Littleton · Licensed center
Willows Child Learning Ctr @ Arapaho Hills
At a glance
- Large play-based center, licensed for 121 children.
- Ages They list: 2.5-4.
- Hours 7 a.m. to 6 p.m., 5 days a week.
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 23, 2026
- On file
- 3 visits since March 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
7 a.m. to 6 p.m., 5 days a week
Updates for parents
- Updates for parents
- Daily digital communication, photos of activities, meal/nap updates, and parent-teacher conferences
How they teach
Play-based
“Joyful and Meaningful Play-based Learning”
Details
- Address
- 5301 S Lowell Blvd, Littleton, 80123
- License
- 1764418
- Quality program
- Colorado Shines Level 2
- Ages they serve
- 2.5-4
- Siblings
- Sibling discounts
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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.
How they teach
- Approach — Checked July 2026 willowschildlearn.com
What it costs
- Sibling discount — Checked July 2026 willowschildlearn.com
A day here
- Updates for parents — Checked July 2026 willowschildlearn.com
- Hours — Checked July 2026 willowschildlearn.com
Details
- Website — Checked July 2026 willowschildlearn.com
- Address, License — Checked July 2026 data.colorado.gov
- Quality program — Checked April 2026 data.colorado.gov
- Ages they serve — Checked July 2026 willowschildlearn.com
Large means the biggest quarter of Denver-area’s 1,145 licensed centers by state-licensed capacity: 115 to 320 children. Small is 8 to 40; medium is 41 to 114.