Not yet reported: ages served, hours, days / week, schedule, holiday closures.
This provider does not publish pricing.
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.
Supervisory visit · September 30, 2025
2.120.C.1.a · Correction due October 1, 2025
Reviewed 10 staff member files, 1 file lacking TRAILS clearance letter.
Required correction: All individuals requiring a background check must review Navigating the Background Check Investigation Unit's (BIU) Webpage powerpoint. Submit verification that staff members has reviewed the powerpoint within 24 hours. Submit documentation of TRAILS Clearance Letter for staff member with written response to Specialist. Correct by 10/01/2025
2.212.G
Reviewed 10 staff member files, 1 file lacking a medical statement from a health care provider.
Supervisory visit · October 21, 2024
2.213.G · Correction due October 21, 2024
Reviewed 5 staff member files, 1 staff member lacking documentation of current child abuse prevention training.
Required correction: Immediately review all staff member files and ensure that all have documentation of current child abuse prevention training. Submit statement of compliance. Correct by 10/21/2024
2.229.C · Correction due October 21, 2024
Spray paint and cleaning solution accessible to children in unlocked closet in the gym.
Required correction: Immediately ensure that all items labeled "keep out of reach of children" are inaccessible to children at all times. Submit statement of compliance. Correct by 10/21/2024
Loose plastic bags in unlatched drawer in Prairie Dog classroom accessible to children.
2.229.M · Correction due October 21, 2024
Glass container on shelf in Prairie Dog classroom accessible to children.
Required correction: Immediately ensure that no glass items are accessible to children. **Corrected at the time of the visit. No response required. Correct by 10/21/2024
Complaint · May 9, 2024
Unfounded
The state lists this complaint on the provider’s record and publishes an investigation report for it. Shortlist has not read that report, so this row includes no citation detail.
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.
The department will also review one program’s complete file on request, which is more than either source above contains. Leave your email and Shortlist will ask for Castlewood Community’s file specifically, instead of waiting for the next one.
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.
Where every fact on this page came from, and when Shortlist last checked it against that source. Anything Shortlist could not source is named here rather than left blank.
All checked July 2026.
Not yet reported: established, teaching approach.
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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