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Abacus School of Austin

A licensed child care center in Austin, Texas 78717

14115 Avery Ranch Blvd, Austin, Texas 78717. (512) 381-2200.

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The short answer

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

The last 24 months 9 deficiencies in 6 months of the last 36. Last cited Sep 2026. 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?

9 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 467 child care providers in Williamson County had 3.

17 inspections on record. The latest, on Oct 1, 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 Nov 18, 2025

Rated High by Texas: Responsibilities of Employees and Caregivers -Demonstrate Competency, Good Judgment, Self-control, at the report to the state on Oct 24, 2025

Rated High by Texas: Prohibited Punishments - Grabbing and Pulling, at the report to the state on Jan 3, 2025

4 more rated High; all are listed below.

Source:

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

When those deficiencies happened

9 deficiencies in 6 months of the last 36. Last cited Sep 2026. Most serious: High. The last 3 years, to Nov 2, 2026.

9 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 Oct 31, 2026. Updated daily.

Sep 17, 2026: inspection1 deficiency

  • Employee Handwashing After Diapering a Child

    “A caregiver was observed not washing her hands after diapering a child.”

    Rule 746.3415(4). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 17, 2026. Correction verified: Oct 1, 2026.

Nov 18, 2025: inspection1 deficiency

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

    “One caregiver was present without an eligible background check. This was corrected when the caregiver left the operation during the inspection.”

    Rule 745.641. High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 18, 2025. Correction verified: Dec 24, 2025.

Oct 24, 2025: report to the state2 deficiencies

  • Responsibilities of Employees and Caregivers -Demonstrate Competency, Good Judgment, Self-control

    “The operation failed to use good judgement when a child was served an item they have an intolerance to on two separate occasions.”

    Rule 746.1201(1). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 25, 2025. Correction verified: Dec 9, 2025.

  • Required Admission Information - Special Needs Statement

    “The operation failed to ensure a child’s special needs statement was accurate.”

    Rule 746.605(12). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 4, 2025. Correction verified: Dec 1, 2025.

Jan 3, 2025: report to the state1 deficiency

  • Prohibited Punishments - Grabbing and Pulling

    “A caregiver aggressively grabbed a child and then forcibly sitting the child down, twice. The interactions resulted in the child receiving two scratches. The caregiver was terminated immediately.”

    Rule 746.2805(3). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 21, 2025. Correction verified: Jan 30, 2025.

Dec 17, 2024: inspection1 deficiency

  • Responsibilities of Caregivers - Know number of children responsible for

    “A caregiver stated there were 10 children present, then 11, but there were 12 children total in care.”

    Rule 746.1205(a)(2). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 17, 2024. Correction verified: Jan 3, 2025.

Jan 28, 2024: report to the state2 deficiencies

  • Prohibited Punishments - No Harsh, Cruel or Unusual

    “There was sufficient evidence found during the investigation to show that one caregiver used prohibited punishment when harshly placing infants in cribs and chairs and grabbing infants aggressively in the classroom.”

    Rule 746.2805. High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 26, 2024. Correction verified: Mar 7, 2024.

  • Parental Communication - Situation that Placed a Child at Risk

    “There was sufficient evidence found during the investigation to show that the operation did not notify parents when informed of a situation placing children at risk.”

    Rule 746.307(b)(4). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 26, 2024. Correction verified: Mar 7, 2024.

Jan 23, 2024: report to the state1 deficiency

  • Report Situation Placing Children at Risk

    “The operation failed to notify Child Care Regulation of a reportable incident involving a child in care within the required time frame.”

    Rule 746.305(a)(6). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 27, 2024. Correction verified: Mar 7, 2024.

4 deficiencies older than three years
Oct 31, 2023: report to the state1 deficiency

  • Nutrition and Food Service - Must not serve identified foods to allergic child

    “It was self reported by the operation that a child was served a food that they were allergic to.”

    Rule 746.3301(i). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 3, 2023.

Aug 3, 2023: inspection1 deficiency

  • Infant Care Area Furnishings and Equipment -Use of Safety Straps

    “Infant safety straps were observed to be unbuckled for infants seated at a raised feeding table. The straps were buckled during the inspection.”

    Rule 746.2407. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 3, 2023. Correction verified: Aug 16, 2023.

Mar 6, 2023: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Requirements for Feeding Infants - Label Bottles/Cups

    “Observed multiple classrooms without bottles labled with the infants first name and last initial, this was corrected when the bottles were labled.”

    Rule 746.2419(6). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 6, 2023.

  • Maintenance of Building, Grounds and Equipment

    “Observed a nail sticking out from a picnic table, Green turf that is ripped causing a tripping hazards. I also observed a wooden house that had broken pieces of wood causing a concern for splinters. There were also metal stakes that were sticking up from the border of the playgrounds, which were corrected when they were stepped on to make them go back into the ground.”

    Rule 746.3407. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 3, 2023. Correction verified: Apr 11, 2023.

All 27 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Oct 1, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Sep 17, 2026Inspection1 deficiency cited
May 27, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Apr 30, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Apr 28, 2026Report to the stateNo violation found
Dec 9, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Nov 18, 2025Inspection1 deficiency cited
Oct 24, 2025Report to the state2 deficiencies cited
Jan 30, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Jan 3, 2025Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Jan 3, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Dec 17, 2024Inspection1 deficiency cited
Nov 1, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Oct 4, 2024Report to the stateNo violation found
Mar 7, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Feb 1, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Jan 28, 2024Report to the state2 deficiencies cited
Jan 23, 2024Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Nov 3, 2023Report to the stateNo violation found
Nov 3, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Oct 31, 2023Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Oct 18, 2023Report to the stateNo violation found
Aug 16, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Aug 3, 2023Inspection1 deficiency cited
Aug 2, 2023Report to the stateNo violation found
Mar 6, 2023Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Apr 5, 2022InspectionNo violation found

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Jul 7, 2010.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 308 children.
Source:

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.
  • 10 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 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.
Source:

Texas Workforce Commission, subsidy providers and Texas Rising Star. Released Nov 2, 2026. Updated daily.

How does it compare nearby?

  • Among 467 child care providers in Williamson County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 3; this one had 9.
Source:

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

12 of the 467 in Williamson County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Abacus School of Austin This child care provider9
Life Time Fitness Camps19
Roshan KapadiaNot given
The Learning Experience12
The Goddard School in Austin Avery Ranch7
Shining Stars Montessori LLC32
Kids R Kids #3319
Brilliant Bee Preschool Academy6
Little Gems Learning Home LLC0
Sommer YMCA of Central Texas2
England YMCA of Central Texas1
Rutledge YMCA of Central Texas3
A Childs Forest House5

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 2, 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 8, 2026. Updated monthly.

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