Evergreen High School (Colorado)

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Evergreen High School
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Evergreen High School, March 2004
Location
Evergreen High School (Colorado)
29300 Buffalo Park Road

Evergreen
,
Colorado
80439

United States
Coordinates 39°37′22″N105°20′02″W / 39.62278°N 105.33389°W / 39.62278; -105.33389
Information
Type Public high school
Established1944(81 years ago) (1944)
School district JEFFCO Public Schools
CEEB code 060560
PrincipalDr. Skyler Artes
Staff46.23 (FTE) [1]
Grades9-12
Enrollment931 (2023-2024) [1]
Student to teacher ratio20.14 [1]
Color(s)Navy blue and gold
  
Athletics4A
Athletics conferenceJefferson County
MascotCougar
Rival Conifer High School
Website evergreenhs.jeffcopublicschools.org

Evergreen High School is a public high school in the Jefferson County Public Schools district in Evergreen, Colorado, United States. Until Conifer High School opened in 1996, the school served students in both Evergreen and Conifer. Evergreen won Blue Ribbon awards for academic achievement from the United States Department of Education in 2007 and 2015.

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History

The first school in the Evergreen area was the Buffalo Park School, which now resides on the grounds of Wilmot Elementary School. In the late 19th century, a frame structure was built one-quarter mile south of Main Street and served as a school until 1923. Located at 4841 County Road 73, the building became Evergreen Bible Church. [2]

Elementary and high school students were housed in the third school built in Evergreen, a red brick two-story structure located at the intersection of County Road 73 and Buffalo Park Road. It was built in 1922 [3] when District 30 became C2, the second consolidation in Jefferson County. An adjacent white masonry building was built in 1944 for the high school, and the first class graduated from the newly christened high school in 1948. [4]

The school quickly outgrew its building, and a new building was erected southwest of the bus barn at the intersection of Olive Road and Buffalo Park Road, opening in 1954. [5] The building grew through additions, creating a somewhat haphazard layout until the structure was unified with a "main street" layout as part of an addition and remodel in the late 1990s, designed by H+L Architecture. [6]

Following the Columbine shooting in 1999, Jefferson County Schools hired Jackson Katz, co-founder of the Mentors In Violence Prevention program, to adapt the collegiate program for high schools. Evergreen High School was chosen as the pilot school for the project. [7] In the program, students volunteered as mentors for younger students. [8] [9]

2025 shooting

On September 10, 2025, 16-year-old Desmond Holly, a student of the school, opened fire with a revolver inside and outside the school. [10] [11] Holly shot two students, critically wounding them both. However, Holly was blocked by multiple security doors, and eventually died by suicide. Authorities investigating the incident said Holly had been radicalized by digital extremist spaces and expressed neo-Nazi views online. [12] [13] Prior to the attack, Holly had posted a video of himself posing like the Abundant Life Christian School shooting perpetrator and videos of him creating a shirt like one of the Columbine shooters wore on TikTok. [14]

Students

Demographics

Evergreen High School student demographics in the 2013–2014 school year: [15]

Extracurricular activities

Athletics

The Cougars are rivals of the Conifer High School Lobos, football being the most intense sports rivalry between the two schools. The Mountain Bowl is an annual tradition between the two towns. [16]

State championships: [17]

Mock trial

Evergreen High School's mock trial team won state championships in 1988, 1989, 1990, 1992, and 2007. [19] The team won the National High School Mock Trial Championship in 1990 [20] and returned to the national competition in May 2007, [21] placing 10th.

