Castle Rock · Licensed center
The Goddard School
- Large center, licensed for 133 children.
- A Goddard School franchise. The brand is owned by Sycamore Partners, a private-equity firm.
- 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
- March 17, 2026
- On file
- 3 visits since May 2024 · 4 complaint investigations
- Fixed?
- The latest correction deadline was April 17, 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.
Mar 2026 Supervisory visit 1 finding
Supervisory visit · March 17, 2026
2.212.G · Correction due April 17, 2026
Reviewed 22 staff member files, 1 staff member lacking a health care provider signature on their medical statement.
Required correction: Review all staff member files and ensure that all have a health care provider signature on their medical statement. Correct by 04/17/2026
Aug 2025 Complaint Founded
Complaint · August 5, 2025
Aug 2025 Complaint
Complaint · August 5, 2025
2.224.A.5 · Correction due August 5, 2025
ldentified through staff member statements and enrollment reports that there have been children under 3 years of age enrolled in Discovery Preschool that has not been receiving alternate snacks for those that could be a choking hazard.
Required correction: Immediately ensure that foods offered are age appropriate and not a choking hazard. Submit statement of compliance. Correct by 08/05/2025 Created with Scanner Pro
Apr 2025 Supervisory visit 1 finding
Supervisory visit · April 16, 2025
2.219.B.2 · Correction due May 16, 2025
Reviewed 10 child files, 1 file lacking documentation of current health statement.
Required correction: Review all child files, ensure that all have documentation of current health statements. Submit statement of compliance. Correct by 05/16/2025
Dec 2024 Complaint
Complaint · December 20, 2024
2.217.A.14
Identified through staff member statements and review of attendance verification that classrooms are out of ratio before a second staff member arrives at times in the morning. Identified through staff member statement that on 12/17/24 they were alone with 7 children for a few minutes when other staff member left the classroom.
Dec 2024 Complaint Founded
Complaint · December 20, 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.
Ask for this program’s record now
The department will also review one program’s complete file on request, which is more than either source above contains. Leave your email and Shortlist will ask for The Goddard School’s file specifically, instead of waiting for the next one.
Shortlist replaces people’s names in the state’s text with initials. This is done by rule, not by hand, so it can miss a name or shorten a word that isn’t one. The state’s report, linked on each row, has the original.
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
- 4340 Woodlands Blvd
- License
- 1737952, active
- Quality program
- Colorado Shines Level 4
Run The Goddard School? Correct or add anything here, free.
Add what is missingSources and dates
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.
Details
- Address, License, Quality program — Checked July 2026 data.colorado.gov
- Who runs it — Checked October 2026 goddardschool.com/…/castle-rock/castle-rock
- Who runs it — Checked October 2026 sycamorepartners.com
- Who runs it — Checked September 2026 goddardschool.com/about
The private-equity firm Sycamore Partners lists Goddard Systems as a current investment. sycamorepartners.com
Goddard’s own site says “All Goddard Schools are independently owned and operated.” goddardschool.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.