Mchenry · Licensed center
Mchenry Montessori School
At a glance
- Medium center, licensed for 77 children.
What to know
The license is the range the state allows. It does not say which ages have openings.
What the state has found
The state cited rules at 3 of its 4 licensing inspections since September 2025.
See each inspection
Licensing inspections
- Sep 21, 2026Nothing cited
Jul 8, 20262 citations
Guidance and Discipline — Child Abuse / Neglect Report Made
Guidance and Discipline — Child Abuse / Neglect Report Made
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.270(c)(6)
Background Checks for Personnel — Child Abuse / Neglect Report Made
Background Checks for Personnel — Child Abuse / Neglect Report Made
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.110
Dec 9, 20251 citation
Enrollment and Discharge Procedures
Enrollment and Discharge Procedures
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.250(i)(4)(a)
Sep 25, 20251 citation
Enrollment and Discharge Procedures
Enrollment and Discharge Procedures
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.250(i)(4)(a)
The state cited rules at 3 of this center's 4 inspections. Most Chicago-area centers inspected 4 times had more: 59% of 117 had rules cited at all 4.
How all 117 Chicago-area centers inspected 4 times compare
Of the 117 Chicago-area centers the state inspected 4 times, how many of those inspections cited a rule:
- None2%
- 1 of 44%
- 2 of 413%
- 3 of 422%This center
- All 459%
Read every record and the state’s reports
State record — Illinois DCFS
- Last visit
- September 21, 2026
- On file
- 4 visits since September 2025 — 1 cited nothing
- Fixed?
- The latest correction deadline was December 19, 2025. Illinois DCFS does not publish whether it was made.
- Most serious
- Illinois DCFS does not publish a severity level for a citation, so there is no most-serious to name.
Illinois DCFS cites each subsection of a rule separately, so one audit of a filing cabinet can produce ten citations. It publishes the rule’s title and a correction deadline, but no description of what was observed.
Jul 2026 Monitoring visit 2 findings
Monitoring visit · July 8, 2026
Background Checks for Personnel — Child Abuse / Neglect Report Made
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.110 · Violation corrected
Illinois does not publish what came of a report; that investigation is confidential.
Guidance and Discipline — Child Abuse / Neglect Report Made
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.270(c)(6) · Violation corrected
Illinois does not publish what came of a report; that investigation is confidential.
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 640199 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Dec 2025 Monitoring visit 1 finding
Monitoring visit · December 9, 2025
Enrollment and Discharge Procedures
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.250(i)(4)(a) · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 640199 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Sep 2025 Monitoring visit 1 finding
Monitoring visit · September 25, 2025
Enrollment and Discharge Procedures
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.250(i)(4)(a) · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 640199 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Details
- Phone
- (815) 344-1015
- Address
- 5213 W Elm St, Mchenry, 60050
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State record
From Illinois DCFS’s published reports, last checked November 8, 2026.
Details
- Phone, Address, License — Checked August 2026 sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov/…/ProviderLookup.aspx. To check it, open sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov's Licensed Provider Lookup, enter "MCHENRY MONTESSORI SCHOOL" under Provider Name and 60050 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 640199).
- Ages on the license — Checked November 2026 sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov/…/ProviderLookup.aspx. To check it, open sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov's Licensed Provider Lookup, enter "MCHENRY MONTESSORI SCHOOL" under Provider Name and 60050 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 640199).
Medium means the middle half of Chicago-area’s 1,948 licensed centers by state-licensed capacity: 49 to 118 children. Small is 8 to 48; large is 119 to 487.
The ages on the license are what the state licenses it to care for, which can be wider than the ages it takes.