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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 investigate San Juans

PPOS students investigate San Juans

Through a San Juan Mountain Range project, students researched the human uses, recreational opportunities, hazards, species, and geological histories of this range. On Friday, March 1 they shared this newfound knowledge with a group of 40 adults and their peers. The space filled with mountain models, maps, papers, experiments, artwork, skits and oral presentations. Every student was represented and presented.

Restorative Practices: the key to a healthy community

Hello, Nyx Rohrer is a student at Goal Academy and is a mentor high school student for our middle school Restorative Practices Student Board at Pagosa Peak Open School. She is an alumni of PPOS and one of the PPOS founding members to the Restorative Practices Student...

PPOS takes the stage at PCA

PPOS takes the stage at PCA

The Pagosa Center for the Arts was flooded with more than 200 people, ready to be entertained by Pagosa Peak Open School students who worked all semester on creating a seasonal variety show for the community. PPOS Creatives Advisor Rain March organized, facilitated,...

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