Federal Heights Elementary Preschool

Center · Denver · 2500 W 96th Ave

What kind of place is this?

Size 32 children licensed Smaller than the middle half of 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?

Hours 3 hours a day
Days / week 4
Schedule half-day
Holiday closures Closed: Labor Day (9/7), staff workdays, Fall Break (10/12-10/16), Thanksgiving Break (11/23-11/27), Winter Break (12/21-1/1), MLK Day (1/18), President's Day (2/15), Spring Break (3/22-3/26)

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
November 20, 2025
On file
3 visits since January 2024 · 2 complaint investigations
Fixed?
Correction was due October 3, 2023. 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 report not read State records file
Dec 2024 Supervisory visit report not read State records file
Jan 2024 Supervisory visit report not read State records file
Oct 2023 Complaint 2 findings

Complaint · October 3, 2023

7.702.46.A.3 · Correction due October 3, 2023

Identified there was no Director present from 9/6/23- 09/26/23.

Required correction: Assign a qualified Director to be present at least 60% of every operating day. Corrected at time of visit. Emma was assigned to be Director as of 09/26/2023. No response is necessary. Correct by 10/03/2023 Complaint Allegation : RP states that a child was told that they could not get water when they asked to get a drink of water. - FOUNDED

Identified by staff 1 statement children do not have access to water through out the day. Identified by staff 2 statement children are allowed to get water meal/snack time or after outdoor play. This demonstrates a lack of

State records file

Oct 2023 Complaint Founded

Complaint · October 3, 2023

Founded

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.

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

Federal Heights Elementary Preschool hasn’t published

Cost.

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.

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What kind of place is this

Not yet reported: established, teaching approach.

Who runs it

Will it fit our family

Not yet reported: ages served.

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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