Aspiring Minds Montessori vs. Creative Minds Montessori: Two Independent Frisco Montessori Schools, Compared

Two Montessori schools, two sides of Frisco

Aspiring Minds Montessori sits at 12615 Jereme Trail, Frisco, TX 75035, on the east side of town, and its website says it draws families from Frisco, Plano, McKinney, Prosper, Allen and Celina. Creative Minds Montessori is at 5115 Warren Parkway, behind Dua Trattoria at Legacy Drive and Warren Parkway, in West Frisco 75034. Depending on traffic they are about fifteen minutes apart, which for many families is the first fact that matters: one of these schools is probably on your commute and the other is not.

Both call themselves Montessori, and both mean it. Aspiring Minds describes a "Montessori Prepared Environment," mixed-age classrooms, a teacher who is "a dynamic link between the environment and the needs of a child," and "a certified Montessori teacher" in each classroom; its website even carries a Montessori-versus-traditional comparison table. We describe the same practices on our Curriculum page. So this is not a Montessori-versus-something-else comparison. It is a comparison of two schools that share a method and differ in size, hours, what is bundled into tuition, how the kindergarten year is framed, how each handles food, screens and cameras, and what the two state records and two sets of reviews say.

At a glance

Sources: each school's website and Texas HHS record, September 22, 2026; Google ratings and review counts as of the same date. Details change — confirm on your tour.

What kind of school each one is

Aspiring Minds Montessori: a full Montessori arc from six months to kindergarten, with the extras bundled in

Aspiring Minds has held a Full Permit since March 30, 2015, which makes it a year older than we are, and its building on Jereme Trail is licensed for 204 children. Its website is organised the way a parent thinks: one page per age band, and the age bands are tight. Infants start at six months and stay to seventeen; the site says "a schedule assigned by the parent is initially followed until the infant is ready to incorporate to the schedule of the group," and that "a report is given to parents daily." Toddlers, eighteen to twenty-three months, get the classic early-Montessori diet of practical life ("walking, carrying, dancing"), sensorial work on "color, size, shape, texture, and scent," language through stories and songs, numeration one to ten, and botany and zoology puzzles, with "Spanish, Music, and Movement" listed as extracurriculars for that age. Pre-Primary, two to three years, is where the site is most candid: "Potty training is a fundamental aspect of this program," and completing it is "a requirement for children to be promoted into the Primary class."

Primary, three to six, is the heart of it and it reads like a Montessori school should. The room is organised into "Practical Life, Sensorial, Language, Mathematics and Cultural Subjects," children begin phonetic reading, "all the material the child works with is designed to lead to abstract thinking," and "in each of our classrooms there is a certified Montessori teacher" who "observes and records" each child's progress, gives lessons "to individuals or small groups," and then steps back. Children take work home on Fridays. Then, at five, the kindergarten year: the site describes "the traditional disciplines" and "a highly academic education" alongside "positive attitude, emotions and social skills." That phrase is worth pausing on. Some families want the kindergarten year to feel like school, with a visible academic push; others want it to stay a Montessori third year. Aspiring Minds has told you which it is.

Around the classroom, Aspiring Minds bundles a lot. Music from Music Garten, physical education from Stretch-n-Grow, yoga, Spanish, and in-house art are "included in the monthly tuition for all toddlers and up programs." On top of that, at extra cost, the school hosts ballet for ages two and a half to seven, a Stretch-n-Grow fitness class, Soccer Shots, Amazing Athletes, a preschool chess class, and Tiny Chefs cooking. A summer program runs full- or part-time with "train and pony rides, water activities, outdoor games." The state record adds meals and snacks provided, after-school care, part-time care, and skill classes; it does not list transportation. Admissions is a four-step process: a tour with the Director, then for a Pre-Primary or Primary child two free two-hour visits "between 9-11 AM on two consecutive days," then a $200 non-refundable enrollment fee, then the packet. Placement is "determined by evaluation of your child's progress," and "the Director will provide the results of your child's visit when your child is picked up."

Two more things worth knowing. First, the state record is very clean: six deficiencies across 3,768 standards in five years, none rated high-risk, no penalties, and the two most recent full inspections found 530 of 530 standards compliant in September 2025 and 733 of 734 in August 2026. Second, the same record counts seventeen employees leaving in 2025, twelve in 2024, seventeen in 2023, eighteen in 2022, twenty-two in 2021 and twenty-one in 2020, which for a school of this size is a steady churn rather than a crisis, but it is the number to ask about room by room.

