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Cherry Creek High School
Cherry Creek High School is located in Greenwood Village, Colorado. With an enrollment of approximately 3,900 students, it is the largest public or private high school in Colorado. It serves grades 9-12 and is part of the Cherry Creek School District. CCHS Cherry Creek High School, officially founded in 1955, is the oldest of six high schools in the Cherry Creek School District. Located on an eighty-acre campus, CCHS is housed in four separate buildings. It is accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and secondary schools and the Colorado department of education. The Cherry Creek School district began as a one-room schoolhouse in 1874. The original schoolhouse in which CCHS and the Cherry Creek School District originated from was moved onto the Cherry Creek High School campus in 1969. It has been restored and now serves a museum-classroom in the center of the campus.
Athletically, CCHS is part of the 8 team Centennial League that also includes Grandview, Smoky Hill, Boulder, Fairview, Eaglecrest, Mullen and Overland. Cherry Creek High School has won 163 state championships in 22 different sports and three Wells-Fargo Cups as the all-sport champion in the state of Colorado. The high school's mascot is the bruin. The current athletic director is Randy McCall.
Cherry Creek High School offers more than 90 activity organizations, the majority of which are open to all students. Many are nationally recognized, including the Union street journal, fine print, the yearbook, the speech and debate team, amnesty international, key club, future business leaders of America, and DECA, A SI prefix in SI system. The speech and debate team is a 400 club member, one of the top twenty programs in the United States as noted by the National Forensics League. Creek is known for its MUN,Memorial University of Newfoundland competition hosted by their MUN team and their very impressive cast of officers and secretary generals.
Awards and recognition are rated excellent by the Colorado School accountability report. It is designated as a Blue Ribbon School by the U.S. department of education. The school received 7 pride awards from the North Central Association, the highest in history. Fourteen CCHS students have won the NCTE, National Council of English Writing Award in the last five years. They focus on training students for particular careers and then placing them in successful careers after graduation. They have a devoted team of staff and instructors ready and willing to help you from enrollment to 10 to 12 grades.
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