Paloma Montessori School
Licensed Center in San Marcos, Texas. License #1709759, issued March 3, 2021.
- Address
- 125 W. McCarty Ln, San Marcos, TX 78666
- Phone
- (512) 667-6022
- Licensed capacity
- 117 children
- Licensed for
- Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School
- Hours
- 07:30 AM-05:00 PM
- Days
- Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri
- Child care subsidies
- Accepted
- Website
- palomamontessori.com
Programs listed with the state: 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
Texas Rising Star 4-star of a possible 4
A quality rating the state awards after an on-site assessment. Four stars is the highest.
In effect since September 4, 2026. From the state's provider report of October 22, 2026.
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 3,688 standards at Paloma Montessori School between February 28, 2022 and September 1, 2026 and recorded 5 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 | 358 | 1 |
| Record keeping | 3 | 326 | 1 |
| Personnel | 3 | 441 | 1 |
| Ratios and group sizes | 3 | 162 | 0 |
| Activities | 3 | 104 | 0 |
| Infants | 3 | 267 | 0 |
| Toddlers | 3 | 66 | 0 |
| Pre-kindergarten | 3 | 55 | 0 |
| School-age | 3 | 60 | 0 |
| Discipline | 3 | 60 | 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 | 134 | 0 |
| Health practices | 3 | 338 | 0 |
| Safety practices | 3 | 222 | 0 |
| Physical facilities | 3 | 224 | 0 |
| Outdoor safety | 3 | 288 | 1 |
| Pools | 3 | 84 | 0 |
| Fire safety | 3 | 203 | 0 |
| Transportation | 2 | 98 | 0 |
The table adds up to 3,679 of those standards. The remaining 9, 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.
What Paloma Montessori School says about itself
Paloma offers authentic Montessori childcare 18mo - 6yo
Quoted from palomamontessori.com, read on October 25, 2026. These are the program's own words, not ours, and we neither check nor endorse them.
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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 16 visits to this operation since October 2017, most recently on September 1, 2026, and 5 citations.
One of those visits began with Paloma Montessori 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.
- 3Medium High
- 2Medium
Every citation below records a correction.
Citations
Showing all 5. Indented text is the inspector's own, reproduced verbatim.
- Medium High November 18, 2024 Correction verified December 16, 2024
746.4907(a)(1): Installation and Maintenance of Loose-fill Surfacing - Six Inches if Equipment 5 Ft or Less
The loose-fill under one slide and the merry-go-round in the outdoor play area did not meet the 6 inch minimum requirement.
- Medium January 8, 2024 Correction verified January 11, 2024
746.603(a)(4): Children's Records - Immunizations
One child's record was missing a complete immunization record.
- Medium High January 8, 2024 Correction verified January 10, 2024
746.3401(a): Annual Sanitation Inspection
The operation's annual sanitation inspection was not current.
- Medium High January 8, 2024 Correction verified February 29, 2024
746.1301(a)(5)(A): Training Requirements for Employees, Caregivers, and Directors - 24 Annual training
Four staff members were missing some of their required annual training hours.
- Medium February 28, 2022 Correction verified March 7, 2022
746.501(a)(18): Written Operational Policies - Promotion of Physical Activity
While reviewing the operational policies the policies were lacking information regarding the promotion of indoor/outdoor physical activities.
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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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