Colorado Springs School District 11

Colorado Springs School District 11
Address
1115 North El Paso Street Colorado Springs, Colorado 80903
Information
Motto	Every student prepared for a world yet to be imagined!
Founded	August 1872
Superintendent	Dr. Nicholas Gledich
Enrollment	30,296  (October 2006)
Area	Powers Blvd. in the east to Manitou Springs and from Airport Rd. in the south to Dublin Blvd. in the north
Website	http://www.d11.org/

The Colorado Springs School District 11 is the central school district of Colorado Springs, Colorado.

History

The first school in Colorado Springs was organized by Mary Mellen "Queen" Palmer, wife of city founder William Jackson Palmer, in late 1871. Classes were first held in a home on the northeast corner of Cascade Avenue and Bijou Street, rented by Mrs. Palmer for the school.^[1] School District 11 was established in August 1872.^[2] The district enrollment passed 1000 by 1883 ^[3] and stood at 1776 on opening day of the Colorado Springs High School building in 1893.^[4] (That building was razed in 1938 to make way for construction of Palmer High School.)

In 1919, the school districts of Colorado City (annexed by Colorado Springs in 1917) and Colorado Springs were consolidated.^[5] The district saw modest growth between 1920 and 1940, then a large boom following World War II.^[6]

List of schools

Elementary

Adams Elementary School (closed in 2009) Audubon Elementary School Bates Elementary School Bristol Elementary School Buena Vista Elementary School Carver Elementary School Chipeta Elementary School Columbia Elementary School Edison Elementary School Freedom Elementary School Fremont Elementary School Grant Elementary School Henry Elementary School Howbert Elementary School

Hunt Elementary School Ivywild Elementary School (closed in 2009) Jackson Elementary School Jefferson Elementary School (closed in 2009) Keller Elementary School King Elementary School Lincoln Elementary School Longfellow Elementary School (closed in 2009) Madison Elementary School Martinez Elementary School McAuliffe Elementary School Midland Elementary School[7] Monroe Elementary School Penrose Elementary School

Pike Elementary School (closed in 2009) Queen Palmer Elementary School Rogers Elementary School Rudy Elementary School Scott Elementary School Steele Elementary School Stratton Elementary School Taylor Elementary School Trailblazer Elementary School Twain Elementary School Washington Elementary School (closed in 2009) Whittier Elementary School (closed in 2009) Wilson Elementary School

Middle

• Galieo School of Math and Science (converted from the former East Middle School)
• Holmes Middle School
• Irving Middle School (closed in 2009)
• Jenkins Middle School [1]
• Mann Middle School
• North Middle School
• Russell Middle School
• Sabin Middle School
• Swigert Aerospace Academy (formerly Emerson-Edison Charter Academy)
• West Middle School

High schools

• Coronado High School
• Doherty High School
• Mitchell High School
• Palmer High School
• Wasson High School

Charter

• 21st Century Charter School website
• Academy for Advanced and Creative Learning website (Approved 12/16/09, opening Fall 2010)
• CIVA Charter School website
• Community Prep. Charter School website
• Globe Charter School website
• Life Skills Center of Colorado Springs website
• Nikola Tesla Education Opportunity Center website
• Roosevelt-Edison Charter School website
• Space, Technology, and Arts Academy (STAR) website
• Spring Creek Youth Services Center website
• Colorado Springs Early Colleges website

See also

• List of school districts in Colorado

References

1. ^ Seibel, Harriet (1975). A History of the Colorado Springs Schools District 11. Colorado Springs: Century One Press. OCLC 1622539. 
2. ^ Ibid., 26.
3. ^ Ibid., 37.
4. ^ Ibid., 59.
5. ^ Ibid., 78.
6. ^ Ibid., 80.
7. ^ The Second Midland School is on the National Register of Historic Places.

External links

• Colorado Springs School District 11 website