Creative Minds Montessori: one school, one philosophy, ten-plus years of the same faces

Creative Minds is a single independent school in the Legacy and Warren corridor that serves children from six weeks through kindergarten entry and then hands them on to Frisco ISD or a private elementary. Everything about it is built around the Montessori method. Walk in mid-morning and the first thing you notice is the quiet hum of concentration: one child building the pink tower, another tracing sandpaper letters, a third carrying a tray of golden beads to a mat. The guide is not at the front of the room; she is kneeling next to one child, presenting one lesson, and the rest of the room is working on things they chose. Rooms are mixed-age on purpose, so a three-year-old watches a five-year-old read and a five-year-old learns patience by helping a three-year-old pour.

Layered over that structure is what the school calls the Waldorf touch: a weekly music class, process art with natural materials, rhythm and storytelling, and a deliberate reverence for beauty and nature in the rooms. Montessori builds the disciplined, capable mind; the artistic thread keeps the imagination glowing. Our Curriculum page lays out the five Montessori areas and what each looks like at each age.

The people are the second thing. Both infant teachers have been with the school since it opened its doors more than ten years ago, which in an industry where caregivers often change every few months means the same two warm faces greet families at drop-off year after year. Ratios meet or exceed Texas Health and Human Services licensing for every age, with the youngest rooms kept smallest, and because the school is small, the Director personally approves every move from one room to the next.

The third thing is a set of daily-life choices that are easy to verify. Food is treated as curriculum: organic milk and organic vegetables, no added raw sugar, minimal salt and fat, a vegetarian option every day, fresh fruit and milk with every lunch, and a nut-free building. Children under two have no screen time at all, and older children never more than one supplemental, education-aligned hour, never at meals or rest. Every classroom has a camera, and parents can log in and watch any time during the day. Our Our School page covers the rest.

Curriculum and daily life, compared

Because both schools are Montessori, the table below has fewer sharp contrasts than a Montessori-versus-franchise comparison would. The differences are in the edges: how early a baby can start, how the kindergarten year is framed, what is bundled in, and how each school handles food, screens and rest.

A few honest notes. Aspiring Minds' bundle is genuinely larger than ours: Spanish, yoga and a music program from a specialist provider are included from the toddler year, and the menu of paid after-hours classes, from ballet to chess to cooking, is longer than anything we host. If you want your four-year-old in soccer and chess without a second drop-off, that is a real convenience. Its kindergarten is also a different product from ours: a "highly academic" year that stays in the building, where ours ends at kindergarten entry and sends children on to Frisco ISD. On our side, the differences are specific rather than broad: we take babies from six weeks rather than six months, we publish our discipline, rest, screen and illness policies rather than leaving them for the handbook, we put organic sourcing and a no-added-sugar rule on the menu, and we let you watch the room from anywhere.

Food, hours, and the shape of a day

Hours. Aspiring Minds wins the evening: 7:30 AM to 6:00 PM, which its website says is "to accommodate the needs of our working parents," is half an hour more evening coverage than Creative Minds' 7:00 to 5:30, though we open half an hour earlier. Creative Minds' full-day programs cap at ten hours of care, and the school asks for a 9:00 arrival so children get the uninterrupted work period that Montessori depends on. Aspiring Minds' state record lists part-time care, and its summer program can be full- or part-time.

Food. Both state records say meals and snacks are provided. Beyond that, Aspiring Minds' website does not describe its menu, its sourcing, or an allergy policy, and its state record contains one food finding worth knowing: a self-reported investigation closed July 30, 2025 found that "a child with a known nut allergy was served a birthday treat that contained nuts. The ingredient label was not checked prior to serving," after which the school adopted a policy "that requires parents to bring any outside food to the administrative office to be checked and cleared." An earlier September 2024 inspection found one child's food-allergy emergency plan unsigned by the parent, corrected in four days. Creative Minds does not cook on site; lunch is catered by KidzCaters on a four-week rotation, and the choices are in the sourcing: organic milk and organic vegetables, no added raw sugar, minimal salt and fat, a vegetarian option every day, fresh fruit and milk with every lunch, and a nut-free building. Ask both schools how birthday treats are handled; ours is on our Nutrition page.

