Denver · Licensed center

Federal Heights Elementary Preschool

Small center, licensed for 32 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: November 20, 2025
On file: 3 visits since January 2024 · 2 complaint investigations
Fixed?: Correction was due October 3, 2023. 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.

Nov 2025 Supervisory visit report not read State records file

Dec 2024 Supervisory visit report not read State records file

Jan 2024 Supervisory visit report not read State records file

Oct 2023 Complaint 2 findings

Complaint · October 3, 2023

7.702.46.A.3 · Correction due October 3, 2023

Identified there was no Director present from 9/6/23- 09/26/23.

Required correction: Assign a qualified Director to be present at least 60% of every operating day. Corrected at time of visit. E. was assigned to be Director as of 09/26/2023. No response is necessary. Correct by 10/03/2023 Complaint Allegation : RP states that a child was told that they could not get water when they asked to get a drink of water. - FOUNDED

Identified by staff 1 statement children do not have access to water through out the day. Identified by staff 2 statement children are allowed to get water meal/snack time or after outdoor play. This demonstrates a lack of

State records file

Oct 2023 Complaint Founded

Complaint · October 3, 2023

The state’s report (PDF)

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, teaching approach, and ratios and staff aren’t on this page.

A day here

Hours: 3 hours a day, 4 days a week, school year
Meals: Breakfast and lunch served daily in the cafeteria, free for all students
Outdoors: Daily outdoor recess; moved indoors for significant snow/rain/sleet/hail, lightning, wind-chill of 27° or below, or poor playground conditions
Updates for parents: ClassDojo for classroom-level communication; Apptegy-powered Alerts for school-wide updates
Schedule: half-day
Closed: 8 holidays and breaks a year
Dates
Closed: Labor Day (9/7), staff workdays, Fall Break (10/12-10/16), Thanksgiving Break (11/23-11/27), Winter Break (12/21-1/1), MLK Day (1/18), President's Day (2/15), Spring Break (3/22-3/26)

Policies

When a child is sick: Child must stay home with fever of 100°F+ and may not return until fever-free for 24 hours; also excluded for excessive coughing, vomiting, or diarrhea lasting 24+ hours

Details

Website: federal.adams12.org
Address: 2500 W 96th Ave
License: 11269, active
Quality program: Colorado Shines Level 1

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Sources and dates

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.

A day here

Meals, Outdoors, Updates for parents, Hours, Schedule — Checked July 2026 federal.adams12.org
Calendar, Closed — Checked July 2026 resources.finalsite.net/…/Calendar_English.pdf

Policies

When a child is sick — Checked July 2026 federal.adams12.org

Details

Website — Checked July 2026 federal.adams12.org
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

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.