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Licensed daycares in 80528Fort Collins, CO

There are 15 licensed child care providers in the ZIP code: 80528 — 12 licensed centers and 3 family day homes. Together they have been cited for 111 violations across 73 inspections in the past three years, an average of 1.52 violations per inspection, which is below the Fort Collins average of 2.05.

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 health and medication (29 citations), followed by recordkeeping (26). 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 15 providers

Clean record — no violations in 3 years

1 provider.

Psd Ece @ Traut

Center · Capacity 32 · Ages 0 mo – 13 yr · 2515 Timberwood Dr · Last inspected Apr 27, 2026

0 violationsActive

1–3 violations in 3 years

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

After School Kindness, Inc.

Center · Capacity 20 · Ages 5 yr – 13 yr · 6402 S CR 5 · Last inspected Apr 28, 2026

1 violationActive
Alphabest @ Traut

Center · Capacity 150 · Ages 5 yr – 13 yr · 2515 Timberwood · Last inspected Jan 21, 2026

1 violationActive
Crystal Ehler

Family day home · Capacity 9 · Ages 0 mo – 13 yr · NA · Last inspected Feb 11, 2026

1 violationActive

4 or more violations in 3 years

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

Maureen Brotherton

Family day home · Capacity 9 · Ages 0 mo – 13 yr · NA · Last inspected Aug 27, 2025

18 violationsActive
Lori Luzano

Family day home · Capacity 6 · Ages 0 mo – 13 yr · NA · Last inspected Nov 17, 2025

18 violationsActive
Small Oaks Christian Preschool

Center · Capacity 30 · Ages 0 mo – 13 yr · 8005 Highland Meadows PKWY · Last inspected Dec 9, 2025

15 violationsActive

Questions to ask when you tour in 80528

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

1

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

2

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

3

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