Eaglecrest High School

As a parent of two EHS students (one is getting ready to start her sophomore year at a prestigious midwestern university and the other will be a Junior at EHS in the Fall), I can say that EHS has a lot to offer students who want to take advantage of both curricular and extracurricular activities at EHS. The AP program is great and students can choose from a wide variety of courses at EHS. The Honors Diploma program is also top-notch. Whether students are athletes, musicians, science geeks, actors, etc., they will find their niche at EHS. The clubs and programs available rival schools in more affluent areas of town. While EHS is not Cherry Creek H.S. (and shouldn't want to be) in terms of average income of students' families, EHS students have access to all of the great things that Cherry Creek School District has to offer. A student who performs well at EHS will have no problem getting into the "very selective" university/college of his/her choice and probably be offered a scholarship. We have chosen to remain at EHS over the years, despite opportunity to go elsewhere. This is because EHS is a great school with teachers who really care about their students' successes.
—Submitted by a parent

I've attended Eaglecrest since freshman year. It definitely has one of the most rigorious AP curriculums in Colorado. I've taken four AP classes in the past and I am taking four currently this year. I've received a passing score with all of my AP tests. Also, our Math department is one of the best in the district. We receive students from Cherokee Trail and Grandview to take Calc 3 here. Our attendance is higher than any other school in Cherry Creek District # 5. The Performing arts department is one of a kind at Eaglecrest(I can proudly brag about). Some students here that get in trouble with the staff and teachers hang out with the wrong kids anyways. I concede that our administration is strict and sometimes is questionable on whether they care for the students or for the statistics, but overall it's not bad. Take the word from someone who is doing well academically at Eaglecrest and who is actually enjoying his high school career. Go to Eaglecrest. If your not open to joining clubs and participating in as much as possible, then surely Eaglecrest isn't for you. In fact, go luck with finding any high school that fits with you.
—Submitted by a student

This is a terrible school I'm a student there and have been sexually harassed there and had verbal assaults from the students and teachers. Most teachers there are vulgar and rude and don't seem to like kids or teaching at all. The staff acts like bullies as well and blatantly ignores substantial issues with the students. I know every school has problems but this school had too many for me to personally overlook them. Do not go here the bullying and kid teacher conflicts are out of control and the school does nothing to stop or even reduce these crazy in incidents.
—Submitted by a student

I can't imagine high school going somewhere else. The negativity in the comments are just petty. Every school will have that one student or parent who gets all frustrated about how they failed a class and the teacher didn't bump it to a D or how they never gained any friends so they decide to give it a bad review on the web. It's high school. The experience is different for everyone. The teachers, staff and students are amazing with a huge variety of things to get involved in. It's not them, it's the reviewer.
—Submitted by a student

Hated this place for some unknown reason. Couldn't stand being in it physically. Drove me nuts. Probably ate lunch there twice in the two years(that's about 180 days a year) I went to this school, I guess due to not having many friends and not talking to people. The actual classes were extremely boring, and not fun but also not very hard for some reason.
—Submitted by a student

As a former student of EHS, I'm shocked to see all of the negativity. I not only greatly enjoyed my time at eaglecrest, but also learned how to prepare myself for college and how to be a better person. It's diversity is what makes it thrive, and the students not only get an education, but learn acceptance of people reguardless of color, creed, and sexual oriention add to the learning. I'm honored to say that because of my time there, I'm a happy, enthhusiastic, and honest person. I learned to be me, and that's more than others can say in less fortunate high schools.
—Submitted by a teacher

Unstable, crime, ghetto... please there is NOTHING unsafe about Eaglecrest. The way students dress there is no different (other than maybe a little less excessive) than at any other public high school in the Denver area. Eaglecrest is also no more crowded than my 300 person high school was. It's one heck of a lot bigger, but no more crowded than any other high school. What Eaglecrest does give is a great education, with fantastic AP and honors programs. They have a great graduation rate (which still must be taken with a grain of salt at any school as demographics tend to play a bigger part than the actual school itself) and a strong focus and encouraging kids on to a higher education. Bottom line is this is an excellent nationally rated school. Any rating of less than 3 is quite frankly a joke or someone with a grudge.
—Submitted by a parent

Eaglecrest High School is not recommended. First, there's an unstable environment that lacks control. The environment itself is not healthy due to students constantly discouraging one another over money. Students steal everything of yours, if not careful! If you attend Eaglecrest, there is no doubt that you will have some personal item of yours stolen, it's a school of crime. It meets it's stereotype of being "Ghetto", majority of the students sag their pants to the ground and expose skin which hardly follows the dress code, that's unacceptable. The hallways and school itself is over crowded, which is uncomfortable and hard to get around. The security guards have been replaced so many times in the past 4 years, it's hard to place a review on them. But Eaglecrest offers many classes you can choose from, such as Advance Placement and Honors, and for struggling students there are Essentials classes.
—Submitted by a student

