Welcome to Arapahoe High School, where our major objective is to help prepare every student become ‘college ready.’ We maintain high academic and behavioral expectations with a great deal of focused help. Our faculty believe that all students can learn at a higher level.

Thank you for taking a moment to explore information about one of the finest high schools in the United States. Arapahoe is a college preparatory/comprehensive high school with more than 92% of our graduates continuing their education at the college/university level. We proudly offer our 21st Century learners opportunity and adventures through academic rigor, tremendous support/encouragement, school spirit, and athletic/academic competition. Technology is ubiquitous within our culture.

Arapahoe High School is well known for its long standing and proud tradition of excellence in every facet of student life. We are well known for maintaining high positive academic and behavioral expectations. Within our 2,100 member student body our faculty maintains focus on the individual student as we provide within our rigorous curriculum challenges, expectations and opportunities ensuring teacher assistance. Arapahoe has maintained the “variable schedule” for 47 years offering students this college type schedule making available an attractive array of academic and elective courses throughout the school week as well as providing students with opportunities to have unscheduled time. Students strongly support our variable schedule and as one student has shared, “At AHS students have more control of their school day.” We believe teenagers need to become independent thinkers, self-disciplined, and take ownership for their learning. We offer a great deal of teacher assistance, academic interventions, and individualization. During the unscheduled time students may visit departmental offices, receive tutoring in our Study Center, access computers, visit our library or get a jump on homework in the cafeteria. Our "open campus" is a privilege, not a right, as we reinforce the expectation of student responsibility. Arapahoe is known for “running a tight ship.”

Arapahoe has been recognized by the United States Department of Education as a “High School of Excellence” as well as earning the “Excellent Rating” from the Colorado Department of Education on the State School Report Card for nearly a decade since the inception of this state ranking.

AHS is one of the few public high schools in America which has a unique relationship with the Native American. The Arapaho Tribal Nation has endorsed not only the name of our high school, but also the “Warrior Mascot/Logo”. Native American visitors can often be seen in our school interacting with students/staff and teaching classes as well as celebrating with us renewals of our relationship. We are very proud of our authentic “Warrior Spirit” as we participate and compete with the top high schools in Colorado in athletics, activities, performing arts, visual arts and academic achievement. We have wonderful teenagers attending AHS and it is proven through consistent quality student performances and our Advanced Placement/ACT/SAT scores/National Merit Scholars. All teachers at Arapahoe have subject expertise and hold degrees in the discipline in which they teach and love working with teenagers!

If after exploring this site, you still have questions for us, please don’t hesitate contacting us at 303-347-6000.

Sincerely,

Ron Booth
Principal