St Paul Lutheran Church and School
Licensed Center in Thorndale, Texas. License #531532, issued February 5, 1998.
- Address
- 101 N 3rd St, Thorndale, TX 76577
- Phone
- (512) 898-2711
- Licensed capacity
- 72 children
- Licensed for
- Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School
- Hours
- 08:00 AM-05:45 PM
- Days
- Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri
- Child care subsidies
- Not accepted
Programs listed with the state: Accredited, Meals Provided, After School Care, Snacks Provided.
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.
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 4,797 standards at St Paul Lutheran Church and School between August 23, 2022 and October 27, 2026 and recorded 6 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 | 4 | 481 | 0 |
| Record keeping | 4 | 440 | 1 |
| Personnel | 4 | 596 | 1 |
| Ratios and group sizes | 4 | 216 | 0 |
| Activities | 4 | 140 | 0 |
| Infants | 4 | 357 | 0 |
| Toddlers | 4 | 88 | 0 |
| Pre-kindergarten | 4 | 74 | 0 |
| School-age | 3 | 60 | 0 |
| Discipline | 4 | 80 | 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 | 4 | 451 | 0 |
| Safety practices | 4 | 308 | 0 |
| Physical facilities | 4 | 299 | 0 |
| Outdoor safety | 4 | 384 | 0 |
| Pools | 4 | 102 | 0 |
| Fire safety | 3 | 203 | 0 |
| Transportation | 4 | 181 | 0 |
The table adds up to 4,784 of those standards. The remaining 13, 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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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 15 visits to this operation since October 2017, most recently on October 27, 2026, and 6 citations.
One of those visits began with St Paul Lutheran Church and 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.
- 2High
- 4Medium
Every citation below records a correction.
Citations
Showing all 6. Indented text is the inspector's own, reproduced verbatim.
- High December 10, 2025 Correction verified January 12, 2026
746.5101(a): Annual Fire Inspection - Before Initial Permit Issued and Every 12 Months
The operations last fire inspection was in October 2024. The operation will contact the fire marshal to schedule a new inspection.
- Medium April 25, 2024 Correction verified June 6, 2024
746.307(c): Parental Notification of Less Serious Injuries
During a DFPS investigation, it was found that a child was injured and the parents of the child were not notified of the injury by operation staff.
- High April 25, 2024 Correction verified June 6, 2024
746.1201(1): Responsibilities of Employees and Caregivers -Demonstrate Competency, Good Judgment, Self-control
A caregiver did not use good judgement when the caregiver pulled a child's leg while the child was on their mat, making the child hit their head on a shelf.
- Medium April 25, 2024 Correction verified June 6, 2024
746.2905(1): Children Not Required to Sleep - May Not Force Child to Sleep
During a DFPS investigation it was found that a caregiver laid their arm on a child to get the child to sleep.
- Medium June 29, 2023 Correction verified July 6, 2023
746.1309(a): Documented Annual Training Area - 24 Hours Required
Observed 2 staff files with 24 hours of training but were missing some required trainings to include; 1.Administering medication 2.Preventing and responding to emergencies due to food or an allergic reaction 3.Administering medication 4.Handling, storing, and disposing of hazardous materials
- Medium June 29, 2023 Correction verified July 28, 2023
746.603(a): Children's Records Maintained
I reviewed 8 children files and found 3 files missing immunization records, 3 files missing health statements and 1 file missing the food allergy emergency plan.
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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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