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Leading Edge at Fremont Elementary Sch

A school-age child care center in Colorado Springs, Colorado 80918

5110 El Camino Dr, Colorado Springs, Colorado 80918.

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The short answer

Record last released by Colorado Department of Early Childhood (CDEC) on Nov 2, 2026.

The last 24 months 31 citations in 9 months of the last 46. Last cited Oct 2026. Every month

Each figure’s source sits beside it, in its section below.

What these words mean5
Inspection (survey)
A visit by state inspectors, often unannounced, who check a place against the rules it must meet. For nursing homes and other places Medicare pays, CMS calls these visits surveys: a standard survey of a nursing home comes at least every 15 months, and a complaint survey whenever a complaint calls for one. Source: CMS; 42 CFR 488.308.
Deficiency, citation, violation
What inspectors write up when a place didn’t meet a rule: the rule, what they saw, and when. CMS calls it a deficiency; states may say citation or violation. It is the inspectors’ finding, not a court’s, and the place is usually asked for a plan to correct it. Source: CMS, statement of deficiencies (Form CMS-2567); each state’s licensing agency.
Quality rating
Many states rate child care in a quality rating system that goes past the licensing rules, such as Texas Rising Star or Kentucky All STARS. Taking part is often voluntary, so a program with no rating hasn’t been rated low. Source: Each state’s quality rating system.
Licence status
Whether the state’s licence lets the place operate now, in the state’s own words: licensed, on probation (allowed to keep operating on conditions, after problems), provisional, pending or expired. Source: Each state’s licensing agency.
Capacity
The most people the licence or certification lets the place care for at once: residents, children, beds or apartments, as the state counts them. It isn’t how many are there now. Source: Each state’s licensing agency.

What did inspectors find?

CDEC’s file lists 19 inspections, investigations and complaints from Jan 1, 2023 to Oct 27, 2026, the latest on Oct 27, 2026 (Probationary).

31 citations in all.

Where Colorado posts its reports: Colorado Shines.

Source:

Colorado Department of Early Childhood (CDEC), Data request 2026-967, delivered Oct 28, 2026 and each month since: licensing inspections, complaints and Stage II investigations from Jan 1, 2023. Released Oct 28, 2026. CDEC sends the previous month’s records in the first week of each month; a person saves each file and loads it.

When those citations happened

31 citations in 9 months of the last 46. Last cited Oct 2026. The last 4 years, to Nov 5, 2026.

31 citations by month over the last 4 years. Each cell is one month.
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2023 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2024 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2025 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
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No visit on record Visited, nothing cited A stronger orange is more serious, on its source’s own levels, read onto four bands: from the least serious it publishes to the most
Source:

Hearth Record drew this from the dates and levels in the source’s own records.

Each citation, in its source’s words

Grouped by visit, newest first, with the level its source gave it.

Source:

Colorado Department of Early Childhood (CDEC), Data request 2026-967, delivered Oct 28, 2026 and each month since: licensing inspections, complaints and Stage II investigations from Jan 1, 2023. Released Oct 28, 2026. CDEC sends the previous month’s records in the first week of each month; a person saves each file and loads it.

Oct 8, 2026: probationary (case 279491)2 citations
  • All personnel and volunteers at the center must demonstrate knowledgeable decision-making, judgment, and concern for the proper care and well-being of children.

    Rule 2.507.A. CDEC’s category: Personnel. Correction due, as CDEC set it: Oct 8, 2026.

  • At all times, school-age child care personnel must be directly supervising the children.

    Rule 2.510.H. CDEC’s category: Supervision. Correction due, as CDEC set it: Oct 8, 2026.

Aug 20, 2026: probationary (case 273928)10 citations
  • At all times during the operating hours of the facility, except for foster care homes, the facility/agency must post the current child care license in a prominent and conspicuous location easily observable by those entering the child care facility.

    Rule 2.127.A. CDEC’s category: General Rules. Correction due, as CDEC set it: Aug 20, 2026.

