Castle Rock · Licensed center
Buffalo Ridge Elementary
- Small center, licensed for 18 children.
- A public school program, per Colorado's licensing records.
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 29, 2026
- On file
- 3 visits since February 2024
- Fixed?
- The latest correction deadline was February 6, 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.
Feb 2025 Supervisory visit 1 finding
Supervisory visit · February 6, 2025
2.120.C.1.a · Correction due February 6, 2025
Reviewed 3 staff member files, 1 file lacking documentation of TRAILS clearance letter. (S.B.)
Required correction: Immediately review all staff member files and ensure that all have documentation of TRAILS clearance letter or submit request for clearance letter. Submit statement of compliance and copy of clearance letter for staff member listed. Correct by 02/06/2025
Feb 2024 Supervisory visit 2 findings
Supervisory visit · February 27, 2024
2.217.A.9 · Correction due February 27, 2024
Reviewed 3 staff member files, no staff member has documentation of current delegation.
Required correction: Immediately ensure that there is a staff member with current delegation on duty at all times. Submit statement
2.120.1 · Correction due February 27, 2024
Reviewed 3 staff member files, 1 staff member has child abuse and neglect inquiry background check (TRAILS) that was completed over 5 years ago. (C.K.)
Required correction: Immediately review all staff member files and ensure that all have documentation of current background check clearance letter. Submit statement of compliance and copy of current TRAILS background check clearance letter for staff member listed. Correct by 02/27/2024
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
- Website
- bre.dcsdk12.org
- Address
- 7075 N Shoreham Dr
- License
- 1641559, active
- Quality program
- Colorado Shines Level 4
- Ages they serve
- Preschool through 5th grade (plus before and after school care)
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Details
- Website — Checked July 2026 bre.dcsdk12.org
- Address, License — Checked July 2026 data.colorado.gov
- Quality program — Checked April 2026 data.colorado.gov
- Ages they serve — Checked July 2026 bre.dcsdk12.org
- 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.