20325 Mitchell Pl
Denver, CO 80249

Dmlk is a great school, I highly recommend it. They have so many opportunities and electives like STEM, modern band, art, P.E., Sims fiyola, orchestra, and many others. The people here are super nice and friendly, same with the teachers.

This is a great school! The teacher, principle and staff are awesome. Know the kids names, help if they have trouble in certain areas, the availability of them, the activities they provide after school. I have nothing but great things to say.

This school felt like a prison all throughout my middle and high school experience i was a very brilliant student and as soon as i enrolled in this school i struggled to learn the pacing is awful the expectations are awful sometimes teachers would get mad we couldn’t understand the material i have also gone through S/A and sexism at this school only to get ignored. With confidence i can say absolutely nobody enjoyed being in this school when my class graduated we cried tears of joy because we never had to step another foot back in there again.

This school discriminates against special needs children and the leadership is not qualified to effectively educate any youth. There is no union to properly keep faculty in check. They have limited resources and leadership misrepresents their professional qualifications. Reach out to me for further input!

I love that my student has been able to take college courses here since 9th grade! Now he will be one of 33 students graduating with an associates this year!

We absolutely loved our experience at [School Name]! It was a fantastic experience for both our child and our entire family. The teachers at this school are truly exceptional. They are incredibly dedicated and never give up on their students. They see student success as their own success, and it's clear how much they care. We're so grateful for everything they've done to support our child!

STRIVE Prep - RISE develops young adults to become critical thinking lifelong learners ready to solve 21st century problems. We empower our scholars to be social justice focused community members who are compassionate and responsible. We prepare scholars to fight for social justice both now and in the future. We have tangible opportunities that prepare our scholars for college in the verbal assessments we run each quarter to prepare scholars to talk through ideas, use evidence, and evaluate their own ideas. This is needed for both college and career readiness. We prepare scholars to be successful in college in many ways, including a strong Speech and Debate program that is nationally ranked. We assume the best, we support through tough times, and we support your scholar taking a lead on and off campus.

STRIVE Prep Montbello is a college-preparatory middle school that provides students the opportunity to explore and grow in a safe, caring, and challenging environment. We set and maintain high expectations for our students, parents and faculty and we challenge our entire school community to live by the motto "STRIVE for Excellence." Over the 3 year middle school experience, your child will develop the intellectual skills, cultural competence, belief in self and the engagement in community necessary for success in high school, and life with a focus on social justice. We use the Valor Compass circle curriculum to support our students with socio-emotional learning, and also have speech and debate, sports clubs, student council, and student-led GSA. There are opportunities for your child to engage outside of school and practice their leadership.

This is the most dysfunctional school "system" I have ever encountered, and that is quite the statement coming from yours truly. I have taught all grades 7-12 across 4 different states. I have seen just about every kind of school that exists in the US: public (both wealthy and Title 1), charter, private, etc. I can confidently say that RMP is the most disingenuous, poorly run school system I have ever observed or worked for. Please stop calling yourself a "movement" instead of a school system.It is an incredibly corporate environment full of and run by people that know little to nothing about what actual good pedagogy looks like. Everything is scripted, all the curriculum is pre-bought and boring/ineffective. Everyone is expected to work ridiculously demanding schedules. I literally did not even have a LUNCH BREAK. Zero time to eat lunch until 2:20pm after working/being on my feet 6 hours straight. Talk about abusing your teachers and treating them like robots. Then there are the behaviors, WOW. Just WOW. The kids are generally out of control, overwhelmingly disrespectful, and regularly curse and get into altercations. Instead of addressing the behaviors in a meaningful way, admin is too busy micromanaging every single second of your day. Unqualified, overpaid AP's routinely come into your classroom for useless 4-minute long observations that don't capture anything meaningful; worse yet, these little visits actively disrupt class in an already dysfunctional environment. A proper observation is usually the entire class period length and only done a couple of times per calendar year. The "live coaching" is incredibly disruptive and heavily undermines the teacher. Not to mention the teachers routinely being treated and spoken to the same as the students. They are not trusted and infantilized to an insulting degree. It is disconcerting that so much money and funding is going to places like these and it is as clear as ever why there is an educational crisis in the United States of Privilege. Unless you live in a very wealthy neighborhood (public schools are funded by property taxes), or you have the resources to send your child to private school, you're left with broken options like Rocky Mountain Prep.

Horrible when it comes to your child's safety concerning bullying. Horrible at implementing reasonable accommodations which is a ADA violation. Stupid uniform rule when most of the students come to school dressed inappropriately. Stupid school fees. They're just not worth it. Deans/principals do not care about students