West Garden Montessori School

A licensed child care center in Houston, Texas 77077

12350 Westheimer Rd Ste A, Houston, Texas 77077. (281) 531-8717.

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The short answer

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

10 deficiencies cited in the last three years Middle in Harris County: 4
0 rated High by Texas, its most serious level
5 inspections on record
3-Star Texas Rising Star rating

The last 24 months 10 deficiencies in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited Dec 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?

10 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 2,139 child care providers in Harris County had 4.

5 inspections on record. The latest, on Dec 4, 2025: 5 deficiencies cited.

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

When those deficiencies happened

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

10 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 Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.

Dec 4, 2025: inspection5 deficiencies

Floors, ceilings and Walls in Good Repair and Clean

“Observe brown ceiling tiles in several classrooms.”

Rule 746.3407(9). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 18, 2025. Correction verified: Jan 12, 2026.
Food Allergy Emergency Plan Signed by Parents and Health Care Professional

“A child with a known food allergy did not have a food allergy emergency plan available for licensing to review.”

Rule 746.3819. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 18, 2025. Correction verified: Dec 15, 2025.
Installation and Maintenance of Loose-fill Surfacing - Proper Depth Maintained

“The loose-fill surfacing material does not contain the proper depth.”

Rule 746.4907(d). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 18, 2025. Correction verified: Dec 15, 2025.
Children’s Products- Annual Certification

“An annual children’s product certification was not available for licensing to review. NOTE: This was corrected during the inspection by posting an updated certification form.”

Rule 746.4135(b). Medium, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 4, 2025.
Health Statement parent sign - Dated within past yr, name/address health care professional, states child can participate. Follow by signed statement

“Four children files reviewed did not have the required health statements.”

Rule 746.611(a)(3). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 18, 2025. Correction verified: Jan 7, 2026.

Dec 9, 2024: inspection3 deficiencies

Installation and Maintenance of Loose-fill Surfacing - Proper Depth Maintained

“The loose-fill surfacing material does not contain the proper depth.”

Rule 746.4907(d). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 23, 2024. Correction verified: Jan 15, 2025.
Immunization Records, Exceptions, and Exemptions Current

“One out of four children records reviewed did not have an updated immunization record.”

Rule 746.613(b). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 23, 2024. Correction verified: Jan 15, 2025.
Documented Annual Training - Remaining training hour topics

“One caregiver out of four files reviewed did not have the following HASA trainings available for review. 1. Emergency preparedness 2. Preventing and controlling the spread of communicable diseases. 3. Administering medication 4. Preventing and responding to emergencies due to food or an allergic reaction. 5. Handling, storing, and disposing of hazardous materials.”

Rule 746.1309(f). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 23, 2024. Correction verified: Jan 15, 2025.

Jan 11, 2024: inspection2 deficiencies

Maintenance Procedures for Active Play - Hazards Removed or Repaired

“There is a broken play structure on the playground that children uses to sit on. The legs of the table were not properly attached. Note: This was corrected during inspection by attaching the legs back together with extra protection to keep it secured.”

Rule 746.4751(c). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 11, 2024.
Installation and Maintenance of Loose-fill Surfacing - Proper Depth Maintained

“The loose-fill surfacing material does not contain the proper depth.”

Rule 746.4907(d). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 25, 2024. Correction verified: Feb 6, 2024.

3 deficiencies older than three years

Jan 23, 2023: inspection3 deficiencies

Maintenance Procedures for Active Play - Hazards Removed or Repaired

“There is a broken play structure on the playground that children uses to play on. One of the steps are broken and there is a broken piece in the middle of the play structure. Note: A photo was taken of the structure. Correction was made during the inspection. The broken play structure was removed from the playground.”

Rule 746.4751(c). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 23, 2023.
Installation and Maintenance of Loose-fill Surfacing - Proper Depth Maintained

“The loose-fill surfacing material does not contain the proper depth.”

Rule 746.4907(d). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 16, 2023. Correction verified: Feb 15, 2023.
Sheltering Drills for Lock-Down-4 times in a calendar year

“The operation practiced 1 lockdown drill within the past year.”

Rule 746.5205(3). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 27, 2023. Correction verified: Jan 27, 2023.

All 5 visits on record

Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
Date	Visit	What the record says
Dec 4, 2025	Inspection	5 deficiencies cited
Dec 9, 2024	Inspection	3 deficiencies cited
Jan 11, 2024	Inspection	2 deficiencies cited
Jan 23, 2023	Inspection	3 deficiencies cited
Jan 25, 2022	Inspection	No violation found

Is it licensed?

Licensed Center, permit issued Apr 26, 2012.
Its permit has conditions.
Accepts state child care subsidies.
Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
Capacity: 83 children.

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 .

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

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

How does it compare nearby?

Among 2139 child care providers in Harris County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 4; this one had 10.

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

12 of the 2,139 in Harris County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
Place	Deficiencies, 3 years
West Garden Montessori School This child care provider	10
Ashford Child Enrichment Center	9
Jewish Community Ctr West Houston	9
After 3 After School Programs	1
The Goddard School	7
Tiny Feet Child Care	13
Kce Champions @ Shadowbriar Elementary	6
America’s Choice Children Center	24
A-1 Montessori Academy	17
Kingdom Kids Learning Center	0
Computer Kids Westheimer	22
My Kids Daycare	15
The Village School	0

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 Nov 5, 2026 and checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily. Creative Commons 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication).
Texas Health and Human Services Commission, Inspections and investigations (m5q4-3y3d).

Released Nov 5, 2026 and checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily. Creative Commons 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication).
Texas Health and Human Services Commission, Deficiencies (non-compliance data) (tqgd-mf4x).

Released Nov 5, 2026 and checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily. Creative Commons 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication).
Texas Workforce Commission, Subsidy providers and Texas Rising Star.

Released Nov 5, 2026 and checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily. No licence stated.

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