Castle Rock · Licensed center
DCS Montessori Charter School
- Large center, licensed for 174 children.
- A public school program, per Colorado's licensing records.
- Shortlist has found no website for it yet.
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 March 2024
- Fixed?
- The latest correction deadline was March 28, 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 4 findings
Supervisory visit · February 28, 2025
2.138.A · Correction due February 28, 2025
Reviewed drill log to be lacking documentation of tornado drills being logged March-May and August-October of 2024.
Required correction: Immediately complete and log a tornado drill. Submit statement of compliance and copy of drill log. Correct by 02/28/2025
2.213.B
Reviewed 5 staff member files, 1 staff member lacking documentation of current Standard Precautions training. (L.P.)
2.213.L · Correction due February 28, 2025
Reviewed 5 staff member files, 3 staff members lacking documentation of child development training. (A.C., L.P., J.C.)
Required correction: Immediately review all staff member files and ensure that all have documentation of child development training. Submit statement of compliance and copy of training certificates for staff members listed. Correct by 02/28/2025
2.219.B.2 · Correction due March 28, 2025
Reviewed 4 child files, 1 file lacking documentation of current health statement.
Required correction: Review all child files, ensure that all have documentation of current health statements. Submit statement of compliance. Correct by 03/28/2025
Mar 2024 Supervisory visit 5 findings
Supervisory visit · March 8, 2024
2.219.B.2 · Correction due April 8, 2024
Reviewed 12 child files, 2 files having expired health statements.
Required correction: Review all children files and ensure that all have documentation of current health statements. Submit statement of compliance. Correct by 04/08/2024
2.120.I
Reviewed 17 staff member files, 6 staff members having expired TRAILS clearance letters.
2.121.D.5 · Correction due March 8, 2024
Reviewed 17 staff member files, 4 files having expired FBI clearance letters.
Required correction: Immediately review all staff member files and ensure that all have current FBI clearance letters. Submit statement of compliance. Correct by 03/08/2024
2.229.C · Correction due March 8, 2024
M53 classroom having hand sanitizer and sunscreen accessible to children.
Required correction: Immediately ensure that all items labeled "keep out of reach of children" are inaccessible at all times. **Corrected at the time of visit. No response required. Correct by 03/08/2024
2.213.L · Correction due April 8, 2024
Reviewed training requirements for 7 staff member, 4 staff members lacking documentation of child development training.
Required correction: Review all staff member files and ensure that all have documentation of child development training. Submit statement of compliance. Correct by 04/08/2024
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
- Address
- 311 E Castle Pines Pkwy
- License
- 19465, active
- Quality program
- Colorado Shines Level 1
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Details
- Address, License — Checked July 2026 data.colorado.gov
- Quality program — Checked April 2026 data.colorado.gov
- Who runs it — Checked October 2026 data.colorado.gov
Large means the biggest quarter of Denver-area’s 1,147 licensed centers by state-licensed capacity: 115 to 402 children. Small is 10 to 40; medium is 41 to 114.