Lakewood · Licensed center
KinderCare Learning Centers LLC
- Medium center, licensed for 114 children.
- A KinderCare center. KinderCare is a public company whose majority stockholder is Partners Group, a private-equity firm.
- Shortlist has found no website for it yet.
What the state has found
The state lists 4 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
- September 21, 2026
- On file
- 4 visits since January 2024
- Fixed?
- The latest correction deadline was November 13, 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.
Oct 2025 Supervisory visit 5 findings
Supervisory visit · October 14, 2025
2.229.L · Correction due October 14, 2025
in Preschool discovery B on wall near teacher desk magnets to be accessible to children causing a potential choking hazard.
Required correction: Any materials accessible to children under than 3 years of age must not be achoke hazard or be able to inhale. Correct immediately and send written response to specialist. Correct by 10/14/2025
2.220.E · Correction due October 14, 2025
reviewed 1 medication in preschool classroom to have expired medication authorization 9/2025.
Required correction: Obtain current medication authorization and consent forms. Correct immediately and add to children files and send written response to specialist. Correct by 10/14/2025
2.209.A.7 · Correction due October 14, 2025
Reviewed 11 children files and observed ch1 to have no documentation of emergency medical authorization. DOE 9/27/25
Required correction: Obtain current emergency medical authorization for ch1 and add to child file, correct immediately and send written response to specialist. Correct by 10/14/2025
2.209.B.4 · Correction due November 13, 2025
reviewed 11 children files and observed ch1 to have no current health statement available for review at time of visit. DOE 9/2025
Required correction: obtain current medical health statement for child and add to child's file and send written response to specialist. Correct by 11/13/2025
2.219.B.1
reviewed 11 children files and observed child 1 to have no documentation of immunization. DOE 9/2025
Jan 2024 Supervisory visit 1 finding
Supervisory visit · January 16, 2024
2.213.L · Correction due February 15, 2024
reviewed 17 staff files and observed M.R. DOH 3.15.23, M.M. DOH 10.17.23, A.M. DOH 8.7.23,B. H5/2022, L. K10.17.23 and A.R. DOH 7.13.23 to be missing documenation of Child development training.
Required correction: Obtain current child development training for staff and add to staff files and send written verification to specialist with response. Correct by 02/15/2024
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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Details
- Address
- 13990 W Bates Ave
- License
- 1537608, active
- Quality program
- Colorado Shines Level 4
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Details
- Address, License, Quality program — Checked July 2026 data.colorado.gov
- Who runs it — Checked October 2026 kindercare.com
- Who runs it — Checked October 2026 sec.gov/…/klc-20260704.htm
From KinderCare's quarterly report to the SEC, filed August 13, 2026. sec.gov
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.