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 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;  Business, Management & Marketing; Computer & Digital Technologies; Education; Engineering; Health Science; Hospitality & Food Production; Interior/Fashion Trades; Manufacturing Trades;  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, Business & Marketing, Comp Sci, Culinary & Hospitality, Design & Multimedia Arts, Education & Training, Engineering, Health Sci, 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

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, Business & Marketing, Comp Sci, Culinary & Hospitality, Design & Multimedia Arts, Education & Training, Engineering, Health Sci, 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 closed‑campus, alternative school setting in PSD 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, e-sports
• Service learning and work-based learning
• Quarterly experiential Learning Activities like climbing, rafting, or visiting museums 
• Increased number of staff with higher degrees
• Career and Technical Education (CTE) Pathways: Career Tech Center Pathways

PSD Global: A hybrid K-12 learning program blending virtual and in-person learning to meet unique, personalized student needs

• Parent serves as learning coach
• Clubs including garden club, running club, e-sports, and more
• Teen parent program
• CTE pathways: Computer Science, Education & Training, Career Tech Center Pathways

PSD Options: A one-day-per-week, no-cost, in-person enrichment program for homeschoolers in grades K-8

• Parent serves as primary teacher
• Clubs including student council, journalism, and robotics
• Optional social events and community service projects

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
• Voyager intervention program for 9th and 10th graders needing additional math and/or language arts support
• Strong arts programs
• Excellent speech and debate program
• Affective needs and ILS center-based programs
• Co-teaching model
• Career and Technical Education (CTE) Pathways: Architecture & Construction, Business & Marketing, Comp Sci, Culinary & Hospitality, Design & Multimedia Arts, Education & Training, Engineering, Health Sci, Interior & Fashion Design, Production & Managerial Arts, Welding & Manufacturing