BOULDER DAY NURSERY

Center · Boulder · 1518 Spruce St

What kind of place is this?

Size 58 children licensed In the middle half for Denver centers, where the middle half licenses 40–113. Measured across 1,156 Denver centers, 2026-08-17.

Will it fit our family?

Not yet reported: ages served, hours, days / week, schedule, holiday closures.

What will it cost us?

This provider does not publish pricing.

What Shortlist has verified

State quality rating Colorado Shines Level 4
License status Active

State record — Colorado Department of Early Childhood

Last visit
October 21, 2025
On file
3 visits since December 2023
Fixed?
The latest correction deadline was October 21, 2025. Colorado Department of Early Childhood does not publish whether it was made.
Most serious
Colorado Department of Early Childhood does not publish a severity level for a citation, so there is no most-serious to name.

Colorado’s Department of Early Childhood lists each program’s complaints on its Colorado Shines page, with the department’s verdict on each and a report behind it, going back about three years. Older complaints are released only on request. The department does not rank complaints by severity in either place.

Oct 2025 Supervisory visit 1 finding

Supervisory visit · October 21, 2025

2.229.L · Correction due October 21, 2025

Approximately a dozen small white clothespins affixed to Middle Room walls, small enough to fit in a choke tube, and in an area of facility accessible to children less than 3 years of age, posing potential choking hazard.

Required correction: Immediately ensure toys, toy parts, furnishings, equipment and any materials accessible to children less than 3 years of age do not pose a choke or inhalation hazard. Corrected at the time of visit. Staff removed clothespins from walls in Middle Room and made them inaccessible to children less than 3 years of age. NO RESPONSE REQUIRED. Correct by 10/21/2025

State records file

Nov 2024 Supervisory visit report not read State records file
Dec 2023 Supervisory visit 1 finding

Supervisory visit · December 11, 2023

7.702.51.B.3 · Correction due December 11, 2023

1 prescription medication lacking original pharmacy label.

Required correction: Immediately ensure medications are kept in the original labeled bottle or container. Prescription medications must contain the original pharmacy label. Document correction in written response. Correct by 12/11/2023

State records file

Where this record comes from

The Department of Early Childhood keeps about three years of complaints on a program’s public page. Anything older is released only on request, as a single file covering the whole state. Shortlist asked for that file under the Colorado Open Records Act and renews it yearly; it is what this page shows for complaints older than the department’s own window.

The file this page is built from arrived on September 1, 2026 and covers complaints the department publishes today, and complaints back to January 2023 obtained by records request. The next request goes in September 2027.

The department publishes a report for each of these visits. Shortlist has not read those reports yet, so this page shows when the state came and not what it found.

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Before you tour

BOULDER DAY NURSERY hasn’t published

Cost, hours and late pickup, a typical day, sick and biting policies.

Ask which of these findings were serious, and what changed.Colorado Department of Early Childhood publishes a correction deadline, never whether the work was done or how serious it was.

Sources and dates

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All checked July 2026.

What kind of place is this

Not yet reported: established, teaching approach.

Licensing and contact

State record

Every state visit and complaint on file, shown in full and never edited. Open a date to read what the state wrote.

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