  • At all times during the operating hours of a family child care home, child care center, school-age child care center, or children’s resident camp, the facility must post its most recent licensing inspection report or a notice as to where the report may be reviewed at the facility by the parent or legal guardian of a child or their designee.

    Rule 2.127.B. CDEC’s category: General Rules. Correction due, as CDEC set it: Aug 20, 2026.

  • At all times during the operating hours of a family child care home, child care center, preschool, school-age child care center, children’s resident camp and Neighborhood Youth Organization, the facility must post in a prominent and conspicuous location information regarding the procedures for filing a complaint with the Colorado Department of Early Childhood, including the telephone number and mailing address.

    Rule 2.127.C. CDEC’s category: General Rules. Correction due, as CDEC set it: Aug 20, 2026.

  • All facilities, except family child care homes must post in every room of the child care facility, excluding bedrooms and living areas, the license capacity of the room and the staff-to-child ratio required by regulation to be maintained for the age of children cared for in the room.

    Rule 2.127.D. CDEC’s category: General Rules. Correction due, as CDEC set it: Aug 20, 2026.

  • A written policy regarding visitors to the center must be posted and a record maintained daily by the center that includes, at a minimum, the date, time, the visitor’s name and the purpose of the visit. At least one piece of photo identification must be inspected for individuals who are unknown to personnel at the center.

    Rule 2.506.F. CDEC’s category: Records/Reports. Correction due, as CDEC set it: Aug 20, 2026.

  • Within thirty (30) calendar days of employment all staff member responsible for the collection, review and maintenance of the child immunizations records must show evidence they have completed the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) immunization course. This training must be renewed annually and may count towards ongoing training requirements.

    Rule 2.508.C. Correction due, as CDEC set it: Sep 20, 2026.

  • The center must have enough play materials and equipment so that at any one (1) time the average number of children attending the school-age child care center can be individually involved. Children at the center must have access to age-appropriate materials and equipment from at least the following categories: Arts and Crafts;

    Rule 2.523.A.1. Correction due, as CDEC set it: Sep 20, 2026.

  • The center must have enough play materials and equipment so that at any one (1) time the average number of children attending the school-age child care center can be individually involved. Children at the center must have access to age-appropriate materials and equipment from at least the following categories: Manipulatives and games;

    Rule 2.523.A.2. Correction due, as CDEC set it: Sep 20, 2026.

  • The center must have enough play materials and equipment so that at any one (1) time the average number of children attending the school-age child care center can be individually involved. Children at the center must have access to age-appropriate materials and equipment from at least the following categories:Literature;

    Rule 2.523.A.4. Correction due, as CDEC set it: Sep 20, 2026.

  • The center must have enough play materials and equipment so that at any one (1) time the average number of children attending the school-age child care center can be individually involved. Children at the center must have access to age-appropriate materials and equipment from at least the following categories: Science and Math equipment and materials.

    Rule 2.523.A.5. Correction due, as CDEC set it: Sep 20, 2026.

May 19, 2026: probationary (case 273209)3 citations
  • All personnel and volunteers at the center must demonstrate knowledgeable decision-making, judgment, and concern for the proper care and well-being of children.

    Rule 2.507.A. CDEC’s category: Personnel. Correction due, as CDEC set it: May 19, 2026. Cleared, as CDEC recorded it: Jun 1, 2026.

  • At all times, school-age child care personnel must be directly supervising the children.

    Rule 2.510.H. CDEC’s category: Supervision. Correction due, as CDEC set it: May 19, 2026. Cleared, as CDEC recorded it: Jun 1, 2026.

  • Guidance must be appropriate to the development of the child and used as an opportunity to teach children social-emotional skills, such as self-regulation, problem-solving, and empathy for others.

    Rule 2.516.A. CDEC’s category: Guidance. Correction due, as CDEC set it: May 19, 2026. Cleared, as CDEC recorded it: Jun 1, 2026.

May 4, 2026: probationary (case 272210)2 citations
  • The following background check requests must be submitted and successfully completed for each state an individual has resided in, in the past five years, prior to an individual caring for children or allowing the individual unsupervised access to children in child care centers (less than 24-hour care), school-age child care facilities, family child care homes, and qualified exempt provider homes:

    Rule 2.121.J.1. Correction due, as CDEC set it: May 4, 2026.

