WHEAT RIDGE RECREATION CENTER

Center · Wheat Ridge · 4005 Kipling St

What kind of place is this?

Size 15 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 2
License status Active

State record — Colorado Department of Early Childhood

Last visit
December 16, 2025
On file
3 visits since February 2024 — all of them cited findings
Fixed?
The latest correction deadline was January 16, 2026. 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 2 findings

Supervisory visit · December 16, 2025

2.212.G · Correction due January 16, 2026

reviewed 4 staff files and observed Staff 1 to have no documentation of medical health statement.

Required correction: Obtain current medical health statement for staff and add to staff file and send written response to specialist. Correct by 01/16/2026

2.229.C · Correction due December 16, 2025

Observed on counter top 2 Sanitize spray bottles to be accessible to children, both labeled "keep out of reach of children".

Required correction: All items labeled "keep out of reach" must be inaccessible to children correct immediately, corrected at time of visit staff removed bottles and locked in cabinet making them inaccessible to children.No response needed. Correct by 12/16/2025

State records file

Jan 2025 Supervisory visit 2 findings

Supervisory visit · January 29, 2025

2.213.B · Correction due January 29, 2025

reviewed 3 staff files adn observed Cheyanne and Lorena to have expired standard precautions training. EX ( 5.29.24 and 6.3.24)

Required correction: Obtain current standard precautions training for staff and add to staff file. Correct immediately and send written verification to specialist with response. Correct by 01/29/2025

2.213.N · Correction due February 28, 2025

reviewd 3 staff files and observed Lorena to have expired immunization training as of 10.18.2024.

Required correction: Obtain current immunization training for staff and add to staff file and send written verification to specialist with response. Correct by 02/28/2025

State records file

Feb 2024 Supervisory visit 4 findings

Supervisory visit · February 16, 2024

2.213.D · Correction due February 16, 2024

reviewed 3 staff files and observed Lorena to be missing Shaken baby head trauma training. Observed Lorena to be working directly with children.Lorena DOH is 2/5/2024.

Required correction: Obtain current shaken baby head trauma training for staff and add to staff file. Correct immediately and send written verification to specialist with response. Correct by 02/16/2024

reviewed 3 staff files and observed Kendra to be missing the child development training. Kendra DOH is

2.212.G · Correction due March 15, 2024

reviewed 3 staff and observed Lorena to be missing medical health statement. Lorena DOH is 2.5.2024.

Required correction: Obtain current medical health statement for staff and add to staff file and send written response to specialist. Correct by 03/15/2024

2.122.A · Correction due February 16, 2024

reviewed program file and observed no current health inspection available for review.

Required correction: Obtain current health inspection for program and add to program file. Correct immediately and send written verification to specialist with response. Correct by 02/16/2024

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

WHEAT RIDGE RECREATION CENTER 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.

Sources and dates

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All checked July 2026.

What kind of place is this

Not yet reported: established, teaching approach.

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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