Boulder · Licensed center
Boulder Day Nursery
- Medium center, licensed for 58 children.
- Shortlist has found no website for it yet.
What the state has found
The state lists 4 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 18, 2026
- On file
- 4 visits since December 2023
- Fixed?
- The latest correction deadline was October 21, 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.
Oct 2025 Supervisory visit 1 finding
Supervisory visit · October 21, 2025
2.229.L · Correction due October 21, 2025
Approximately a dozen small white clothespins affixed to Middle Room walls, small enough to fit in a choke tube, and in an area of facility accessible to children less than 3 years of age, posing potential choking hazard.
Required correction: Immediately ensure toys, toy parts, furnishings, equipment and any materials accessible to children less than 3 years of age do not pose a choke or inhalation hazard. Corrected at the time of visit. Staff removed clothespins from walls in Middle Room and made them inaccessible to children less than 3 years of age. NO RESPONSE REQUIRED. Correct by 10/21/2025
Dec 2023 Supervisory visit 1 finding
Supervisory visit · December 11, 2023
7.702.51.B.3 · Correction due December 11, 2023
1 prescription medication lacking original pharmacy label.
Required correction: Immediately ensure medications are kept in the original labeled bottle or container. Prescription medications must contain the original pharmacy label. Document correction in written response. Correct by 12/11/2023
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, hours and late pickup, teaching approach, ratios and staff, a typical day, and sick and biting policies aren’t on this page.
Details
- Address
- 1518 Spruce St
- License
- 46938, active
- Quality program
- Colorado Shines Level 4
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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.
All checked July 2026.
Details
- Address, License, Quality program data.colorado.gov
Medium means the middle half of Denver-area’s 1,147 licensed centers by state-licensed capacity: 41 to 114 children. Small is 10 to 40; large is 115 to 402.