Waco Montessori School
Licensed Center in Waco, Texas. License #40970, issued August 26, 1994.
- Address
- 1920 Columbus Ave, Waco, TX 76701
- Phone
- (254) 754-3966
- Licensed capacity
- 180 children
- Licensed for
- Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School
- Hours
- 07:30 AM-05:30 PM
- Days
- Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri
- Child care subsidies
- Not accepted
- Website
- wacomontessorischool.org
Programs listed with the state: School Age Care, Before School Care, Accredited, After School Care, Snacks Provided, Part Time Care, Field Trips.
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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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 5,034 standards at Waco Montessori School between March 1, 2022 and August 24, 2026 and recorded 9 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 | 482 | 0 |
| Record keeping | 3 | 331 | 0 |
| Personnel | 3 | 442 | 0 |
| Ratios and group sizes | 4 | 216 | 0 |
| Activities | 4 | 140 | 1 |
| Infants | 4 | 357 | 0 |
| Toddlers | 4 | 88 | 0 |
| Pre-kindergarten | 4 | 74 | 0 |
| School-age | 4 | 80 | 0 |
| Discipline | 4 | 80 | 0 |
| Naptime | 5 | 60 | 0 |
| Field trips | 4 | 44 | 0 |
| Get well care | 4 | 108 | 0 |
| Nighttime care | 4 | 52 | 0 |
| Nutrition and food care | 4 | 179 | 0 |
| Health practices | 5 | 564 | 0 |
| Safety practices | 5 | 374 | 0 |
| Physical facilities | 4 | 299 | 0 |
| Outdoor safety | 5 | 480 | 0 |
| Pools | 4 | 108 | 0 |
| Fire safety | 4 | 270 | 0 |
| Transportation | 4 | 181 | 0 |
The table adds up to 5,009 of those standards. The remaining 25, 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 Waco Montessori School says about itself
Explore Waco Montessori School in Waco. Our innovative approach nurtures curiosity and holistic development. Discover our programs today!
Quoted from wacomontessorischool.org, 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
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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 21 visits to this operation since October 2017, most recently on August 26, 2026, and 9 citations.
2 of those visits began with Waco 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.
- 7High
- 1Medium High
- 1Medium
Every citation below records a correction.
Citations
Showing all 9. Indented text is the inspector's own, reproduced verbatim.
- High May 6, 2025 Correction verified July 8, 2025
746.1201(1): Responsibilities of Employees and Caregivers -Demonstrate Competency, Good Judgment, Self-control
Based on the evidence obtained during a DFPS investigation, it was determined a caregiver did not comfort a child in care, who was crying.
- High May 6, 2025 Correction verified July 8, 2025
746.2805(1): Prohibited Punishments - Corporal Punishment
Based on the evidence obtained during a DFPS investigation, it was determined a caregiver hit a child in care.
- High September 21, 2023 Correction verified November 10, 2023
746.307(b)(4): Parental Communication - Situation that Placed a Child at Risk
It was determined the parent was not notified immediately when the administration became aware a child in care was able to gain access to medication and was able to ingest the pill.
- Medium High September 21, 2023 Correction verified November 10, 2023
746.3701: Safety - Areas Free From Hazards
Based on the evidence from the investigation, it was determined a child in care was able to gain access to medication from a caregiver's purse.
- High September 21, 2023 Correction verified November 10, 2023
746.1201(4): AP Responsibilities of Employees and Caregivers -Ensure No Child Abused, Neglected, or Exploited
It was determined during the investigation; 2 caregivers were found of neglect of a child.
- High September 21, 2023 Correction verified November 10, 2023
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
Based on the evidence from the investigation, it was determined a child in care was not adequately supervised and was able to gain access and ingest medication.
- High June 14, 2023 Correction verified June 22, 2023
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
It was determined a child was left on the playground unsupervised while the classroom was transitioning inside.
- High September 25, 2022 Correction verified October 7, 2022
746.1203(4): Responsibilities of Caregivers - Supervision of Children
It was determined 2 children were left outside on the playground without a caregiver for 2 minutes,
- Medium March 1, 2022 Correction verified March 8, 2022
746.2206(2): Written Activity Plan - Active and Quiet Play Opportunities
The activity plans did not reflect when the children were getting their physical activity/active play time.
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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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