Schools in littleton co: Littleton Public Schools
Top 10 Best Littleton, CO Public Schools (2022-23)
School (Math and Reading Proficiency)
Location
Grades
Students
Rank: #11.
Arapahoe High School
Math: 68% | Reading: 84%
Rank:
Top 5%
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2201 East Dry Creek Road
Littleton, CO 80122
(303) 347-6000
Grades: 9-12
| 2,033 students
Rank: #22.
Bradford K8 South
Math: 75-79% | Reading: 75-79%
Rank:
Top 5%
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1 White Oak Drive
Littleton, CO 80127
(303) 982-3480
Grades: K-4
| 438 students
Rank: #3 – 43. – 4.
Chatfield High School
Math: 69% | Reading: 79%
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Top 5%
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7227 South Simms Street
Littleton, CO 80127
(303) 982-3670
Grades: 9-12
| 1,834 students
Rank: #3 – 43. – 4.
Lois Lenski Elementary School
Math: 69% | Reading: 79%
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6350 South Fairfax Way
Littleton, CO 80121
(303) 347-4575
Grades: K-5
| 500 students
Rank: #55.
Thunderridge High School
Math: 66% | Reading: 80%
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1991 Wildcat Reserve Parkway
Littleton, CO 80129
(303) 387-2000
Grades: 9-12
| 1,910 students
Rank: #66.
Stone Mountain Elementary School
Math: 69% | Reading: 76%
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10625 Weathersfield Way
Littleton, CO 80129
(720) 641-8117
Grades: PK-6
| 617 students
Rank: #77.
Mountain Vista High School
Math: 64% | Reading: 79%
Rank:
Top 5%
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10585 Mountain Vista Ridge
Littleton, CO 80126
(303) 387-1500
Grades: 9-12
| 2,367 students
Rank: #88.
Redstone Elementary School
Math: 70% | Reading: 74%
Rank:
Top 5%
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9970 Glenstone Circle
Littleton, CO 80130
(303) 387-7300
Grades: PK-6
| 454 students
Rank: #99.
Littleton Academy
Charter School
Math: 64% | Reading: 78%
Rank:
Top 5%
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1200 West Mineral Avenue
Littleton, CO 80120
(303) 798-5252
Grades: K-8
| 456 students
Rank: #1010.
Platte River Charter Academy
Charter School
Math: 66% | Reading: 76%
Rank:
Top 5%
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4085 Lark Sparrow St.
Littleton, CO 80126
(303) 221-1070
Grades: PK-8
| 542 students
Rank: #1111.
Wilder Elementary School
Math: 67% | Reading: 73%
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Top 5%
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4300 West Ponds Circle
Littleton, CO 80123
(303) 347-4750
Grades: PK-5
| 637 students
Rank: #1212.
Highland Elementary School
Math: 55-59% | Reading: 80-84%
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Top 5%
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711 East Euclid Avenue
Littleton, CO 80121
(303) 347-4525
Grades: K-5
| 248 students
Rank: #1313.
Ben Franklin Academy
Charter School
Math: 60% | Reading: 76%
Rank:
Top 10%
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2270 Plaza Dr
Littleton, CO 80129
(720) 383-4519
Grades: PK-8
| 907 students
Rank: #1414.
Stem School Highlands Ranch
Charter School
Math: 63% | Reading: 73%
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Top 10%
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8773 Ridgeline Drive
Littleton, CO 80129
(303) 683-7836
Grades: K-12
| 1,761 students
Rank: #1515.
Dakota Ridge Senior High School
Math: 57% | Reading: 77%
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Top 10%
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13399 West Coal Mine Avenue
Littleton, CO 80127
(303) 982-1970
Grades: 9-12
| 1,421 students
Rank: #1616.
Ute Meadows Elementary School
Math: 60-64% | Reading: 70-74%
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11050 West Meadows Drive
Littleton, CO 80127
(303) 982-4044
Grades: PK-5
| 365 students
Rank: #17 – 1817. – 18.
Highlands Ranch High School
Math: 60% | Reading: 74%
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Top 10%
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9375 Cresthill Lane
Littleton, CO 80130
(303) 387-2500
Grades: 9-12
| 1,625 students
Rank: #17 – 1817. – 18.