  • There must be one (1) staff member for each fifteen (15) children in attendance.

    Rule 2.510.E. CDEC’s category: Supervision.

Apr 13, 2026: probationary (case 272108)1 citation
  • The following background check requests must be submitted and successfully completed for each state an individual has resided in, in the past five years, prior to an individual caring for children or allowing the individual unsupervised access to children in child care centers (less than 24-hour care), school-age child care facilities, family child care homes, and qualified exempt provider homes:

    Rule 2.121.J.1. Correction due, as CDEC set it: Apr 13, 2026.

Mar 18, 2026: supervisory (case 256388)4 citations
  • When caring for children, staff must refrain from the personal use of electronics including, but not limited to, cell phones and portable electronic devices.

    Rule 2.507.E. CDEC’s category: Personnel. Correction due, as CDEC set it: Mar 18, 2026. Cleared, as CDEC recorded it: Mar 25, 2026.

  • Prior to working with children all staff members must complete a Department-approved standard precautions training. This training must be renewed annually and may count towards ongoing training requirements.

    Rule 2.508.A. Correction due, as CDEC set it: Mar 18, 2026. Cleared, as CDEC recorded it: Mar 25, 2026.

  • Within (30) calendar days of employment all staff members and regular volunteers must complete a Department-approved training about child abuse prevention, which includes common symptoms and signs of child abuse how to report, where to report, and when to report suspected or know child abuse or neglect. This training must be renewed annually and may count towards ongoing training requirements.

    Rule 2.508.D. Correction due, as CDEC set it: Mar 18, 2026. Cleared, as CDEC recorded it: Mar 25, 2026.

  • Loose fill resilient surface must be raked regularly to retain its resiliency and to retain a depth of at least six (6) inches.

    Rule 2.524.A.4.c. CDEC’s category: Outdoor Requirements. Correction due, as CDEC set it: Mar 18, 2026. Cleared, as CDEC recorded it: Mar 25, 2026.

Jan 8, 2026: limited Supervisory (case 267375)1 citation
  • All personnel and volunteers at the center must demonstrate knowledgeable decision-making, judgment, and concern for the proper care and well-being of children.

    Rule 2.507.A. CDEC’s category: Personnel. Correction due, as CDEC set it: Jan 8, 2026. Cleared, as CDEC recorded it: Jan 9, 2026.

Dec 1, 2025: limited Supervisory (case 266391)1 citation
  • All personnel and volunteers at the center must demonstrate knowledgeable decision-making, judgment, and concern for the proper care and well-being of children.

    Rule 2.507.A. CDEC’s category: Personnel. Correction due, as CDEC set it: Dec 1, 2025. Cleared, as CDEC recorded it: Dec 3, 2025.

Oct 27, 2025: follow-up (case 264779)5 citations
  • Within twenty-four (24) hours, excluding weekends and holidays, of the occurrence of a critical incident at the facility or within twenty-four (24) hours of a child’s return to the facility the licensee must report in writing to the Colorado Department of Early Childhood, Division of Early Learning, Licensing, and Administration the following critical incidents involving a child in the care of the facility or a staff member on duty: Any allegation of physical, sexual, or emotional abuse or neglect to a child that results in a mandatory report to law enforcement or a county department of human or social services agency, or the child abuse reporting hotline as described in section 19-3-304, C.R.S.

    Rule 2.124.A.1.d. Correction due, as CDEC set it: Oct 27, 2025. Cleared, as CDEC recorded it: Oct 29, 2025.

  • Staff must verify attendance before and after every group transition from one physical space to another. Written or electronic documentation of attendance verification must be maintained for at least twelve (12) months.

    Rule 2.506.A.1. Correction due, as CDEC set it: Oct 27, 2025. Cleared, as CDEC recorded it: Oct 29, 2025.

  • All personnel and volunteers at the center must demonstrate knowledgeable decision-making, judgment, and concern for the proper care and well-being of children.

