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Headwaters School

A licensed child care center in Austin, Texas 78745

6305 Manchaca Rd and 1934 Berkeley Ave, Austin, Texas 78745. (512) 443-8843.

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The short answer

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

The last 24 months 7 deficiencies in 4 months of the last 36. Last cited Mar 2025. 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?

7 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 Sep 30, 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 Apr 22, 2024

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 Mar 27, 2024

Source:

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

When those deficiencies happened

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

7 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.

Mar 3, 2025: inspection1 deficiency

  • Garbage Inaccessible to Children; Maintained in Sanitary Manner

    “At inspection, a trash can, containing garbage was not covered.”

    Rule 746.3407(8). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 10, 2025. Correction verified: Mar 3, 2025.

Nov 22, 2024: report to the state1 deficiency

  • Incident/Illness Report Form Shared with Parent

    “The operation, did not provide an incident report, to the parent, regarding an injury that required medical treatment, within 48 hours.”

    Rule 746.707. Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 10, 2024. Correction verified: Dec 19, 2024.

Apr 22, 2024: report to the state2 deficiencies

  • Supervision ensures each child?s safety, well-being, including physical proximity and auditory or visual awareness of each child?s on going activity

    “The operation failed to report to licensing within 48 hours that a child in their care, exhibiting signs and symptoms of illness necessitating medical attention, had been taken to the hospital.”

    Rule 746.1205(a)(4). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 13, 2024. Correction verified: May 14, 2024.

  • AP Report Child Injury Requiring Medical Treatment by a Health-Care Professional or Hospitalization

    “A child experienced a nursemaid’s elbow when another child pulled their arm too hard, resulting in an injury.”

    Rule 746.305(a)(2). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 13, 2024. Correction verified: May 14, 2024.

Apr 9, 2024: inspection1 deficiency

  • Fire Extinguishers Serviced

    “One of the fire extinguishers had a gauge that was showing in the red and needed to be serviced.”

    Rule 746.5307(b). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 23, 2024. Correction verified: Apr 23, 2024.

Mar 27, 2024: report to the state2 deficiencies

  • 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 inserted a pebble into their ear during their time in care.”

    Rule 746.1205(a)(4). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 23, 2024. Correction verified: May 14, 2024.

  • AP Report Child Injury Requiring Medical Treatment by a Health-Care Professional or Hospitalization

    “The operation failed to report to licensing within 48 hours that a child in their care sustained an injury that required medical treatment by a health-care professional.”

    Rule 746.305(a)(2). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 23, 2024. Correction verified: May 14, 2024.

6 deficiencies older than three years
Jun 21, 2023: inspection4 deficiencies

  • AP Background check results - Must receive notification prior to allowing subject to be present at your operation

    “Two caregivers were present in the classroom without eligible background checks.”

    Rule 745.641. High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 21, 2023. Correction verified: Jun 28, 2023.

  • Documented Annual Training- Required Content

    “Three caregivers were missing annual training on some of the required health and safety trainings.”

    Rule 746.1309(e). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 14, 2023. Correction verified: Jul 16, 2023.

  • Posting of Activity Plan

    “Two classes did not have posted activity plans.”

    Rule 746.2209. Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 30, 2023. Correction verified: Jun 28, 2023.

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

    “Some of the personnel files were not available to review at the inspection today.”

    Rule 746.801(3). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 7, 2023. Correction verified: Jun 28, 2023.

May 3, 2023: report to the state1 deficiency

  • Each Caregiver and the Director Must Have Current Training in pediatric first aid with rescue breathing and choking.

    “A caregiver did not have current first aid training.”

    Rule 746.1315(a). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 19, 2023. Correction verified: May 12, 2023.

Jul 28, 2022: inspection1 deficiency

  • Fire Drill Monthly - Exit in 3 Minutes

    “The operation did not practice a fire drill for the month of June. This was corrected at inspection when the Inspector asked the Director to conduct a fire drill.”

    Rule 746.5205(1). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 28, 2022.

All 16 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Sep 30, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Feb 23, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Mar 3, 2025Inspection1 deficiency cited
Nov 22, 2024Report to the state1 deficiency cited
May 14, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Apr 25, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Apr 22, 2024Report to the state2 deficiencies cited
Apr 9, 2024Inspection1 deficiency cited
Mar 28, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Mar 27, 2024Report to the state2 deficiencies cited
Jun 21, 2023Inspection4 deficiencies cited
May 3, 2023Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Jul 28, 2022Inspection1 deficiency cited
Feb 22, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Feb 18, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Feb 16, 2022Report to the stateNo violation found

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Feb 11, 2003.
  • Its permit has conditions.
  • Licensed for ages: Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 178 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.
  • 5 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 7.
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
Headwaters School This child care provider7
Tiny Feet Daycare #28
Growing Imaginations Learning Center LLC0
International Immersion Center5
Club Z Inc.18
Ymok Daycare Austin LLC2
Angels Care and Learning Center3
The Burrow School4
Pleasant Hill Eac YMCA3
Joslin Eac YMCA3
Abcdee Learning Center LLC2
Snapdragon Preschool0
Four Seasons Japanese Daycare6

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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