Lakewood · Licensed center
11th Avenue Head Start
- Small center, licensed for 29 children.
- Shortlist has found no website for it yet.
What the state has found
The state lists 2 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
- September 8, 2026
- On file
- 2 visits since September 2025
- Fixed?
- The latest correction deadline was October 9, 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.
Sep 2025 Original-Change of Owner visit 5 findings
Original-Change of Owner visit · September 9, 2025
2.213.K · Correction due October 9, 2025
Reviewed 2 staff files and found the Director to be missing the Department-approved Introduction to Child Care Health Consultation training.
Required correction: Obtain and maintain documentation of Department-approved Introduction to Child Care Health Consultation training. Correct within 30 days. Correct by 10/09/2025
Reviewed 2 staff files and found the Director to be missing the Department-approved Working with an Early
2.213.E · Correction due October 9, 2025
Reviewed 2 staff files and found both to have expired Department-approved First Aid and CPR training.
Required correction: Obtain and maintain documentation of Department-approved First Aid and CPR training. Correct within 30 days. Correct by 10/09/2025
2.121.D.5 · Correction due September 9, 2025
Reviewed 2 staff files and found one to have an expired FBI clearance letter.
Required correction: All individuals requiring a background check must review Navigating the Background Check Investigation Unit's (BIU) Webpage powerpoint. Submit verification that staff member has reviewed the powerpoint within 24 hours. Submit documentation of FBI Clearance Letter for staff member with the written response to the Specialist. Correct by 09/09/2025
2.122.A · Correction due October 9, 2025
Documentation of fire inspection was not available for the Specialist to review.
Required correction: Obtain and maintain documentation of a current fire inspection before approval. Correct within 30 days. Correct by 10/09/2025
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 October 10, 2026 and covers complaints the department publishes today, and complaints back to January 2023 obtained by records request. The next request goes in October 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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Shortlist replaces people’s names in the state’s text with initials. This is done by rule, not by hand, so it can miss a name or shorten a word that isn’t one. The state’s report, linked on each row, has the original.
Openings, child care subsidies, cost, hours and late pickup, teaching approach, ratios and staff, a typical day, and sick and biting policies aren’t on this page.
Details
- Address
- 6201 W 11th Ave
- License
- 1789927, active
- Quality program
- Colorado Shines Level 1
- Ownership
- Government-run
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Details
- Address, License — Checked July 2026 data.colorado.gov
- Quality program — Checked April 2026 data.colorado.gov
- Ownership — Checked October 2026 data.colorado.gov
Small means the smallest quarter of Denver-area’s 1,147 licensed centers by state-licensed capacity: 10 to 40 children. Medium is 41 to 114; large is 115 to 402.