Prospect Ridge Academy

⛰️ 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!

Elementary students were welcomed to school this morning by members of the PRA High School varsity football team! 🥰 #K12onPurpose #PRAMiners

In moments of tragedy, community matters most. We are with Evergreen, offering our deepest care and support.

PRA High School Vice Principal, Von Miller, was a guest speaker this week at the annual 5-Star Students National Conference in Las Vegas!

Mr. Miller presented twice during the conference, sharing his expertise and PRA's success implementing a house system (Peaks) how using the 5-Star Students platform has elevated that process #PRAMiners #k12onpurpose

📰 https://www.prospectridgeacademy.org/article/2407171

For a quartet of PRA Middle School eighth graders — Lucy Bote, Keira Wulf, Kylah Samarel and Charlee White — they saw an opportunity to lead and create change in the spring of 2024.

Thanks to their initiative, they would be the driving force behind the new Middle School Dress Code, which came to fruition this past June when it was approved by the PRA Board of Directors.

Read more: https://www.prospectridgeacademy.org/article/2392908

After a tremendous K8 Back to School Night event this week, we're excited to welcome our high school guardians to campus next Wednesday for High School Back to School Night!

This event is from 6-8 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 3 and is for guardians only. After initially meeting in the HS Gymnasium, guardians will follow their student’s schedule, beginning with Period 1 and ending with PEAKS.

Click the link below to learn more! #PRAMiners

https://prospectridgeco.sites.thrillshare.com/article/2378036

ICYMI: PRA will be hosting its first Parent Coffee event on Tuesday, August 26 from 9-9:45 a.m. in the K8 Commons!

This coffee event is open to all parents and will have PRA Executive Director, April Wilkin, on hand to go over Driveline information. See you on Tuesday 😉

🏐 Home Openers 🏐

Thank you to everyone who came to campus this evening as the PRA Middle School volleyball and PRA High School volleyball programs each hosted our first home athletic events of 2025-26! #GoMiners #K12onPurpose

⛰️ Middle Mountain Assembly ⛰️

We were excited to debut our new Middle Mountains house system for PRA Middle School!

Our Miners found out this afternoon which mountain (Lookout, Meadow, Nimbus, Emerald, Sundance or Eagle Cliff) they will be joining! The purpose of the Middle Mountains house system, similar to PRA's Peaks system at the high school level, is to:

- Foster community and belonging
- Encourage positive behavior & character development
- Promote healthy competition and school spirit
- Support mentorship and leadership opportunities
- Unify the school culture

🎒🏫 K8 Back to School Night 🏫🎒

K8 Guardians, be sure to mark your calendars for Tuesday, August 26 for our K8 Back to School Night!

Elementary Back to School Night will offer two separate sessions (4:30-5:00 p.m. and 5:15-5:45 p.m.)

Middle School Back to School Night is scheduled for 6-8 p.m., beginning in your child's first period classroom.

As part of Back to School Night, all K8 families are also invited to a special presentation by our Executive Director April Wilkin, based on the book How to Raise an Adult by Julie Lythcott-Haims. Two sessions of this presentation will be available in the K8 Library beginning at 4:30 p.m. & 5:15 p.m.

Click the link below to read more! #PRAMiners #K12onPurpose
https://www.prospectridgeacademy.org/article/2364108

Mark your calendars for Wednesday, August 20th! The delicious and generous Smashburger (14375 Orchard Pkwy.) is donating back 20% of Dine-In, Takeout and Pick up orders to support a great cause -- Prospect Ridge Academy!

We ask that you RSVP here: https://grouprai.se/e304415 (even if you’re not completely sure) so Smashburger knows roughly how many orders to expect.

We hope you can make it and thank you for the support!

PRA High School was ranked in the top 3% for the entire country in this year's annual U.S. News & World Report Rankings! #PRAMiners

https://www.prospectridgeacademy.org/article/2357711

We had a TON of fun this morning coming together as a K-5 for our Beginning of the Year Elementary Assembly! 🥰 #PRAMiners

Congratulations to PRA's own Executive Director, April Wilkin, who was a guest on "The Charter School Connection" podcast earlier this month.

In this episode of “The Charter School Connection” Dallan speaks with April Wilkin, Executive Director at Prospect Ridge Academy (PRA) in Broomfield, Colorado. Learn how April went from being a fourth grade teacher at a charter school to being the Principal of PRA when they first opened inside a strip mall.

Click the link below to listen to the full episode, which is also available also on Spotify, Apple Podcast and YouTube.

https://soundcloud.com/charter-school-connection/59-prospect-ridge-academy-april-wilkin?si=b85848dacbc1494684e001b09b5117d4&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

The 2025-26 school year is just two days away! PRA will be hosting its annual K-12 Check-In Fair and Elementary Open House event tomorrow, August 12.

Click the link to learn more!

https://www.prospectridgeacademy.org/article/2252686

Elementary Class Lists for the 2025-26 school year are now available! The lists are posted in the K8 vestibule or can be viewed at the link below.

https://5il.co/3mzyq

PRA is excited to welcome Rylie Tanoura as our new head coach for the high school boys' golf program!

Tanoura has seven years of experience as a golf professional and currently serves as the PGA Golf Professional at Thorncreek Golf Club. Click the link below to read more! #PRAMiners

https://www.prospectridgeacademy.org/article/2314228

Congratulations to PRA High School english teacher Heather Preusser on the launch of her second book in her Hedgehog Whodunit series!

Ms. Preusser is inviting the PRA community to join her at a few upcoming events, celebrating the launch of the new book 𝙃𝙚𝙙𝙜𝙚𝙝𝙤𝙜 𝙒𝙝𝙤𝙙𝙪𝙣𝙞𝙩:𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝘾𝙖𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙨𝙚𝙡 𝘾𝙖𝙥𝙚𝙧, at local libraries and bookstores. #PRAMiners

Registration is currently open for the 15th annual Miner Gold Rush & Fall Festival, scheduled for Saturday, October 4!!

Click the link below to learn more and get your tickets during this Early Bird window!

https://www.prospectridgeacademy.org/article/2306239