Aurora · Licensed center

Bright Academy

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
March 13, 2026
On file
3 visits since April 2024 · 1 complaint investigation
Fixed?
The latest correction deadline was April 4, 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.

Mar 2026 Supervisory visit 1 finding

Supervisory visit · March 13, 2026

2.213.G

Reviewed 13 staff members files. Observed 2 staff members files missing department approved certificate for child abuse prevention .

State records file

Mar 2025 Supervisory visit 2 findings

Supervisory visit · March 28, 2025

2.213.B · Correction due March 28, 2025

Reviewed seven staff member Files one staff member ( I.M.) files was missing Department approved training for standard precautions

Required correction: Correct immediately all staff must complete the department approved standard precautions training prior to working with children. Submit a written statement of compliance to the specialist by 04/04/2025 Correct by 03/28/2025

2.213.G · Correction due April 4, 2025

Reviewed seven staff member Files one staff member ( I.M.) files was missing Department approved training for Child Abuse Prevention

Required correction: within 30 days of employment all employees must completeDepartment of proved training for Child Abuse Prevention. Submit a written statement of compliance to the specialist by Correct by 04/04/2025

State records file

Apr 2024 Complaint Unfounded

Complaint · April 30, 2024

The state’s report (PDF)

Apr 2024 Supervisory visit 1 finding

Supervisory visit · April 30, 2024

2.237.B · Correction due April 30, 2024

Outside of the infant room the window screen was torn on the side, also outside of the preshool room the window screen was torn on the bottom, and another window screen was torn on the side.

Required correction: At all times Buildings must be kept in good repair and maitained in a safe codition. Corrected at the time of the visit, the maitenance person came and repaired the screens on all windows. Correct by 04/30/2024

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 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
1400 Ironton St
License
1656630, active
Quality program
Colorado Shines Level 5

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Details

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.