PSD High Schools

A small, student‑centered alternative high school in Fort Collins that offers flexible scheduling, personalized learning, and strong support for social, emotional, and behavioral growth

• Hexter model: students attend in six-week blocks, with new students enrolling every six-weeks. This helps them recover credits rapidly.
• Four-day week: Students attend slightly longer days Tuesday-Friday, with one Monday attendance every six weeks. 
• Small classes capped at 18 students within a positive, caring culture of dedicated staff 
• Closed campus to help support students' attendance
• Opportunities for off-campus experiences during E-week
• Access to all PSD programs such as the Career Tech Center, concurrent enrollment, etc.
• Health clinic on campus
• Major performance growth 
• Discovery model to help students re‑engage and succeed on paths to graduation
• Career and Technical Education (CTE) Pathways: Architecture & Construction 

Fort Collins High School, celebrating its 136-year anniversary, is a tradition‐rich neighborhood high school blending modern learning spaces with rigorous academic opportunities. 

• PSD’s only school-wide AVID program
• PSD's only four-year Gifted and Talented Honors Academy
• Comprehensive Advanced Placement (AP) offerings: the only high school in PSD offering AP Seminar & Research, AP African American Studies, and AP Capstone

• Wide-ranging work-based learning opportunities
• High-performing athletics
• Award-winning performing arts department
• Inclusive programming including comprehensive center-based programs, unified drama, music, physical education, and art, plus and a strong unified athletics program
• Spanish literacy pathway and newcomer English language development programming
• Extensive community involvement and service learning opportunities
• Career and Technical Education (CTE) Pathways: Alternative Technical Education (ACE); Agriculture, Food & Natural Resources; Aviation; Automotive; Behavioral Health;  Business, Management & Marketing; Computer & Digital Technologies; Education; Engineering; Health Science; Hospitality & Food Production; Interior/Fashion Design; Welding and Manufacturing;  Multimedia; Theatre Technology

PSD’s LEED‑Silver flagship school, combining the intimacy of smaller learning communities with the breadth of large‑school opportunities, offering strong college prep and a stellar graduation rate

• Excellent theatre and arts programs, award-winning competitive marching band
• Strong athletics
• Consistently exceptional math and reading scores
• Center based integrated learning support and affective needs program
• Credit recovery courses, HiSet preparation
• 55 school-sponsored clubs and organizations
• Sports Broadcasting program
• Career and Technical Education (CTE) Pathways: Architecture & Construction, Automotive, Aviation, Behavioral Health, Business & Marketing, Computer Science, Culinary & Hospitality, Design & Multimedia Arts, Education & Training, Engineering, Health Sciences, Interior & Fashion Design, Production & Managerial Arts, Welding & Manufacturing

PSD’s innovative, choice-only* expeditionary learning school, featuring a small and close-knit student body, weeklong intensives, adventure trips, and fieldwork experiences 

• A welcoming, game-changing option for students who feel like they don’t fit in and students struggling in traditional school environments
• Experiential, inquiry-based learning including portfolio development, presentations of learning, and standards-based grading throughout k-12
• Equity focus and restorative justice approach to behavior management throughout k-12
• Smallest middle school in PSD, leaving no room for students to be overlooked
• Unique rites of passage, mixed-age learning and mentoring, and crew model for belonging and community-building
• Collaboration with Poudre Community Academy for sports
• Concurrent enrollment courses offered for earning college credit
• All seniors graduate with work-based learning project portfolios and capstone completions
• High School Career & Technical Education Pathways: Design & Multimedia, Natural Resources Management (the only program of its kind in CO), Outdoor Recreation (the only program of its kind in CO), PSD Career Tech Center Pathways

*Choice-only schools are not charter schools – they are PSD public schools that do not have a neighborhood boundary, so they require a School of Choice application to attend.

