Greenwood Village · Licensed center
The Gardner School of Denver Tech Center
- Large center, licensed for 213 children.
- Shortlist has found no website for it yet.
What the state has found
The state lists 19 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 28, 2026
- On file
- 19 visits since January 2024 · 1 complaint investigation
- Fixed?
- The latest correction deadline was December 9, 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.
Sep 2025 Complaint Founded
Complaint · September 8, 2025
Dec 2024 Renewal-Probationary visit 1 finding
Renewal-Probationary visit · December 9, 2024
2.229.D · Correction due December 9, 2024
At the time of visit, in the Discovery C classroom, staples attaching the border on the display board were not secure and were accessible to children.
Required correction: Immediately, staples must be secured and inaccessible to children at all times. Corrected at time of visit, the assistant director removed the border and staples bringing the classroom into compliance. No response needed. Correct by 12/09/2024
Mar 2024 Limited Supervisory visit 1 finding
Limited Supervisory visit · March 11, 2024
2.229.L · Correction due March 11, 2024
At the time of visit, In Imagination A, hair barrettes and small hair ties that are choking hazards were in an unlocked cabinet and accessible to children.
Required correction: Immediately, all materials accessible to children must not be a choking hazard and must be inaccessible at all times. Corrected at time of visit, the classroom teacher put the hair ties and barrettes in a high cabinet making them inaccessible to children. Submit a written statement of future compliance by 3/18/2024. Correct by 03/11/2024
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 11, 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
- 5580 S Park Place
- License
- 1750406, active
- Quality program
- Colorado Shines Level 1
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Where every fact on this page came from, and when Shortlist last checked it against that source. Anything Shortlist could not source is named here rather than left blank.
All checked July 2026.
Details
- Address, License, Quality program data.colorado.gov
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.