SUNSET RIDGE ELEMENTARY

Center · Westmister · 9451 Hooker St

What kind of place is this?

Size 20 children licensed Smaller than the middle half of 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
October 17, 2025
On file
3 visits since November 2023
Fixed?
Correction was due November 2, 2023. 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.

Oct 2025 Supervisory visit report not read State records file
Sep 2024 Supervisory visit report not read State records file
Nov 2023 Supervisory visit 3 findings

Supervisory visit · November 2, 2023

7.702.91.H · Correction due November 2, 2023

Observed an uncovered electrical outlet by the white board accessible to children in the Preschool classroom.

Required correction: Electrical outlets must be inaccessible to children at all times. **Corrected at the time of the visit. A staff member covered the electrical outlet and made it inaccessible to the children. No need for a written statement of compliance to be submitted. Correct by 11/02/2023

7.702.71.C · Correction due November 2, 2023

Observed 2 hand sanitizer bottles on a low shelf by the classroom entrance door and an anti-bacterial soap bottle on the sink in the Preschool classroom. All items are labeled "keep out of reach of children"

Required correction: All items labeled "keep out of reach of children" must be inaccessible to children at all times. **Corrected at the time of the visit. A staff member removed all items and made them inaccessible to the children. No need for a written statement of compliance to be submitted. Correct by 11/02/2023

7.702.46.A.14 · Correction due November 2, 2023

At the time of the visit observed one staff member supervising 15 children in the hallway by the bathrooms while the other staff member went inside the Preschool classroom.

Required correction: Staff-to-child ratio must be maintained at all times. **Corrected at the time of the visit, the staff member came back and stayed with the other staff member and the children. Submit a written statement of compliance. Correct by 11/02/2023

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 1, 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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Before you tour

SUNSET RIDGE ELEMENTARY 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

Licensing and contact

State record

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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