Longmont · Licensed center
The Nest Schools, Longmont
- Large center, licensed for 160 children.
- Run by a for-profit business, which holds the license.
- Shortlist has found no website for it yet.
What the state has found
The state lists 8 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
- September 18, 2026
- On file
- 8 visits since September 2025 · 2 complaint investigations
- Fixed?
- The latest correction deadline was April 24, 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 Unfounded
Complaint · July 20, 2026
Jul 2026 Complaint Founded
Complaint · July 20, 2026
Apr 2026 Limited Supervisory visit 2 findings
Limited Supervisory visit · April 24, 2026
2.237.E · Correction due April 24, 2026
Observed a cleaning bottle labeled as "Sanitizer" by the sink accessible to children in the Robin A classroom.
Required correction: Cleaning compounds must be stored in areas inaccessible to children. ***Corrected at the time of inspection. Staff placed cleaning bottle in a locked cabinet. No response required. Correct by 04/24/2026
2.229.L · Correction due April 24, 2026
Observed small acorns stored in a container on a low shelf in the Penguins A classroom, accessible to children under the age of three, posing a potential choking hazard.
Required correction: Materials accessible to children under the age of 3 must not be a choke hazard. ***Corrected at the time of inspection. Staff removed small acorns from classroom and made inaccessible to children. No response required. Correct by 04/24/2026
Sep 2025 Original visit 4 findings
Original visit · September 2, 2025
2.230.C.3.a · Correction due September 2, 2025
Observed a slide on the toddler playground lacking a 6 foot use zone extending out from the base of the slide. A decorative log was approximately 3 feet from the base of the slide.
Required correction: Toddler slides require a 6 foot use zone extending out from the base of the slide. ***Corrected at the time of inspection. Director had log moved so that there is 6 feet of use zone extending from the base of the slide. No response required. Correct by 09/02/2025
2.206.B.6 · Correction due September 2, 2025
Reviewed facilities policies and procedures and observed it to be lacking an itemized fee schedule.
Required correction: The written policies and procedures must be developed and followed, and must include an itemized fee schedule. Correct by 09/02/2025
2.137.A · Correction due September 2, 2025
Reviewed facilities policies and procedures and observed it to be lacking a written plan for continuity of operations in the aftermath of an emergency.
Required correction: All child care providers must have a written plan for continuity of operations in the aftermath of an emergency or disaster. Correct by 09/02/2025
2.136.A
Reviewed facilities policies and procedures and observed it to be lacking a written plan for emergencies that accounts for children with disabilities.
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
- 901 Deerwood Drive
- License
- 1787648, active
- Quality program
- Colorado Shines Level 2
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Details
- Address, License, Quality program — Checked July 2026 data.colorado.gov
- Who runs it — Checked October 2026 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.