The Vanguard School is a public charter school in Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States. It is chartered with the Cheyenne Mountain School District 12. The Vanguard School was established in 2006 as a high school extension to the Cheyenne MountainCharter Academy and operated the first 9th grade class during the 2006-07 school year. The school added a grade each year until 2009, and they graduated their first senior class in May 2010. The K-12 charter school occupies two campuses near downtown Colorado Springs. One campus, called the Wahsatch campus, is the site of the original Cheyenne Mountain Charter Academy, and today it serves grades K-3. The other, the 21-acre Corona campus, is where students in grades 4-12 attend. It also has a grass field on the north end and an AstroTurf field to the east. In September 2014, Newsweek ranked The Vanguard School as the sixteenth best school in the United States. In November 2013, U.S. News & World Report ranked the Vanguard School third out of 458 high schools in the state of Colorado and 141st out of 21,000 high schools in the United States in its "Best High Schools" feature. According to the Colorado Growth Model, the Vanguard School is number one in the state and ranks in the Higher Achievement and Higher Growth areas in all subjects. In May 2019, the school was once again ranked third among high school in Colorado and first in Colorado Springs.
Enrollment
Students are selected by lottery and attend from fifteen school districts in and around Colorado Springs. The maximum number of students that the high school will support is 400. Priority is given to the children of staff, followed by siblings of District 12 students, other District 12 students, siblings of students in other districts, and all else. Priority for students with siblings is present so that families may be kept together. The Vanguard school does not admit new students for grade 12.
Faculty
The teacher-to-student ratio at the Vanguard School is approximately 1 to 10.
