1663 S Vrain St
Denver, CO 80219

I have had a very positive experience at Force Elementary. I feel so lucky to be part of the Force community. While I am a teacher at Force, I will send my son to school there when he begins ECE. Force strives to meet the needs of all of its students socially, emotionally, and academically. It is a positive place to work and learn. The faculty and staff truly care about all the students in the building and work hard to build community. Small class sizes allow teachers to get to know their students well. Second grade and below all have less than 25 student per class! Interventionist in math and literacy work with students in small groups of 3-4 to help them get caught up if they are falling behind. A great special education team supports students who learn differently. If you are looking for a great neighborhood school for your children in grades ECE 3 year olds-5th to attend, Force is a great choice!

Choice enroll your kid out to basically anywhere else like everyone else does to a better school! Kids are vaping and doing drugs everywhere and they have no doors on bathrooms at this point because its so bad. How is that a place you want your kid to go? They had to even close bathrooms because there is not enough staff to just keep the stoners from setting off alarms. The violence at the school with the sheer number of fights is crazy. We were picking up our kid and there was a fight out front and multiple police there. Teachers worry they will get punched, too, and one staff member told us she was punched in the face trying to break up the fights. Kids are scared too and it seems like the police are there every day. They had a gun brought to school this year and sent out emails about it and our kid sees police there arresting kids all the time he says. The staff turnover is high and teachers leave mid year even as our kid lost one of his favorite teachers. When she told him why she was leaving it was because she doesnt get paid enough to deal with the problems. Their athletics program is awful mostly because the kids cant even keep a grade point average to participate. They are a joke to other schools and no one shows up at the games because its embarassing how bad they lose in most sports. No school spirit to speak of. They keep hiring athletic directors who seem to have no idea what they are doing and we heard coaches making jokes about the current lady which they do in front of the kids. We only point this out to show how what kind of environment this is and if your kid is into sports this isnt the place to be. A lot of kids leave after one year. We are leaving this year but would have left sooner except we missed the Choice enrollment deadline to get out and didnt know we could choice enroll out to begin with. I can see why their test scores are terrible and graduation rates are bad. If you want your kid to graduate and just be safe, try Bear Creek or Lakewood which are close. The only kids that seem to go here are only here because their parents did not enroll in the Choice enrollment to get them out soon enough and missed the deadline. Dont make the same mistake we did! Our kids deserve better!

My son went to this school for less than a school year and was bullied several times with NOTHNG being done about it or to the bullies. I had to threaten to have the police called if it happened again before they "found" a way to put him on the other 6th grade block. He was still bullied with nothing being done, even had a child punch him in the face and nothing was done. I had a child (who I later found out had a 1-to-1 paraprofessional) approach my car in the lot as I was picking my son up with no adult in sight. They have asked me THREE times if we are moving him to another school and all three times I have said yes and given them the name of the school he will be attending. THREE times?! That's crazy! I don't know what the admin and staff are doing but it is definitely not taking care of our children and ensureing their safety!

I had my reservations about sending my daughter to this school because of the 2 out of 10 it received on this website. Once I realized that the academic rating is for K-12 and that the elementary level has much better scoring than that, I felt more comfortable. A few things that I love about this school. First, my daughter is able to do dance, drama, art, and music at school. It is less time away from home in the evenings because I don't have to put her in outside classes. Secondly, the teachers at this school (speaking at the elementary level) are outstanding. I've been so impressed with their level of commitment to helping all of the children excel. My child was already reading when she started kindergarten, but they have been wonderful about differentiating for her and others, and they have a great gifted and talented teacher who works with the kids as well.Last of all, the elementary level principal is awesome! She collaborates with teachers and parents and is constantly working to improve the school (on all levels. i.e. teaching, data, culture). This school has a great community feel and gives great academic opportunities as well as art-filled experiences.

At STRIVE Prep - Westwood there is a focus on creating and protecting safe school environments where students are valued by every adult. Students are supported emotionally, socially, and academically in a safe, joyful, and knowledge-rich learning environment that sets our scholars up for success in high school, college and beyond. With safety at the forefront of our agenda, we are able to drive student learning at a high level, where students engage critically in texts, problem solve like mathematicians, and explore the world as scientists.

Honestly, As a parent I find these other reviews hilariously ridiculous. One review is from a parent who cares enough about their student to leave a bad review but not enough to help them dress according to the rules, the other two are from parents who are obviously disengaged from the school and are rating it off of second hand information. The truth is that the school's Principle, leadership and teachers are great, and really care about the students. The area around the school (where I reside) is a troubled community and the strides Kepner has made in such a short time is no less than amazing. I love this school, and my students do too. The difference between my review and these others is that mine is from a first hand account aswell as from an engaged parent who is active in this school. I could not say enough good things about this school. Is it perfect? No...but no school is. However, people need to stop blaming schools when in reality the issue is their lack of parent involvement.

Nuestra experiencia ha sido maravillosa, nuestra hija se ha acoplado muy bien, el acompañamiento y las clases extracurriculares han sido de gran apoyo!