Cheyenne Mountain School District 12
The Cheyenne Mountain School District 12 is a unified, and public school district located in Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States, south of Denver, Colorado. It embodies one pre-school, five elementary schools, one junior high school, and one comprehensive high school.
CMSD12 was formed in 1884. Student enrollment for the 2024–25 school year is 3,737 and it spends an average of $15,113 per pupil and maintains a student-to-teacher ratio of 15:0.2.
The district's high school is a member of the Colorado High School Activities School Activity Association organization. During 2025, Niche.com ranked Cheyenne Mountain High School the number best school district in the state of Colorado.
History
Before the formation of the district, students were served education in a small shed from 1860 to 1871, and later during 1872 it was served at a rustic, rural, single room schoolhouse twelve foot long cabin overlooking Cheyenne Mountain for adolescents created by settlers of Colorado including Daniel Kinsman, Carter Harlan and Marcus Foster, which would become the high school. During 1872 the first educator named Mary Harlan taught nine pupils, the first school year lasted a combined total of roughly three months.Growing at a steady pace and fueled by suburbanization, by 1910 the new district was deemed too small to accommodate all of its students, and as a result an additional six rooms on the school campus were designed and in 1959 a gym was added onto the side of the school. And an additional two new elementary schools were approved for construction in 1955. An additional elementary school was created during 1956, known as Broadmoor Elementary and in 1962 the old high school was converted into a $2 million middle school during which the high school, Cheyenne Mountain High School was relocated.
As with other school districts across the United States, Cheyenne Mountain School District took measures to implement distance learning after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic to prevent the spread of the virus. Initially, students attended school remotely on October 23, 2020. On November 9, 2020, the district would later eventually open the year with a transition to a hybrid in-person and virtual learning model.
Administration
Cheyenne Mountain School District supplies students with Chromebook tablets, which operate on ChromeOS. In addition, the district uses Google Apps for Education for student email and document storage and Infinite Campus Parent Portal for student record-keeping. District 12 is known to use linewize which is a network filter powered by Qoria. CMSD five-member Board of Education governs the district and selects the superintendent. Each member of the Board of education upon being elected by the public is expected to serve a four-year term.General information
Student enrollment for the 2024–25 school year is 3,725 and it spends an average of $15,113 per pupil and maintains a student-to-teacher ratio of 15:0.2.Location and area
The Cheyenne Mountain School District covers the southwestern land in the city of Colorado Springs. The main administrative facility is located at 1755 La Clede Street in Colorado Springs.Demographics
In the 2024–25 school year, the Cheyenne Mountain School District enrolled approximately 3,737 students; of which 269 were eligible for free lunch or reduced-price lunch. The student body is 51% male and 49% female and 7.2 percent of students are economically disadvantaged.Schools
Cheyenne Mountain High School
Cheyenne Mountain High School was founded as Cheyenne Mountain District Twelve. Its first class graduated in 1872. The school has been named a National Blue Ribbon School. The mascot is the red tailed hawk. The Cheyenne Mountain High School has 1,268 students 9–12.Student body
As of the 2024–25 school year, the high schools largest ethnicity were White Americans, followed by Hispanic and Latino Americans and then by Multiracial Americans.