Colorado Department of Early Childhood cited something at 4 of the 9 visits below. Across Denver centers it cites something at about 55% of visits. Each state decides what gets written up, so this compares Denver with Denver and never with another state.
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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 · May 11, 2026
2.230.B · Correction due May 11, 2026
A gap under the North side of the preschool playground's fence measuring approximately 6-7 inches accessible to children and posing a potential hazard.
Required correction: Immediately make hazardous areas inaccessible to children. Submit documentation with written response to specialist. Correct by 05/11/2026
2.220.G.1
Classroom backpack with several emergency medications on the floor of the gym where the class was playing all accessible to children and posing a potential hazard.
Required correction: Immediately make all emergency medications inaccessible to children. CORRECTED AT TIME OF INSPECTION - staff member put on backpack making emergency medications inaccessible to children. No response
Limited Supervisory visit · October 1, 2024
2.238.C · Correction due October 1, 2024
Two large air purifiers blocking one of the doors in the Preschool room preventing a free and unobstructed egress.
Required correction: All exits must be arranged and maintained so as to provide free and unobstructed egress from all parts of the building at all times. CORRECTED AT TIME OF INSPECTION - staff member moved air purifiers out of the classroom and into the hallway. No response required. Correct by 10/01/2024
Limited Supervisory visit · September 19, 2024
2.238.C · Correction due September 19, 2024
A baby gate with two tall air purifiers blocking one of the front doors to the classroom preventing a free and unobstructed egress.
Required correction: All exits be maintained so as to provide free and unobstructed egress from all parts of the building at all times. Correct by 09/19/2024
Supervisory visit · January 26, 2024
2.127.D · Correction due January 26, 2024
The license capacity of the room and the staff-to-chlid ratio required by regulation was not posted in the classrooms.
Required correction: All facilities are required to post in every room of the child care facility the license capactiy of the room and the staff-to-child ratio required by regulation to be maintatined for the age of the children cared for in the room. Correct
2.213.F · Correction due February 25, 2024
One staff file for Sara C. to be missing the CPR & First Aid module.
Required correction: Within thirty (30) calendar days of employment, all employees caring for children, not required by rule to be certified in First Aid and CPR, must complete the Department-approved introduction to First Aid and CPR module and renew every two years. Staff must complete the required module in PDIS and place certificate in file. Supmit written response to licensing specialist verifying completion. Correct by 02/25/2024 Licensed Classrooms Include: 1. Classroom: 121 Classroom Type: Preschool Capacity: 20 Youngest Age: 2.5 Years Oldest Age: 6 Years 2. Classroom: 118 Classroom Type: Preschool Capacity: 20 Youngest Age: 2.5 Years Oldest Age: 6 Years
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 DPS ECE WHITTIER ELEMENTARY’s file specifically, instead of waiting for the next one.
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