John Wesley Powell Middle School
Math: 60% | Reading: 74%
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Top 10%
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8000 South Corona Way
Littleton, CO 80122
(303) 347-7850
Grades: 6-8
| 732 students
Rank: #1919.
Northridge Elementary School
Math: 65% | Reading: 71%
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Top 10%
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555 South Park Road
Littleton, CO 80126
(303) 387-6525
Grades: PK-6
| 605 students
Rank: #2020.
Heritage High School
Math: 57% | Reading: 76%
Rank:
Top 10%
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1401 West Geddes Avenue
Littleton, CO 80120
(303) 347-7600
Grades: 9-12
| 1,719 students
Rank: #2121.
Summit View Elementary School
Math: 59% | Reading: 72%
Rank:
Top 10%
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10200 South Piedmont Drive
Littleton, CO 80126
(303) 387-6800
Grades: PK-6
| 472 students
Rank: #2222.
Coyote Creek Elementary School
Math: 63% | Reading: 70%
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Top 10%
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2861 Baneberry Court
Littleton, CO 80129
(303) 387-6175
Grades: PK-6
| 356 students
Rank: #2323.
Shaffer Elementary School
Math: 60% | Reading: 71%
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7961 S Sangre De Cristo Road
Littleton, CO 80127
(303) 982-3901
Grades: PK-5
| 482 students
Rank: #2424.
Mount Carbon Elementary School
Math: 55-59% | Reading: 70-74%
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Top 10%
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12776 West Cross Avenue
Littleton, CO 80127
(303) 982-7900
Grades: PK-5
| 380 students
Rank: #2525.
Heritage Elementary School
Math: 56% | Reading: 71%
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3350 Summit View Parkway
Littleton, CO 80126
(303) 387-6725
Grades: PK-6
| 390 students
Rank: #2626.
Eldorado Elementary School
Math: 55% | Reading: 70%
Rank:
Top 20%
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1305 Timbervale Trail
Littleton, CO 80126
(303) 387-6325
Grades: PK-6
| 416 students
Rank: #27 – 2827. – 28.
Bear Canyon Elementary School
Math: 54% | Reading: 71%
Rank:
Top 20%
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9660 Salford Lane
Littleton, CO 80126
(303) 387-6475
Grades: PK-6
| 415 students
Rank: #27 – 2827.
– 28.
Bradford K8 North
Math: 54% | Reading: 71%
Rank:
Top 20%
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2 Woodruff
Littleton, CO 80127
(303) 982-4882
Grades: 5-8
| 307 students
Rank: #29 – 3029. – 30.
Newton Middle School
Math: 57% | Reading: 66%
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Top 20%
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4001 East Arapahoe Road
Littleton, CO 80122
(303) 347-7900
Grades: 6-8
| 619 students
Rank: #29 – 3029. – 30.
Sandburg Elementary School
Math: 57% | Reading: 66%
Rank:
Top 20%
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6900 South Elizabeth Street
Littleton, CO 80122
(303) 347-4675
Grades: K-5
| 388 students
Rank: #3131.
Franklin Elementary School
Math: 61% | Reading: 63%
Rank:
Top 20%
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1603 East Euclid Ave
Littleton, CO 80121
(303) 347-4500
Grades: K-5
| 504 students
Rank: #3232.
Westridge Elementary School
Math: 54% | Reading: 68%
Rank:
Top 20%
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10785 West Alamo Place
Littleton, CO 80127
(303) 982-3975
Grades: PK-5
| 390 students
Rank: #33 – 3533. – 35.
Dutch Creek Elementary School
Math: 50-54% | Reading: 65-69%
Rank:
Top 20%
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7304 West Roxbury Place
Littleton, CO 80128
(303) 982-4565
Grades: PK-5
| 271 students
Rank: #33 – 3533.
– 35.
Hopkins Elementary School
Math: 50-54% | Reading: 65-69%
Rank:
Top 20%
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7171 South Pennsylvania Street
Littleton, CO 80122
(303) 347-4550
Grades: PK-5
| 309 students
Rank: #33 – 3533. – 35.
