Denver · Licensed center
Adventure Elementary
- Small bilingual center, licensed for 38 children.
- A public school program, per Colorado's licensing records.
What the state has found
The state lists 7 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
- December 2, 2025
- On file
- 7 visits since March 2024 · 2 complaint investigations
- 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.
Nov 2024 Complaint Founded
Complaint · November 6, 2024
Nov 2024 Complaint 2 findings
Complaint · November 6, 2024
2.126.B
A child was unsupervised and alone for a few minutes amount of time posing a potential safety hazard. Observed the facility did not report the incident to the County Department for the second incident that occurred on 11.4.2024.
2.206.B
The facilities policies and procedures to state "Children shall always be supervised, and attendance taken prior to boarding and departing the bus". Identified through staff statements that a child was unsupervised and boarded the school bus alone posing a potential safety hazard.
Required correction: The written policies and procedures must be followed. Correct immediately by 11.6.2024, and submit a written
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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Openings, child care subsidies, cost, and ratios and staff aren’t on this page.
How they teach
Bilingual
“As a Dual Language Enrichment school, Adventure Elementary provides an educational experience that values intellectual rigor, joy, and inclusion for diversity of abilities and culture, biliteracy, and service to our community.”
A day here
- Hours
- 8:00 AM to 3:10 PM, school year
- Meals
- Free breakfast and lunch for all students
- Outdoors
- Outdoor recess held when wind chill is above 22 degrees; precipitation, student age, and playground condition can require indoor recess
- Updates for parents
- Talking Points app for general communication; Procare app used for PK; families can expect a 24-48 hour teacher response time
Policies
- When a child is sick
- Students may not attend if they vomited, had diarrhea, or had a fever of 100+ within the past 24 hours
Details
- Website
- adventure.mapleton.us
- Address
- 7725 Conifer
- License
- 1594835, active
- Quality program
- Colorado Shines Level 2
- Ages they serve
- Pre-Kindergarten - 6th grade
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How they teach
- Approach — Checked July 2026 resources.finalsite.net/…/ENGLISHStudentHandbook.pdf
A day here
- Meals, Outdoors, Updates for parents, Calendar — Checked July 2026 resources.finalsite.net/…/ENGLISHStudentHandbook.pdf
- Hours — Checked July 2026 adventure.mapleton.us
Policies
- When a child is sick — Checked July 2026 resources.finalsite.net/…/ENGLISHStudentHandbook.pdf
Details
- Website — Checked July 2026 adventure.mapleton.us
- Address, License — Checked July 2026 data.colorado.gov
- Quality program — Checked April 2026 data.colorado.gov
- Ages they serve — Checked July 2026 adventure.mapleton.us
- Who runs it — 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.