Watershed School

"The experience at Watershed has been of the highest quality for both my children. Middle school is a challenging time and the school has made it as good of an experience as possible. The genuine care from staff and teachers to ensure my children's well-being and academic success has been impressive and is tailored to each child's needs. The out-of-school learning solidifies the students' understanding of the concepts taught and brings them into real-world scenarios that are memorable for a lifetime."

"Watershed has been a wonderful experience for my daughter. She is currently in 11th Grade and on her class trip to Iceland where they have spent 2.5 weeks doing science research. Last year she traveled to Peru, and last spring they stayed on the border in El Paso and interview illegal immigrants and border guards. Watershed is not a typical school, it is a wonderful supportive community with hands-on real world learning. Kids also go to great colleges and learn how to be amazing leaders, citizens, and life long learners. Every parent who visits Watershed says- "wow, I wish I had gone to school here." Your child can!!"

"When you dream of a school that your kids will come home from everyday excited about what they've learned, you're dreaming of Watershed. Both of my kids have been enrolled since 6th grade and my oldest is a rising Senior. He's engaged, focused and has one foot out the door - enthusiastic about his future. The educators and staff are amazing and truly make this school what it is. Take a look - if it's a good fit for your student's learning style, you'll be glad you did!"

"My daughter has been attending Watershed for the past three years and will graduate next year. Our younger daughter is eager to join the Watershed community this fall. We couldn’t be happier with our decision for our children to attend Watershed School. Small class sizes and real connections with their teachers were the main reasons we chose Watershed, but the school offers so much more. The expeditionary courses that combine subjects such as writing and science give a real world understanding of complex subjects. Fieldwork is a weekly happening with students connecting to experts in each subject. The best part of a Watershed education are the trips the children go on: these experiences vary from backpacking along the front range studying science, to visiting the Texas/Mexico border to understand immigration, learning about culture and community in Peru, and completing research on nesting patterns of birds in Iceland. My child comes home from these trips excited about her education and better connected to her classmates and teachers. Watershed is a rigorous school that teaches students to love the learning process."

"There are not enough words to express the transformative, character building, mind expanding, soul nourishing and affirming experience our boys have had at Watershed for the past EIGHT years! We are about to celebrate the graduation of our youngest with joy and gratitude and yet SO sad that our time there is coming to an end. We wish we had more kids to send! Watershed picked up the somewhat broken pieces our kids came in with as 7th graders and put them together to form incredible humans! Yes the education and educators are phenomenal and inspire these kids to be authentically interested, involved and motivated. But the emotional intelligence, connections and solid meaningful relationships Watershed fosters among EVERYONE (teachers, staff and students alike) will take them farther in life than any academics possibly could. When relationships and community are at the forefront, one simply cannot fall through the cracks, hide or get lost and that’s exactly where my kids started. They were able to figure out pretty quickly that they could show up as themselves and that they were held, respected and safe (pretty unusual for middle school especially!) Thanks to this type of ‘schooling’ (or rather, ‘human-ing’) and incredible teachers and admin, they have blossomed into their full unique selves and I couldn’t be more impressed with them and grateful to this school! I’ve seen enough Watershed graduates to know this school develops kids who are secure in who they are and what they have to offer. They value themselves and their relationships and are excited to share that knowledge and confidence for the benefit of their community as well as the big wide world they’ve come to experience and know through the school. I can’t think of anything more important no matter what path they choose! Thank you Watershed for helping us shape and develop a couple of well rounded, well balanced, kind and motivated humans to send out into the world!!"