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Licensed daycares in 80305Boulder, CO

There are 18 licensed child care providers in the ZIP code: 80305 — 17 licensed centers and 1 family day home. Together they have been cited for 268 violations across 67 inspections in the past three years, an average of 4.00 violations per inspection, which is above the Boulder average of 2.88.

One provider has 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 physical safety (83 citations), followed by recordkeeping (47). 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 18 providers

Clean record — no violations in 3 years

1 provider.

Bvsd Creekside Elementary Preschool

Center · Capacity 40 · Ages 0 mo – 5 yr · 3740 Martin DR · Last inspected Oct 10, 2025

0 violationsActive

1–3 violations in 3 years

2 providers. Most citations here are paperwork and routine issues — read the actual citations before drawing conclusions.

Bvsd Mesa Elementary Preschool

Center · Capacity 40 · Ages 0 mo – 5 yr · 1575 Lehigh St · Last inspected Mar 2, 2026

3 violationsActive
Commerce Children's Center

Center · Capacity 110 · Ages 0 mo – 13 yr · 325 Broadway St · Last inspected Oct 7, 2025

3 violationsActive

4 or more violations in 3 years

15 providers. A higher count isn't automatically a red flag — read the actual citations before drawing conclusions.

Sunrise Early Learning Center

Center · Capacity 22 · Ages 0 mo – 13 yr · 4215 Grinnell AVE · Last inspected Feb 4, 2026

49 violationsActive
Tiny Minders Daycare Preschool

Center · Capacity 64 · Ages 0 mo – 13 yr · 3685 3695 Martin DR · Last inspected Feb 3, 2026

42 violationsActive
Boulder Montessori School

Center · Capacity 90 · Ages 0 mo – 13 yr · 3300 Redstone RD · Last inspected Jun 29, 2026

39 violationsActive

Questions to ask when you tour in 80305

Physical safety is the most-cited issue among providers here, followed by recordkeeping. Providers with clean records will have ready answers.

1

When was your last playground and facility safety check, and what did it find?

2

What records do you keep on staff training and child incidents, and how are they reviewed?

3

How do you log medication administration, and who verifies it?

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