4525 Settlement Way
Colorado Springs, CO 80925

Can’t recommend this school. Kids don’t feel safe there and their security is a joke. After school fights and bullying is very common. Stay away from if you want a good education.

Now, let me be clear, there are far worse high schools out there than Widefield High. But, having graduated from it last year, I very much get the sense that somewhere around 80% of the budget is put into sports. Most of the other departments, except perhaps the music department, appear to operate on a shoestring. This includes building maintenance, as many of the school's hallways and rooms appear as if they haven't been renovated in a long time. The school was built in 1958, after all. There was seemingly a socioeconomic divide between those who lived out east (in nicer neighborhoods) and those who lived closer to Widefield proper; with those living out east tending to have nicer clothes, accessories, and cars. There were almost certainly a number of fights and a fair amount of bullying going on, but I can't speak for certain because I was quite the social shut-in during my time there. Despite being in at least one Honors/AP class for most of my four years, I never really felt like I was getting a good education, either. I didn't personally think the curriculum in most classes was that challenging intellectually, though my grades sometimes tended to suffer anyways from poor executive function (arguably one could say that's a me problem). Much of what I know intellectually came from things I learned on my own time from my own research. The staff/teachers could be described as a mixed bag. Some were outright cruel; while others were very nice and supportive, even when I was letting my inner demons control me, academically speaking. Others could be pretty apathetic either way. There were almost certainly some that were there just for the paycheck, I'm sure. So, on the whole, probably just a pretty 'average' high school. I don't think I would settle for 'average' if I had the option to choose something better, obviously. But, well, living firmly in the middle of Widefield the community, I really didn't, and neither did many of my other pupils. There *are* other high schools in D3, obviously, but most of them are going to be of roughly the same quality as this Widefield, even if they're in a different district. When I was on the school robotics team, the first year we got to go to a much nicer school in Denver for the competition, and I was almost blown away by what even a public high school could be for those with means. But not everyone has access to such schools. I certainly didn't, and I can't really blame the school itself for that.

This school is the worst school I have ever seen! We are military and have seen many, and this one takes the cake! The principal and vice principal should not be employed if they are not going to do their jobs. They allow threats of violence, racial names, and harassment to take place in the school and do nothing. They get upset with parents when the parents call and keep coming to the school over the problems. I had to remove my children because of how bad this school was. My youngest would call home almost everyday wanting to come home because of the threats that no one was doing anything about. My oldest child was being called names and being harassed by another child and the school did nothing. We pulled them out of the school mid year because of the problems knowing we had called all of the schools in our district and no one had space for them. We chose to home school then because leaving them in that school was not an option for even one more day. Find another school. If your child ends up one of the unfortunate ones to be bullied, this will be what your kids get to deal with if they go to this school.