Parker · Licensed center
Primrose School of Parker
- Large center, licensed for 180 children.
- A Primrose Schools franchise. The brand is owned by Roark Capital, a private-equity firm.
- 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
- May 18, 2026
- On file
- 2 visits since July 2025 · 2 complaint investigations
- Fixed?
- The latest correction deadline was June 18, 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.
May 2026 Supervisory visit 5 findings
Supervisory visit · May 18, 2026
2.209.A.7 · Correction due May 18, 2026
Reviewed 14 child files and found one child to have an expired emergency medical care authorization.
Required correction: All children must have a current emergency medical care authorization that is signed by the guardians and updated annually. Correct immediately and respond with written statement of compliance. Correct by 05/18/2026
2.218.B.3
Reviewed 14 child files and found 1 child to be missing a second dose of emergency medication specified in the health care plan.
2.220.D · Correction due May 18, 2026
Reviewed 14 child files and found one child's over-the-counter medication to be missing the original labeled container.
Required correction: All children with over-the-counter medication the orginal labeled container musy be provided with medication. Correct immediately and provide written statement of compliance. Correct by 05/18/2026
2.219.B.1.a.2
Reviewed 14 child files and found one child with an expired nonmedical exemption.
Required correction: All children must have a current nonmedical exempemption that is updated each time an immunization is due.
2.219.B.2 · Correction due June 18, 2026
Reviewed 14 child files and found 2 children to have expired health statements.
Required correction: All children must have current health statements that are updated annually. Correct and respond with written statement of compliance. Correct by 06/18/2026
Aug 2024 Complaint
Complaint · August 1, 2024
2.206.B · Correction due August 1, 2024
Identified through staff statements and policy review that a tuition change was being implemented at the program and families were not given a 30 day notice of the change. Program policy states that changes would be shared with at least 30 days notice.
Required correction: Program policies must be followed. Correct and respond with statement of compliance. Correct by 08/01/2024
Aug 2024 Complaint Founded
Complaint · August 1, 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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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
- 18692 Pony Express Drive
- License
- 1776083, 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 primroseschools.com
- Who runs it — Checked October 2026 roarkcapital.com
The private-equity firm Roark Capital lists Primrose Schools among its current investments and describes it as a franchisor of pre-K schools. roarkcapital.com
Large means the biggest quarter of Denver-area’s 1,147 licensed centers by state-licensed capacity: 115 to 402 children. Small is 10 to 40; medium is 41 to 114.