Prospect Ridge Academy

PRA is excited to announce the hiring of Eric Wolf as the next varsity girls' soccer head coach! Coach Wolf will be a familiar face to student-athletes as he is currently in his 13th year at PRA as a teacher and has been an active soccer coach since 1998 #PRAMiners

🦃🍂 Happy Thanksgiving! 🍂🦃

Wishing all of our Miners families a safe and happy Thanksgiving! 🥰 #PRAMiners #K12OnPurpose

We had a PACKED house last night for our annual B.O.S.S. (Bring One Special Someone) Ball; 𝓐𝓷 𝓔𝓷𝓬𝓱𝓪𝓷𝓽𝓮𝓭 𝓔𝓿𝓮𝓷𝓲𝓷𝓰

Thank you to our F.A.S.T. Team and all our event volunteers for helping us put on such a magical evening 🥰 #PRAMiners @K12onPurpose

PRA 1st-4th grade students had the opportunity to meet and read along with local author, and PRA 9th Grade English teacher, Heather Preusser this morning!

Preusser has released two of her three-book Hedgehog Whodunit series, with the third book due out in 2026!

Visit the link to get your copy!
https://boulderbookstore.net/heather-preusser-school-author-visit

On Monday, November 10th, PRA second graders all received a copy of "The Girl Who Recycled One Million Cans", donated by the Recycling Society.

It reminds each of us how we can do our part to recycle and supports the kick off of their Service Learning Project. Keep those cans coming in! #MillonCansChallenge #PRAMiners

👏 CLAP OUT 👏

Good luck to our PRA High School volleyball team as the No. 12 seeded Miners get ready to host the Class 3A Region 12 Tournament tomorrow!!
Our Miners play at 10 a.m. (#25 Montezuma-Cortez) and 1 p.m. (#13 Village) for a chance to move on to the Class 3A State tournament! #PRAMiners

🎟️ Get your tickets here: https://gofan.co/event/5269835?schoolId=CO68940

We had a wonderful crowd on hand last evening for the opening night of our middle school musical, Once Upon a Mattress! 🥰 #PRAMiners

Don't miss your chance to see it! Tickets are still on sale for tonight's performance (7 p.m.) and two shows on Saturday (2 p.m. and 7 p.m.)

🎟️ https://search.seatyourself.biz/webstore/accounts/prospectridgeacademy/buy-tix?landingMessageSeen=true

Congratulations to our eight Athletes of the Month winners for the month of October!

Each winner was nominated by their respective head coaches for their tremendous leadership and performances on and off the playing surfaces #PRAMiners

https://www.prospectridgeacademy.org/article/2531778

The defending state champs added some more hardware last night as the PRA High School cheer team earned 1st place overall for Game Day Cheer at the Frontier/Metro League Competition!!! 🏆 #GoMiners

So many wonderful costumes on campus today! Perfect time for Halloween to fall on our annual Core Knowledge Day! 😉

K-5 students had the chance to have a little fun while celebrating some of what they are learning in their classrooms #PRAMiners

Kindergarten: Farmers and Farm Animals
1st Grade: Day of the Dead Celebration
2nd Grade: Ancient China
3rd Grade: Pompei Day
4th Grade: Medieval Day
5th Grade: Idiom Day

Have some photos from the different grade levels today? Feel free to share your favorites in the comments section!

🎃🕸️ Trick or Treat Street 🕸️🎃

Thank you to everyone who got their spooky season started with us this evening at our annual Trick or Treat Street & Carnival!

Our PRA Elementary students had the chance to trick or treat through the high school hallways, admire doors decorated by the different high school clubs and play carnival games. Oh, and there was also plenty of 🍬🍭 to go around 😉 #PRAMiners #K12onPurpose

🩷🏐 PINK OUT 🩷🏐

Help us pack the stands for tonight's Pink Out matches against Kent Denver!! Action gets underway at 4 p.m. with C-Team, followed by JV (5 p.m.) and varsity (6 p.m.) #GoMiners #DigPink

🆚 Kent Denver
🕕 4/5/6 PM
🎟️ https://gofan.co/event/4754874?schoolId=CO68940

🏆 Metro League Meet 🏆

Our Miners played host for the annual Metro League Cross Country Meet on Thursday at Anthem Community Park, earning a 2nd place team finish on the boys' side and 4th place overall in the girls' standings!

Congratulations to our PRA runners who earned All-Conference honors!

- Brody Bender (First Team)
- Gordon Trujillo (Second Team)
- Nathan Yoho (Second Team)
- Camille White (Second Team)
- Sarah Sellers (Second Team)
- Nigel Thomas (Honorable Mention)
- Kaden Rohman (Honorable Mention)
- Haley Zuniga (Honorable Mention)
- McKenna Cook (Honorable Mention)

Thank you to all of our Prospect Ridge Academy Performing Arts supporters who came out to last night's Fall Choir Concert!! 🥰 #PRAMiners #K12onPurpose

REMINDER: It is currently Free Applications Day from now through Thursday, October 9!

During these three days, students can apply to all Colorado public colleges (and many private ones) for free.

Take advantage of this chance to save money and keep your college options open! Reach out to the PRA counseling office if you need help.

𝐌𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐫 𝐆𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐑𝐮𝐬𝐡

THANK YOU to the over 900 PRA community members, supporters and vendors who joined us this past weekend for the 15th annual Miner Gold Rush & Fall Festival!!

Take a look at some of our favorite images from Saturday 😉 #K12onPurpose #PRAMiners

𝐌𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐫 𝐆𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐑𝐮𝐬𝐡

We're only 24 HOURS AWAY from the 2025 Miner Gold Rush & Fall Festival!! 😉

Thank you to our 753 people who have already pre-registered! Still looking to get your tickets? Visit minergoldrush.com and join the fun today!

⛰️ Peaks Hike ⛰️

Homecoming week is officially underway! All our high school students have loaded the buses and will spend their Mondays exercising and taking in the sights on the annual Peaks Hike 🥰 #PRAMiners

Blue Sky- NCAR Trailhead

Capitol- Red Rocks

Longs- Chautauqua

Pikes- Mount Sanitas

We're only TWO WEEKS away from the 2025 Miner Gold Rush and Fall Festival!

Take a sneak peak at this year's 5K map 😉

Interested in running? There is still time to get registered for the 5K and/or to register your family for the 1-Mile Fun Run and Fall Festival events. Visit https://www.minergoldrush.com/ to get your tickets today!