Happy Faces Bilingual Child Care Center

A licensed child care center in Austin, Texas 78752

1115 E Saint Johns Ave, Austin, Texas 78752. (512) 903-0826.

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The short answer

Record last released by Texas Workforce Commission on Nov 2, 2026.

3 deficiencies cited in the last three years Middle in Travis County: 3
1 rated High by Texas, its most serious level (needs attention)
5 inspections on record
3-Star Texas Rising Star rating

The last 24 months 3 deficiencies in 1 month of the last 36. Last cited Mar 2025. 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?

3 deficiencies cited in the last three years

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

5 inspections on record. The latest, on Feb 23, 2026: no violation found.

Rated High by Texas: AP Background check results - Must receive notification prior to allowing subject to be present at your operation, at the inspection on Mar 25, 2025

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data) and inspections and investigations. Released Oct 31, 2026. Updated daily.

When those deficiencies happened

3 deficiencies in 1 month of the last 36. Last cited Mar 2025. Most serious: High. The last 3 years, to Nov 2, 2026.

3 deficiencies by month over the last 3 years. Each cell is one month.
	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
2023												Dec
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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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

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.

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data). Released Oct 31, 2026. Updated daily.

Mar 25, 2025: inspection3 deficiencies

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

“There was an individual present at the operation and in the classroom supervising children without a submitted background check. This was corrected at the inspection when the individual was asked to leave.”

Rule 745.641. High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 25, 2025. Correction verified: Apr 9, 2025.
Immunization Records, Exceptions, and Exemptions Current

“Out of the four children’s files reviewed one did not have up to date immunizations or documentation of them.”

Rule 746.613(b). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 4, 2025. Correction verified: Mar 28, 2025.
Written Operational Policies - Parental Notifications

“The operation did not have written policies on the following: parental notification and communication, preventing /responding to A/N/E, employee vaccinations, and gang-free zone.”

Rule 746.501(a)(6). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 4, 2025. Correction verified: Apr 7, 2025.

4 deficiencies older than three years

Jun 22, 2023: inspection3 deficiencies

Policies Comply with Rules

“Operational policies did not comply with minimum standards.”

Rule 746.201(1). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 6, 2023. Correction verified: Jun 29, 2023.
Required Admission Information - Emergency Medical Authorization

“Two children did not have emergency medical facility information listed.”

Rule 746.605(12). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jul 6, 2023. Correction verified: Jun 26, 2023.
Required Personnel Records - Required Affidavit

“One staff member did not have an affidavit in their file.”

Rule 746.901(4). Medium Low, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 30, 2023. Correction verified: Jun 26, 2023.

Feb 25, 2022: assessment1 deficiency

Report Number of Employees

“A review of the Employees Who Left Employment in 2021 data from February 23, 2022, revealed that the center had not reported the number of employees who left employment in 2021 by February 22, 2022, as required”

Rule 746.303(b). Medium Low, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 28, 2022. Correction verified: Apr 8, 2022.

All 8 visits on record

Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
Date	Visit	What the record says
Feb 23, 2026	Inspection	No violation found
Mar 25, 2025	Inspection	3 deficiencies cited
Jul 11, 2024	Report to the state	No violation found
May 16, 2024	Inspection	No violation found
Jun 22, 2023	Inspection	3 deficiencies cited
Jul 25, 2022	Inspection	No violation found
Feb 25, 2022	Assessment	1 deficiency cited
Sep 24, 2021	Report to the state	No violation found

Is it licensed?

Licensed Center, permit issued Nov 14, 2002.
Accepts state child care subsidies.
Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
Capacity: 29 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.
2 reports to the state on record; Texas doesn’t publish whether they were .

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?

Texas Rising Star: 3-Star (the middle of three levels).

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 3.

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data). Released Oct 31, 2026. Updated daily.

11 of the 624 in Travis County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
Place	Deficiencies, 3 years
Gethsemane Lutheran Childrens	9
Highland Montessori School	3
Reilly Eac YMCA	5
Creative Action After School at Reilly Elementary	2
Julia Moen	Not given
Creative Action at Pickle Elementary	0
Pickle Eac YMCA	0
Happy Faces Bilingual Child Care Center This child care provider	3
Rosies Day Care	3
St Marks Episcopal Day School	9
Immanuel Lutheran Day School	11
Wesley School	21

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

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).
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).
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).
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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