Flexibility and transportation. Neither school offers transportation. Aspiring Minds lists after-school care and part-time care on its state record and runs a summer program that can be part-time. Creative Minds is a full-day preschool. We do offer ways to protect a spot during extended breaks (half tuition for infants, a hold-spot fee for older children) and two $50-per-year vacation credits, but if you need a part-week schedule or a summer camp for a six-year-old, Aspiring Minds is the one to ask.

Safety, security, and seeing your child's day

We describe our security practices on our website. Aspiring Minds' website does not, so the left column of this table leans on what the state's inspectors have written down when they walked through.

What the state's five-year records show, side by side

The Texas Health and Human Services Commission publishes every licensed center's five-year compliance history in its public Child Care Search. We read both schools' pages on September 22, 2026 and put them in one table. Read ours as critically as theirs; the links go to the primary source.

What Aspiring Minds' six deficiencies were, in full. Three came from a single inspection on September 13, 2024: the children's records reviewed "did not have documentation that the parents received information regarding their parent rights" (medium, corrected in five days); "one child's food allergy emergency plans was not signed by the parent" (medium-high, corrected in four days); and the torn netted playground fence "with sharp points exposed" (medium-high, found compliant on October 7). One came from a self-reported investigation closed July 19, 2024: one caregiver's file lacked the notarized employment affidavit (medium-low, corrected in six days). One came from the self-reported nut-allergy investigation closed July 30, 2025, described above (medium-high, closed August 29 after the policy change). And the newest, from the August 20, 2026 inspection, is that "the annual fire inspection report was observed during the unannounced inspection and expired 5/29/25" (medium-high), with no correction recorded when we read the page. Three other investigations in five years, in February 2024, April 2024 and April 2025, evaluated standards and found nothing deficient. Four full inspections between December 2021 and November 2023 found nothing at all.

That is a very clean record, and it deserves to be said plainly: over five years the state has never rated anything at Aspiring Minds high-risk, has never found a supervision, ratio, discipline or safe-sleep problem, and has closed every finding but the newest within days. Two things are worth a question rather than a worry. The record shows one serious injury, not attributed to any standards violation; ask what happened and what changed. And the fire-marshal inspection lapsed for fifteen months before an inspector noticed; ask whether it has been done. The nut-allergy episode is the one finding that touches a child directly, and the school's response, routing all outside food through the office, is the right one.

Our own record is the one we want you to read hardest. Twenty-six deficiencies across 3,942 standards is more than Aspiring Minds', and most of them are paperwork we should have had in order and many of which we reported ourselves. Each finding was verified corrected by the state. The three self-reported incidents on our record are incidents we reported to the state ourselves, because we would rather have a mark on the page than a secret in the building. Zero injuries in five years and 5 and 7 staff departures in the last two years are the numbers we are proudest of. The details are on our state page linked above, and we would rather you read them there than take our summary.

Cost and fees: what each school publishes

Neither school prints monthly tuition on its website, which is normal in Frisco and frustrating for a shopping parent. Here is exactly what each does say, so you know what to ask.

Aspiring Minds Montessori publishes its process rather than its prices. After a tour and, for a child two and up, two free two-hour visits, acceptance is secured with a "$200 (non-refundable)" enrollment fee, and the enrollment packet follows. Music, PE, yoga, Spanish and art are "included in the monthly tuition for all toddlers and up programs"; ballet, soccer, multi-sport, chess and cooking are "not included in the monthly tuition," with pricing on request. The admissions page still says the school is "now accepting enrollment for the 2025-2026 school year," so ask for current figures. Two reviews raise deposits: a 2023 reviewer says a security deposit was not returned after six months of attendance, and an undated reviewer warns new families to "carefully negotiate the initial deposit" because "there is no way of any refund," and recommends paying by check rather than automatic payment. We cannot verify either; read the enrollment agreement's deposit and withdrawal clauses before you sign, at Aspiring Minds and everywhere else.

Creative Minds Montessori bills monthly by age. Published fees: a one-time $150 registration fee per child, a $150 supply fee twice a year (March and September), and a $25-per-child monthly camera fee. Published credits: a sibling discount, $150 off tuition for each referred family who stays 90 days, and a current new-family welcome of $100 off tuition for the first ten months. Meals, snacks, the music class and all materials are included. Monthly rates by age come from the Director, and we will give you a written all-in number on the tour. Details are on our Admissions page.

