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Countryside Montessori

A licensed child care center in Denton, Texas 76205

610 Dallas Dr, Denton, Texas 76205. (940) 483-1133.

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The short answer

Record last released by Texas HHSC on Nov 5, 2026.

The last 24 months 2 deficiencies in 2 months of the last 36. Last cited Jan 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?

2 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 490 child care providers in Denton County had 3.

9 inspections on record. The latest, on Jul 7, 2026: no violation found.

Source:

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data) and inspections and investigations. Released Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.

When those deficiencies happened

2 deficiencies in 2 months of the last 36. Last cited Jan 2025. Most serious: Medium High. The last 3 years, to Nov 5, 2026.

2 deficiencies by month over the last 3 years. Each cell is one month.
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2023 Dec
2024 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2025 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2026 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNov

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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 Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.

Jan 16, 2025: assessment1 deficiency

  • Report Number of Employees

    “The operation failed to update the employees who left in 2024 by the cutoff date.”

    Rule 746.303(b). Medium Low, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 17, 2025. Correction verified: Jan 24, 2025.

Apr 25, 2024: inspection1 deficiency

  • Required Admission Information - Special Needs Statement

    “Three children did not have an updated special needs statement.”

    Rule 746.605(13). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 26, 2024. Correction verified: Apr 26, 2024.

9 deficiencies older than three years
Aug 24, 2023: inspection1 deficiency

  • Administering Medication - According to Label Directions

    “The opeation has been administering medication to five children not according to the label directions.”

    Rule 746.3805(a)(1). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 24, 2023. Correction verified: Sep 7, 2023.

Sep 13, 2022: inspection8 deficiencies

  • Responsibilities of Caregivers - Supervision of Children

    “Children were observed freely moving around the operation without appropriate adult supervision. An infant was observed in a room alone while a caregiver was changing another infants diaper in the restroom.”

    Rule 746.1203(4). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 13, 2022. Correction verified: Oct 21, 2022.

  • Annual Fire Inspection - Before Initial Permit Issued and Every 12 Months

    “The operation has not had a fire inspection since July of 2021.”

    Rule 746.5101(a). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 3, 2022. Correction verified: Oct 21, 2022.

  • Training Requirements for Employees and Caregivers - Pre-service Training

    “One caregiver does not have the required 8 hours of pre-service training before caring for children.”

    Rule 746.1301(2)(A). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 16, 2022. Correction verified: Oct 21, 2022.

  • Garbage Inaccessible to Children; Maintained in Sanitary Manner

    “Garbage cans at the operations was observed to have food contents inside and accessible to children.”

    Rule 746.3407(8). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 13, 2022. Correction verified: Oct 21, 2022.

  • Floors, ceilings and Walls in Good Repair and Clean

    “The operations outside active play area has an opening in the fence that is more than 3.5 inches but less than 9 inches wide. Split boards were also observed throughout the play area.”

    Rule 746.3407(9). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 3, 2022. Correction verified: Oct 21, 2022.

  • Medication Authorization - Signed and Dated

    “The operation has six medications on file at the operation with no medication authorization form.”

    Rule 746.3803(a)(1). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 13, 2022. Correction verified: Oct 21, 2022.

  • Children’s Records - Immunizations

    “One child is missing the following immunizations: 1 DTAp, 1 HepA, and 1 VAR.”

    Rule 746.603(a)(4). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 27, 2022. Correction verified: Oct 21, 2022.

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

    “The director does not have an additional required topics for their last training year.”

    Rule 746.801(3). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 27, 2022. Correction verified: Oct 12, 2022.

All 10 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Jul 7, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Aug 26, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Jan 24, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Jan 16, 2025Assessment1 deficiency cited
Dec 10, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Apr 25, 2024Inspection1 deficiency cited
Sep 7, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Aug 24, 2023Inspection1 deficiency cited
Oct 21, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Sep 13, 2022Inspection8 deficiencies cited

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Jan 2, 2009.
  • Accepts state child care subsidies.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 78 children.
Source:

Texas HHSC, child care operations. Released Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.

Has Texas acted against it?

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

Texas HHSC, child care operations and inspections and investigations. Released Nov 5, 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: 4-Star (the highest of three levels).
Source:

Texas Workforce Commission, subsidy providers and Texas Rising Star. Released Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.

How does it compare nearby?

  • Among 490 child care providers in Denton County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 3; this one had 2.
Source:

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data). Released Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.

11 of the 490 in Denton County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Southmont Baptist Church4
Alphabet Academy0
Lisa Bracken3
Yolanda Miller0
Martin Luther King Jr Recreation Center1
Miss Pams Toddler Care3
Countryside Montessori This child care provider2
Holy Covenant Early Childhood Development Program0
Kay’s Kids In-Home Daycare0
Lala’s Home Daycare0
Ridge Preschool3
Legacy Montessori Academy38

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 Nov 5, 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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