5505 S Otis St
Denver, CO 80123

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!

There have been many changes over the years, but the best part of my experience has been the school counselor. My child has really struggled fitting in and coping with being a middle schooler. Ms. Jaime has worked with my child since he came to GR in 6th grade and he is so much better for it. I am not sure where he would be without her kindness, patience, and perseverance throughout the years. He goes to high school next year and we will miss her dearly.