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Private Schools in Denver Discover one of Colorado’s best kept secrets When you think of private schools in Denver, Valor Christian, Mullen, Kent Denver, St Mary’s Academy and Denver Christian High School are a few that come to mind. These are all top private schools in Colorado, but is a large, expensive, and possibly exclusive school the best choice for your family?

A smaller, more affordable choice, and one of Denver’s best kept private school secrets is Mile High Academy. Since 1964, Mile High Academy has been sending high school graduates into the world better for having spent some or all of their elementary, middle and high school years here. Located just slightly off the beaten path in south Denver, Mile High Academy is a preschool through 12th grade Christian school. Thanks to the devotion of many teachers, parents, and administrators, this school has been a positive force in shaping young lives and an important part of many families

A lot has changed in 48 years but one thing remains the same… Mile High Academy is a place where academic, social and physial growth intersect with the amazing grace of our Lord.

Nurturing and inspiring Balance is key at Mile High Academy. Our students enjoy an environment of Christian love and support. Excelling in academics, athletics and music, while developing a strong sense of integrity. Our close-knit community results in students encouraging and helping each other rather than competing against their peers.

Our students Our students come from all over the metro area, including Littleton, Aurora, Thornton, Northglenn, Westminster, Castle Rock, and Parker. One family commutes all the way from Colorado Springs. We enjoy a racially and culturally diverse student body that includes a group of exchange students from Korea. Thanks to our lower tuition, financial aid and private school scholarships, we are not an exclusive group.

Our teachers With a student to teacher ratio of 13-1, students are never lacking for help and teachers have enough time to interact with their students in and out of the classroom. Thankfully, our teachers enjoy spending time with their students as demonstrated by the extracurricular activities they voluntarily plan and participate in throughout the school year.

Academics Mile High has a long established record of academic excellence. Test scores on the Iowa Test of Basic Skills (ITBS) for elementary students, Iowa Test of Educational Development (ITED) for high school students, and ACT/SAT scores for high school students are consistently above the regional and national averages. Like many private schools in Denver, Mile High has an honors program that focuses on critical thinking and college level preparatory skills.

Extracurricular Extracurricular opportunities including music, missions, and sports are available to students and unlike larger private or public schools, participation in more than one extra activity is possible and even encouraged. Mile High’s soccer, basketball and volleyball teams are full of talented athletes. Our teams are always competitive even when playing against much larger high schools in Denver, Colorado.

Thanks to the coaching they receive here at Mile High, many of our athletes are recruited to play on local club and small college teams.

College bound We are proud of the fact that 98% of our graduates go on to college. One reason for this impressive stat is our students’ participation in music festivals and athletic tournaments hosted by Christian colleges all over the US. These trips provide Christian fellowship, opportunities to meet students from other schools and valuable exposure to college life. Frequent visits to colleges throughout their high school years encourage students to stay focused on their college goals.

If you would like more information about one of the best private schools in Denver, call Brenda at 303-744-1069. In the meantime, take a minute to read what others have said about Mile High Academy. On this site you will find…parent reviews, advice from devoted Christian teachers, and some inspiring words from our students.

Its been noted that the educational learning institutes are under on its pressure in order to even find several places due to its recession. Based on the BBC that the quoting figures of the Local Government Association that parents are been hit by this downturn are now taking their children out from their private educational learning institutes and now increasing its demand for the state sector which is now simply untrue. In January within this year, there were about 100 fewer students in this private sector than been compared last year. What is more undeniable is that some of this portion of this nation state educational learning institutes are now under its huge pressure in order to find for its unexpected surge of numbers especially towards its primaries. But the prime reason of this is not actually the recession but the higher level of immigration towards the past seven years so that there will be no provision that will be made through the government.

