Students in grades 3-5 from across Southwest Colorado traveled to Durango to compete, after reading 12 pre-determined books.

Pagosa Springs is only six months away from having a brand new, uptown community playground.

Pagosa Peak Open School is proud to announce that our school received a Leadership Award during this year’s National School Choice Week from NSCW President Andrew Campanella.

On January 16, students at PPOS celebrated Restorative Practices with a Showcase Night, during which the community was invited to learn more about how RP shows up in the school, and what it looks like.

Our school director, Emily Murphy, was recently a guest on Restorative Works!

This group of five- and six-year-olds are wrapping up their most recent project: a study of weather.

“Does a person’s perspective influence their opinion?” Fifth- and sixth-graders at Pagosa Peak Open School grapple with this question during their current American Revolution project. How do perspectives on history shape a story? Why is it important to view history through multiple lenses?

Seven weeks. 13 trips. 110 students. 3 community service projects. Not even two months into the school year, every Pagosa Peak Open School student has climbed aboard their bus and left campus in search of answers to questions like “How does my school compare to...

Heads hang over hands, voices mingle and cookies break. A fifth-grade boy giggles while listening to Piper, a first-grader instructing him on how to build moon phases out of cookies. Jonah smiles and follows her directions. His class and hers are both covering outer...