Highlands Ranch · Licensed center
The Goddard School
- Large center, licensed for 161 children.
- 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
- July 16, 2026
- On file
- 3 visits since April 2024 · 6 complaint investigations
- Fixed?
- The latest correction deadline was February 3, 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.
Jul 2026 Complaint Founded
Complaint · July 16, 2026
May 2026 Complaint Unfounded
Complaint · May 26, 2026
Feb 2026 Supervisory visit 1 finding
Supervisory visit · February 3, 2026
2.230.B · Correction due February 3, 2026
At the time of inspection, the specialist observed an unlocked door in the hallway that led to the Staff Lounge. In the Staff Lounge, the specialist observed a cutting board on a shelf, causing a potential hazard to children.
Required correction: Indoor and outdoor equipment, materials and furnishings must be sturdy, safe and free of hazards. ****Corrected at time of inspection. The Director locked the door leding to the Staff Lounge. No response is required. Correct by 02/03/2026
Mar 2025 Supervisory visit 1 finding
Supervisory visit · March 3, 2025
2.229.C · Correction due March 3, 2025
In the hallway, I observed an unlocked closet. Behind the unlocked closet on the floor observed "Bleach" and other cleaning supplies sitting on the floor accessible to children.
Required correction: Items labeled "keep out of reach of children" must be inaccessible to children. Submit a written response of compliance to the specialist. ****Corrected at the time of inspection, The Owner locked the closet making the items inaccessible to children. No response is required. Correct by 03/03/2025
Jun 2024 Complaint Unfounded
Complaint · June 25, 2024
May 2024 Complaint Unfounded
Complaint · May 2, 2024
Jan 2024 Complaint
Complaint · January 10, 2024
2.225.C
Identified through staff statement, that SM1 guided CH1 by grabbing CH1 by the forearm on two separate occasion and SM1 scooted CH1 on the carpet using foot to guide CH1.
Jan 2024 Complaint Founded
Complaint · January 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
- 1101 Sgt John Stiles Dr
- License
- 1654999, active
- Quality program
- Colorado Shines Level 3
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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.