Alma | K-8

HRCS – Alma K-8

📍 Town of Alma (exact location TBD)

🕒 Opening Year: As early as 2026–2027, depending on family enrollment interest

A person with a colorful backpack stands on rocks in a shallow stream in a forested mountain area, surrounded by autumn foliage and patches of snow. Pine trees and snow-capped mountains are visible in the background.

Alma is right down the road, and that’s the point.

For families already connected to HRCS Sacramento Creek Ranch, the interest in an Alma site isn’t abstract. It’s the families on the Sacramento Creek Ranch waitlist who’ve been waiting for a spot. It’s Park County parents who want more access, more options, more HRCS. Over the past year, that conversation has gotten too consistent to ignore.

So we’re exploring it.

If we have the community interest to bring it together, the Alma site and Sacramento Creek Ranch would run as two sites, but one team. Same leadership, shared planning, and a unified approach that keeps the heart of HRCS intact. Students and staff would benefit from that connection. Alma wouldn’t be starting from scratch; it’d be building on something already working, while keeping our small group sizes and tight community feel.

And because Alma could include preschool, it’s also a chance to reach families even earlier and grow with them.

Several children sit and climb on large rocks outdoors, reading books under a bright blue sky with scattered clouds. Backpacks and other belongings are spread out on the rocks and ground nearby. Mountains are visible in the distance.

Alma has the kind of place that makes this easy to imagine.

We’re actively exploring a location with access to Alma Town Park — which sits along the Middle Fork of the South Platte River and includes river access, a small beach, open meadows, and sweeping views of the Mosquito Range. For a school built around outdoor learning, it’s hard to ask for much more than that.

Students would spend most of their day outside, moving indoors only when the work calls for it. Creekside study, nature journaling, trails and meadows for exploration — and flexible indoor space for small-group instruction and skills practice when needed. The specific buildings depend on the final site, but the model doesn’t change: outdoors first, indoors when you need it.

Same ask as always: tell us you want it.

Complete the Intent to Enroll and select Alma as your preferred site. It doesn’t commit you to anything, it tells us that Alma is a place families want to gather and learn. Grade levels and program design will follow the numbers, so every family who raises their hand makes the picture clearer.

Intent to Enroll — 2026–27

Not enrolling until next year? Let us know you’re interested for 2027–28 — that matters too.

Questions? Email us: info@highrockiescommunityschool.org