Summit County

HRCS Summit County is launching Fall 2026 — and we’re building it alongside our community.

📍 Proposed Location: Summit County, Colorado (Exact Campus TBD)

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

A child in a hoodie and jeans crouches outdoors, smiling while planting seeds in the soil. Pine trees, dry grass, and other people are visible in the background on a sunny day.

A New HRCS Site in Summit County!

We’ve been hearing from Summit County families for awhile now. They’ve driven over the pass to visit Sacramento Creek Ranch. They’ve shown up to our community conversations. They’ve filled out our surveys and sent emails and asked the same question: is there any chance HRCS comes to Summit?

We think it’s time to find out!

We’re actively exploring what a Summit County campus could look like — and the families who’ve been asking are the reason why. If enough people select Summit on the Intent to Enroll, we can start building something real: a K–8 program rooted in this community, led by educators who live here, and shaped by the land that makes Summit County unlike anywhere else in Colorado.

It would be connected to HRCS — same values, same approach, same commitment to small groups and real time outside — but Summit would develop its own character. That’s how it should be.

Children in boots stand in a shallow creek, measuring water with equipment. Fall foliage and rocks surround them. Another child stands on the rocky bank in the background, observing nature.

This place was made for outdoor education.

Students could spend mornings along the Blue River, track how ecosystems shift as you climb in elevation, study the Tenmile and Gore Ranges from the meadows below them. Summit County isn’t a backdrop for this kind of school, it’s the curriculum.

We’re still finalizing a site, but the model is already clear: outdoors first, indoors when you need it. Hands-on, place-based, and built around the rhythms of mountain life.

If you want this in your community, here’s what to do.

Complete the Intent to Enroll and select Summit County as your preferred site. That’s it. It doesn’t lock you in — it tells us Summit needs to be on the map. Grade levels, staffing, and program design will follow the enrollment numbers, so the more families who raise their hand, the more we can build around what Summit actually needs.

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