A closed‑campus alternative school for grades 8‑12 that combines small class sizes, strong expectations, service learning, and extensive support toward graduation and career readiness

• Tailored, personalized, flexible learning and support, including credit recovery
• Trauma-informed focus
• Sports programs: basketball, track and field, volleyball, and e-sports
• Concurrent enrollment and work-based learning
• Quarterly experiential Learning Activities like climbing, rafting, and visiting museums 
• Established, well-qualified staff with low turnover
• Career and Technical Education (CTE) Pathways: PSD Career Tech Center Pathways

PSD’s only IB high school, featuring a robust agriculture program among its six pathway options

• 6 pathways incoming freshman choose from:
  • Agriculture and the Environment
  • Arts and Humanities
  • Engineering and Design
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Health Science and Human Services
  • International Baccalaureate Pre-Diploma

• Career and Technical Education (CTE) Pathways: Agriculture, Architecture & Construction, Automotive, Aviation, Behavioral Health, Business & Marketing, Computer Science, Culinary & Hospitality, Design & Multimedia Arts, Education & Training, Engineering, Health Science, Interior & Fashion Design, Production & Managerial Arts, Welding & Manufacturing

• Home to the district’s JROTC, P-TECH, Opportunities Unlimited (OU) and the Career Tech Center Programs
• National Demonstration School for the Center for High School Success
• Alternate site for Front Range and AIMS community college
• Chickens, honeybees, and an industrial size greenhouse
• Student-run escape room
• Geometry and Construction students build two houses each year in partnership with Habitat for Humanity
• Center-based affective needs program
• Excellent choice for multilingual learners

A K-12 hybrid learning program welcoming diverse learners — from advanced students to those seeking an alternative to traditional schooling

• PSD's only hybrid learning program
• Small-school environment, small class sizes, supportive environment
• Extensive family involvement opportunities
• On-campus learning 2 days per week; at-home, asynchronous learning 3 days per week
• Teachers provide and grade at-home assignments
• Parents (Learning Coaches) provide guidance and review assignments completed at home
• K-8 students attend on Tuesdays and Thursdays
• 9-12 students attend on Mondays and Wednesdays
• Engagement opportunities including Friday Fun Club, Learning Coach Wellness Walks, Student Ambassadors, Pioneer Way support for 9th graders, Learning Coach Coffees, Learning Labs for extra in-person support, National Honor Society, Garden Club, e-sports, enrichment clubs
• High school students can participate in PSD's Career Tech Center Pathways, Concurrent Enrollment classes, and Front Range Community College

A community-oriented neighborhood high school with expansive, state‑of‑the‑art facilities, experiential learning options, a strong arts and athletics culture, and a holistic student growth focus

• Lobo 101 class to help create cohesive school culture
• Award-winning programs such as journalism, video production, speech and debate, and e-sports
• Voyager intervention program for 9th and 10th graders needing additional math and/or language arts support
• Strong visual and performing arts programs
• Over 60 student-initiated clubs and activities and over 40 school-sponsored clubs and activities
• Affective needs and integrated learning support center-based programs
• Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing program
• Career and Technical Education (CTE) Pathways: Architecture & Construction, Business & Marketing, Computer Science, Culinary & Hospitality, Design & Multimedia Arts, Education & Training, Engineering, Health Science, Interior & Fashion Design, Production & Managerial Arts, Welding & Manufacturing

A middle-high model that eases transitions and strengthens community, a state-of-the-art new building, and a thriving ICAP (Individual Career & Academic Plan) structure.

• Professional Learning Community guided by the Four Essential Questions model to inform instruction
• Middle School Career & Technical Education Pathways: Family & Consumer Sciences, Multimedia Production, Computer Science, Technical Theater, Culinary Arts, Design & Technology, Entrepreneurship, Coding, Digital Design
• High School Career & Technical Education Pathways: Architecture & Construction, Business & Marketing, Computer Science, Culinary & Hospitality, Design & Multimedia Arts, Education & Training, Engineering, Health Science, Interior & Fashion Design, Production & Managerial Arts, Welding & Manufacturing, PSD Career Tech Center Pathways

A small-town, close-knit, smaller high school environment with a renowned agricultural program and community service opportunities

• Strong arts and athletics programs
• Strong family and consumer sciences
• State-of-the-art facilities including for art, technology, woodwork, metalwork, commercial FACs kitchen, ensuring a hands-on learning experience that nurtures creativity and technical skills
• Career and Technical Education (CTE) Pathways: Agriculture, Architecture & Construction,  Business & Marketing, Computer Science, Culinary & Hospitality, Design & Multimedia Arts, Education & Training, Interior & Fashion Design