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Licensed daycares in 80602 — Thornton, CO
There are 36 licensed child care providers in the ZIP code: 80602 — 13 licensed centers and 23 family day homes. Together they have been cited for 302 violations across 125 inspections in the past three years, an average of 2.42 violations per inspection, which is above the Thornton average of 2.07.
4 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 recordkeeping (69 citations), followed by health and medication (67). 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 36 providers
Clean record — no violations in 3 years
4 providers.
1–3 violations in 3 years
5 providers. Most citations here are paperwork and routine issues — read the actual citations before drawing conclusions.
4 or more violations in 3 years
27 providers. A higher count isn't automatically a red flag — read the actual citations before drawing conclusions.
Questions to ask when you tour in 80602
Recordkeeping is the most-cited issue among providers here, followed by health and medication. Providers with clean records will have ready answers.
What records do you keep on staff training and child incidents, and how are they reviewed?
How do you log medication administration, and who verifies it?
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