Arvada · Licensed center
Secrest Preschool
- Small center, licensed for 40 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
- May 7, 2026
- On file
- 4 visits since October 2023
- Fixed?
- The latest correction deadline was May 7, 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 2 findings
Supervisory visit · May 7, 2026
2.127.D · Correction due May 7, 2026
Capacity and ratio posting to be missing in the gym.
Required correction: All licensed areas of the facility must have the licensed capacity and staff to child ratio posted. Correct by 05/07/2026
2.217.A.14 · Correction due May 7, 2026
1 staff member with 4 children out in the hallway bathroom, leaving 1 staff member with 12 children at 8:54am in classroom 4.
Required correction: Staff child ratio must not be exceeded at anytime. Correct by 05/07/2026 Document ID: b6de5ee463c87a0b036a50d54276ff8917ff6110eb39e80c2b9a2895c89bccf4
Oct 2023 Supervisory visit 1 finding
Supervisory visit · October 5, 2023
7.702.72.C.1.a · Correction due October 5, 2023
The Preschool playground climbing equipments was higher than eighteen (18) inches, and the resilient surfacing was less than one (1) inch in the use zone surrounding the equipment.
Required correction: All climbing equipment eighteen (18) inches or higher must have resilient surfacing of at least six (6) inches in he use zone surrounding the equipment. Correct immediately. Send verification with written response. Correct by 10/05/2023
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
- 6875 W 64th Ave
- License
- 89635, 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.