Cheyenne Mountain High School

**Cheyenne Mountain High School** is a public high school in the municipal city of Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States. Operated by the Cheyenne Mountain School District 12, it is the only high school in the school district.

Later during 1874, Cheyenne Mountain High School was relocated to a different location closer to The Broadmoor Hotel to accommodate more students in the Broadmoor  Area. Cheyenne Mountain High School is a comprehensive public high school in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Founded as **Cheyenne Mountain District Twelve** (**D12**), it had finally graduated its first class in 1872.

### Development

During 1876 Cheyenne Mountain constructed six more classrooms due to the growing number of students who where moving to the area. Later the school was taken down and built again, with an additional ten classrooms. In 1899, construction of a new larger school began due to the growing number of students. The school was relocated to its present location in 1968 and has received major renovations during 2016.

### Mascot

The Cheyenne Mountain Indian the old mascot of the school was not endorsed by Native Americans and their supporters. Later as a result, over a dozen Native American students and multiple Native American tribal leaders mentioned their growing concern to the school board in 2021. On March 7, 2021, the school board voted to retire the current high school mascot, a Cheyenne Mountain Native American associated with the Great Plains wearing a traditional feathered headdress. On July 7, 2021, the school board created the feathered red-tailed hawk as the new mascot.

### Enrollment

During the 2024–25school year, Cheyenne Mountain High School was registered with an enrollment of 1,268 studentsand had an estimated 75.30 classroom teachers , for a student–teacher ratio of roughly 16.84. The teacher population has declined by 5.0 percent in a span of five years.

### Awards

The school is an annual recipient of the John Irwin School of Excellence and it is in addition a two-time National Blue Ribbon School . During the 2024 U.S. News & World Report of high school rankings it listed Cheyenne Mountain as #849 in its National Rankings and #24 in its Colorado high school rankings. It was also rated the #1 school in Colorado by Niche.com in 2020 and 2025.

### Athletics

In 2025, Cheyenne Mountain has won around roughly 100 state championships and the most in the entire Colorado Springs. Cheyenne Mountain preforms inside the Colorado High School Activities Association (CHSAA). Several school athletic teams have won 4A titles, including baseball (boys), basketball (boys and girls), cheerleading, and cross country, in addition to football, golf (boys), ice hockey (boys),  lacrosse (boys), track, soccer (girls and boys), swimming (girls and boys), tennis (girls and boys), volleyball (girls), and  wrestling (boys). And during the 2023 season, the cross country team recorded the second fastest team average in United States high school history.

### Music

The A Cappella, jazz and show choirs compete on Colorado High School Activities Association (CHSAA) program. The band occasionally performs at local high school football games and global competitions and occasional community oriented events. The school's A Capella Crimson was an International Championship of High School A Capella champions in both 2005 and 2025, and it was the runner-up during the years of 2006 and 2007. The Cheyenne A Cappella Slate was the International Championship of High School A Capella runner-up in 2006.  In 2021, a student from Cheyenne Mountain recorded and edited a 22-minute film achieving 3,000 views on Youtube which was to raise money for refugees and spread global awareness about the war in Ukraine by using the instrument known as the piano.

## Related pages

- Education in the United States

## More reading

- Lloyd and Dorothy Shaw, with Enid Obee Cocke  (2014) (Lloyd Shaw and the Cheyenne Mountain Dancers). " Nov 25, 2014 via Google books

## Infobox (school)

- **name**: Cheyenne Mountain High School
- **logo size**: 210
- **seal image**: Cheyenne Mountain High School Logo.svg
- **seal size**: 156
- **image**: Cheyenne Mountain School District 12 High School, September 23, 2025 (IMG 0166).jpg
- **alt**: A Native American arrow head with the letters "CM" on it
- **motto**: "Home of the Red-Tailed Hawks"
- **address**: 1200 Cresta Road
- **city**: Colorado Springs
- **state**: Colorado
- **zipcode**: 80906
- **country**: United States
- **former name**: Cheyenne Mountain District Twelve (D12)
- **schooltype**: Public
- **fundingtype**: Federal
- **established**: 1872
- **principal**: Carrie Brenner
- **feeder schools**: Cheyenne Mountain Junior High