Two practical tips. First, ask both schools for a written, all-in annual number for your child's age, including every fee, the deposit and what it becomes, and the cost of any after-hours class you actually intend to use, so a $200 enrollment fee plus paid extras and a $150 registration fee plus a camera fee can be compared like for like. Second, ask what happens to your spot and your money during a two-week vacation, a maternity leave, or a job change; the answers differ more between schools than the headline rate does. Our guide to what childcare really costs covers FSAs and the child-care tax credit, which apply at both schools.

What parents say

Aspiring Minds Montessori

Start with the number: Aspiring Minds Montessori holds a 4.8-star rating across 103 Google reviews as of September 22, 2026, a higher score than ours on more than twice the count, and it should frame everything below. A rating like that over a decade means the great majority of families who wrote anything wrote something good. The school's own Testimonials page simply links to its Google and Facebook reviews rather than quoting them, which is a confident thing to do. We collected the critical reviews from the listing and did not copy the positive ones, so this section is the critical slice, not the whole picture, and you should read the listing yourself before you weigh it. The school had not posted public replies to any of the reviews below as of that date. Individual reviews are unverified parent opinion.

Of 103 reviews, we counted six critical ones, posted between about 2023 and 2026, from prospective parents who never enrolled and from families who did. Read together, they describe three concerns in different families' words:

• Being told there is no room. Two prospective families describe the same experience. One, undated, loved the school after touring three others, requested enrollment paperwork, and was told the classes for her son's age were full and that she would be waitlisted; a relative who wrote in the same day asking about the same age group, she says, was told there was "plenty of room" and was emailed the application. She writes: "I would never send my son somewhere he is not wanted." The other, from about 2023, wanted a half-day place for four months until the summer break and says the school "changed colors saying that there is no vacancy," concluding it was "just interested in making money." We cannot verify either account, and a school is entitled to prefer full-year, full-day enrollments; what the two reviews share is a feeling of not being told the real reason.
• Deposits and billing. A 2023 reviewer says a security deposit was not returned after six months, and saw "no improvement in any" area during that time. An undated reviewer warns: "New joiners beware of billing," recommends paying by check rather than automatic payment, and says to "carefully negotiate the initial deposit" because "there is no way of any refund." The website's own $200 non-refundable enrollment fee is consistent with that warning, so the question is what other sums are held and on what terms.
• The enrolled experience. Two families describe the day itself. One, after nine months around 2024, says her son "says he don't want to go again," that she heard "new complaints" every day, and that staff were "very rude" and had "answers ready for everything"; her son, she says, is thriving at a new school. The other, undated, wrote a first-week review: a classroom her son said was cold, no daily sheet for her child while other parents received one, lunch served cold despite daily requests to heat it, teachers who "have never shown up" at the door so that "a different person delivers it to the door" each day, an app that "just doesn't work," and concerns that took "at least 2-3 days" to get "just an answer." She adds, fairly, that on the virtual tour "the school and teaching materials looked very nice and the person who attended me was very kind," and that she would wait and update the review if things improved.

What cuts the other way, and we would be dishonest to leave it out: six critical reviews out of 103 is a small share, and a 4.8 average is about as high as a decade-old school gets; the state has inspected this building twelve times in five years and found nothing high-risk and nothing about supervision, ratios, discipline or safe sleep, which does not support any reading of these reviews as a safety story; and two of the six are from families who never enrolled. So the reviews mean something specific. They do not say the classrooms are unsafe; the state's numbers say they are safe. They say that, for a handful of families over three years, the experience of dealing with the school as a parent, at the point of admission, over money, and in the first weeks, was not what they expected, and that answers came slowly or not at all. Set that beside the state's count of seventeen staff departures in 2025 and twelve in 2024, and the question for the tour writes itself: who will be at the door each morning, how long have they been in that room, and what happens in the first 48 hours after you raise a concern.

Creative Minds Montessori

Creative Minds Montessori holds a 4.7-star rating across 44 Google reviews. It is a smaller school, so the count is smaller; the score is what we are proud of, and so is the state's record of 5 and 7 staff departures in the last two years, because the reviews are mostly about people who are still here. The Google reviews quoted on our Testimonials page cluster around the infant teachers who have been here since the school opened, the calm of the classrooms, the food, the cameras, and children who come home and set the table without being asked. We are not going to pretend we have no critical reviews; read all 44 on Google and ask us about any of them on the tour. We would rather answer than spin.

