Thornton · Licensed center
Willowbrae Academy - Thornton
- Large center, licensed for 166 children.
- Shortlist has found no website for it yet.
What the state has found
The state lists 1 visit 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 12, 2026
- On file
- 1 visit, February 2026
- Fixed?
- Correction was due March 12, 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.
Feb 2026 Original visit 1 finding
Original visit · February 12, 2026
2.122.A · Correction due March 12, 2026
Facility to be missing an approving inspection report from the local Health Department and an approving inspection report from the local Fire Department.
Required correction: Facility must obtain an approving Health and Fire inspection report. Correct by 03/12/2026
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
- 91 E. 136th Ave
- License
- 1789754, active
- Quality program
- Colorado Shines Level 2
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Details
- Address, License — Checked July 2026 data.colorado.gov
- Quality program — 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.