Peabody Elementary School
Math: 50-54% | Reading: 65-69%
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Top 20%
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3128 East Maplewood Avenue
Littleton, CO 80121
(303) 347-4625
Grades: PK-5
| 346 students
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Littleton School District No. 6 (Littleton Public Schools)
Littleton’s first schoolhouse built in 1865 by John Bell for $65. Date unknown. |
When the Pikes Peakers began flooding into the South Platte valley in 1859, they did not leave civilization behind in the East. Nor did they leave their families. Housed in a leaky log cabin in Denver City, Colorado’s first school was opened by O.J. Goldrick in October 1859 for fifteen students at a tuition of $3.00 each per month. This Denver Union School was joined in 1860 by second school in Boulder and others in Denver. All the schools were privately owned and operated, as no provision was made for government support until 1862, when School Districts #1 and #2 were established in east and west Denver, respectively.
| Littleton’s first schoolhouse, now sits on the Littleton Historical Museum grounds. |
Settlers in the area that would become Littleton began classes in 1864, and informally perhaps as early as 1860 in the home of Isaac McBroom.
In 1864, however, a number of settlers met at Richard Little’s cabin to organize what would become School District #6, also known as the Littleton School District. The boundaries extended from the Denver city limits in the north to the Arapahoe/Douglas County line in the south, from Sheridan Boulevard in the west to the Kansas border in the east. L.B. Ames was elected president, R.T. Hussy, secretary and R.S. Little, treasurer. For one year, classes met in Little’s cabin.
| Rapp Street School, c.1911. |
In 1865, Harry Pickard donated land for a schoolhouse, and at a cost of $65 a one-room log structure was built by John Bell on present-day Union Avenue just east of the South Platte River, about a mile and a half north of downtown Littleton. The building measured about 16 feet by 17 feet with a single-slope lumber roof covered with sod.
The interior was furnished with rough tables and long benches made of pine for the students, a small desk and chair for the teacher and was heated by a box stove. The first teacher was L.B. Ames, who was paid $40 per month during 1866-1867 to teach fifteen pupils. The following year his wife was paid $50 and had but three students. The reason for the drop in enrollment was that Littleton’s first frame schoolhouse had opened on the Lilley ranch on the west side of the South Platte River.
| Broadway School, c.1903. |
Littleton’s first brick school was opened in 1873 at Rapp and Church Streets on land donated by Richard Little. Enrollment soon reached seventy students. There followed a two-story addition to the “Rapp Street School” in 1883, and finally another expansion replacing the original one-story building in 1904. This school served grades one through twelve until 1920, when the secondary grades moved to Grant School, and then continued as a grade school until torn down in 1953.
In 1889, Littleton School District #6 was formally incorporated. Edwin A. Bemis, former editor and owner of the Littleton Independent newspaper, wrote about an incident that happened at the Rapp Street School: “A group of young fellows went to the school house at Rapp and Church Streets, climbed the building and removed the school bell. In doing this, they tore down eaves, piping, lightning rods and other parts of the building; then they took the bell to the Mill Race on Church Street and threw it in the water. History does not tell us how the town police and school authorities found out who did it, but apparently they did learn the names of the perpetrators who were forced to go to the Mill Race and dive for the bell, bring it back, and replace it in the school belfry.”
In 1894, a second school was built at the intersection of Broadway and Littleton Boulevard. The “Broadway School” was meant to serve families in the eastern part of the county for whom the Rapp School was too distant.
School District enrollment in the 1890s reached 222, although average daily attendance was only 153. The faculty climbed from one to three in 1883 with the expansion of the Rapp School and rose to eight “first-class instructors” when the Broadway School opened. The Grant Street High School was completed in 1920, at a cost of $100,000. This, in turn, was replaced by the current Littleton High School in 1956, and in 1985 the Grant Street School became the District’s Education Services Center.
| Old Littleton High School, later Grant Jr. High. Date unknown. |
Today, Littleton School District #6 (Littleton Public Schools) includes fourteen elementary schools, four middle schools, three high schools, two charter schools, The Village Preschool at Highland and North, and a number of alternative programs. The original one-room log schoolhouse still stands.
When the Rapp Street School opened in 1873, the log school ceased regular operation. Sometime before 1900 it was moved to the Sam Brown ranch west of the river. In 1951, it was donated to the city and moved to Rio Grande Park (Bega Park). Finally in 1972 it was moved to its current location at the Littleton Museum, where it is again used to teach visitors the three R’s, 1865-style.