One thing we say to every family who tours us after touring another Montessori school: the word on the sign is the beginning of the comparison, not the end of it. Two rooms with the same pink tower can feel completely different depending on who is in them and how long they have been there. Watch the adults.

Which school fits which family

And a third possibility that is more common than either school likes to admit: some children are simply happier in one room than another, and you will know within ten minutes of watching them in it. Bring your child to both tours if you possibly can. Aspiring Minds builds two classroom visits into its admissions process for exactly this reason; ask us for the same.

Ten questions to ask on both tours

These are the questions that separate a good tour from a brochure read aloud. Ask every one of them at both schools, in the same words, and compare the answers side by side.

1. "What is the exact ratio and group size in the room my child would start in, today?" Not the licensing maximum, the actual number this month.
2. "How long have the teachers in that room been here, and how many teachers has this room had in the last two years?" Tenure is the single best predictor of how your child's day will feel. Ask Aspiring Minds about its seventeen departures in 2025; ask us about our fifteen in 2023.
3. "What happens when a child says, 'I can't do it'?" The answer reveals the whole philosophy. We explain why in our guide to choosing a whole-child program.
4. "Can I see my child's room during the day, and how?" Cameras, an app, a window, or an open door. Get the specifics and the cost.
5. "What did the children eat yesterday, where was it cooked, and how are birthday treats handled?" Then ask to see the menu for next week and the allergy policy.
6. "How much screen time will my child have, and what is it for?" Get a number, not an adjective.
7. "What is my all-in annual cost for this age, including every fee and deposit, and exactly what is refundable if I withdraw?" Get it in writing, and read the enrollment agreement before you pay anything.
8. "Is there a place for my child today, and if not, what is the honest reason and where am I on the list?" A straight answer to this one tells you a lot.
9. "When a parent raises a concern, what happens in the next 48 hours, and what did you report to the state last year?" Ask for a real example. Compare the answer with the school's state page.
10. "May I come back on a normal morning?" The answer, and the tone of the answer, tells you nearly everything.

For the longer version of this checklist, including the unannounced-visit test and the difference between settling-in tears and real red flags, see How to Choose a Daycare You Actually Trust.

The bottom line

Aspiring Minds Montessori is a well-established, independent Montessori school with a full arc from six months to a "highly academic" kindergarten, a certified Montessori teacher in every room, Spanish, yoga, music and PE bundled in from the toddler year, a longer list of paid extras than we host, hours to 6:00, a 4.8-star Google rating across 103 reviews, and a state record with six findings in five years and none rated high-risk. Its critical reviews, six over three years, keep returning to the same things: being told there is no room without a reason, deposits that do not come back, and answers that come slowly. Its staff turnover, by the state's count, is the highest number on its page. None of that is about safety, and the state record backs the school on safety; all of it is about the experience of being a parent there, which you can test on a tour and read in the enrollment agreement.

Creative Minds Montessori is a smaller, narrower, deeper offer: one philosophy carried out from six weeks to kindergarten entry by adults who have been here for years, with a food and screen policy you can see on the plate, positive guidance with published limits, cameras you can watch all day, published fees, and a state record with more findings than Aspiring Minds', including supervision and discipline findings that we describe above rather than hide. It cannot keep your child until 6:00, offer a part-week schedule, run a summer camp for a six-year-old, or give you an academic kindergarten year in the same building.

Those are different products, and a family can be right to choose either. The wrong choice is the one made from a website, including this one. Tour both. Bring the questions above. Watch the children more than the adults, and then watch the adults. And if you would like to start with us, book a 40-minute weekday tour at Creative Minds, call (972) 338-4304, or email director@creativemindsfrisco.com. Aspiring Minds Montessori schedules tours through its website or at (972) 370-8295.

Quick answers

How far apart are the two schools?

About fifteen minutes. Aspiring Minds Montessori is at 12615 Jereme Trail in east Frisco (75035); Creative Minds is at 5115 Warren Parkway in West Frisco (75034), behind Dua Trattoria at Legacy and Warren.

Are both schools really Montessori?

Yes. Aspiring Minds describes a prepared environment, mixed-age classrooms, the five Montessori areas, and "a certified Montessori teacher" in each classroom; Creative Minds has certified Montessori guides, mixed-age rooms and the classic materials across the five areas, with a Waldorf-inspired arts and music thread.

