiency

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

    “One Fare form was more than a year old and one Fare form did not have both a parent and medical professional signature.”

    Rule 746.3819. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 14, 2026. Correction verified: Oct 6, 2026.

Aug 5, 2026: inspection4 deficiencies

  • Maintenance of Building, Grounds and Equipment

    “One classroom has an area of peeling paint on the wall about the size of a dinner plate and the flooring is chipped. The outdoor area has gravel loose fill on the sidewalks and play structure that could pose a fall risk.”

    Rule 746.3407. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 26, 2026. Correction verified: Aug 18, 2026.

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

    “Two allergy action plans were not signed by both the parent and health care provider.”

    Rule 746.3819. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 19, 2026. Correction verified: Aug 18, 2026.

  • Documentation of Drills

    “Documentation of Fire Drills were not available for review.”

    Rule 746.5205(4). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 12, 2026. Correction verified: Aug 11, 2026.

  • Required Records Maintained and Made Available - Playground Maintenance Records

    “A playground maintenance checklist was not available for review.”

    Rule 746.801(8). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 12, 2026. Correction verified: Aug 11, 2026.

May 7, 2026: inspection1 deficiency

  • Minimum Qualifications Employees and Caregivers - Affidavit (Form 2985)

    “Affidavit 2985 was missing from the personnel ffiles.”

    Rule 746.1105(3). Low, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 14, 2026. Correction verified: May 15, 2026.

Feb 4, 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 was left unattended outside for about two minutes.”

    Rule 746.1205(a)(4). High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 5, 2026.

Oct 28, 2025: inspection5 deficiencies

  • First Aid Kit - Incomplete Kit

    “The first aid kit did not include the guide to first aid.”

    Rule 746.4003(a). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 11, 2025. Correction verified: Nov 3, 2025.

  • Children’s Products- Annual Certification

    “The product safety certification was not available for review.”

    Rule 746.4135(b). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 11, 2025. Correction verified: Nov 4, 2025.

  • Written Operational Policies - Operating Times

    “Operational policies did not include all required information, such as promoting indoor/outdoor physical activity, the Abuse Neglect hotline, and the Gang-free zone notification.”

    Rule 746.501(a)(1). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 11, 2025. Correction verified: Nov 3, 2025.

  • Children’s Records - Admission Information

    “Admission paperwork did not include all required information, including the emergency contact’s address, ER care authorization, health statements, and immunizations.”

    Rule 746.603(a)(2). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 11, 2025. Correction verified: Nov 3, 2025.

  • Required Personnel Records

    “Personnel files did not include all of the required information, such as, high school diploma, training records and affidavits 2985 and 2912”

    Rule 746.901. Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 11, 2025. Correction verified: Nov 4, 2025.

All 12 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Sep 30, 2026Inspection1 deficiency cited
Aug 18, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Aug 17, 2026Report to the stateNo violation found
Aug 5, 2026Inspection4 deficiencies cited
Jun 22, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Jun 18, 2026Report to the stateNo violation found
May 7, 2026Inspection1 deficiency cited
Mar 16, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Feb 5, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Feb 4, 2026Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Jan 22, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Oct 28, 2025Inspection5 deficiencies cited

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Oct 19, 2026.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 250 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.
  • 3 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 star-rated in Texas Rising Star (TWC’s code: ELD).
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 12.
Source:

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

11 of the 624 in Travis County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Triumphant Love Lutheran Child Development Center2
Bais Menachem23
Montessori Internacional11
Aisd Hill Third Base4
Hillcrest Childrens Academy This child care provider12
Caraway YMCA of Central Texas0
Laurel Mountain YMCA of Central Texas1
Magic Dragon Multi Cultural Program6
Corner School2
Arbor Montessori Academy0
The Discovery School7
St Matthews Episcopal School2

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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