Natures Way Preschool
Licensed Center in Austin, Texas. License #1024587, issued September 3, 2010.
- Address
- 301 Nature Center Dr, Austin, TX 78746
- Phone
- (512) 974-3882
- Licensed capacity
- 24 children
- Licensed for
- Pre-Kindergarten, School
- Hours
- 09:00 AM-05:00 PM
- Days
- Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri
- Child care subsidies
- Not accepted
- Website
- austintexas.gov/department/natur
Programs listed with the state: Part Time Care, Field Trips.
Openings
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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 3,515 standards at Natures Way Preschool between June 21, 2022 and January 29, 2026 and recorded 10 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 | 3 | 357 | 1 |
| Record keeping | 3 | 326 | 2 |
| Personnel | 3 | 435 | 1 |
| Ratios and group sizes | 2 | 108 | 0 |
| Activities | 3 | 104 | 0 |
| Infants | 3 | 267 | 0 |
| Toddlers | 2 | 44 | 0 |
| Pre-kindergarten | 2 | 38 | 0 |
| School-age | 2 | 40 | 0 |
| Discipline | 2 | 40 | 0 |
| Naptime | 5 | 60 | 0 |
| Field trips | 2 | 22 | 0 |
| Get well care | 2 | 54 | 0 |
| Nighttime care | 2 | 26 | 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 | 1 |
| Pools | 3 | 78 | 0 |
| Fire safety | 3 | 203 | 1 |
| Transportation | 2 | 98 | 0 |
The table adds up to 3,504 of those standards. The remaining 11, including 4 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 10 visits to this operation since October 2017, most recently on January 29, 2026, and 10 citations.
One of those visits began with Natures Way Preschool 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.
- 1High
- 3Medium High
- 5Medium
- 1Low
Every citation below records a correction.
Citations
Showing all 10. Indented text is the inspector's own, reproduced verbatim.
- Medium High February 19, 2025 Correction verified February 28, 2025
746.1316(a): Transportation Safety Training -Director and Employee Complete 2 Hours Annually
Three employees were missing their annual transportation training. It's currently being done every two years.
- Medium February 19, 2025 Correction verified February 28, 2025
746.1309(e): Documented Annual Training- Required Content
Of the four staff files reviewed, three employees lacked documentation of food allergy training, while one employee was missing training records in the following topics.
- High December 4, 2024 Correction verified January 7, 2025
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 four-year-old child was left alone in a classroom for 45 minutes while the rest of the group participated in their daily hike.
- Medium April 4, 2024 Correction verified April 15, 2024
746.5205(4): Documentation of Drills
There was no documentation of a fire drill done in March of this year.
- Medium April 4, 2024 Correction verified April 15, 2024
746.1309(e): Documented Annual Training- Required Content
There was one caregiver who did not have their annual trainings in the required topics.
- Low June 6, 2023 Correction verified June 6, 2023
746.1329(d): Employee record: Signed and Dated Statement for Orientation/Pre-Service training by trainer and employee
The director did not have documentation of completing orientation.
- Medium High June 21, 2022 Correction verified June 28, 2022
746.605(13): Required Admission Information - Special Needs Statement
Four out of four children's records were missing the statement of special needs.
- Medium High June 21, 2022 Correction verified June 28, 2022
746.605(6): Required Admission Information - Emergency Contact
Four out of four children's record was missing the address of the emergency contact person.
- Medium June 21, 2022 Correction verified June 28, 2022
746.501(a)(18): Written Operational Policies - Promotion of Physical Activity
The promotion of Physical Activity was not available for review in the Operational Policies.
- Medium June 21, 2022 Correction verified June 28, 2022
746.4751(b): Maintenance Procedures for Active Play - Monthly Maintenance Checklist
There was no monthly maintenance checklist available for review.
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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 8, 2026. Full methodology.
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