Thornton · Licensed center
Thornton Elementary Preschool
At a glance
- Small center, licensed for 32 children.
- Hours 3 hours a day, 4 days a week.
- A public school program, per Colorado's licensing records.
What to know
The license is the range the state allows. It does not say which ages have openings.
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
- January 22, 2026
- On file
- 3 visits since February 2024
- Fixed?
- Shortlist has not read Colorado Department of Early Childhood’s reports for this provider, so what they cited is not known.
- Most serious
- Shortlist has not read the reports Colorado Department of Early Childhood published for these visits, so nothing here says what they found.
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.
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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A day here
- Hours
- 3 hours a day, 4 days a week
Meals, updates for parents, schedule and one more
- Meals
- Free breakfast and lunch for all enrolled students; additional snacks/beverages/extra servings available a la carte
- Updates for parents
- Adams 12 Five Star Schools mobile app for school/district updates; Infinite Campus Parent Portal for academic progress; parent conferences at least twice a year
- Schedule
- Half-day
- Closed
- Closed for Fall Break (Oct 13-16), Labor Day Holiday (Sep 7), and Staff Work Day (Sep 8)
Details
- Address
- 991 Eppinger Blvd, Thornton, 80229
- License
- 1657321
- Quality program
- Colorado Shines Level 1
We couldn’t find some information that may matter to your decision: openings, child care subsidies, cost, teaching approach, ratios and staff, and sick and biting policies. We can ask the program for you and copy you in.
Sources and dates
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.
A day here
- Meals, Updates for parents, Hours, Schedule — Checked July 2026 thorntone.adams12.org
- Closed — Checked July 2026 thorntone.adams12.org
Details
- Website — Checked July 2026 thorntone.adams12.org
- Address, License — Checked July 2026 data.colorado.gov
- Quality program — Checked April 2026 data.colorado.gov
- Ages they serve — Checked July 2026 thorntone.adams12.org
- Who runs it — Checked November 2026 data.colorado.gov
Small means the smallest quarter of Denver-area’s 1,145 licensed centers by state-licensed capacity: 8 to 40 children. Medium is 41 to 114; large is 115 to 320.