Headwaters School
Licensed Center in Austin, Texas. License #820597, issued February 11, 2003.
- Address
- 6305 Manchaca Rd and 1934 Berkeley Ave, Austin, TX 78745
- Phone
- (512) 443-8843
- Licensed capacity
- 178 children
- Licensed for
- Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School
- Hours
- 07:30 AM-06:00 PM
- Days
- Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri
- Child care subsidies
- Not accepted
- Website
- headwaters.org
Programs listed with the state: Part Time Care, Field Trips.
The state records conditions on this permit . What these mean.
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
Texas Rising Star is voluntary, and a program joins it by applying. It is tied to accepting child care scholarships, so most programs that are not in it never applied rather than failed. Roughly three in five licensed programs in Texas have no rating.
This says nothing about the quality of this program. What the state has assessed about it is the inspection record below.
Where this is
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The pin is where the US Census geocoder placed this address. About one in eight is interpolated along a street rather than resolved to a building, so treat it as the right block rather than the right doorway. How we source this.
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 3,124 standards at Headwaters School between February 16, 2022 and September 10, 2026 and recorded 13 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 | 242 | 0 |
| Record keeping | 2 | 225 | 1 |
| Personnel | 2 | 313 | 1 |
| Ratios and group sizes | 2 | 108 | 0 |
| Activities | 2 | 72 | 1 |
| Infants | 2 | 180 | 0 |
| Toddlers | 2 | 44 | 0 |
| Pre-kindergarten | 2 | 38 | 0 |
| School-age | 2 | 40 | 0 |
| Discipline | 2 | 40 | 0 |
| Naptime | 2 | 24 | 0 |
| Field trips | 3 | 33 | 0 |
| Get well care | 3 | 81 | 0 |
| Nighttime care | 3 | 39 | 0 |
| Nutrition and food care | 3 | 134 | 0 |
| Health practices | 3 | 338 | 0 |
| Safety practices | 3 | 220 | 0 |
| Physical facilities | 3 | 224 | 0 |
| Outdoor safety | 3 | 288 | 0 |
| Pools | 3 | 78 | 0 |
| Fire safety | 3 | 203 | 2 |
| Transportation | 3 | 132 | 0 |
The table adds up to 3,096 of those standards. The remaining 28, 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.
What Headwaters School says about itself
From Montessori early childhood to the IB Diploma Programme, Headwaters School in Austin inspires students to become thoughtful leaders, creative problem-solvers, and compassionate global citizens.
Quoted from headwaters.org, read on October 25, 2026. These are the program's own words, not ours, and we neither check nor endorse them.
Ask about an opening
This goes to Headwaters School and nobody else. They reply to you directly: we do not sit in the middle of it, and we never pass your details on or sell them.
Tell me about new inspections
One short message each time Texas HHSC records an inspection here, saying that it happened and linking to the record. We do not tell you what the inspector found: a finding without whether it was corrected is misleading, and that pair belongs on the page rather than split across an email.
We ask for nothing but the address, and we send a confirmation first. Your list is never shown to this program, never sold, and every message has a link to stop. An inspection is routine: programs are visited on a schedule and after a complaint, and a visit is not a finding.
State inspection record
HHSC records 17 visits to this operation since October 2017, most recently on September 30, 2026, and 13 citations.
5 of those visits began with Headwaters School 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.
- 3High
- 6Medium High
- 4Medium
Every citation below records a correction.
Citations
Showing all 13. Indented text is the inspector's own, reproduced verbatim.
- Medium High March 3, 2025 Correction verified March 3, 2025
746.3407(8): Garbage Inaccessible to Children; Maintained in Sanitary Manner
At inspection, a trash can, containing garbage was not covered.
- Medium November 22, 2024 Correction verified December 19, 2024
746.707: Incident/Illness Report Form Shared with Parent
The operation, did not provide an incident report, to the parent, regarding an injury that required medical treatment, within 48 hours.
- High April 22, 2024 Correction verified May 14, 2024
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 operation failed to report to licensing within 48 hours that a child in their care, exhibiting signs and symptoms of illness necessitating medical attention, had been taken to the hospital.
- Medium High April 22, 2024 Correction verified May 14, 2024
746.305(a)(2): AP Report Child Injury Requiring Medical Treatment by a Health-Care Professional or Hospitalization
A child experienced a nursemaid's elbow when another child pulled their arm too hard, resulting in an injury.
- Medium High April 9, 2024 Correction verified April 23, 2024
746.5307(b): Fire Extinguishers Serviced
One of the fire extinguishers had a gauge that was showing in the red and needed to be serviced.
- High March 27, 2024 Correction verified May 14, 2024
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
A child inserted a pebble into their ear during their time in care.
- Medium High March 27, 2024 Correction verified May 14, 2024
746.305(a)(2): AP Report Child Injury Requiring Medical Treatment by a Health-Care Professional or Hospitalization
The operation failed to report to licensing within 48 hours that a child in their care sustained an injury that required medical treatment by a health-care professional.
- High June 21, 2023 Correction verified June 28, 2023
745.641: AP Background check results - Must receive notification prior to allowing subject to be present at your operation
Two caregivers were present in the classroom without eligible background checks.
- Medium June 21, 2023 Correction verified June 28, 2023
746.801(3): Required Records Maintained and Made Available - Personnel and Training Records
Some of the personnel files were not available to review at the inspection today.
- Medium June 21, 2023 Correction verified June 28, 2023
746.2209: Posting of Activity Plan
Two classes did not have posted activity plans.
- Medium June 21, 2023 Correction verified July 16, 2023
746.1309(e): Documented Annual Training- Required Content
Three caregivers were missing annual training on some of the required health and safety trainings.
- Medium High May 3, 2023 Correction verified May 12, 2023
746.1315(a): Each Caregiver and the Director Must Have Current Training in pediatric first aid with rescue breathing and choking.
A caregiver did not have current first aid training.
- Medium High July 28, 2022 Corrected at inspection
746.5205(1): Fire Drill Monthly - Exit in 3 Minutes
The operation did not practice a fire drill for the month of June. This was corrected at inspection when the Inspector asked the Director to conduct a fire drill.
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About this record
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