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Academic Overview

Altona Middle School provides an innovative and rigorous standards-based education for students while developing characteristics in each student to become future leaders. Based on the school structure, students are allowed to excel at their own pace and explore a variety of interests in the comprehensive elective program. Altona has received numerous honors as a high achieving school, including six Governor’s Distinguished Improvement Awards, eleven John Irwin Awards of Excellence, the Colorado Middle School to Watch Award, and Best in the Nation for the Verizon App Challenge. 

Academic Highlights

  • Next Gen Learning Challenge Canopy School National recognition for Innovation 
  • Eleven John Irwin Awards of Excellence
  • Six Governor’s Distinguished Improvement Awards 
  • Superintendent’s Award for Excellence in Education 
  • 2021 Colorado Trailblazer School to Watch
  • 2019 finalist for the Colorado Succeed Prize for Transformative Middle School Program
  • Home to Altona’s very own IDEALab – a makerspace filled with advanced technology tools, focused on developing authentic, relevant, and complex learning across all content areas
  • A virtual reality pilot school for St. Vrain Valley Schools
  • Over 70 percent of students are enrolled in one or more music programs consisting of choir, band, and orchestra; many students are accepted into district and state honor programs
  • Both band and orchestra programs were selected to play at the Colorado Music Educators Association (CMEA) conference
  • Home to a cybersecurity program along with a CyberPatriots club
  • Over 25 percent of students take beginning, intermediate, or advanced Computer Science classes
  • High School Algebra and Geometry offered along with advanced classes in language arts, music, art, computer science, and robotics
  • Students take on leadership roles through the partnership programs River Watch and Critter Cam, which are student-led programs through Boulder County Parks and Open Space
  • Students are empowered to be leaders through grade-level philanthropic and cross-curricular endeavors 
  • Official Green Star School with student-led Green Team, Community Garden, and Zero Waste practices

Recent News

Take a look at some of our recent news.

November 6, 2024

A heartfelt thank you to our community

Dear St. Vrain Valley Community, Yesterday marked a historic moment for our schools and community as voters overwhelmingly approved Ballot Issue 5C, demonstrating once again the extraordinary commitment our community has to advancing public education and creating a stronger future for all students. This $739.8 million investment represents far more than building improvements and new […]

November 2, 2024

SVVSD looks to help teachers use AI while protecting student data

St. Vrain Valley Schools is working to help teachers harness the power of AI, while keeping student data safe and teaching students how to use the emerging technology ethically. When Open AI launched ChatGPT in November 2022, the district decided not to block the new, generative AI technology that so quickly exploded. “Chat GPT, that […]

October 22, 2024

SVVSD student ambassadors present dyslexia self-advocacy workshop

Lizzie Horton, a Silver Creek High School senior, said dyslexia “wasn’t a thing other kids knew about” when she was in elementary school, and she struggled. Though she was a “really, really shy” student, she ended up joining Colorado’s Yes! Ambassadors group in sixth grade when more students were needed for a panel. Now the […]

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