Littleton Public Schools

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Littleton Public Schools
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Address
5776 South Crocker Street
Littleton
, Colorado , 80120
United States
Coordinates 39°36′42″N105°00′30″W / 39.61167°N 105.00833°W / 39.61167; -105.00833
District information
MottoBig enough to serve you; small enough to know you
Established1889;135 years ago (1889)
SuperintendentDr. Todd Lambert
NCES District ID 0805310 [1]
Students and staff
Enrollment15,445 (2012-13) [2]
Staff848.33 (on an FTE basis) [1]
Student–teacher ratio16.65 [1]
Other information
Website www.littletonpublicschools.net

The Arapahoe County School District No. 6, more commonly known as Littleton Public Schools (LPS), is a school district in Littleton, Colorado which serves several communities within the southern Denver metropolitan area. It is governed by a five-member Board of Education, and administered by a superintendent and six executives. [3] Its headquarters, the Education Services Center, is located in Downtown Littleton. It is the fifteenth largest school district in Colorado. [4] LPS operates 11 elementary schools, four middle schools, three high schools, several alternative programs, a preschool, and two charter schools.

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History

In 1889, Littleton Public Schools (then Littleton School District Six) was officially incorporated with the State of Colorado. It was established in the fall of 1864 when residents of the South Platte Valley voted to establish a public school district, the boundaries of which extended from what is now Sheridan Boulevard thirty miles east to the Kansas territorial line. [5] The first president of the school district was Lewis B. Ames. In the winter of 1864, construction of the first school, a log cabin, was completed. In 1868, Littleton's second school, a frame building, was erected on the Lilley Ranch west of the Platte River. In 1873 the Rapp Avenue School was built, a one-room, brick structure with one teacher and 70 students. Littleton Public Schools then grew exponentially, experiencing the most growth during the "baby boom" era. Most LPS schools were built between 1950 and the late 1970s.

Boundary

Within Arapahoe County, the district includes the majority of Littleton, all of Columbine Valley, and portions of Bow Mar, Centennial, Columbine, Englewood, and Greenwood Village. [6]

Schools

Preschools

Elementary schools

Middle schools

There are four traditional middle schools in Littleton Public Schools and one alternative middle school, serving grades six through eight:

High schools

Charter schools

Alternative programs

Achievements

LPS is the only school district in the Denver Metro Area that has been "Accredited With Distinction" by the Colorado Department of Education eight times. [7] It is one of very few school districts to have maintained this level of accreditation since the inception of this rating system. All three LPS high schools have been featured in US News' "Best High Schools", Newsweek magazine’s "Top High Schools in America" and 5280 magazine’s "Top High Schools in Denver." [8] LPS has the lowest dropout rate and highest graduation rate of any school district in the Denver Metro Area. [8] In 2013, Security Magazine ranked LPS 11th best in the nation for school security. [9]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Search for Public School Districts – District Detail for Littleton School District No. 6 in the county of Arapahoe". National Center for Education Statistics . Institute of Education Sciences.
  2. ↑ "LPS Demographic". Archived from the original on October 29, 2013. Retrieved October 27, 2013.
  3. ↑ "Superintendent's Staff". Superintendent's Staff. March 14, 2023. Archived from the original on October 29, 2013. Retrieved October 27, 2013.
  4. ↑ "News Release - Statewide Enrollment Grows 1.3 Percent | CDE". Archived from the original on October 29, 2013. Retrieved October 27, 2013.
  5. ↑ "LPS History: A Story". Archived from the original on October 29, 2013. Retrieved October 27, 2013.
  6. ↑ "2020 CENSUS - SCHOOL DISTRICT REFERENCE MAP: Arapahoe County, CO" (PDF). U.S. Census Bureau. p. 1 (PDF p. 2/6). Retrieved January 28, 2023.
  7. ↑ Mitchell, Nancy (December 6, 2011). "State releases latest school, district ratings". EdNews Colorado. Archived from the original on April 13, 2013.
  8. 1 2 "About LPS". Archived from the original on October 29, 2013. Retrieved October 27, 2013.
  9. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on October 29, 2013. Retrieved October 27, 2013.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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