Bridges High School is a visionary school that offers traditional educational objectives, utilizing 21st century learning experiences that are compelling, inviting, engaging, and can be accessed in multiple ways. Community and parents participate in creating and providing meaningful opportunities, so that students can make connections and develop relationships that prepare them to be successful adults and contributing members in their own communities.
To achieve this vision for our school community we focus on the following goals:
#1 Our learning activities utilize primary source material within an integrated educational environment. We offer our students graduation expectations that meet or exceed Roaring Fork School District requirements and Colorado Council for Higher Education guidelines, this includes a required capstone Senior Project that enables students to display accumulated knowledge in a specific area of interest.
#2 We seek to have a safe and friendly environment with a focus on respecting each student’s strengths while enhancing standards-based objectives. We respect each student’s ability to live up to his/her potential and offer them the chance to participate in the responsibility of designing their curriculum, within appropriate guidelines and standards. Thus we provide a commitment and passion not traditionally offered at the high school level.
#3 We make every effort to provide differentiated curriculum with individualized objectives suited to the student’s unique learning style and educational interests, with a focus on preparation for higher education. We seek to provide rigor and relevance to the curriculum, offering students the opportunity to stretch themselves in understanding the “why” not just the “how” of each subject matter.
Curriculum
Bridges High School offers classes in core academic areas, with at least 20 courses per year. Class offerings are increased with support from three comprehensive high schools in the district, each offering a number of electives that are open to Bridges High School students. School year includes four 9-week quarters; each day includes five 2-hour instructional blocks. Fulltime students must attend at least twelve of these 2-hour blocks of time each week.
Location and Community
Located in Carbondale, CO, a community of about 4500 located in northwest Colorado, near the confluence of the Crystal River and the Roaring Fork River and along state highways 82 and 133. Carbondale is 12 miles southeast of Glenwood Springs and 36 miles northwest of Aspen. Students attend from many surrounding communities including Rifle, New Castle, Glenwood Springs, Carbondale, Basalt, Snowmass and Aspen.
