Eagle Ridge Academy

3551 Southern Street

School District

27j
Grade

9-12
Teacher/Student Ratio

1:21
Type

charter

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Reviews

Submitted by parent on May 12, 2023

The rate at which teachers leave and are replaced at this school is not good. There is a high staff turnover leaving the program with too many young instructors.I don't appreciate my son knowing the drama that is going on with teachers and administration. Every time I go and pay my student's fees the credit is never applied. Need I say more.....
Submitted by parent on May 19, 2022

The AP course participation rates on this site are misleading as this school does not offer AP courses. Students can participate in dual enrollment courses at a local college of they desire to boost their weighted GPA and/or receive college credit.
Submitted by student on September 25, 2020

This school focuses a lot on college readiness. They also put a lot of emphasis on class credits and GPA compared to other schools. If I had transferred my junior year to a school like Brighton high or Prarie View, I would’ve easily been able to graduate a year earlier because of my credits but I wanted to finish at ERA with everybody I knew. I haven’t seen an issue with bullying at all here, everyone’s just minding their own business and probably too stressed about the next test to bother picking on anyone. We do get loads of homework every day and even more now because of the four day school week. Anyone can start taking college classes from their second semester Freshman year. The only requirement for college classes is to have at least Cs, nothing lower. If you fail the college class. you’d have to pay for it. If you do take college classes you don’t get any “advantages”, the “free periods” you’d have are just on the day and time that you don’t have that college class. The day you have the college class, you’d start class either in the morning before everyone or end up staying 30 mins later after school. Other students that do have free periods are usually seniors who didn’t slack off and already completed most of the required credits to graduate. As for the classes, we’re stuck in online learning right now because of COVID-19. We’re on a block schedule and only connect to a google meet for about 30 mins for each class on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. The rest of the week is to do the homework and schedule meetings with the teachers if we need to. Our previous principal who was really nice just retired so I don’t know how the school will be in the next couple of years, though a lot of teachers were involved in selecting the new principal. I’d say that this is the best school for you if you’re going to take it seriously. If you slack off you will end up failing a class and have to pay for it to retake it during the summer to get the credit for it. It would only be worst case scenario though because most teachers are super easy to communicate with. They all respond to emails at most within a day unless you send an email at midnight. The counselors are super nice too and are constantly checking up on us and sending everyone upcoming scholarship opportunities and things like that. if you try your best, you’ll be able to graduate with more than enough credits.
Submitted by other on September 25, 2020

I actually think this school is great. I am glad kids chose this school because it is definitely good for learning disability students and teaching students respect
Submitted by other on February 08, 2017

As valedictorian of the Class of 2016, and the Student Council President, I hold this school in high regards. Every teacher at Eagle Ridge strives for student success. One of the most prominent ways that this is demonstrated is through the availability of teachers, most of which are present an hour before and after school to assist struggling students. I was able to challenge myself through the concurrent enrollment program through FRCC. What this school lacks in a band program, it makes up for in a variety of other stellar clubs and organizations.
Submitted by teacher on January 07, 2016

As a former teacher at this school, I can safely and whole-heartedly say that every educator hired here works every day to make sure every student learns to the best of his or her ability. The teachers are equally talented and passionate, the administration is second to none, and the atmosphere within the student body cannot be replicated. Of the many schools I have observed in my five years as an educator, this is the only one I would endorse with absolute confidence!
Submitted by student on May 30, 2013

Eagle Ridge Academy isn't the school that everyone claims it is. I attended this school for a year and I've got to say it isn't bad,but not great either. Most of the kids that attend this school are extremely arrogant and have high ego's of themselves. Blatantly speaking of their personality in the most snobby way possible. Education wise,this school puts most kids in an unfair academic level. When I went to apply to this school,they claimed that my credits were insufficient to get into this school.Meanwhile,there are other kids with worse grades than myself who somehow surprisingly go into this school with no problem. They also offer some students with higher advantages in education than others. By offering college classes and these kids get off periods,while others struggle in the normal classes. If you enjoy a school with mediocre teaching that you would expect from a public school,while offering very few selective students a better advantage than others, and being around kids who are snobby and arrogant.Then this school is for you. Brighton or Prairie view offer more options than this school.
Submitted by student on December 15, 2012

Eagle Ridge has really given me an academic challenge. I've always been an honor student and have gotten by going through average schools (if you want to call them that) without having to do much outside of school and I still received As. I found myself always teaching myself things that my other schools couldn't. Eagle Ridge is another story though. Since they do assign daily homework, I do that, but the homeworks expand on ideas we've been introduced to in the classroom. Not only this, but since the school is small, it's really welcoming to freshmen or new students due to the fact that you can easily become friends with most if not all students here. All the teachers here aren't tied up with a lot of regulations since we're a public/charter school. The teachers here want to work and could've easily have gotten higher paying jobs elsewhere, but they're passionate about teaching and it really does show! What ultimately attracted me was the fact that one can take college courses and as a pose to having to pay to take the AP test and receiving college credit that might transfer, the courses here are worth college credit, and are guaranteed to transfer to any university in Colorado.