Colorado Department of Early Childhood cited something at 2 of the 4 visits below. Across Denver centers it cites something at about 55% of visits. Each state decides what gets written up, so this compares Denver with Denver and never with another state.
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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.
Supervisory visit · May 7, 2026
2.127.D · Correction due May 7, 2026
Capacity and ratio posting to be missing in the gym.
Required correction: All licensed areas of the facility must have the licensed capacity and staff to child ratio posted. Correct by 05/07/2026
2.217.A.14 · Correction due May 7, 2026
1 staff member with 4 children out in the hallway bathroom, leaving 1 staff member with 12 children at 8:54am in classroom 4.
Required correction: Staff child ratio must not be exceeded at anytime. Correct by 05/07/2026 Document ID: b6de5ee463c87a0b036a50d54276ff8917ff6110eb39e80c2b9a2895c89bccf4
Supervisory visit · October 5, 2023
7.702.72.C.1.a · Correction due October 5, 2023
The Preschool playground climbing equipments was higher than eighteen (18) inches, and the resilient surfacing was less than one (1) inch in the use zone surrounding the equipment.
Required correction: All climbing equipment eighteen (18) inches or higher must have resilient surfacing of at least six (6) inches in he use zone surrounding the equipment. Correct immediately. Send verification with written response. Correct by 10/05/2023
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.
The department will also review one program’s complete file on request, which is more than either source above contains. Leave your email and Shortlist will ask for Secrest Preschool’s file specifically, instead of waiting for the next one.
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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.
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.
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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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