Pine Ridge Elementary Preschool

Center · Aurora · 6525 S Wheatlands Pkwy

What kind of place is this?

Size 60 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.

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?

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 13, 2025
On file
3 visits since January 2024 — 1 cited nothing
Fixed?
The latest correction deadline was December 21, 2024. 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 nothing cited State records file
Nov 2024 Supervisory visit 2 findings

Supervisory visit · November 21, 2024

2.219.B.4 · Correction due December 21, 2024

Reviewed 12 child files. 3 children missing current health statements.

Required correction: Review all child files. All childrem must have updated health statements in accordance with the AAP on file and available for review at all times. Submit a written statement of compliance by 12/21/2024. Correct by 12/21/2024

2.229.H · Correction due November 21, 2024

At the time of visit, in the Enrichment classroom and Mobile Classroom 5A, adult scissors were in unlocked desk drawers and accessible to children.

Required correction: Immediately, all sharp tools must be inaccessible to children at all times. Corrected at time of visit, the teachers locked the desk drawers making the scissors inaccessible. No response needed. Correct by 11/21/2024

State records file

Jan 2024 Supervisory visit 5 findings

Supervisory visit · January 30, 2024

2.209.B.4 · Correction due March 1, 2024

Reviewed 12 child files. One child missing documentation of a current health statement completed by a health care provider.

Required correction: Review all child files. The center must maintain and update annually a record that includes a copy of the current health statement completed by a health care provider. Submit a written statement of compliance by 3/1/2024. Correct by 03/01/2024

2.213.L

Reviewed 6 staff files. Shari missing documentation of a child development training.

2.223.A.3 · Correction due January 30, 2024

At the time of visit, when the licensing specialist arrived, four staff members were sitting on picnic benches on the playground talking to each other and two staff had their backs to the playground and could not see the children playing.

Required correction: Immediately, all staff must be alert and actively supervising children at all times. Corrected at time of visit, the four teachers stood and spread out around the playground providing active supervision of the children. Submit a written statement of future compliance by 3/1/2024. Correct by 01/30/2024

2.230.C.1.a · Correction due January 30, 2024

At the time of visit, the loose fill gravel in the use zone around the climbing structure measured a depth of between 0-3 inches.

Required correction: Immediately, all climbing equipment eighteen (18) inches or higher must have resilient surfacing of at least six (6) inches in the use zone at all times. Submit a written statement of compliance by 3/1/2024. Correct by 01/30/2024

2.237.D

At the time of visit, in the 5A classroom, two staff personal bags were on the floor near the desk and accessible to children. In the 5B classroom, a staff personal bag was in a cabinet with a broken lock and accessible to children.

Required correction: Immediately, all staff personal bags and other hazardous items must be inaccessible to children at all times.

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 13, 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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Pine Ridge Elementary 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.

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What kind of place is this

Not yet reported: established, teaching approach.

Who runs it

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State record

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