The Colorado Springs School
Address
The Colorado Springs School, 21 Broadmoor Avenue, Colorado Springs, CO 80906 Phone: 719-475-9747 Fax: 719-475-9864 Email Us!
Welcome to The Colorado Springs School, a
preschool – grade 12 college preparatory day school that serves the
greater Colorado Springs region.
For nearly 50 years, it has been the mission of The Colorado
Springs School to deliver a superior academic program in the context of
uncommonly rich experiences and healthy relationships with peers and
adults. Our goal is to coach young people with diverse backgrounds to
become the kind of people who can provide leadership of integrity long
into the future.
We accomplish that mission with small classes through all of the
pre-college grades, deeply committed educators who are accomplished
mentors to our students, and a sequence of age-appropriate
out-of-classroom programs that draw forth from each person his or her
unique attributes. We believe in a close working relationship with our
families and active involvement in the Colorado Springs community, and
the world beyond. Our students graduate with a deep sense of their
potential and a broad, global perspective.
While we have a strong college admission record, we endeavor to see
beyond the short-term goal of college admission, to the larger
objective of developing individuals of character and ability who
succeed in college and throughout life.
While you think about the kind of school you may seek, think about
the kind of person—in yourself or your child—that you would like to see
graduate from high school. Then come talk to us about your hopes and
meet some of our students and faculty. To the alumni, I invite you to
return to reconnect with the people and place that was such a
significant part of your early years. Again, welcome to The Colorado
Springs School!
Kevin Reel, Headmaster
Statement of Philosophy
Learning is grounded in experience. By delivering challenging academic material through traditional and experiential settings, The Colorado Springs School offers our students opportunities to learn information more thoroughly, to retain it longer, and to apply it to new settings. This deliberate approach to teaching also offers students opportunities to learn more about themselves, others, and the world. Building on strong, supportive relationships afforded by small classes and a safe environment, we advance each student's personal and academic growth.
A broad and demanding liberal arts curriculum offers our students the best opportunities to understand themselves and the wonders around them. At the same time, a strong liberal arts approach provides the best foundation for further study and for life. Our PS-12 curriculum is ordered to provide enthusiastic readiness for challenging university programs.
Small classes orchestrated by outstanding teachers deepen the success and the learning potential of each student. Our teachers are studied professionals committed to developing resourceful, independent, and responsible young people. Close personal relationships permit frequent encounters for teachers, parents, and students to know one another well.
A CSS education is a partnership between home and school. When teachers and parents communicate clearly about our students, student achievement rises. Mutual respect for the profession of teaching as well as for the calling of parenting underlies this important relationship. Parents, teachers, and administrators understand that it is in our students' interest that we create a safe, challenging, and supportive environment.
This entire framework-pedagogy, curriculum, careful and caring teaching, and the home-school partnership-exists to outfit our students with the knowledge and the inventive, flexible minds they will need to be active citizens of an increasingly diverse nation and an increasingly interdependent world. It is also our intent to develop in them the sense of responsibility to contribute to the challenges and opportunities they will face as adults. It is our expectation that an education at our school will help them generate the aims and methods by which their further experiences will "grow in ordered richness."