ELK CREEK PRESCHOOL

Center · Pine · 3304 S Highway 285

What kind of place is this?

Size 40 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
November 4, 2025
On file
3 visits since February 2024
Fixed?
Correction was due November 4, 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.

Nov 2025 Supervisory visit 2 findings

Supervisory visit · November 4, 2025

2.237.H · Correction due November 4, 2025

8 outlets in cafeteria to have no outlet covers at time of visit all outlets to be low and accessible to children. Identified through staff that PRS use this area during lunch.

Required correction: All electrical outlets that are accessible to children must have protective covers or safety outlets must be installed , correct immediately and send written response to specialist. Correct by 11/04/2025

2.230.C.1.c · Correction due November 4, 2025

observed in the playground structure under and around the mulch to have become compacted next to the log steps leading up to play structure.

Required correction: Loose fill resilient surface must be raked regulary to retain its resilincy and to retain a depth of at least 6 inches, correct immediately and send written response to specialist. Correct by 11/04/2025

State records file

Dec 2024 Supervisory visit report not read State records file
Feb 2024 Supervisory visit report not read 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

ELK CREEK PRESCHOOL 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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