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Licensed daycares in 81050La Junta, CO

There are 5 licensed child care providers in the ZIP code: 81050 — 3 licensed centers and 2 family day homes. Together they have been cited for 97 violations across 22 inspections in the past three years, an average of 4.41 violations per inspection, which is above the La Junta average of 1.89.

No provider in this ZIP code has a completely clean three-year record. No facility in this ZIP code currently holds a revoked or suspended license.

The most-cited issue here is health and medication (23 citations), followed by recordkeeping (19). 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 5 providers

4 or more violations in 3 years

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

First Impressions Learning Center

Center · Capacity 80 · Ages 0 mo – 13 yr · 27764 Otero AVE · Last inspected Feb 17, 2026

38 violationsActive
Learn Thru Play Children's Kiddieland

Center · Capacity 40 · Ages 0 mo – 13 yr · 614 Topeka · Last inspected Apr 21, 2026

31 violationsActive
Debra West

Family day home · Capacity 9 · Ages 0 mo – 13 yr · NA · Last inspected Mar 18, 2026

16 violationsActive

Questions to ask when you tour in 81050

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