About Us
Mission & Vision
MISSION
Highline Academy Charter School exists to foster a diverse and equitable community of youth and adults striving together for academic, personal, and civic excellence.
VISION
Create inclusive excellence in public education.
ABOUT US
Highline Academy is a tuition-free, DPS Charter School with a custom whole child curriculum focused on inclusive excellence and rigorous academics. Come discover a community where academic achievement, personal growth and civic responsibility converge.
Highline Academy does not discriminate in admission to, access to, treatment in, or employment in its services, programs and activities, on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religious views, gender expression, ancestry, athletic performance, special need, proficiency in the English language or a foreign language, or prior academic achievement in accordance with all federal, state and local laws.
Core Values
What’s REACH?
We actively prepare students to succeed in the diverse environments that await them—in college, in the work place, and in community life—by teaching them about responsibility, empowerment, aspiration, citizenship, and honesty.
These are the five key character traits emphasized through our REACH program:
- Responsibility
- Empowerment
- Aspiration
- Citizenship
- Honesty
Students in our elementary school enjoy a REACH class once per week. During this class time, students are explicitly taught the values in our REACH program and are provided opportunities to practice their implementation. Every month, students who consistently demonstrate the school’s REACH goals are nominated by their classroom teacher and chosen by the school administration to add their hand print to Highline’s REACH for Success Wall located throughout the building.
During a celebration ceremony, three different awards are given:
REACH Up: The Booker T. Washington Award for outstanding achievement in academics.
REACH In: The Aldous Huxley Award for recognition of self-growth.
REACH Out: The Margaret Mead Award for service to the community.
Learn more about REACHing In, Out, and Up here!
Strategic Plan
Our 2025 Strategic Plan is being facilitated by Education Partners. To learn more about this organization, please visit the link above.
Our Strategic Plan has been made possible by a generous donation from Colorado Schools Fund. To learn more about this organization, please click here.
In January 2021, Highline Academy launched a 5 year strategic plan. We are currently in the process of making a new strategic plan in 2025.
Access our 2021 5-year Strategic Plan here.
Internal Commitments
Internal Commitment #1
We will take responsibility for student learning by valuing diversity, needs, learning styles and through shared ownership.
Internal Commitment #2
We will commit to being clear and purposeful in our objectives and instruction while continuing to reflect and revise learning strategies by frequently monitoring student assessment data and ensuring that it is used as a tool for learning.
Internal Commitment #3
We accept and embrace diversity within our community of faculty, students, and parents/guardians by valuing each other for who and where we all are in life as learners and as people, and we commit to providing a safe place for all to succeed.
Internal Commitment #4
We will be direct, intentional, timely, and graceful in giving and receiving communication without judgment and for positive and proactive purposes.
Internal Commitment #5
We will create an environment that empowers faculty, students and parents/guardians to be active participants in student success.
Internal Commitment #6
We will create a focused and sustainable adult community by focusing on what is most essential to student success and staying focused on Highline’s goal.
Internal Commitment #7
We will consistently model and enforce Highline’s academic and behavioral expectations.
Internal Commitment #8
We will embody empathy for all members of the Highline community, seeking to understand and respect a person’s condition from their perspective, with the intent to make a positive difference.