Pinnacle Montessori

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

During the course of the investigation, it was determined that a child was left unsupervised for four minutes.

746.5617(a)(2) - Required Equipment in Vehicles - Emergency Medical Information

The operation did not have emergency medical transport and treatment authorization forms for each child being transported.

746.3407 - Maintenance of Building, Grounds and Equipment

The side door of the van used to transport children does not open.

746.4503(a) - Individual Cot, Bed, or Mat for Each Walking Child Through 4 Years of Age

Two children were sleeping on mats that were torn.

745.635(2) - AP Background check determination - If ineligible then you must immediately remove subject from operation and confirm to CBCU receipt of notice letter

A caregiver who had direct access to children in care was found by the Centralized Background Check Unit to be ineligible to be present at operation. Note: This was corrected at inspection when the caregiver was sent home.

746.3701 - Safety - Areas Free From Hazards

Wire fencing was accessible behind a garden area on the playground and the fencing of the garden area was in need of repair due to becoming loose. A play area behind another garden area had two wooden boards on the ground, with exposed screws and a container was also in the play area containing dried cement with a rod sticking out.

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 DFPS investigation, caregivers were facing away from the children. One caregiver was prepping lunch, and the other caregiver was assisting children in the restroom. Neither caregiver was visually aware of the children in the classroom.

746.1601 - Child/ Caregiver Ratio - 13 or More Children

Based on the DFPS investigation, a caregiver left a classroom to inform the director of an injury that occurred in the classroom, leaving the second caregiver over ratio by three children. Caregiver was left alone with fourteen children with a specified age group of two years.

746.613(b) - Immunization Records, Exceptions, and Exemptions Current

Three of ten children's records reviewed did not have current immunization records on file at time of review.

746.3701 - Safety - Areas Free From Hazards

Based on the DFPS investigation, a two-year-old child cut their finger on a paper cutter that was stored accessible to children in the classroom.

746.3809 - Medication No Longer Used

Three medications were stored in the first aid cabinet which belonged to children that were no longer enrolled and another medication was stored in a basket that expired on 8/8/25. Note: This was corrected at inspection when the director removed the medications from storage area to discard.

746.5531 - Child-Care Center Must be Equipped with a Working Carbon Monoxide (CO) Detection System

The operation was not equipped with a carbon monoxide detector.

746.3407(9) - Floors, ceilings and Walls in Good Repair and Clean

A section of the ceiling was missing half of a ceiling tile in the Mesquite classroom due to a leaking air conditioner unit. Ceiling tiles were also observed with yellow stains in the Maple, Willow, Oak, and Mesquite classrooms.

746.5307(a) - Inspect Fire Extinguishers Monthly

The operation did not have documented that the fire extinguishers had been inspected.

746.603(a)(4) - Children's Records - Immunizations

Five out of ten records reviewed did not have current immunization records on file at time of review.

746.3401(a) - Annual Sanitation Inspection

The operation did not have a current sanitation inspection on file at time of review.

746.1309(e) - Documented Annual Training- Required Content

Caregivers did not have all of the required training at the time of inspection.

746.901(2) - Required Personnel Records- Meets Requirements

Three out of the ten records reviewed did not have education qualification requirements on file at the time of review.