A $298 million bond measure was approved by voters in November, 2018 and improved a number of the district’s buildings. Several elementary schools were rebuilt or retooled and the district developed a career and technical education center where students can learn vocational skills. Grass fields were replaced with durable turf fields at middle and high schools. Highland Elementary School is being transformed into the home of the LPS Early Childhood Center. In addition, a new stadium and school building will open on the Newton Middle School campus in 2021. School start times changed in 2018-19 to better align with adolescent sleep patterns.
On October 12, 2021, the District celebrated the official groundbreaking of the new Career Exploration Center, located at the southeast corner of Broadway and Littleton Boulevard in Littleton. The Center will provide innovative programming for six career pathways: aerospace, business and entrepreneurship, computer science, construction trades, healthcare, and natural resources. More career pathways will be added in the future. Opportunities for concurrent enrollment and dual high school credit are being explored through LPS’s partnerships with Arapahoe Community College and local businesses. The Center is projected to open for students in the fall of 2023.
On March 30, 2021 the Littleton School Board announced that East and Moody elementary schools would be consolidated into a new building on the Moody Elementary campus, located at Windermere Street and Weaver Avenue in Littleton. Plans are for the new school to open by fall 2023. Both Moody and East Elementary Schools had fallen below 300 students in recent years.
Under a plan adopted by the Littleton School Board on April 8, 2021, Peabody and Twain Elementary Schools will close due to declining enrollment. The two student bodies will be absorbed by nearby schools starting in the fall of 2022. Students from Peabody will consolidate with Lenski Elementary School. Students from Twain will be absorbed into a new school that will be built on the Franklin Elementary campus. Students from Highland Elementary will also be absorbed into Franklin Elementary School beginning in 2022.
| Littleton School District Administration Building (old Littleton High School), 2015. Photo by Amelia Martinez. |
Additional information on:
- Littleton Public Schools Website
Bemis, Edwin A. Historical Notes. Littleton, Colorado. Date unknown.
Friesen, Steve. A History of Littleton’s First School House and School District.
Littleton: Littleton History Museum, 1979.
Littleton Independent. Littleton Independent Publishers, 1888-
Littleton Museum. Photographic Archives.
____. Vertical File: “Schools”.
Littleton Public Schools. Centennial History, 1890-1990. Littleton: Littleton Public Schools, 1990.
McQuarie, Robert J. and C.W. Buchholtz. Littleton, Colorado: Settlement to Centennial. Littleton: Littleton Historical Museum and Friends of the Library and Museum, 1990.
Photographs courtesy of the Littleton Museum, unless otherwise noted; to order copies, contact the Museum at 303-795-3950.
Compiled by Pat Massengill
Updated December 2021 by Phyllis Larison
Top 10 Best Private Schools in Littleton, CO (2022-23)
School
Location
Grades
Students
Aspen Academy
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(1)
5859 S University Blvd
Littleton, CO 80121
(303) 346-3500
Grades: PK-8
| 400 students
Front Range Christian School
(Christian)
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(2)
6657 W Ottawa Ave Ste A17
Littleton, CO 80128
(303) 531-4541
Grades: PK-12
| 462 students
Havern School
Special Program Emphasis
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(1)
4000 South Wadsworth
Littleton, CO 80123
(303) 986-4587
Grades: K-8
| 95 students
Abiding Hope Preschool
Daycare / Preschool (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (formerly AELC, ALC, or LCA))
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6337 S Robb Way
Littleton, CO 80127
(303) 932-9160
Grades: NS-K
| 215 students
Ambleside School of Colorado
(Christian)
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(1)
1510 E.
Phillips Avenue
Littleton, CO 80122
(720) 712-0464
Grades: K-10
| 133 students
Anastasis Academy
Special Program Emphasis (Christian)
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(1)
6495 S Colorado Blvd
Littleton, CO 80121
(303) 779-0358
Grades: K-8
| 66 students
Arma Dei Academy
(Christian)
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341 E. Wildcat Reserve Parkway
Littleton, CO 80126
(303) 346-4523
Grades: PK-10
| 329 students
Cherry Hills Christian
(Christian)
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(3)
3900 Grace Boulevard
Littleton, CO 80126
(303) 791-5500
Grades: PK-8
| 731 students
Highlands Ranch Learning Center
Daycare / Preschool
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405 Dad Clark Drive
Littleton, CO 80126
(303) 346-7144
Grades: NS
| 245 students
Mackintosh Academy Littleton
Special Program Emphasis
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(2)
7018 S Prince St
Littleton, CO 80120
(303) 794-6222
Grades: NS-8
| 132 students
Mile High Academy
(Seventh Day Adventist)
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(3)
1733 Dad Clark Drive
Littleton, CO 80126
(303) 744-1069
Grades: PK-12
| 204 students
St.
