Mile High Montessori Early Learning Centers

Mile High Montessori Early Learning Centers, doing business as Mile High Early Learning, is a tax-exempt nonprofit organization based in Denver, Colorado, that receives federal grant funding to deliver Head Start and Early Head Start early childhood education services as both a prime grant recipient and as a delegate subrecipient operating under Denver's Office of Children's Affairs.

Mile High Early Learning operates exclusively within the Head Start program (CFDA 93.600) under the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families. The vendor's federal footprint consists entirely of grant work—no federal contracts—with a single funding agency (100% of awards from HHS ACF). As a prime recipient, Mile High Early Learning holds a five-year Head Start project grant awarded on September 1, 2026, with combined potential value of $6.212 million running through August 31, 2031. The award funds comprehensive early childhood education, health, nutritional, and social-emotional development services, along with wraparound services designed to engage families as partners and promote school readiness across cognitive, physical, behavioral, and social-emotional domains for children from infancy through preschool age. Services are delivered in Colorado.

In its subrecipient role, Mile High Early Learning acts as a delegate agency serving Head Start and Early Head Start children on behalf of the Denver Office of Children's Affairs, the prime grantee. The source lists ten sub-awards dating from July 2023 through June 2026, structured as annual fiscal-year delegate appointments (July 1 through June 30 cycles) across consecutive grant terms. This arrangement reflects a stable, recurring operational relationship in which Mile High Early Learning provides direct program delivery as a delegated service provider within Denver's Head Start ecosystem.

Combined dollars obligated across all awards total $75.4 million, with 67% of the vendor's award footprint (by count) comprised of subrecipient appointments. Activity is modest and episodic rather than growth-oriented—two awards in 2021, five in 2023, two each in 2024, 2025, and 2026. The vendor has no federal contract prime position, no seats on government-wide acquisition vehicles or BPAs, and no subcontracting relationships with federal prime contractors. Mile High Early Learning's federal footprint is entirely grant-dependent and single-agency, concentrated in direct service delivery within Colorado's Head Start network.