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Licensed daycares in 80304Boulder, CO

There are 22 licensed child care providers in the ZIP code: 80304, with a combined licensed capacity of 1,621 children. Together they have been cited for 211 violations across 93 inspections in the past three years, an average of 2.27 violations per inspection, which is above the Boulder average of 1.76.

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 (43 citations), followed by recordkeeping (40). 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 22 providers

Clean record — no violations in 3 years

1 provider.

Bvsd Columbine Elementary Preschool

Center · Capacity 40 · Ages 0 mo – 5 yr · 3130 Repplier DR · Last inspected Mar 24, 2026

0 violationsActive

1–3 violations in 3 years

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

Bvsd Mapleton Preschool

Center · Capacity 138 · Ages 0 mo – 13 yr · 840 Mapleton AVE · Last inspected Mar 26, 2026

1 violationActive
Growing Gardens

Center · Capacity 60 · Ages 5 yr – 13 yr · 1630 Hawthorn Avenue · Last inspected Oct 14, 2025

1 violationActive
Bvsd Sac Foothills Elementary

Center · Capacity 60 · Ages 5 yr – 13 yr · 1001 Hawthorn Avenue · Last inspected Jan 27, 2026

2 violationsActive

4 or more violations in 3 years

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

New Horizons Cooperative Preschool

Center · Capacity 20 · Ages 0 mo – 13 yr · 1825 Upland AVE · Last inspected May 20, 2026

34 violationsActive
Rocky Mountain Day Camp

Center · Capacity 200 · Ages 5 yr – 13 yr · 3130 Repplier St · Last inspected Mar 17, 2026

26 violationsActive
Patience Montessori

Center · Capacity 62 · Ages 0 mo – 13 yr · 3600 Hazelwood CT · Last inspected Aug 18, 2025

20 violationsActive

Questions to ask when you tour in 80304

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