Aurora · Licensed center
Pine Ridge Elementary Preschool
- Medium center, licensed for 60 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 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 23, 2026
- On file
- 4 visits since January 2024
- Fixed?
- The latest correction deadline was December 21, 2024. 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 2024 Supervisory visit 2 findings
Supervisory visit · November 21, 2024
2.219.B.4 · Correction due December 21, 2024
Reviewed 12 child files. 3 children missing current health statements.
Required correction: Review all child files. All childrem must have updated health statements in accordance with the AAP on file and available for review at all times. Submit a written statement of compliance by 12/21/2024. Correct by 12/21/2024
2.229.H · Correction due November 21, 2024
At the time of visit, in the Enrichment classroom and Mobile Classroom 5A, adult scissors were in unlocked desk drawers and accessible to children.
Required correction: Immediately, all sharp tools must be inaccessible to children at all times. Corrected at time of visit, the teachers locked the desk drawers making the scissors inaccessible. No response needed. Correct by 11/21/2024
Jan 2024 Supervisory visit 5 findings
Supervisory visit · January 30, 2024
2.209.B.4 · Correction due March 1, 2024
Reviewed 12 child files. One child missing documentation of a current health statement completed by a health care provider.
Required correction: Review all child files. The center must maintain and update annually a record that includes a copy of the current health statement completed by a health care provider. Submit a written statement of compliance by 3/1/2024. Correct by 03/01/2024
2.213.L
Reviewed 6 staff files. S. missing documentation of a child development training.
2.223.A.3 · Correction due January 30, 2024
At the time of visit, when the licensing specialist arrived, four staff members were sitting on picnic benches on the playground talking to each other and two staff had their backs to the playground and could not see the children playing.
Required correction: Immediately, all staff must be alert and actively supervising children at all times. Corrected at time of visit, the four teachers stood and spread out around the playground providing active supervision of the children. Submit a written statement of future compliance by 3/1/2024. Correct by 01/30/2024
2.230.C.1.a · Correction due January 30, 2024
At the time of visit, the loose fill gravel in the use zone around the climbing structure measured a depth of between 0-3 inches.
Required correction: Immediately, all climbing equipment eighteen (18) inches or higher must have resilient surfacing of at least six (6) inches in the use zone at all times. Submit a written statement of compliance by 3/1/2024. Correct by 01/30/2024
2.237.D
At the time of visit, in the 5A classroom, two staff personal bags were on the floor near the desk and accessible to children. In the 5B classroom, a staff personal bag was in a cabinet with a broken lock and accessible to children.
Required correction: Immediately, all staff personal bags and other hazardous items must be inaccessible to children at all times.
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
- 6525 S Wheatlands Pkwy
- License
- 1597580, 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
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.