- 5075 Chaparral Court #1
- Boulder, CO 80301
- (303) 545-6186
Charter | Grades 9-12 | Boulder Valley School District NO. RE2
About Boulder Prep Charter High School
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Boulder Prep Charter High School is located in Boulder, CO and is one of 12 high schools in Boulder Valley School District No. Re2. It is a charter school that serves 156 students in grades 9-12.
Charter schools are public schools, but differ from traditional public schools in that they are independent and are operated by educators, parents, community leaders, educational entrepreneurs, or others. Funding for charter schools is based on designated local or state educational organizations. Those organizations are responsible for monitoring and assessing the quality and effectiveness of education, but permit the schools to operate outside of the traditional public school education system.
Boulder Prep Charter High School did not make AYP in 2007. Under No Child Left Behind, a school makes Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) if it achieves the minimum levels of improvement determined by the state of Colorado in terms of student performance and other accountability measures. See Boulder Prep Charter High School's test results to learn more about school performance.
In 2007, Boulder Prep Charter High School had 11 students for every full-time equivalent teacher. The Colorado average is 17 students per full-time equivalent teacher. Learn more about Boulder Prep Charter High School's students and teachers.
Boulder Prep Charter High School Student Diversity
- Students by Ethnicity (2007)
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White
47 %
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Hispanic
46 %
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Asian/Pacific Islander
3 %
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American Indian/Alaskan Native
3 %
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Black
2 %
- Students by Gender (2007)
- Male 54%
- Female 46%
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This schools charter should be revoked and the students returned to an actual learning environment. Look at its achievement scores and its teacher/student ratio. It is ia poor excuse for a high school and is located in an industrial/flex/office complex that is not fit for high school students.
Apr 29, 2009
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Yes, Boulder Prep is one of the last stops for kids at risk (possibly one stop past the point of no return for some) and it's not located in a lush paradise, but this school achieved success for my son, where the others had failed. It was a 180 degree transformation, my son connected with the life experience stories in the morning, finally started participating in PE, completed his reading and math on time, grew a strong interest in the sciences, and standardized test scores are steadily climbing to where our family always knew he could perform.
There are the same distractions as other schools, but it is in fact a learning environment that can connect to children that are having trouble living within the tight lines drawn at a standard school.
As we near the end of this journey for our first child, it's interesting to look back at the mix of teachers that had the pleasure of my son in their classroom, there was never a middle ground in parent teacher conferences ... either they loved him and he flourished through exposure to knowledge, or they purely hated him and they used administrative rules and false discipline to force him out - although he had more teachers of the first description, BVSD has given too much support through the years to the discipline based non-teachers (whether they live in a classroom or administration) and in that support they have created a low tolerance system that rejects the type of non-linear intelligence that transforms our world.