Not yet reported: ages served, hours, days / week, schedule, holiday closures.
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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 · January 14, 2025
2.122.A · Correction due January 14, 2025
At the time of the visit, the facility did not have current fire or health inspections.
Required correction: Immediately ( 1/14/2025) The facility must maintain approving inspections from the local department of health and the local fire department. Submit documentation and a written statement of compliance by 1/21/2025. Correct by 01/14/2025
Complaint · January 17, 2023
Founded · 7.701.100.F.2. · General Rules · Correction due January 23, 2023
Emergency drills, lockdown and active shooter on premises drills must be held at least quarterly, but often enough so that all occupants are familiar with the drill procedure and their conduct during a drill is a matter of established routine. Fire drills must be held monthly and be consistent with local fire department procedures. Tornado drills must be held monthly from March to October. A record of all emergency drills held over the past twelve (12) months must be maintained by the facility or center, including date and time of drill, number of adults and children participating, and the amount of time taken to evacuate.
Required correction: Immediately, emergency drills must be conducted. Tornado drills must be conducted and documented March - October each year. Submit a statement of compliance by 1/30/2023
Founded · 7.702.62.D.5.c · General Requirement/Physical Care · Correction due January 23, 2023
Children who do not sleep after thirty (30) minutes must be allowed to move to another area and be provided with quiet toys and equipment to play with such as puzzles or books; and,
Required correction: Immediately, after 30 minutes of children not sleeping, children should be allowed to move to another area to utilize quiet materials. Submit a statement of compliance by 1/30/2023.
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 Side Creek Elementary 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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