Speak to Colorado Academy Third, Fourth, and Fifth Graders, and you quickly come to understand that in the Lower School’s Buddy program—which pairs them up with students in Pre-K through Second Grade—the older kid doesn’t always call the shots.

At their best, Parent/Teacher Conferences at CA become opportunities for the adults in the room to rediscover the very people on whom they are so intently focused: children.

According to Colorado Academy’s Assistant Director of Operations and Sustainability Lead, Jerel Dalrymple: “Our Earth is not in a healthy place, and the greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it.”

Tuning in to feelings is critical to the “vibe” in Colorado Academy’s dedicated Middle School Ceramics Studio. “It’s like a different zone,” explains Eighth Grader Emmaline Sprick, “where you can be quiet and focused with other people and go into your imagination. Sometimes in Middle School, it can be hard to find space to do that.”

Colorado Academy’s Middle School science teachers organized a STEM takeover on January 31, 2025, for the second annual Middle School Science Symposium at CA. 

The inspirational quotation at the top of Upper School science Preceptor Suzie Jekel’s syllabus for the two-trimester course Advanced Biology: Tiny Earth reads, “Let us crush pesky bacteria before they crush us or try to.”

Around 700 visitors from across the Denver Metro Area came to Colorado Academy on December 14, 2024, to take part in HOPE, the student-led service initiative that for three decades has made the holidays brighter for families in need.

Politics and puzzles—it’s an irresistible pairing that takes center stage in the new Advanced Studies and Research (ASR) course at Colorado Academy, Cryptography in History and Math. 

Colorado Academy’s largest student-led organization, HOPE, has grown to become a philanthropic “known quantity” in the region over its 31 years in existence, serving thousands of residents in the southwest Denver neighborhoods a stone’s throw from campus. 

For Colorado Academy Third Graders, an annual fall visit to the Plains Conservation Center may seem like just a field trip, but it in fact is something much bigger: The immersive day-long experience is a prime example of the way that authentic, hands-on explorations of history, science, the environment, and culture are built into the CA curriculum at every age.

When honest, unrehearsed remarks about the U.S. Presidential candidates’ September 10 debate performances served as the warmup in front of a full house, everyone in attendance knew CA's first SPEAK event with New York Times columnist and best-selling author David Brooks was going to be something special.

Leilani Abeyta '18, who started CA as a nervous Fourth Grader who hurried to adapt to a dreamworld of opportunities is now the newest member of the school’s Visual and Performing Arts Department faculty, teaching the innovative Studio Art course for Sixth Graders.

When Head of School Dr. Mike Davis asked the youngest audience members at Colorado Academy’s opening All-School Assembly on the first day of school what they were most looking forward to this year, the responses from Lower Schoolers were nearly unanimous: making new friends and having fun.

Colorado Academy’s new Assistant Head of School, Amy Wintermeyer, says there are three things that drew her to the newly-created role: the position itself, the place, and the people. 

Following a swift downpour at the 2024 All-School Picnic, rainbows appeared, and the beloved gathering had done what it always seems to: bring old friends and new acquaintances together to kick off the new school year at CA.