Sweet Pea Center For Early Learning

Center · Thornton · 320 E 128th Ave

What kind of place is this?

Size 38 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.

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 3
License status Active

State record — Colorado Department of Early Childhood

Last visit
December 19, 2025
On file
3 visits since March 2024 — 2 cited nothing
Fixed?
Correction was due January 20, 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 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.

Dec 2025 Supervisory visit nothing cited State records file
Jan 2025 Supervisory visit 4 findings

Supervisory visit · January 20, 2025

2.121.D.5 · Correction due January 20, 2025

Reviewed three staff records and observed two staff members to be missing documentation of the required FBI background check that was completed in the last five years. Observed Tracy C. (DOH 2.18.2023) all background checks expired in 2024. Observed Wendy M. (DOH 7.26.2012) all background checks expired in 2024.

Required correction: Obtain the required FBI background checks for all staff members as required. Correct immediately by 1.20.2025, and submit a written statement of compliance and documentation of the backgrounds to the Specialist by 1.27.2025. Correct by 01/20/2025

2.120.I

Reviewed three staff records and observed two staff members to be missing documentation of the required Trails background check that was completed in the last five years. Observed Tracy C. (DOH 2.18.2023) to have all background checks expired in 2024. Observed Wendy M. (DOH 7.26.2012) to have all background checks expired in 2024.

2.120.C.1.a.1 · Correction due January 20, 2025

Reviewed three staff records and observed two staff members to be missing documentation of the required Trails background check that was completed in the last five years. Observed Wendy M. (DOH 7.26.2012) to have all background checks expired in 2024 and to be alone with children on the day of the investigation.

Required correction: Obtain the required FBI background checks for all staff members as required and prior to having unsupervised access to children. Correct immediately by 1.20.2025, and submit a written statement of compliance and documentation of the backgrounds to the Specialist by 1.27.2025. Correct by 01/20/2025

2.213.G

Reviewed three staff records and observed one staff member Wendy M. (DOH 7.26.2010) to be missing documentation of the current and required abuse prevention training.

State records file

Mar 2024 Supervisory visit nothing cited 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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Before you tour

Sweet Pea Center For Early Learning 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.

Licensing and contact

State record

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