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St. Martin’s Lutheran Day School

A licensed child care center in Austin, Texas 78701

606 W 15th St, Austin, Texas 78701. (512) 476-4037.

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The short answer

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

The last 24 months 4 deficiencies in 4 months of the last 36. Last cited Apr 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?

4 deficiencies cited in the last three years

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

17 inspections on record. The latest, on Oct 13, 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 report to the state on May 28, 2025

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 Dec 1, 2023

Source:

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

When those deficiencies happened

4 deficiencies in 4 months of the last 36. Last cited Apr 2026. Most serious: High. The last 3 years, to Nov 2, 2026.

4 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.

Apr 2, 2026: inspection1 deficiency

  • Garbage Inaccessible to Children; Maintained in Sanitary Manner

    “At inspection, two trash cans were uncovered and contained a small amount of garbage inside them.”

    Rule 746.3407(8). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 10, 2026. Correction verified: Apr 7, 2026.

May 28, 2025: report to the state1 deficiency

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

    “An employee was present at the operation without an eligible background check. *An administrative penalty will be recommended as a result of this citation, per HRC 42.078.”

    Rule 745.641. High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jun 16, 2025. Correction verified: Jun 27, 2025.

Oct 3, 2024: report to the state1 deficiency

  • Child/ Caregiver Ratio - 13 or More Children

    “A classroom was found to be out of ratio. The correct student to caregiver ratio should be 1:11, however, the caregiver had 12 children leaving them out of ratio by one.”

    Rule 746.1601. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 28, 2024. Correction verified: Oct 30, 2024.

Dec 1, 2023: 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

    “Based on the evidence gathered during the investigation, a child was unsupervised for approximately 1 minute.”

    Rule 746.1205(a)(4). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 4, 2023. Correction verified: Dec 20, 2023.

3 deficiencies older than three years
Apr 17, 2023: report to the state1 deficiency

  • Responsibilities of Caregivers - Know children responsible for

    “There was a child that was left in the classroom unattended for 3 minutes before taken back to their assigned classroom.”

    Rule 746.1205(a)(1). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: May 15, 2023. Correction verified: May 16, 2023.

Aug 3, 2022: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Fire Drill Monthly - Exit in 3 Minutes

    “The previous fire drill was conducted on 06/22/2022 which is past the monthly requirement. This was corrected at inspection when the operation conducted a fire drill.”

    Rule 746.5205(1). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 3, 2022.

  • Children’s Products- Annual Certification

    “The previous CPSC form was updated on 10/14/2020 which is past the required yearly time for update. This was corrected at inspection when the director updated and posted the form.”

    Rule 746.4135(b). Medium, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Aug 3, 2022.

All 22 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Oct 13, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Sep 25, 2026InspectionOutcome pending
Apr 2, 2026Inspection1 deficiency cited
Jun 27, 2025InspectionNo violation found
May 30, 2025InspectionNo violation found
May 28, 2025Report to the state1 deficiency cited
May 19, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Oct 30, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Oct 7, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Oct 3, 2024Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Jun 3, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Dec 20, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Dec 4, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Dec 1, 2023Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Sep 21, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Sep 18, 2023Report to the stateNo violation found
Jul 25, 2023InspectionNo violation found
May 16, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Apr 20, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Apr 17, 2023Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Dec 6, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Aug 3, 2022Inspection2 deficiencies cited

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Jan 23, 1986.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 176 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.
  • 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 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 624 child care providers in Travis County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 3; this one had 4.
Source:

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
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
University of Texas Child Dev Center5
Todos Juntos Escuelita0
St. Martin’s Lutheran Day School This child care provider4
First United Methodist Preschool3
Gethsemane Lutheran Childrens9
St Marks Episcopal Day School9
Immanuel Lutheran Day School11
Wesley School21
Hope Children’s Center3
Abiding Love Lutheran Child Development Center3
Chandra Walker2
Riverbend Christian School0

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 28, 2026. Updated monthly.

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