    Rule 2.507.A. CDEC’s category: Personnel. Correction due, as CDEC set it: Oct 27, 2025. Cleared, as CDEC recorded it: Oct 29, 2025.

  • All groups of children must be directly supervised by a qualified program director or program leader at all times.

    Rule 2.520.B. CDEC’s category: Equipment/Materials/Field Trips. Correction due, as CDEC set it: Oct 27, 2025. Cleared, as CDEC recorded it: Oct 29, 2025.

  • The center must submit to the Department as soon as possible, but not longer than twenty-four (24) hours, a written report about any child who has been separated from the group outside of the supervision of their assigned staff member or for whom the local authorities have been contacted. Such report must indicate:

    Rule 2.529.B. CDEC’s category: Records/Reports. Correction due, as CDEC set it: Oct 27, 2025. Cleared, as CDEC recorded it: Oct 29, 2025.

May 7, 2025: supervisory (case 234368)2 citations
  • The following background check requests must be submitted and successfully completed for each state an individual has resided in, in the past five years, prior to an individual caring for children or allowing the individual unsupervised access to children in child care centers (less than 24-hour care), school-age child care facilities, family child care homes, and qualified exempt provider homes:State criminal history check

    Rule 2.212.J.1.a. Correction due, as CDEC set it: May 7, 2025. Cleared, as CDEC recorded it: May 7, 2025.

  • Within ninety (90) calendar days of employment all staff must have at least one (1) hour of child development training . This training must include the major domains (cognitive, social, emotional, physical development and approaches to learning). This training is required once (1 time) and will count toward ongoing training requirements if taken after the date of hire.

    Rule 2.508.E. Correction due, as CDEC set it: May 7, 2025. Cleared, as CDEC recorded it: May 7, 2025.

All 19 visits on record
Visits on record
DateVisitWhat the record says
Oct 27, 2026Probationary (case 280857)No citations; no clearance date in CDEC’s file.
Oct 8, 2026Probationary (case 279491)2 citations; no clearance date in CDEC’s file.
Sep 14, 2026Probationary (case 278306)No citations; cleared Sep 14, 2026.
Aug 20, 2026Probationary (case 273928)10 citations; no clearance date in CDEC’s file.
May 19, 2026Probationary (case 273209)3 citations; cleared Jun 1, 2026.
May 4, 2026Probationary (case 272210)2 citations; no clearance date in CDEC’s file.
Apr 13, 2026Probationary (case 272108)1 citation; no clearance date in CDEC’s file.
Mar 18, 2026Supervisory (case 256388)4 citations; cleared Mar 25, 2026.
Mar 18, 2026Limited Supervisory (case 270235)No citations; cleared Mar 18, 2026.
Feb 25, 2026Limited Supervisory (case 269288)No citations; cleared Feb 25, 2026.
Feb 4, 2026Limited Supervisory (case 267999)No citations; cleared Feb 4, 2026.
Jan 8, 2026Limited Supervisory (case 267375)1 citation; cleared Jan 9, 2026.
Dec 15, 2025Limited Supervisory (case 266629)No citations; cleared Dec 15, 2025.
Dec 1, 2025Limited Supervisory (case 266391)1 citation; cleared Dec 3, 2025.
Oct 27, 2025Follow-up (case 264779)5 citations; cleared Oct 29, 2025.
Jun 18, 2025Capacity/Age/Exhibit (case 258120)No citations; cleared Jun 18, 2025.
May 7, 2025Supervisory (case 234368)2 citations; cleared May 7, 2025.
Jan 17, 2025Capacity/Age/Exhibit (case 251414)No citations; cleared Jan 17, 2025.
Jul 3, 2024Original (case 223852)No citations; cleared Jul 3, 2024.

Is it licensed?

  • Colorado’s service type: School-Age Child Care Center; licensed by the Colorado Department of Early Childhood.
  • Licensed for 50 children: 50 school-age children.
  • Colorado’s licence number: 1783250.
Source:

Colorado Department of Early Childhood (CDEC), Colorado Licensed Child Care Facilities Report. Released Nov 2, 2026. Updated monthly.