Mary Littleton
(Catholic)
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6833 S Prince St
Littleton, CO 80120
(303) 798-2375
Grades: PK-8
| 471 students
Valor Christian High School
(Christian)
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3775 Grace Blvd
Littleton, CO 80126
(303) 471-3000
Grades: 9-12
| 929 students
Willows Child Learning Centers
Daycare / Preschool
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5301 S Lowell Blvd
Littleton, CO 80123
(303) 794-3871
Grades: NS-K
| 90 students
Christ Lutheran Preschool And Kindergarten
Daycare / Preschool (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (formerly AELC, ALC, or LCA))
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8997 S Broadway
Littleton, CO 80129
(303) 471-9290
Grades: PK-K
| 175 students
Coal Mine KinderCare
Daycare / Preschool
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9501 W Coal Mine Ave
Littleton, CO 80123
(303) 972-9275
Grades: NS-PK
| 73 students
Colorado Christian Academy
(Christian)
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(5)
11004 Wildfield Lane
Littleton, CO 80125
(720) 672-0086
Grades: PK-8
| 75 students
Espree Child Learning Center
Alternative School
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5811 Gleneagles Village Pkwy
Littleton, CO 80130
(303) 471-1110
Grades: PK-K
| 98 students
Foothills Christian Preschool & Kindergarten
Alternative School (Christian)
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6100 S Devinney Way
Littleton, CO 80127
(303) 972-3162
Grades: PK-K
| 172 students
The Goddard School
Daycare / Preschool
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8010 Shaffer Parkway
Littleton, CO 80127
(303) 932-7499
Grades: NS-K
| n/a students
The Goddard School
Daycare / Preschool
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1101 Sgt.
Jon Stiles Drive
Littleton, CO 80129
(303) 470-9899
Grades: NS-K
| 55 students
Hosanna Early Learning Center
Daycare / Preschool (Lutheran Church Missouri Synod)
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10304 W Belleview Ave
Littleton, CO 80127
(303) 973-6485
Grades: PK-K
| 25 students
Japanese School Of Denver
Special Program Emphasis
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Po Box 630044
Littleton, CO 80163
(303) 949-3381
Grades: PK-9
| 123 students
Jordan Alexander’s Preschool
Daycare / Preschool
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10670 Bradford Rd
Littleton, CO 80127
(303) 904-1121
Grades: K
| 8 students
Little People’s Landing
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8305 S Wadsworth Blvd
Littleton, CO 80128
(303) 973-1926
Grades: PK-5
| 59 students
Littleton Knowledge Beginnings
Daycare / Preschool
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6000 W Grant Ranch Blvd
Littleton, CO 80123
(303) 730-2568
Grades: NS-PK
| 27 students
Primrose School At Highlands Ranch Business Park
Alternative School
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9055 Ridgeline Blvd
Littleton, CO 80129
(303) 346-4800
Grades: PK-K
| 124 students
Primrose School At Shadow Canyon
Alternative School
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4105 Siskin Ave
Littleton, CO 80126
(720) 200-9388
Grades: PK-K
| 142 students
Primrose School Of Ken Caryl
Daycare / Preschool
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6060 S Devinney Way
Littleton, CO 80127
(720) 981-2988
Grades: PK-K
| 50 students
Primrose School Of Littleton
Daycare / Preschool
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7991 Southpark Way
Littleton, CO 80120
(303) 795-6555
Grades: K
| 157 students
St.
James Preschool
Daycare / Preschool (Presbyterian)
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3601 W Belleview Ave
Littleton, CO 80123
(303) 798-7844
Grades: PK-K
| 65 students
Town Center KinderCare
Daycare / Preschool
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9290 Ridgeline Blvd
Littleton, CO 80129
(720) 344-0330
Grades: NS-PK
| n/a students
Trailmark Learning Center
Daycare / Preschool
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9743 S Carr Way
Littleton, CO 80127
(303) 933-6947
Grades: NS-PK
| n/a students
Littleton High School (Massachusetts) – Wikipedia
Littleton High School Public High School Address: 56 King Street, Littleton, Massachusetts, United States. It serves students in grades 9-12 from Littleton Township. The building was opened in 2002. It was previously located on the site of the current high school from 1957–2002 on Russell Street.
