Littleton · Licensed center
Mortensen Preschool
- Small center, licensed for 20 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 5 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 1, 2026
- On file
- 5 visits since October 2023
- Fixed?
- The latest correction deadline was September 4, 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.
Sep 2025 Supervisory visit 2 findings
Supervisory visit · September 4, 2025
2.226.A.6 · Correction due September 4, 2025
Identified through staff statement that there was no first aid kit in room 3, used as a nap room.
Required correction: First aid kits must be available to staff at all times. Correct by 09/04/2025
2.217.A.14 · Correction due September 4, 2025
Upon arrival, licensing specialist observed 1 staff member alone in classroom 3 with 16 children.
Required correction: Must not exceed the required 1:10 staff to child ratio at any time. Corrected at time of inspection, SM1 had another staff member return to the classroom. Correct by 09/04/2025
Oct 2023 Supervisory visit 1 finding
Supervisory visit · October 11, 2023
7.702.72.C.1.a · Correction due October 11, 2023
The resilient surfacing surrounding the climbing equipment on the preschool playground has as little as three inches of pea gravel, including the swings, the purple slides and the hanging bars.
Required correction: There must be at least six inches of resilient surfacing surrounding the climbing equipment that measures over 18 inches in height. Correct immediately by 10.11.2023, and submit a written statement of compliance to the Specialist by 10.18.2023. Correct by 10/11/2023
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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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
- 8006 S Iris Way
- License
- 1538698, active
- Quality program
- Colorado Shines Level 4
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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
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.