Commerce City · Licensed center
MSU Denver Early Family Literacy Program
- Small center, licensed for 15 children.
- Shortlist has found no website for it yet.
What the state has found
The state lists 2 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
- June 13, 2025
- On file
- 2 visits since March 2024
- Fixed?
- Correction was due July 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.
Jun 2025 Original Change of Location/Type visit 2 findings
Original Change of Location/Type visit · June 13, 2025
2.120.C.1.a
Reviewed four staff records and observed all staff members to be missing documentation of the required Trails background clearance letter.
Required correction: Obtain the required Trails background clearance letter for all staff as required. Correct by 7.13.2025, and submit a written statement of compliance and documentation of the background checks prior to the recommendation of a
2.233.C.2 · Correction due July 13, 2025
The program to have one classroom. Identified through the Director's statement that they would operate with a mixed age group of children ages one year to seven years in one classroom. Families are on site at all times.
Required correction: Toddler programs must not be combined with other age groups. Correct by 7.13.2025, and submit a written statement of compliance and documentation of the background checks prior to the recommendation of a permanent license. Correct by 07/13/2025
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
- 7970 Kimberly St
- License
- 1641682, active
- Quality program
- Colorado Shines Level 1
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Details
- Address, License — Checked July 2026 data.colorado.gov
- Quality program — Checked April 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.