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St Francis Kindergarten and Nursery

A licensed child care center in Waco, Texas 76701

612 N 3rd St, Waco, Texas 76701. (254) 753-5565.

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The short answer

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

The last 24 months 2 deficiencies in 1 month of the last 36. Last cited Mar 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?

2 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 132 child care providers in McLennan County had 6.

12 inspections on record. The latest, on Mar 26, 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 inspection on Mar 19, 2026

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 inspection on Mar 11, 2026

Source:

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

When those deficiencies happened

2 deficiencies in 1 month of the last 36. Last cited Mar 2026. Most serious: High. The last 3 years, to Oct 30, 2026.

2 deficiencies by month over the last 3 years. Each cell is one month.
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2023 NovDec
2024 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2025 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
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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 19, 2026: inspection1 deficiency

  • 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 was observed walking into the office without supervision and caregivers were unaware he had walked away.. In another incident children were observed transitioning inside without proper supervision, as a caregiver was observed walking to get a child who had walked off, leaving the children in the middle of the line were unsupervised. The children in the end of the line were supervised by a second caregiver, however she could not see the children in the middle of the line.”

    Rule 746.1205(a)(4). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 19, 2026. Correction verified: Mar 26, 2026.

Mar 11, 2026: inspection1 deficiency

  • 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 was observed to have walked out of a classroom and walk outside with another group without a caregiver supervising the child during the transition.”

    Rule 746.1205(a)(4). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 11, 2026. Correction verified: Mar 19, 2026.

5 deficiencies older than three years
Mar 15, 2022: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Food Allergy Emergency Plan Signed by Parents and Health Care Professional

    “One child in care did not have a food allergy plan on file.”

    Rule 746.3819. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 25, 2022. Correction verified: Mar 21, 2022.

  • Immunization Records, Exceptions, and Exemptions Current

    “One child in care did not have a copy of their immunization record on file.”

    Rule 746.613(b). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 25, 2022. Correction verified: Mar 18, 2022.

Mar 1, 2022: inspection1 deficiency

  • Responsibilities of Caregivers- Supervision of Children

    “There was no caregiver observed in a 4 year old classroom during nap time.”

    Rule 746.1203(4). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 1, 2022. Correction verified: Mar 9, 2022.

Feb 18, 2022: inspection1 deficiency

  • Children Not Required to Sleep - May Not Force Child to Sleep

    “A caregiver was observed putting her hand on a child’s head and telling the child to go back to sleep. Naptime had started at 12:00pm and the caregiver was observed after 1:00pm telling the child to go to sleep.”

    Rule 746.2905(1). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 18, 2022. Correction verified: Feb 25, 2022.

Dec 8, 2021: report to the state1 deficiency

  • Prohibited Punishments - No Harsh, Cruel or Unusual

    “A child was observed placed in a classroom with no other caregiver present and the caregiver who placed the child in there walked out and closed the door.”

    Rule 746.2805. High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 15, 2021. Correction verified: Dec 17, 2021.

All 14 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Mar 26, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Mar 19, 2026Inspection1 deficiency cited
Mar 11, 2026Inspection1 deficiency cited
Jun 12, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Sep 24, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Dec 11, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Feb 7, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Mar 15, 2022Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Mar 1, 2022Inspection1 deficiency cited
Feb 18, 2022Inspection1 deficiency cited
Feb 17, 2022Report to the stateNo violation found
Dec 17, 2021InspectionNo violation found
Dec 15, 2021InspectionNo violation found
Dec 8, 2021Report to the state1 deficiency cited

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Mar 17, 1987.
  • Accepts state child care subsidies.
  • Licensed for ages: Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 150 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.
  • 2 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?

  • Texas Rising Star: 2-Star (the first of three levels).
Source:

Texas Workforce Commission, subsidy providers and Texas Rising Star. Released Oct 30, 2026. Updated daily.

How does it compare nearby?

  • Among 132 child care providers in McLennan County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 6; this one had 2.
Source:

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

11 of the 132 in McLennan County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Baylor Child Development Ctr4
The Center Day Camp8
Children First Learning Center7
St Francis Kindergarten and Nursery This child care provider2
Waco Montessori School2
Columbus Avenue Baptist Church13
St Pauls Day Care2
Country Child Care0
Little Rockets2
Waco Child Development Center14
Waco Child Development Infant5
Marla Adams0

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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