It was located on Shattuck Street from 1924 to 1957 in a building that now houses the city’s offices and the Reuben Hoare Library. From 1957 to 1968 it operated as a junior/senior high school and then again from 1989 to 2002.
Content
- 1 Academics
- 2 Light athletics
- 3 Extracurricular program
- 4 Recommendations
Academics
Currently, there are three classes of classes in the secondary school: preparation for college, with distinction and advanced advanced level.
Athletics
Littleton High School Athletic Director – Mike Lynn. Littleton is part of the Midland Wachusett League, which includes schools such as Bromfield, Gardner, and Clinton.
In rowing for girls and boys, LHS is a co-op with Westford Academy. The rowing team is called the Westford-Littleton Crew. In swimming and hockey, LHS has partnered with Bromfield. In women’s hockey, LHS has a partnership with Westford Academy.
Thanksgiving Day, the battle of the tigers Ayer. Before Ayer, Littleton’s Thanksgiving rival was Westford Academy, and before that, Acton-Boxborough Regional High School. Both of these high schools now play in the DCL (Dual County League).
Fall sports include football, field hockey, boys and girls football, golf, boys and girls cross country and cheerleading. Winter sports include ice hockey, boys and girls basketball, indoor running, swimming and cheerleading. sports include girls’ tennis, baseball, softball, track, and boys’ and girls’ lacrosse.
Littleton High School sports are played in many places. A football team, along with lacrosse, cheerleading, and occasionally football, play at Alumni Field in high school. Baseball, softball, field hockey and soccer are played on the fields behind the school. The track meets at the LHS competition track and the cross country tracks at Fay Park. The LHS basketball team practices and plays in the high school gym, and boys and girls play ice hockey at Groton School.
You can also play tennis, golf and swimming in many places.
The high school football team went undefeated (13-0) and won the State 6 Championship on December 7, 2013 with a 52-35 win over Cohasset. Gillette Stadium. This is the third time Littleton has gone undefeated (previously 1967 and 1968) and the first time in Littleton High School history to win a state championship.
Extracurricular Program
- Audio/Video Production Club: A group that works with Littleton Community Television, founded and created by Mark Crory, that allows students to learn how to use the new video equipment in the LCTV studio and create shows to be shown on the LCTV channels.
- Group (Concert / March / Pep): Students from the LHS Group who play football games at home (peep group) and march in the Littleton city parades, playing three concerts a year (concert group).
- Chef’s Club: students cook and prepare food. Several dinners are held each year, all prepared and prepared by the students.
- Culture Club: Students have the opportunity to experience other cultures by tasting foods from other cultures, watching foreign films, visiting art exhibitions at local museums, attending film festivals and preparing national cuisine.
- Drama productions: a group of students chooses and performs a musical once a year in the spring and a play in the fall.
- Full-time training: various types of sports under the supervision of the director of the full-time department.
- Jazz ensemble: a small ensemble that performs jazz pieces; practice after school and usually once a week. Two concerts a year, one in spring and one in autumn.
- Outdoor Club: a club for those who are interested in nature and enjoy spending time outdoors.
- Science Club: an organization for those who are interested in the conservation of the Earth and the environment.
- Snowboard / ski club: a club for those who are fond of snowboarding or skiing; participants are given the opportunity to go skiing and snowboarding after the lessons.
- GSA (Gay & Straight Alliance): A group to educate and create a place to start a dialogue about accepting all people.
- Yearbook: A group of students that designs, creates, and edits a high school yearbook. Students can choose to do this as a class or as a co-curricular activity.
- TEAMS: Engineering, math and science tests are a unique and challenging academic program and competition. This experience is designed to familiarize students with the working environment of an “engineering team”. Awards and recognition are possible at the local, state and national levels.
