Dakota Ridge High School

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Dakota Ridge High School
Address
Dakota Ridge High School
13399 West Coal Mine Avenue

Littleton
,
Colorado
80127 [1]

United States
Coordinates 39°36′15″N105°8′59″W / 39.60417°N 105.14972°W / 39.60417; -105.14972
Information
School typePublic
MottoTo Live, To Love, To Learn, To Leave a Legacy [2]
EstablishedAugust 20, 1996(27 years ago) (1996-08-20)
School district Jefferson County Public Schools
CEEB code 060923
PrincipalKim Keller
Teaching staff71.36 (FTE) (as of 2021-22) [3]
Grades9-12
Enrollment1,344 (2021-22) [4]
Average class size21
Student to teacher ratio18.83 (as of 2021-22) [3]
Campus size42 acres (170,000 m2)
Color(s)Navy blue and cardinal
  
AthleticsCHSAA 5A (football is CHSAA 4A)
Athletics conferenceJefferson County League
MascotEagle
Publication The Cord News
YearbookThe Dakota Ridge Talon
Website dakotaridge.jeffcopublicschools.org

Dakota Ridge Senior High School is a public school located in Littleton, Colorado, United States. It is part of the Jefferson County Public Schools system.

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History

Dakota Ridge High School opened on August 20, 1996. It is named after the nearby Dakota Hogback. The school was built to ease the burden on Chatfield High School, which had so many students that it began a split schedule to accommodate all of the students. The first class graduated in the spring of 1998. [5]

Campus

Dakota Ridge operates as a closed campus for freshmen and an open campus for sophomores, juniors, and seniors.

It sits atop a hill on Coal Mine Avenue, overlooking The Meadows Golf Course to the south.

A new wing was added roughly ten years after its original opening. In 2020, Warren Tech, Jefferson County's career and technical education program, announced the plan to build a southern campus on the school's property. It opened in 2021. [6]

Attendance zone

Areas within the school's attendance zone include: [7] Ken Caryl CDP [8]

Extracurricular activities

The school's athletic teams, known as the Dakota Ridge Eagles, compete in CHSAA class 5A in the Jefferson County League. Teams are fielded in baseball, basketball, marching band, cheerleading, cross country, football, golf, ice hockey, lacrosse, poms, soccer, softball, swimming, tennis, track and field, volleyball, and wrestling.

The 1996 football team became the first in Jefferson County history to win its inaugural Jeffco League game. [5]

In 2007, the men's cross-country team won the State Championship. The women won in the 2008 5A state championship.

The 2012-13 cheerleading squad also brought home the League Championship for both Varsity & JV and won the CHSAA 4A/5A Coed State Championship in December 2012. The cheer squad went on to the USA Nationals Cheerleading & Dance Competition in Anaheim, California placing third in the nation. The next season (2013-2014) the Co-Ed Cheer squad took the state title for the second time in a row.

Instrumental music and performance

Winter guard

The Dakota Ridge Winter Guard has competed in the Rocky Mountain Color Guard Association (RMCGA) as well as Winter Guard International (WGI), and has received two state championship titles as well as other medalist finishes in the RMCGA unit.

Percussion ensemble

The Dakota Ridge Percussion Ensemble won RMPA State Champions (gold medalists) in PSCO class in 2014, 2015, and 2016, as well as RMPA State Champions (gold medalists) in PSCA class in 2015.

In the 2016 season, the Percussion Ensemble attended the WGI 2016 world championships in Dayton Ohio, finishing as World Champions (gold medalists) in PSCO class.

Notable alumni

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References

  1. ↑ "Littleton" is the place name assigned to the ZIP code where the high school is located, and thus appears in its mailing address. However, the location lies some six miles west of the City of Littleton, across a county line.
  2. ↑ Scanlon, Bill (1996-06-19). "New school has a lock on ideals". Rocky Mountain News. No one approaching the spanking new Dakota Ridge High School will have any trouble discerning that its mission is to teach students to live, learn, love and leave a legacy. Etched in red sandstone ... will be icons to the school's purpose.
  3. 1 2 "School Detail for Dakota Ridge Senior High School". National Center for Education Statistics.
  4. ↑ "DAKOTA RIDGE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved November 12, 2023.
  5. 1 2 Vaccarelli, Joe (March 1, 2016). "Dakota Ridge High marks 20th year". The Denver Post. Retrieved 12 November 2023.
  6. ↑ Gurdikian, Tina (February 19, 2020). "Warren Tech South to open in Fall 2021 at Dakota Ridge HS" . Retrieved 12 November 2023.
  7. ↑ "High Schools". Jeffco Public Schools . Retrieved 2020-03-28. - Dakota Ridge detail
  8. ↑ "Ken Caryl Map" (PDF). U.S. Census Bureau . Retrieved 2020-03-29.
  9. ↑ "Defender Todd Dunivant to retire following 2015 MLS season". L.A. Galaxy Communications. August 26, 2015. Retrieved 12 November 2023.
  10. ↑ Petty, Daniel (29 May 2017). "At Bolder Boulder, Littleton's Natosha Rogers returns to the top of her sport". The Denver Post.
  11. ↑ "Steven Wilson plays big role Dakota Ridge baseball's win over Wheat Ridge". 11 April 2012.
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