Littleton · Licensed center
Ute Meadows Preschool
At a glance
- Small center, licensed for 20 children.
- A public school program, per Colorado's licensing records.
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
- February 2, 2026
- On file
- 3 visits since February 2024
- Fixed?
- Correction was due February 11, 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, 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.
Feb 2025 Supervisory visit 2 findings
Supervisory visit · February 11, 2025
2.229.C · Correction due February 11, 2025
Hand sanitizer on the desk in the library accessible to children and 3 bottles of aquarium chemicals (Accu-Clear, Melaflex, Fluval Aqua Plus) in the library, stored on the floor under the fish tank, accessible to children all labeled "keep out of reach of children", posing a potential safety hazard to children.
Required correction: Ensure all items labeled "keep out of reach of children" are inaccessible to children. Correct by 02/11/2025
2.229.H · Correction due February 11, 2025
Adult scissors located on the desk in the library, accessible to children, posing a potential safety hazard.
Required correction: Ensure all sharp instruments are inaccessible to children. Correct by 02/11/2025
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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Details
- Address
- 110505 W Meadows Dr, Littleton, 80127
- License
- 1744714
- Quality program
- Colorado Shines Level 4
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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.
Details
- Address, License — Checked July 2026 data.colorado.gov
- Quality program — Checked April 2026 data.colorado.gov
- 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.