Wheat Ridge · Licensed center
Wheat Ridge Recreation Center
- Small center, licensed for 15 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
- December 16, 2025
- On file
- 3 visits since February 2024
- Fixed?
- The latest correction deadline was January 16, 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.
Dec 2025 Supervisory visit 2 findings
Supervisory visit · December 16, 2025
2.212.G · Correction due January 16, 2026
reviewed 4 staff files and observed Staff 1 to have no documentation of medical health statement.
Required correction: Obtain current medical health statement for staff and add to staff file and send written response to specialist. Correct by 01/16/2026
2.229.C · Correction due December 16, 2025
Observed on counter top 2 Sanitize spray bottles to be accessible to children, both labeled "keep out of reach of children".
Required correction: All items labeled "keep out of reach" must be inaccessible to children correct immediately, corrected at time of visit staff removed bottles and locked in cabinet making them inaccessible to children.No response needed. Correct by 12/16/2025
Jan 2025 Supervisory visit 2 findings
Supervisory visit · January 29, 2025
2.213.B · Correction due January 29, 2025
reviewed 3 staff files adn observed C. and L. to have expired standard precautions training. EX ( 5.29.24 and 6.3.24)
Required correction: Obtain current standard precautions training for staff and add to staff file. Correct immediately and send written verification to specialist with response. Correct by 01/29/2025
2.213.N · Correction due February 28, 2025
reviewd 3 staff files and observed L. to have expired immunization training as of 10.18.2024.
Required correction: Obtain current immunization training for staff and add to staff file and send written verification to specialist with response. Correct by 02/28/2025
Feb 2024 Supervisory visit 4 findings
Supervisory visit · February 16, 2024
2.213.D · Correction due February 16, 2024
reviewed 3 staff files and observed L. to be missing Shaken baby head trauma training. Observed L. to be working directly with children.L. DOH is 2/5/2024.
Required correction: Obtain current shaken baby head trauma training for staff and add to staff file. Correct immediately and send written verification to specialist with response. Correct by 02/16/2024
reviewed 3 staff files and observed K. to be missing the child development training. K. DOH is
2.212.G · Correction due March 15, 2024
reviewed 3 staff and observed L. to be missing medical health statement. L. DOH is 2.5.2024.
Required correction: Obtain current medical health statement for staff and add to staff file and send written response to specialist. Correct by 03/15/2024
2.122.A · Correction due February 16, 2024
reviewed program file and observed no current health inspection available for review.
Required correction: Obtain current health inspection for program and add to program file. Correct immediately and send written verification to specialist with response. Correct by 02/16/2024
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
- 4005 Kipling St
- License
- 1529053, active
- Quality program
- Colorado Shines Level 2
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All checked July 2026.
Details
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Small means the smallest quarter of Denver-area’s 1,147 licensed centers by state-licensed capacity: 10 to 40 children. Medium is 41 to 114; large is 115 to 402.