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Walnut Hills Early Education

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
February 23, 2026
On file
3 visits since April 2024
Fixed?
The latest correction deadline was February 24, 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.

Feb 2026 Supervisory visit report not read State records file
Feb 2025 Supervisory visit 1 finding

Supervisory visit · February 24, 2025

2.229.H · Correction due February 24, 2025

At the time of visit, observed in the WHEE 2 classroom in an unlocked cabinet near the sink were accessible to children two adult scissors and staplers. Observed in the WHEE 3 classroom in an unlocked cabinet near the sink was an apple slicer accessible to children.

Required correction: Corrected at the time of visit, the Director took all sharp tools and made them inaccessible to children. Submit a written statement of compliance by 3/3/2025. Correct by 02/24/2025

State records file

Apr 2024 Supervisory visit 3 findings

Supervisory visit · April 9, 2024

2.229.C · Correction due April 9, 2024

At time of visit, observed white out and lotion labeled "keep out of reach of children" in an unlocked drawer by the door in the WHEE 3 classroom.

Required correction: Immeidately (4/9/2024) items labeled "keep out of reach of children" must be inaccessible to children. Corrected at time of visit by staff member removing items, making them inaccessible to children. Submit statement of future compliance by 5/9/2024. Correct by 04/09/2024

2.229.H

At time of visit, observed an apple cutter in an unlocked cabinet in the WHEE 3 classroom, posing a safety hazard to children.

Required correction: Immediately (4/9/2024) sharp tools and instruments must be stores in areas inaccessible to children. Corrected

2.120.C.1.a · Correction due April 9, 2024

Reviewed 9 staff files and observed 8 files (L.S., R.R., S.D., J.P., J.F., T.P., L.H. & N.R.) lacking current documentation of TRAILS verification.

Required correction: Immediately (4/9/2024) review all staff files. All individual requiring a background check must review Navigating The Background Check Investigation Unit's (BIU) Webpage's powerpoint. Submit verification that staff members (L. S., R.R., S.D., J.P., J.F., T.P., L.H. & N.R.) have reviewed the powerpoint within 24 hours. Submit documentation of TRAILS verification and statement of compliance by 5/9/2024. Correct by 04/09/2024

State records file

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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Details

Address
5400 S Yosemite
License
47353, active
Quality program
Colorado Shines Level 1

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All checked July 2026.

Details

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.