- National Honor Society: Membership is awarded to students who demonstrate excellence in scholarship, leadership, service, and character. This encourages them to further develop through active participation in school activities and community service. 9 http://profiles.doe.mass.edu/statereport/sat.aspx
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20 years ago in the USA there was a massacre at the Columbine school – RT in Russian
April 20, 2019, 14:47
April 20, 1999 in the city of Littleton, Colorado, two students of the Columbine school, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, shot 13 people and injured more than 20.
There could have been many more victims – teenagers planned to blow up an educational institution by setting homemade bombs in the cafeteria . The attackers themselves committed suicide. The tragedy, which has become one of the most mass murders in educational institutions in the United States, shocked Americans and sparked fierce discussions about safety in schools.
On the morning of April 20, 1999, Harris and Klebold arrived at their school.
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A few minutes before the first lunch break, they left two bags of homemade bombs in the dining room and left the building.
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But the bombs didn’t work.
Harris and Klebold returned to the premises and began to shoot the students. Not all of them believed that the weapons in the hands of teenagers were real.
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Harris and Klebold continued shooting after police arrived. From the windows of the library, they aimed at doctors who were pulling out wounded schoolchildren.
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Covering the doctors, the police returned fire, while at the same time giving the opportunity to leave the school for those who managed to avoid a collision with the killers.
In total, 12 students and a computer science teacher became victims of the criminals. More than 20 people were injured.
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The teenagers themselves committed suicide.
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According to one version, Harris and Klebold purposefully targeted athletes, ethnic minorities and Christians, but their real motives are still unknown.
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The parents of the victims filed lawsuits against the school administration and the police, but almost all of them were rejected by the courts.
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The massacre arranged by two teenagers shocked the whole country. The day after the tragedy at the Columbine School in America, mourning was declared, and a discussion began in society and the media on the sale of firearms.
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Teachers take part in training to take out a shooter, Colorado
Two schoolchildren were killed last Tuesday in a shooting by their classmate at a school in Benton, Kentucky. Another 14 people were injured.
This was the 11th attack on school grounds since January 1 and the 50th since the beginning of the US school year.
The victims were 15-year-olds Bailey Holt and Preston Cope. The attacker, a 15-year-old schoolboy, was detained and charged.
This event is almost lost in the flow of other news.
“Americans accept these atrocities as part of life here,” wrote one New York Times website reader in the comments. “Another day, another shooting, and a total lack of political will to do anything about this problem.”
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At the same time, there is political will to pass a number of laws that would more likely lead to an increase in the number of firearms in schools and other public places. Legislators have largely proposed allowing teachers and other school staff to carry guns to protect themselves and those around them.
Hours after the Kentucky school shooting, Republican Senator Steve West rushed to introduce a bill allowing Kentucky schools to have armed patrols. Earlier, lawmakers in the state introduced another bill to ease gun restrictions on university campuses.
“We need armed guards at every school in Kentucky.
It’s a small price to pay for saving a child’s life,” Democratic Senator Roy Jones supported West’s initiative.
In November, the Michigan State Senate passed a bill allowing elementary, high school, and high school teachers to carry a gun without showing it to others. Similar bills were introduced this year in a number of states: Florida, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Mississippi, South Carolina, West Virginia.
And at least nine states have already passed similar laws and allowed high school teachers to carry sidearms.
“If we’re talking about preventing school shootings, we should be talking about preventing children from picking up guns first,” says Adam Skaggs, head of the Giffords Law Center dedicated to gun violence prevention.
Bad boys, good boys
Efforts to arm teachers and school staff began in 2012 following the Sandy Hook High School shooting in Connecticut that killed 20 children and six teachers.
The US National Rifle Association then actively began to promote the idea of the need to allow teachers to carry weapons.
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As part of the training, teachers are trained in shooting ranges and during simulated real collisions
“A bad guy with a gun can only be stopped by a good guy with a gun,” Wayne LaPierre, vice president of the association, said at the time. Since then, this slogan has become the official policy of the influential organization.
Groups lobbying for the association called for armed guards in schools and allowing teachers to carry weapons.
“Over the past two or three years we have seen a lot of legislative initiatives to remove the ban on carrying guns in schools.
And this is not just pushing the idea that guns should be allowed in schools to ensure security, they say guns should be allowed everywhere – on city streets, in parks, even in government buildings,” says Skaggs.
Supporters of lifting gun bans believe that only such a reform can protect schoolchildren from such incidents. They pay special attention to schools located far from cities, where the police and emergency services cannot arrive quickly enough.