What did complaints and investigations find?

  • CDEC’s file lists no complaints or Stage II investigations for this program from Jan 1, 2023 to Oct 27, 2026.
  • Neither CDEC’s roster nor its file of inspections lists enforcement actions, such as fines or the revocation of a licence.
Source:

Colorado Department of Early Childhood (CDEC), Data request 2026-967, delivered Oct 28, 2026 and each month since: licensing inspections, complaints and Stage II investigations from Jan 1, 2023. Released Oct 28, 2026. CDEC sends the previous month’s records in the first week of each month; a person saves each file and loads it.

Who does the caring?

  • Colorado doesn’t publish staffing levels for individual programs in this dataset.

Who owns it?

  • Colorado’s dataset lists its governing body as Leading Edge.
Source:

Colorado Department of Early Childhood (CDEC), Colorado Licensed Child Care Facilities Report. Released Nov 2, 2026. Updated monthly.

How is it rated?

  • Colorado marks its rating system as not applying to this program (“NA”).
Source:

Colorado Department of Early Childhood (CDEC), Colorado Licensed Child Care Facilities Report. Released Nov 2, 2026. Updated monthly.

How does it compare nearby?

  • Programs aren’t compared with each other here: CDEC’s file doesn’t grade its citations by how serious they are.
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Place
Leading Edge at Fremont Elementary Sch This child care providerNot given

What the record doesn’t say

  • Inspections, investigations and complaints are from the file CDEC sent for a data request, from Jan 1, 2023, and the file it sends each month since. CDEC says its file may miss a program licensed during that time that is no longer licensed, and that its records may change as they are updated or finalized.
  • CDEC’s file gives each rule cited, its category, and the days set to correct it and to clear the case, but not what the inspector wrote: Colorado Shines has each monitoring report. CDEC doesn’t grade citations by how serious they are.
  • This page is built from the dataset of licensed child care facilities CDEC publishes monthly on data.colorado.gov, so a program licensed or closed since may be missing or still shown. It leaves out 24-hour licence types and care that is exempt from licensing.
  • Colorado’s roster carries no enforcement actions, hours or staffing levels.

Sources

  • Colorado Department of Early Childhood (CDEC), Colorado Licensed Child Care Facilities Report (data.colorado.gov, a9rr-k8mu).

    Released Nov 2, 2026 and checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated monthly. Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and License (PDDL). data.colorado.gov’s terms ask for this disclaimer: “The data made available here has been modified for use from its original source, which is the State of Colorado. THE STATE OF COLORADO MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTY AS TO THE COMPLETENESS, ACCURACY, TIMELINESS, OR CONTENT OF ANY DATA MADE AVAILABLE THROUGH THIS SITE. THE STATE OF COLORADO EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. The data is subject to change as modifications and updates are complete. It is understood that the information contained in the Web feed is being used at one’s own risk.” Facts are extracted; monitoring reports are not republished.

  • Colorado Department of Early Childhood (CDEC), Data request 2026-967, delivered Oct 28, 2026 and each month since: licensing inspections, complaints and Stage II investigations from Jan 1, 2023.

    Released Oct 28, 2026 and checked Oct 29, 2026. CDEC sends the previous month’s records in the first week of each month; a person saves each file and loads it. No licence stated: CDEC sent this file for a data request that said it would be shown on a free public website. Its disclaimer says the data “is now subject to open records law”. Shown free, never sold.

If you believe something here is wrong, a correction starts with the agency whose record this copies: Colorado Department of Early Childhood (CDEC). Colorado’s own record is on coloradoshines.com. If Hearth Record copied something wrongly, it will fix it and log the correction publicly, with its date: how corrections work.

Source:

This copy of the record was made on Nov 5, 2026.

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Not fully inspected in over two years (CMS flag)

11 health citations at the latest inspection cycle

The state average is 14.3.

Source:

CMS, State and US Averages and Health Deficiencies. Released Oct 28, 2026. Updated monthly.

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