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Margaret W. Carpenter Recreation Center
- Medium center, licensed for 48 children.
- 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
- March 12, 2026
- On file
- 4 visits since September 2023
- Fixed?
- The latest correction deadline was April 12, 2026. 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.
Mar 2026 Supervisory visit 2 findings
Supervisory visit · March 12, 2026
2.213.M · Correction due March 12, 2026
Reviewed 6 staff files and observed staff 1 with 6 hours of training from 8/24-7/31/25 and Staff 5 with 5 hours and staff 6 with 6 hours.
Required correction: Maintain 15 hours of annual training for all staff. Correct by 03/12/2026
2.213.I · Correction due April 12, 2026
Reviewed 6 staff files and observed staff 6 (DOH 12/21) missing documentation of Recognizing the Impact of Bias on Early Childhood Professionals.
Required correction: Obtain documentation of Recognizing the Impact of Bias on Early Childhood Professionals with in 90 days of hire. Correct by 04/12/2026 Document ID: f38c6ffb9a9605997c4660e26846e1fd9044841bea577219ca3101880a32ea46
Sep 2023 Supervisory visit 4 findings
Supervisory visit · September 22, 2023
7.702.45.A.1 · Correction due September 22, 2023
Reviewed 3 staff files and observed G. missing documentation of Early Childhood Teacher qualifications. Identified through staff statement G. works as an Early Childhood Teacher.
Required correction: Obtain documentation of Early Childhood Teacher qualifications for all staff working as an ECT. Correct by 09/22/2023
7.702.41.G
Reviewed three staff files and observed M. (DOH 03/2019) missing documentation of a medical statement.
7.702.42.F · Correction due October 22, 2023
Reviewed 3 staff files and observed missing documentation of First Aid and CPR Module for M.
Required correction: Obtain documentation of First Aid and CPR module for all staff not required to be certified. Correct by 10/22/2023
7.702.42.G · Correction due September 22, 2023
Reviewed 3 staff files and observed missing documentation of Child Abuse and Neglect Training for K. (DOH 01/02/2005).
Required correction: Obtain documentation of child abuse and neglect training for K. Correct by 09/22/2023
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
- 11151 Colorado Blvd
- License
- 1504272, active
- Quality program
- Colorado Shines Level 3
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Details
- Address, License — Checked July 2026 data.colorado.gov
- Quality program — Checked April 2026 data.colorado.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.