Notable alumni

References

  1. 1 2 3 "EVERGREEN HIGH SCHOOL". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved December 28, 2024.
  2. ↑ Evergreen School, Second One Archived 2007-09-28 at the Wayback Machine . Jefferson County, Colorado Place Names Directory.
  3. ↑ Steinle, John (August 28, 2017). Evergreen. Arcadia Publishing. p. 64. ISBN   978-1-4396-6200-7.
  4. ↑ Evergreen School, Third One Archived 2007-09-28 at the Wayback Machine . Jefferson County, Colorado Place Names Directory.
  5. ↑ http://www.co.jefferson.co.us/placenames/search3.cfm?ps_oid=111853&search= Archived 2007-09-28 at the Wayback Machine Jefferson County, Colorado Place Names Directory.
  6. ↑ "Jefferson County School District Evergreen High School Additions and Remodel". GH Phipps Construction Companies. Archived from the original on August 13, 2016. Retrieved July 1, 2016.
  7. ↑ Kenworthy, Tom; O'Driscoll, Patrick (April 14, 2000). "Columbine changes schools' inner world". USA Today. Archived from the original on April 29, 2009.
  8. ↑ Janofsky, Michael (March 19, 2001). "Bill on Student Bullying Is Considered in Colorado". The New York Times. p. A10. Retrieved September 10, 2025.
  9. ↑ Mitchell, Nancy (March 12, 2001). "Standing against violence". Rocky Mountain News.
  10. ↑ "Suspect dead, 2 students injured in shooting at Evergreen High School". The Denver Post . MediaNews Group. September 10, 2025. Retrieved September 11, 2025.
  11. ↑ Diaz, Johnny; Petri, Alexandra E. (September 10, 2025). "Shooting Suspect Is Dead After Attack at Colorado High School, Authorities Say". The New York Times. Retrieved September 11, 2025.
  12. ↑ Slevin, Colleen; Brown, Matthew (September 11, 2025). "Authorities say student who had been radicalized fired revolver at Colorado school, wounding 2". Associated Press . Retrieved September 11, 2025.
  13. ↑ Bradbury, Shelly (September 12, 2025). "Evergreen High School shooter's online footprint reflects new wave of extremism, experts say". The Denver Post. Retrieved September 13, 2025.
  14. ↑ Slevin, Colleen; Brown, Matthew (September 13, 2025). "Report says school shooting suspect was fascinated with mass shootings and expressed neo-Nazi views". Associated Press . Retrieved September 13, 2025.
  15. ↑ Evergreen High School School Profile – 2013-14. Jefferson County Public Schools. 23 Apr 2015.
  16. ↑ Brobst, Deb Hurley (October 27, 2023). "It's Mountain Bowl time for the Evergreen Cougars and Conifer Lobos". Canyon Courier. Retrieved September 11, 2025.
  17. ↑ "State Champions" (PDF). Colorado High School Activities Association. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 30, 2008.
  18. ↑ Sampl, Emily (February 15, 2015). "Evergreen Successfully Defends Colorado Girls 4A State Swimming and Diving Championship Title". Swimming World.
  19. ↑ "In and Around the Bar - 2007 High School Mock Trial Program". The Colorado Lawyer. Colorado Bar Association. May 2007. Archived from the original on September 28, 2007.
  20. ↑ "Evergreen students win U.S. trial title". Rocky Mountain News. May 14, 1990. A team of Evergreen High School student lawyers were judged best in the nation over the weekend at the National High School Mock Trial Championship in Portland, Ore.
  21. ↑ Fowler, Pete (March 7, 2007). "Demons ninth at mock trial state competition". Glenwood Springs Independent. Archived from the original on September 27, 2007. Evergreen High School placed first. The team will go on to represent Colorado at the national mock trial championship starting May 10 in Dallas, Texas. George Washington High School of Denver was the other team to make it to the championship round at state, eventually losing to Evergreen.
  22. ↑ Erickson, Jim (April 19, 2001). "3 of 7 on Shuttle Have Colorado Ties". Rocky Mountain News.
  23. ↑ Brown, Mark (June 21, 2006). "Rise Against no average punks". Rocky Mountain News. Archived from the original on September 30, 2007.
  24. ↑ Alissa Noe (August 13, 2019). "Evergreen's Burke called up to Triple-A". The Canyon Courier . Retrieved August 22, 2019.
  25. ↑ Noe, Alissa (January 15, 2019). "Evergreen grad Dorsey drafted by Toronto FC". Colorado Community Media. Retrieved September 11, 2025.
  26. ↑ Saunders, Patrick (April 9, 2007). "Perfection in bullpen a real relief for Padres". Denver Post.
  27. ↑ Fodor's Colorado. Fodor's Travel. July 8, 2025. ISBN   978-1-64097-831-7.
  28. ↑ Associated Press (July 28, 2012). "2-time Olympic runner killed in Ariz. plane crash". Archived from the original on February 25, 2015.
  29. ↑ Heller, Jason (October 15, 2014). "From Ink to The Frame, Jamin and Kiowa Winans Are Making Their Mark in the Movies". Westword. Retrieved September 11, 2025.
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