Aurora · Licensed center
Polton Elementary School
At a glance
- Medium center, licensed for 67 children.
- A public school program, per Colorado's licensing records.
What the state has found
The state lists 3 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
- March 10, 2026
- On file
- 3 visits since May 2024
- Fixed?
- Correction was due May 2, 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.
Apr 2025 Supervisory visit 2 findings
Supervisory visit · April 2, 2025
2.237.B · Correction due May 2, 2025
At the time of the visit, in the hallway by the door, and in classroom 1 the was peeling paint accessible to children
Required correction: At all times buildings must be kept safe and in good repair. Submit a written statement of compliance to the specialist by Correct by 05/02/2025
2.230.C.8 · Correction due May 2, 2025
At the time of the visit on the playground on the blue slide there was a 1/2 inch gap opening in the slide area, Also on the bridge area there was peeling paint exposing rusting metal, Also under the monkey bar area there was not 6 inches of resilience surface
Required correction: At all times buildings must be kept safe and in good repair. Submit a written statement of compliance to the specialist by Correct by 05/02/2025
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
- 2985 S Oakland St, Aurora, 80014
- License
- 1518511
- Quality program
- Colorado Shines Level 4
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Sources and dates
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Details
- Website — Checked July 2026 polton.cherrycreekschools.org
- 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
Medium means the middle half of Denver-area’s 1,145 licensed centers by state-licensed capacity: 41 to 114 children. Small is 8 to 40; large is 115 to 320.