They point out that gun-prohibited areas are easy targets for intruders.
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The Sandy Hook shooting sparked protests against the National Rifle Association.
“If people with evil intentions think about attacking, they will first think about places where they can meet the least resistance,” says Tim Moore.
“Winning with the Mind”
The first school shooting to be etched into the public consciousness occurred in April 1999, when Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold killed 12 students and a teacher at Columbine High School in Colorado.
This crime was soon overshadowed by the 2007 Virginia Tech shooting that killed 33 people. This was followed by a massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School, where 26 people died. In just over 20 years, there have been about 203 school shooting incidents.
According to the FBI, there were 160 incidents between 2000 and 2013. More than half of them occurred in the junior and middle classes, in which children aged 8-16 study.
14 years after the Columbine shooting, another shooting took place in the town of Littleton, 12 kilometers from the school. 18-year-old Karl Pearson came to the Arapaho School in December 2013 with two rifles and shot at point-blank range at 17-year-old Claire Davis, wounding another student, and then detonated a Molotov cocktail and shot himself.
This attack almost coincided with the first anniversary of the Sandy Hook massacre.
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2013 mother hugging her surviving son after the Arapaho shooting
teachers of schools and universities, where he tells how to behave during such attacks.
Three-day training funded by the Buckeye Firearms Foundation, Ohio. The course provides psychological preparation for such a situation. Cunningham asks the teachers to close their eyes and imagine that one of their students walked into the classroom with a weapon.
The participants in the training have literally fractions of a second to decide what to do. This is the most difficult and emotionally charged part of the training, some people break down and start crying.
“But if we can get them to beat this student even mentally, then if they have to face a similar situation in real life, they’ll have the advantage,” says Cunningham.
Five teachers at a high school in Fleming, northeast Colorado, agreed last year to take a summer break training so students wouldn’t know which teachers were taking it.
One of the participating teachers, who wished to remain anonymous, says that during the training she imagined a confrontation with her favorite student in order to be prepared for the worst.
“Actually, teachers shouldn’t have favorites, but some students are closer to us,” she says. “But if such a student in any way threatens the safety of the others, I will have to do something.”
Now there are posters at every entrance to the school warning that some teachers are armed. “For about a week or two,” the students tried to guess which of the teachers had weapons, but then they stopped, says the teacher. In order to carry the gun discreetly, she had to “thoroughly” change her style of clothing, she adds.
Volunteer teachers at Fleming’s school were rigorously screened: in addition to background checks, they took tests using a voice stress tester, says school inspector Steve McCracken. All five have been tested and are now allowed to carry weapons within the school walls.
“No one in our school or in our neighborhood likes having guns in the school, but if an intruder comes to the school, now we can deal with him,” he says.
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Shooting practice in Colorado
“We don’t have a separate police station in our small town, and on a good day it’s only 15-20 minutes to get to the sheriff. Our main goal is to close this time slot,” says McCracken.
Some school staff were strongly opposed to arming teachers, and one teacher later left the school, but the idea was generally supported, he adds.
According to a survey conducted in 2013 by the National Education Association, then only 22% of school staff were in favor of the idea to arm teachers, while 68% were against it.
“Playing Rambo”
When the state of Michigan passed a law in November that allowed concealed carry in schools, churches, day care centers and at sports games, former teacher and current Democratic State Senate member Jim Ananich together with other skeptics was in the minority. He said he thought the “overwhelming majority” of his former colleagues would also disapprove of the idea.
“Playing Rambo just doesn’t fit with what’s going on in a real crisis,” he says.
“People who haven’t been properly trained are more likely to hit a passer-by, a policeman or a child,” adds Ananich.
The three-day course that teachers are offered today, much less the eight-hour minimum of training a Michigan teacher must complete to carry a gun, is not enough, Ananich says.
“The NRA’s philosophy of putting guns in the hands of inexperienced people and expecting them to be able to make decisions that the military and police normally make, confuses cause and effect and is downright dangerous,” the politician says.
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Teacher training lasts three days, and some say it’s not enough
Anti-guns in schools say arming teachers is a bad idea, especially in states with weak regulations storage of weapons at home.
According to the Giffords Law Center, 27 states in the United States, as well as the District of Columbia, have some form of gun control laws that govern how guns are kept in the home.