Amazing Explorers Academy Goodnight Ranch
Licensed Center in Austin, Texas. License #1817708, issued January 15, 2026.
- Address
- 8749 Vertex Blvd., Austin, TX 78747
- Phone
- (512) 580-6002
- Licensed capacity
- 237 children
- Licensed for
- Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School
- Hours
- 06:30 AM-06:30 PM
- Days
- Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri
- Child care subsidies
- Not accepted
Programs listed with the state: School Age Care, Before School Care, Meals Provided, After School Care, Snacks Provided, Transportation to/from School, Field Trips.
Openings
This program has not told us about its openings. We only publish what a program confirms itself, so there is nothing here yet. Ring them to ask.
Texas Rising Star
No Texas Rising Star rating
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This says nothing about the quality of this program. What the state has assessed about it is the inspection record below.
What inspectors checked
Texas HHSC records how many individual standards it evaluated in each area of the rules, and how many it found violated. Across 22 areas it checked 3,239 standards at Amazing Explorers Academy Goodnight Ranch between July 24, 2025 and August 28, 2026 and recorded 11 violations. Those correspond to the citations listed above that were recorded from 2021 onward; anything older than that is in the citation list but not in these counts.
The 22 areas, one by one
| Area of the rules | Visits | Standards checked | Violated |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scope, administration, and communication | 2 | 248 | 0 |
| Record keeping | 2 | 223 | 0 |
| Personnel | 2 | 315 | 1 |
| Ratios and group sizes | 2 | 108 | 0 |
| Activities | 2 | 72 | 0 |
| Infants | 2 | 180 | 0 |
| Toddlers | 3 | 66 | 0 |
| Pre-kindergarten | 3 | 57 | 0 |
| School-age | 3 | 60 | 0 |
| Discipline | 2 | 40 | 0 |
| Naptime | 3 | 36 | 0 |
| Field trips | 3 | 33 | 0 |
| Get well care | 3 | 81 | 0 |
| Nighttime care | 3 | 39 | 0 |
| Nutrition and food care | 3 | 135 | 0 |
| Health practices | 3 | 339 | 0 |
| Safety practices | 3 | 234 | 1 |
| Physical facilities | 3 | 225 | 0 |
| Outdoor safety | 3 | 288 | 0 |
| Pools | 3 | 90 | 0 |
| Fire safety | 3 | 201 | 1 |
| Transportation | 3 | 147 | 0 |
The table adds up to 3,217 of those standards. The remaining 22, including 8 of the violations, were recorded under the state's own catch-all heading, “Individual Standards Evaluated”, which names no area. They are reported here rather than folded into an area above, because the state did not say which area they belong to and we are not going to decide for it.
A high number of standards checked is not a compliment and a low one is not a criticism: how many apply depends on a program's size, its ages served and what the inspector was there to look at. We publish the two counts the state published and do not turn them into a score. This data begins in 2021, which is later than the inspection history above it.
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State inspection record
HHSC records 13 visits to this operation since October 2017, most recently on August 28, 2026, and 11 citations.
One of those visits began with Amazing Explorers Academy Goodnight Ranch reporting something to the state itself rather than HHSC finding it. We publish that because it is part of the record and the state records it separately, not because it is good or bad: a program with none may have had nothing to report. 3,674 of the 12,933 programs listed here have at least one.
- 4High
- 3Medium High
- 3Medium
- 1Low
Every citation below records a correction.
Citations
Showing all 11. Indented text is the inspector's own, reproduced verbatim.
- Medium July 11, 2026 Correction verified August 28, 2026
746.707: Incident/Illness Report Form Shared with Parent
The incident report was signed by the director on 7/6/2026, by the caregiver on 7/10/2026, and not signed by the parent.
- High July 11, 2026 Correction verified August 28, 2026
746.1205(a)(4): Supervision ensures each child?s safety, well-being, including physical proximity and auditory or visual awareness of each child?s on going activity
The teacher did not have an iPad to properly conduct a name to face check. The teacher was not familiar with the children in care and had been relying on the children for help with names. There was no name to face check conducted, and a child was in the restroom when the class left the classroom for 5 minutes before another parent found him alone.
- Medium July 7, 2026 Correction verified August 13, 2026
746.3809: Medication No Longer Used
One child's inhaler was expired in June 2026 and one child's epi-pen expired May 2025.
- High July 7, 2026 Correction verified August 12, 2026
746.5101(a): Annual Fire Inspection - Before Initial Permit Issued and Every 12 Months
The operation did not conduct a annual fire inspection, the last inspection was June 2025.
- Medium June 3, 2026 Correction verified July 7, 2026
746.707: Incident/Illness Report Form Shared with Parent
This investigation found that the incident report was not signed or shared with parent until weeks after the incident.
- Medium High June 3, 2026 Correction verified July 7, 2026
746.305(a)(3): AP Report a Child In Care Showing Signs and Symptoms of Illness Requiring Hospitalization
This investigation found that the operation did not report to Child Care Regulation that a child was hospitalized due to being given the food they are allergic to.
- Medium High June 3, 2026 Correction verified July 7, 2026
746.3301(i): Nutrition and Food Service - Must not serve identified foods to allergic child
This investigation found that a child was served food they were allergic to.
- High June 2, 2026 Correction verified July 7, 2026
746.307(b)(4): Parental Communication - Situation that Placed a Child at Risk
During a DFPS investigation, it was found that parents were not notified immediately about 2 children getting out of the playground and running to the parking lot alone.
- Medium High June 2, 2026 Correction verified July 7, 2026
746.1601: Child/ Caregiver Ratio - 13 or More Children
During a DFPS investigation, it was found that a caregiver left her coworker out of ratio with a group of children while she went inside to get something.
- High June 2, 2026 Correction verified July 7, 2026
746.1205(a)(4): Supervision ensures each child?s safety, well-being, including physical proximity and auditory or visual awareness of each child?s on going activity
During a DFPS investigation, it was found that two toddlers were able to leave through the playground gate and run into the parking lot without adult supervision.
- Low December 29, 2025 Correction verified January 5, 2026
746.1105(3): Minimum Qualifications Employees and Caregivers - Affidavit (Form 2985)
Two caregivers did not have their affadaivits notorized.
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About this record
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