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Licensed daycares in 80241 — Thornton, CO
There are 34 licensed child care providers in the ZIP code: 80241 — 21 licensed centers and 13 family day homes. Together they have been cited for 302 violations across 134 inspections in the past three years, an average of 2.25 violations per inspection, which is above the Thornton average of 1.51.
3 providers have a clean three-year record — inspected regularly, never cited. No facility in this ZIP code currently holds a revoked or suspended license.
The most-cited issue here is health and medication (77 citations), followed by recordkeeping (70). Worth knowing before you tour.
Every record below comes from Colorado Department of Early Childhood (CDEC) and links back to the state's own document.
Compare all 34 providers
Clean record — no violations in 3 years
3 providers.
1–3 violations in 3 years
10 providers. Most citations here are paperwork and routine issues — read the actual citations before drawing conclusions.
4 or more violations in 3 years
21 providers. A higher count isn't automatically a red flag — read the actual citations before drawing conclusions.
Questions to ask when you tour in 80241
Health and medication is the most-cited issue among providers here, followed by recordkeeping. Providers with clean records will have ready answers.
How do you log medication administration, and who verifies it?
What records do you keep on staff training and child incidents, and how are they reviewed?
When was your last playground and facility safety check, and what did it find?
A note on Colorado records
Colorado does not publish a severity classification for violations, so we can't tell you which citations were most serious — only what was cited and whether it was corrected. Colorado does publish complaint outcomes. We show everything the state makes public and link to the source for each item.
Data synced from Colorado Department of Early Childhood (CDEC) on Jul 9, 2026. Source records · Report an error