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Pagosa Peak Open School

Innovative Public School of Choice
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Open Enrollment for the 2024-25 school year has begun!

After Feb 29th first come, first serve, sibling preferences apply.

Our Mission

Developing brave and experienced lifelong learners who contribute to our evolving world.

Our Vision

Pagosa Peak Open School provides a project-based learning environment designed to foster a joy of learning, confidence, and academic excellence through multi-age collaborations, and original and meaningful work.

What is a Charter School?

  • A tuition-free public school, open to all families in the community.
  • Has its own Board of Directors and operates independently from the School District.
  • Accredited by the State of Colorado.
  • Accepts students with IEP and 504 Plans.
  • Participates like any public school in standardized state testing.
  • May be exempt from certain Colorado Laws, including the requirement to hire “certified teachers”.
Group of students sitting in a group. One student is sharing her work with the group.

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of PPOS Middle School students said "classroom activities are interesting to them."

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of PPOS students said "Their teacher is happy to have them in class"

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of PPOS students said they were emotionally engaged at school

I love PPOS. My teachers are caring and funny, and wake up in the morning excited to go to school. Doing projects during Core time is my favorite part. We create, we work in groups, we go on field work and we study interesting things.

-Quinn, 4th Grade PPOS Student

I love the collaborative nature that extends from the director to the admin, to the advisers, to the students. I feel like the overall enviroment promotes learning how to learn, as well as social and emotional growth, which will serve our kids well.

-Parent Survey Comment

Years ago I chose PPOS for my daughter because of it’s year round schedule, small class sizes, and family feel of the school community. Those things have remained strong and my daughter has grown in her own sense of community and has been academically challenged here at PPOS

Jeanelle Wychesit, Parent of 3rd Grader

Latest from the Blog

PPOS students mediate conflicts, build community

PPOS students mediate conflicts, build community

After months of training on the procedures and expectations for facilitating conflict, this year’s Restorative Practices Student Board at Pagosa Peak Open School has begun repairing relationships between students when issues arise.

Pagosa Peak Open School celebrates project work

Pagosa Peak Open School celebrates project work

Families, students and community members flooded the Pagosa Peak Open School lobby last week; ready to celebrate the first student projects of the year, eat delicious bites from Mee Hmong Cuisine, carve pumpkins and socialize with the school's intimate community....

PPOS students study Ute history

PPOS students study Ute history

"Ute was not the original name of this tribe," fourth-grader Juniper said. "They were first called Núuchi, and it was changed when the Europeans came." Juniper is one of 21 fourth-graders at Pagosa Peak Open School who is diving into a project anchored in the history...

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