Summit Middle School, Boulder Valley's first charter school, opened in 1996 to offer a rigorous academic curriculum that promotes high levels of student effort and achievement. To create a community of peers who value scholarship, academic achievement and creativity. To serve as an excellent preparation for students intending to study in the International Baccalaureate program and other college preparatory programs. The school's program provides instruction through a college prep block system and allows a student to complete high school requirements within two years. The K-8 school's curriculum is based on E.D. Hirsch's Core Knowledge sequence.
Emphasis is on content and skills development and character education.
In so doing, we help prepare students to become responsible, contributing citizens, able to compete in a global market-place of ideas, goods and services. Ute Creek opened this school year as a college-prep high school that is a continuation of Twin Peaks. The school offers small classes sizes and traditional, liberal arts courses, including the College Board Advanced Placement program. UCSA will prepare the average student to excel in college as well as those who are already college bound. 150 freshmen and sophomores this year, adding juniors and seniors in subsequent years for a total enrollment of 480.