Commerce City · Licensed center
Stars Early Learning Center
- Medium center, licensed for 94 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 3 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
- December 2, 2025
- On file
- 3 visits since January 2024
- Fixed?
- The latest correction deadline was December 2, 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.
Dec 2025 Supervisory visit 3 findings
Supervisory visit · December 2, 2025
2.229.B
In room # 1, #2, and #5, Window blind cords were freely hanging and accessible to children.
2.222.A.1.b · Correction due December 2, 2025
In room # 5, diapering supplies were in bins on a shelf and accessible to children.
Required correction: Ensure that diapering supplies are inaccessible at all times. Correct immediately. ** corrected at time of visit by placing the diapering supplies in a locked storage area and making inaccessible. No response required. Correct by 12/02/2025
2.229.M · Correction due December 2, 2025
In room #3, there were 3 breakable ceramic plant pots sitting on shelves accessible to children.
Required correction: Ensure that breakable items are inaccessible at all times. Correct immediately. ** corrected at time of visit by placing the breakable plant pots in a locked storage area and making inaccessible. No response required. Correct by 12/02/2025
Jan 2024 Supervisory visit 1 finding
Supervisory visit · January 10, 2024
2.230.C.1.a · Correction due January 10, 2024
The resilient surface lacking the 6 inches of resilient surface in the use zones around the equipment.
Required correction: All climbing equipment must have resilient surfacing of at least 6 inches im the ise zones surrounding the equipment. Correct immediately, 1/10/2024. Document complaince to Specialist by 1/17/2024. Correct by 01/10/2024
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
- 5650 Bowen Ct
- License
- 1520841, 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.