Thornton · Licensed center
New Horizon Academy
At a glance
- Large center, licensed for 182 children.
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
- September 3, 2026
- On file
- 2 visits since September 2025 · 1 complaint investigation
- Fixed?
- Correction was due October 30, 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, 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.
Jun 2026 Complaint Unfounded
Complaint · June 10, 2026
Sep 2025 Original visit 1 finding
Original visit · September 30, 2025
2.230.C.1.d · Correction due October 30, 2025
No written documentation from the manufacturer stating the material meets current federal safety standards.
Required correction: Any newly installed solid unitary materials used for resilient materials must have written documentation from manufacturer stating the material meet current federal safety standards. The documentation must be available for review at all times. Correct by 10/30/25. Document compliance to Specialist by 10/30/25 or prior to licensure. Correct by 10/30/2025
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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Details
- Address
- 13802 Colorado Blvd, Thornton, 80601
- License
- 1790640
- Quality program
- Colorado Shines Level 2
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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.
All checked July 2026.
Details
- Address, License, Quality program data.colorado.gov
Large means the biggest quarter of Denver-area’s 1,145 licensed centers by state-licensed capacity: 115 to 320 children. Small is 8 to 40; medium is 41 to 114.