Castle Rock · Licensed center
KCE Champions LLC @ AspenView Academy PreK
At a glance
- Small center, licensed for 15 children.
- Run by a for-profit business, which holds the license.
- Champions, part of KinderCare: public company; majority holder Partners Group (private equity).
What the state has found
The state lists 2 visits below. Shortlist has not read the reports behind them, so there is no share of visits that cited something to set beside other providers yet.
State record — Colorado Department of Early Childhood
- Last visit
- April 14, 2026
- On file
- 2 visits since May 2025
- Fixed?
- The latest correction deadline was April 14, 2026. 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, where it publishes one, 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.
Apr 2026 Supervisory visit 2 findings
Supervisory visit · April 14, 2026
2.210.A.6 · Correction due April 14, 2026
Reviewed 3 staff member files, 1 file lacking documentation of CBI clearance letter.
Required correction: Immediately review all staff member files and ensure that all have documentation of all background check clearance letters. Submit statement of compliance and copy of CBI clearance letter. Correct by 04/14/2026
2.216.A.1 · Correction due April 14, 2026
At the time children arrived there was 30 minutes without a qualified early childhood teacher present.
Required correction: Immediately ensure that there is an early childhood teacher present with the group of children at all times. Submit statement of compliance. Correct by 04/14/2026
May 2025 Original visit 2 findings
Original visit · May 20, 2025
2.122.A
Facility lacking approved fire inspection.
2.212.G · Correction due May 20, 2025
Reviewed 1 staff member file, 1 staff member lacking documentation of health statement from a health care professional. (M.W.)
Required correction: Obtain health statement from a health care professional. Submit statement of compliance and copy of health statement. Correct by 05/20/2025
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 November 8, 2026 and covers complaints the department publishes today, and complaints back to January 2023 obtained by records request. The next request goes in November 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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What staff are paid
- Lead Teacher at Aspen View Academy
- $17.85 to $23.25 an hourJob posting, September 2026
- Lead Teacher at Aspen View Academy
- $17.85 to $23.25 an hourJob posting, July 2026
- Teacher at Aspen View Academy
- $15.50 to $20.95 an hourJob posting, August 2026
Details
- Address
- 2131 Low Meadow Blvd., Castle Rock, 80109
- License
- 1788607
- Quality program
- Colorado Shines Level 1
We couldn’t find some information that may matter to your decision: openings, child care subsidies, cost, hours and late pickup, teaching approach, ratios and staff, a typical day, and sick and biting policies. We can ask the program for you and copy you in.
Sources and dates
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.
What staff are paid
- Lead Teacher at Aspen View Academy — Checked October 2026 kindercare.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/…/003138-Aspen-View-Academy/Lead-Teacher-at-Aspen-View-Academy_JR54009
- Lead Teacher at Aspen View Academy — Checked October 2026 kindercare.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/…/003138-Aspen-View-Academy/Lead-Teacher-at-Aspen-View-Academy_JR48079
- Teacher at Aspen View Academy — Checked October 2026 kindercare.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com
Details
- Website, Who runs it — Checked October 2026 discoverchampions.com
- Address, License — Checked July 2026 data.colorado.gov
- Quality program — Checked April 2026 data.colorado.gov
- Who runs it — Checked November 2026 data.colorado.gov
- Who runs it — Checked October 2026 sec.gov/…/klc-20260704.htm
KinderCare offers its before- and after-school programs under the Champions name, at 1,128 sites as of July 4, 2026. From KinderCare's quarterly report to the SEC, filed August 13, 2026. sec.gov
Small means the smallest quarter of Denver-area’s 1,145 licensed centers by state-licensed capacity: 8 to 40 children. Medium is 41 to 114; large is 115 to 320.