COMPASS MONTESSORI SCHOOL

Center · Wheat Ridge · 10399 W 44th Ave

What kind of place is this?

Size 90 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.

Who runs it

Ownership Government-run Colorado Department of Early Childhood records this as a programme operated by a public school district. data.colorado.gov

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 1
License status Active

State record — Colorado Department of Early Childhood

Last visit
December 12, 2025
On file
3 visits since March 2024 — all of them cited findings
Fixed?
The latest correction deadline was December 12, 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.

Dec 2025 Supervisory visit 3 findings

Supervisory visit · December 12, 2025

2.213.B · Correction due December 12, 2025

reviewed 14 staff members and observed staff 4 to have expired standard precautions training as of 11/12/25.

Required correction: Obtain current standard precautions training for staff and add to staffs file. Correct immediately and send written verification to specialist with response. Correct by 12/12/2025

2.218.C.5 · Correction due December 12, 2025

a medical health care plan to have expired 12/9/25 for a child in Forest classroom.

Required correction: Obtain current individual health care plan for child's correct immediately and add to file and send written response to specialist. Correct by 12/12/2025

reviewed drill log an observed tornados drills to not be conducted monthly.

State records file

Jan 2025 Supervisory visit 3 findings

Supervisory visit · January 29, 2025

2.213.H · Correction due February 28, 2025

reviewed 13 staff files and observed Kiersten to have no documentation of department approved Intro to early intervention and preschool special education program training. Kiersten DOH 10/2023.

Required correction: Obtain current Intro to early intervention and preschool special education program training for staff and add to staff files and send written verification to specialist with response. Correct by 02/28/2025

2.213.I

reviewed 13 staff files and observed Kiersten to have no documentation of department approved Bias on early childhood professionals training. Kiersten DOH 10/2023.

2.213.L · Correction due February 28, 2025

reviewed 13 staff files and observed Kiersten to have no documentation of child development training. Kiersten DOH 10/2023.

Required correction: Obtain current department approved child development training for staff and add to staff file and send written verification to specialist with response. Correct by 02/28/2025

State records file

Mar 2024 Supervisory visit 10 findings

Supervisory visit · March 1, 2024

2.121.D.5 · Correction due March 1, 2024

reviewed 13 staff files and observed Amy Ball to have expired FBI as of 2/2024. Rachel C. to have FBI expired as of 8/2023. Julia G to have expired FBI as of 2/2024. Cari FBI expired 2022.

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 have reviewed the powerpoint within 24 hours. Submit documentation of FBI clearance lettter for staff members with written response to Specialist. Correct by 03/01/2024

2.121.J.1

reviewed 13 staff and observed Stephanie W. to have check list and letter from out of state but no clearance letter was available for reviewed. Out of state Clearance submitted 8/2023.

2.213.B · Correction due March 1, 2024

reviewed 13 staff files and observed Stephanie W. and Ayden A to have no documentation of Standard precautions training. Stephanie DOH is 8/2023. Ayden A DOH 12/2021.

Required correction: Obtain current standard precautions training for staff and add to staff file. Correct immediately and send written verification to specialist with response. Correct by 03/01/2024

2.213.G · Correction due March 1, 2024

reviewed 13 staff files and observed Ayden to have expire child abuse prevention and reporting training as of 12/16/2023.

Required correction: Obtain current child abuse prevention and reporting training for staff and add to staff file. Correct immediately and send written verification to specialist with response. Correct by 03/01/2024

reviewed 13 staff files and observed Stephanie W. to have no documentation of Recognizing the impact of

2.213.L · Correction due April 1, 2024

reviewed 13 staff files and observed Hannah K, Julia G, Stephanie W,Ayden A, David C, Jessica W and Katie R to have no documentation of child development training.

Required correction: Obtain current child development training for all staff and add to staff files and send written verification to specialist with response. Correct by 04/01/2024

2.133.A · Correction due March 1, 2024

reviewed 13 staff files and observed Stephanie W. to have no documentation of Emergency and Disaster preparedness training. Stephanie DOH 8/2023

Required correction: Obtain current Emergency and Disaster preparedness training for staff and add to staff file and send written verification to specialist with response. Correct by 03/01/2024

2.212.G · Correction due April 1, 2024

reviewed 13 staff file and observed Stephanie W. and Jessica W. to have no documenation of current medical health statement. Stephanie DOH 8/2023. Jessica DOH 9/2023.

Required correction: Obtain current medical health statement for staff and add to staff file and send written response to specialist. Correct by 04/01/2024

2.219.B.4 · Correction due April 1, 2024

reviewed 10 children files and observed CH3, CH4 and CH9 to have expired medical health statements.CH3 expired as of 6/2023. and CH4 expired as of 3/2023. CH9 11/2023.

Required correction: Obtain current medical health statement for children and add to children's files and send written response to specialist. Correct by 04/01/2024

2.218.C.5 · Correction due March 1, 2024

reviewed 6 child health care plans and observed 1to have expired as of 2/21/24.

Required correction: Obtain current medical health care plan for child and add to file. Correct immediately and send written response to specialist. Correct by 03/01/2024

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 13, 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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