Aurora · Licensed center

Del Mar 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 16, 2026
On file
3 visits since May 2024
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 16, 2026

2.209.B.4

Reviewed 8 children's files. Observed all 8 child's file was missing, statement of the child’s current health status or written verification of a scheduled appointment.

State records file

Apr 2025 Supervisory visit 1 finding

Supervisory visit · April 16, 2025

2.229.C

At the time of the visit in room C100 there was a bottle of lotion and a bottle of spray sanitizer labeled "keep out of reach of children" in the teachers desk area accessible to children

Required correction: Correct immediately At all times Items labeled "keep out of reach of children" must be inaccessible to children. Corrected at the time of the visit. the teacher removed the lotion and sanitizer and put them in a locked drawer

State records file

May 2024 Supervisory visit report not read 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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Hours
7:30 AM to 2:22 PM, 4 days a week
Schedule
Full Day (4-year-olds) and Half Day (3-year-olds)

Details

Website
delmaracademy.aurorak12.org
Address
12445 E 2nd Ave
License
10841, active
Quality program
Colorado Shines Level 4
Ages they serve
3-year-olds (half day) and 4-year-olds (full day)

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Details

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.