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Austin Montessori Sunset

A licensed child care center in Austin, Texas 78745

5012 Sunset Trl, Austin, Texas 78745. (512) 892-0253.

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The short answer

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

The last 24 months 15 deficiencies in 4 months of the last 36. Last cited Oct 2025. 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?

15 deficiencies cited in the last three years

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

14 inspections on record. The latest, on Sep 11, 2026: no violation found.

Rated High by Texas: Required Immunizations, at the inspection on Oct 4, 2024

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 7, 2023

Source:

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

When those deficiencies happened

15 deficiencies in 4 months of the last 36. Last cited Oct 2025. Most serious: High. The last 3 years, to Oct 30, 2026.

15 deficiencies by month over the last 3 years. Each cell is one month.
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2023 NovDec
2024 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2025 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2026 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOct

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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.

Oct 13, 2025: report to the state1 deficiency

  • Written Operational Policies - Parent Rights

    “It was found that the operation did not give all families the list of Parents Rights, in autumn 2023 as required. This issue has now been resolved by the operation adding the list to their admission materials.”

    Rule 746.501(a)(20). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 30, 2025. Correction verified: Oct 30, 2025.

Sep 17, 2025: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Garbage Inaccessible to Children; Maintained in Sanitary Manner

    “At inspection, two classrooms had uncovered trash cans that contained garbage.”

    Rule 746.3407(8). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 24, 2025. Correction verified: Sep 24, 2025.

  • Safety - Areas Free From Hazards

    “At inspection, three classrooms had toaster ovens that could be accessible to children in care.”

    Rule 746.3701. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 24, 2025. Correction verified: Sep 24, 2025.

Oct 4, 2024: inspection5 deficiencies

  • Required Immunizations

    “Out of the ten children’s files reviewed, one child did not have all the required immunizations up to date.”

    Rule 746.613(a). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 18, 2024. Correction verified: Oct 18, 2024.

  • Supervised Naptime Daily

    “Children aged 4 1/2 to 5 years, who were in care for approximately seven consecutive hours, did not have a designated quiet or naptime.”

    Rule 746.2901. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 18, 2024. Correction verified: Oct 18, 2024.

  • Adequate Lighting During Naptime

    “Two classrooms had insufficient lighting during naptime.”

    Rule 746.2911. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 4, 2024.

  • Written Operational Policies - Suspension and Expulsion

    “The operational policies were missing provisions on suspension and expulsion, promotion of indoor and outdoor physical activity, employee vaccinations, and inclusive care for children with special needs.”

    Rule 746.501(a)(8). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 18, 2024. Correction verified: Oct 18, 2024.

  • Required Personnel Records

    “The staff training certificates were not available for review at the time of the inspection.”

    Rule 746.901. Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 18, 2024. Correction verified: Oct 18, 2024.

Nov 7, 2023: inspection7 deficiencies

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

    “A student teacher observer was present with the children without an eligible background check. The student teacher was sent home during the inspection.”

    Rule 745.641. High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 7, 2023. Correction verified: Nov 8, 2023.

  • Report Change in Controlling Person

    “Two members of the governing body are not listed as controlling persons.”

    Rule 746.305(a)(7). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 14, 2023. Correction verified: Nov 13, 2023.

  • Annual Sanitation Inspection

    “The operation does not have a current sanitation inspection.”

    Rule 746.3401(a). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 28, 2023. Correction verified: Dec 6, 2023.

  • Garbage Inaccessible to Children; Maintained in Sanitary Manner

    “The garbage can in a classroom did not have a lid and there was garbage accessible to children.”

    Rule 746.3407(8). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 14, 2023. Correction verified: Dec 6, 2023.

  • Administering Medication - Original Container with Child’s Name, Date

    “Two children’s medications were not in the original container and did not contain the prescription label.”

    Rule 746.3805(b)(1). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 21, 2023. Correction verified: Dec 6, 2023.

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

    “The playground outside the Cypress cottage did not have the required 6 inches of loose fill.”

    Rule 746.4907(d). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 5, 2023. Correction verified: Dec 6, 2023.

  • Children’s Products-Posting of CPSC website

    “The operation did not have a signed CPSC form porsted.”

    Rule 746.4135(c). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 14, 2023. Correction verified: Dec 6, 2023.

All 17 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Sep 11, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Oct 15, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Oct 13, 2025Report to the state1 deficiency cited
Oct 10, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Sep 17, 2025Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Feb 6, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Feb 4, 2025Report to the stateNo violation found
Jan 30, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Jan 27, 2025Report to the stateNo violation found
Oct 4, 2024Inspection5 deficiencies cited
Jan 12, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Dec 6, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Nov 7, 2023Inspection7 deficiencies cited
Nov 14, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Feb 10, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Feb 8, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Jan 11, 2022InspectionNo violation found

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Dec 13, 1985.
  • Its permit has conditions.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 286 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.
  • 3 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?

  • Not rated in Texas Rising Star.
Source:

Texas Workforce Commission, subsidy providers and Texas Rising Star. Released Oct 30, 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 15.
Source:

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

12 of the 624 in Travis County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Austin Montessori Sunset This child care provider15
Tiny Feet Daycare #28
Growing Imaginations Learning Center LLC0
International Immersion Center5
Club Z Inc.18
Ymok Daycare Austin LLC2
Angels Care and Learning Center3
The Burrow School4
Pleasant Hill Eac YMCA3
Joslin Eac YMCA3
Abcdee Learning Center LLC2
Snapdragon Preschool0
Four Seasons Japanese Daycare6

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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