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Illuminate Montessori

Licensed Center in McKinney, Texas. License #1818385, issued May 26, 2026.

Address
7508 Eldorado Pkwy, McKinney, TX 75070
Phone
(972) 427-4018
Licensed capacity
170 children
Licensed for
Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School
Hours
07:00 AM-06:00 PM
Days
Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri
Child care subsidies
Not accepted
Website
guidepostmontessori.com

Programs listed with the state: Accredited, Snacks Provided, Part Time Care.

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.

Where this is

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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 2,987 standards at Illuminate Montessori between July 24, 2025 and May 19, 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 rulesVisitsStandards checkedViolated
Scope, administration, and communication22470
Record keeping33325
Personnel34693
Ratios and group sizes21080
Activities2720
Infants21800
Toddlers2440
Pre-kindergarten2380
School-age2400
Discipline2400
Naptime2240
Field trips2220
Get well care2540
Nighttime care2260
Nutrition and food care2900
Health practices22260
Safety practices32340
Physical facilities21500
Outdoor safety32882
Pools2600
Fire safety21340
Transportation2980

The table adds up to 2,976 of those standards. The remaining 11, including 1 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.

Changes we have recorded

Texas HHSC publishes the register as it stands today and overwrites it, so nothing in the state's own data shows that a figure used to be different. We compare the register against the previous day's copy and keep what moved. We have been doing that since October 24, 2026.

  1. October 30, 2026Administrator “Alba Olivas” to “”

Each date is the day we first saw the new value, not the day the program changed anything or the day the state recorded it. A change made in February can appear in the register in May. We do not know which, so we do not say.

What Illuminate Montessori says about itself

Guidepost Montessori is a network of authentic Montessori schools for children 6 weeks to 6 years. Explore our approach and find a school near you.

Quoted from guidepostmontessori.com, 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 Illuminate Montessori 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.

We email you a copy, and tell you honestly whether it reached them. Texas HHSC has no email address on file for about two programs in five, and for those the phone number above is the faster route.

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 6 visits to this operation since October 2017, most recently on October 28, 2026, and 11 citations.

2526
visitsvisits where something was found6 recorded visits since October 2017. More visits does not mean a worse program: how often the state comes depends on the license type, the program's age and whether anyone complained.
  • 1High
  • 5Medium High
  • 2Medium
  • 2Medium Low
  • 1Low

Every citation below records a correction.

Citations

Showing all 11. Indented text is the inspector's own, reproduced verbatim.

  1. Medium High March 19, 2026 Correction verified April 27, 2026

    746.4601(2): Safety Requirements for Active Play Equipment - Used According to Manufacturer's Instructions

    The operation did not have a copy of the playground manufacturing instructions for the inspector to review.
  2. Medium Low March 19, 2026 Correction verified April 27, 2026

    746.901(1): Required Personnel Records - Dates of Employment

    While reviewing personnel records it was determined that multiple employees were missing a record of their employment start date.
  3. Medium Low March 19, 2026 Correction verified April 27, 2026

    746.901(4): Required Personnel Records - Required Affidavit (Form 2985)

    While reviewing personnel records it was determined that multiple employees were missing a notarized affidavit.
  4. Medium March 19, 2026 Correction verified April 27, 2026

    746.901(6): Required Personnel Records -Training Hours

    While reviewing personnel records it was determined that multiple employees were missing a record of their training hours for the year.
  5. Medium High March 19, 2026 Correction verified April 27, 2026

    746.4907(a)(1): Installation and Maintenance of Loose-fill Surfacing - Six Inches if Equipment 5 Ft or Less

    While inspecting the playground it was determined there was not enough loose fill present and that more loose fill would need to be added.
  6. Medium High March 19, 2026 Correction verified April 27, 2026

    746.1315(b)(1): CPR Training and Recertification Adhere to Guidelines-skill based

    While reviewing personnel records, it was determined that multiple staff had completed CPR training online and it did not included in-person training with a manikin or hands on component.
  7. Medium High December 9, 2025 Corrected at inspection

    746.3407(5): Sanitize Potty-Chairs

    A potty chair was observed with urine in a restroom used by children 18 to 36 months. Contamination of toys and other objects in the room contributes to the transmission of diseases and germs in operations. The deficiency corrected during the inspection when a caregiver cleaned and sanitized the potty chair.
  8. Medium High July 24, 2025 Correction verified August 15, 2025

    746.1301(a)(1)(A): Training Requirements for Employees, Caregivers, and Directors - Orientation

    Orientation documents for 6 caregivers were not available.
  9. High July 24, 2025 Correction verified August 8, 2025

    746.613(a): Required Immunizations

    A child did not have complete immunization records on file.
  10. Low July 24, 2025 Correction verified August 12, 2025

    746.1105(3): Minimum Qualifications Employees and Caregivers - Affidavit (Form 2985)

    3 staff hired prior to September 2023 did not have a notarized affidavit available.
  11. Medium July 24, 2025 Correction verified August 15, 2025

    746.801(3): Required Records Maintained and Made Available - Personnel and Training Records

    9 staff annual training certificates for 2023 to 2024 were not available.
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About this record

Every figure on this page comes from the Texas HHSC Child Care Regulation open data published at data.texas.gov, reproduced as the state recorded it. We do not grade, score or rank programs. A citation is a finding by a state inspector on a given day; it is not a judgment about a program today, and the correction status beside each one is part of the record. This page reflects data retrieved on November 7, 2026. Full methodology.

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