Had there not been any recession this kind of pressure will still exist. Indeed, it would entirely be even greater due to the mere fact that economic boom was already attracting several foreign workers. As a result, this is quite simply for several school aged young individuals in some areas than been planned despite the falling birth rate that are already among this indigenous population and even declining its school rolls that overall. As of now, the government had already defended its open door policy towards its essence in order to fuel this economic boom but actually did not do anything in order to ensure its infrastructure that was already in place in order to cope up to its extra numbers. So as a result, trying to pretend that it’s already entirely for wealthy individuals taking their own children out for the independent sector is already quite deceit. As of now, it’s not be a good time to eases the crises this coming September. Those campus schools now have to find their places towards several children this coming autumn as been expected.

The London that been brought is now to rent over the church hall in order to teach this 90 pupils towards this new term. As a result, this situation is only getting worse especially to the mere fact that the large portion of this immigrants that already arriving now in the recent years are settling in the portion of London, the big cities of Midlands, South East, and even on the North that tends to be younger than settling to its population or even got a larger families. Its been noted that several number of births towards foreign mothers have already arisen through 65 percent ever since 2001 but only through its six percent for the UK born mothers especially to the mere fact that the portion of this births towards foreign born women that had already risen for about 17 until 24%. It’s quite already evident that Government did not do any preparation for it. Since, trains are already crowded. In which, the GP surgeries and even hospital A&E units are quite overwhelmed and the educational learning institutes are already bursting its seams. But yet, the government had already apparently without have some irony is now requiring its local councils in regards to their interest who they will be wanting to bid for this extra school financial assistance in order to have some explanation in regards to the aspect that they didn’t foresee about its concerns that they are now already facing. As a result, the government must be able to look towards its beam from its very own eye before pointing towards its mote of the eyes of others.

This St. Vrain Valley School District will be operating dozens of restaurants. That on how will be this nutrition services director Shelly Allen have view this 43 kitchens that oversees in 42 educational learning institutes and commissary kitchens in the Main Street School where the food is entirely been prepared and delivered towards other educational learning institutes. With that, Allen have stated that its quite really challenging towards individuals upon understanding their self-supporting operations that entirely means that this nutrition services must be able to purchase this food, preparing meals, paying it through their own labor costs without using any tax money from their educational district. So, this will be an enterprise programs that been clearly making some financial resources. Especially that last year the nutrition services did not even make any profit last year. This fiscal 2009 already ended last June 30, the nutrition services had already been operating through their deficit in huge financial budget based on this campus schools for their comprehensive annual financial report.

With that, this school department are reserving upon covering this deficit towards those unrestricted for funding their balance that already been estimated. In the meantime, the breakfast and its lunch prices have already been increasing about 25cents in these educational learning institutes for the students and about $1 towards the adults. They are hoping to avoid the increasing prices of lunch in the next year to come and for that Allen have implemented some changes that includes providing foods towards this St. John the Baptists Catholic Educational Learning Institutes in been costs about $3 in their per meals plus an administrative and as well its delivery costs. There are generating some additional revenue on their way. The school district is already been using this Kitchen in this Main Street School that includes the housed Twin Peaks Charter Academy until this season in order to prepare for their meals in this Olde Columbine High School, St. Vrain Community Montessori, Columbine High School, Twin Peaks Charter School, St. John, and Lincoln School.

Allen have stated that this kitchen have already become quite even useful to them for this Twin Peaks that been moving. In the previous years, the nearby schools have also preparing these kitchen meals in their respective school campuses. Aside of that, the district are also giving this lunches towards this Imagine Charter School of Firestone but towards those that been preparing in this Prairie Ridge Elementary School due to the mere fact that this distance from this Main Street towards this Firestone. With that, this Main Street Kitchen manager with her assistant and part time employees have also cooked their foods, assembled and delivered about 4,900 meals this month and 4,000 next month. These educational learning institutes will be calling this Reigle together with their orders that they continually keep of tracking it down of this dry erase board in the kitchen. Reigle stated that managing this mane street kitchen is quite different from managing this school kitchen since they will be working with their administrators.