Which has longer hours and serves older children?

Aspiring Minds: 7:30 AM to 6:00 PM, 6 months to 6 years including a kindergarten year, with after-school and part-time care on its state record and a summer program. Creative Minds: 7:00 AM to 5:30 PM, 6 weeks through kindergarten entry. Neither offers transportation.

Is Aspiring Minds Montessori a licensed center?

Yes. Texas HHS lists Aspiring Minds Montessori as a Licensed Center – Child Care Program with a Full Permit since March 30, 2015, Operation No. 1549401, licensed capacity 204, hours 7:30 AM to 6:00 PM, serving infants through school-age, with meals and snacks provided, after-school care, skill classes and part-time care.

What do the Texas licensing records show for each school?

Over five years, both have zero penalties and no corrective or adverse action. Aspiring Minds shows 6 deficiencies across 3,768 standards (parent-rights documentation, an unsigned allergy plan and a torn playground fence in September 2024; a missing affidavit in July 2024; a nut-allergic child served a treat containing nuts in July 2025; and an expired fire-marshal inspection found in August 2026), none high-risk, 3 self-reported incidents, one serious injury not related to a violation, and 17 and 12 staff departures in 2025 and 2024. Creative Minds shows 26 deficiencies across 3,942 standards, including three supervision findings (2022, 2023 and a self-reported one in June 2026), all verified corrected, plus 3 self-reported incidents, zero injuries in the same years.

Does either publish tuition?

No. Aspiring Minds publishes a $200 non-refundable enrollment fee and says music, PE, yoga, Spanish and art are included in tuition from the toddler year, with ballet, soccer, chess and cooking priced separately. Creative Minds publishes its fees ($150 registration, $150 supply fee twice a year, $25 monthly camera fee) and credits (sibling discount, $150 referral, $100-a-month welcome credit for ten months); monthly rates come from the Director.

What do the critical Google reviews of Aspiring Minds Montessori say?

Aspiring Minds holds a 4.8-star rating across 103 Google reviews as of September 22, 2026. We collected six critical reviews posted between about 2023 and 2026. They repeat three themes: prospective families told there was no room without a reason they believed (two reviews), deposits not returned and warnings about billing (two), and an enrolled experience of rude or absent staff, cold lunches, a non-working app and slow answers (two). The school had not replied publicly as of that date. The state record shows no supervision, ratio, discipline or safety findings in five years.

Do both have parent cameras?

Creative Minds has cameras in every room with all-day secure viewing for $25 per child per month and grandparent logins. Aspiring Minds' website does not mention cameras. Ask on the tour.

Keep reading

• How to Choose a Daycare You Actually Trust — the full checklist, the unannounced-visit test, and real red flags.
• Alpha Montessori Frisco vs. Creative Minds Montessori, Acepire Montessori vs. Creative Minds Montessori, Primrose School of Lakehill vs. Creative Minds Montessori and Kids 'R' Kids Legacy West vs. Creative Minds Montessori — our other Frisco comparisons, same method.
• What Should Parents Look For? Choosing a Whole-Child Program — eight questions that reveal a program's beliefs.
• Early Childhood Education Methodologies — Montessori, Reggio, Waldorf, and seventeen other approaches compared.
• How Much Does Childcare Cost — FSAs, tax credits, and why continuity beats the cheapest slot.
• Our Curriculum and Our Nutrition Program — see the claims in this article for yourself.

About this comparison: written by the teachers of Creative Minds Montessori, Frisco, TX, in September 2026. Facts about Aspiring Minds Montessori come from its public website (home, school hours, about, programs and each program page, enrichment, extra-curricular, summer, admissions, FAQ, comparison, parents, testimonials and contact pages, read September 22, 2026), from its Texas HHS Child Care Search record (permit, capacity, programs, hours, administrator, and the full five-year inspection and compliance history, read the same day), and from public Google reviews as of the same date; review counts, ratings, and policies change. Facts about Creative Minds come from our own website and our Texas HHS record. Quotations from reviews and from the state record are reproduced as posted; individual reviews are the opinions of their authors and are unverified, and the state's findings are the state's, not ours. If you are the owner or director of Aspiring Minds Montessori and find an error, or want to add context to anything here, email director@creativemindsfrisco.com and we will correct or add it promptly and note the change. Nothing here is a substitute for your own tour of both schools. Our legal disclaimer applies.