I came from Regis Jesuit where I thought I was getting a decent education and when I went to eaglecrest my view on public schools just dropped. The curriculum is too easy and I honestly don't get how some of these kids can be prepared for college. The AP classes that I was taking a Regis were way to advanced and didn't match up with the ones at Eaglecrest. Since I had a full schedule as well I had already had way more credits then the average graduate. Don't send your kid there, if your kid wants to get ahead for college send them to Creek or CTHS. Don't be fooled by eaglecrest's statistics they have a 97 percent graduation rate while Creek has 99%
—Submitted by a student

My son brought home the Eaglecrest 'Eagle Quill' newspaper they have they had this section of ranking the nearby schools (Grandview, Smoky Hill, Cherokee Trail) alongside Eaglecrest on its reading, writing, and math scores. Eaglecrest was 1st place in reading, tied 2nd for writing, and tied 2nd for math. I also took the time to read the other articles, and by the way the Eagle Quill students who type up the newspaper are amazing, your stories are well written. Well anyways, they talked about Eaglecrest being stereotyped for being ghetto. Honestly, a building doesn't prove a school to be ghetto, you cannot change the look of a school to rid the stereotypes. The kids inside the 'ghetto' school are hardworkers that work for what they want and the teachers are there for them. Eaglecrest is definitely a great choice!
—Submitted by a parent

EHS is a school that doesn't just push students through the motion for four years. Instead, they truly inspire and never fail to produce free thinkers, hard workers, and future leaders. With teachers who are our role models and an administration that goes the distance to provide support, EHS is excellence. The school has so many clubs from which to choose and, unlike the IB program, EHS offers various diploma options that provide freedom to students who are still growing both academically and personally. They want to see you succeed and provide all students with the proper guidance and opportunities to do so. EHS aspires to push their students, and to produce the best, the brightest, and the most inspiring student bodies, making it the best school in the area!
—Submitted by a student

Its a great school with lots of great oppertunitys and with amazing teachers. Its a very fun safe enviornment for kids to be.
—Submitted by a parent

my son raves about this school. he loves the rigor of the AP and honors classes
—Submitted by a parent

Eaglecrest High School is a Five Star learning/working environment. Mrs. Hansen-Vigil, Eaglecrest Administrators/Support Staff, Teachers, Students and Parents team together to create a superior learning/working envirnonment. Congratulations!

i am cyrrewntly attending eaglecrest and this school i mean is the absolute worst school ive ever been. I will be graduating this year and lastly i just have to say please dont take your child to eaglecrest because its one of the worst schools in colorad.
—Submitted by a student

i am attending ehs as we speak and i will gaduate in 2009 overal a grat school i would say it is somewhat crowded and i do not like the new attendence policy with the crowding if it was not so bottle necked all the time i would not mind but the attendance program is ment to get you to class but some of the repercusions include suspension and i find that rather pointless and the program is as of this year very unorganized but overall it could use some more security but i feel safe as a student just they security gaurds are not always were they need to be but overall the teachers are always willing to help mr.gott is like the best math teacher in the world and make math class into a class that is interestting and fun i would not have picked a different high school
—Submitted by a student

The principal of this school is a well educated women who i believe is the most involved principal i have ever met. Keep Up The Good Work Ms.Vigil
—Submitted by a student

Eaglecrest is such a great school to go to if you take advantage of all the opportunities out there. Not everyone does it but as long as your child does she will love Eaglecrest. The teachers are so great, so awesome and they do help out a lot. Diversity is what Eaglecrest is filled up with. Clubs, sports are all there and sports don't take up the center stage. Performing Arts is awesome and just a good school to go to. Our biggest rival is against Grandview in almost all the sports and we excell. Security Guards are awesome, same as teachers, students are too. Advanced Placement classes challenge EHS kids to do their best and they do. Eaglecrest is the way to go
—Submitted by a student

Eaglecrest is a very good school to go to. No matter what level in sports its always competitive since Eaglecrest is in the Centennial League which is the hardest and most competitive league in the state of Colorado. Teachers are tight and we got a lot of good clubs to go to. Eaglecrest is the only high school in the nation to fit the percentages of each race perfectly, and we've been that way for many years. Very diverse and a good school. Problem is just a lot of tardies and unexcused absence in 2007 but 2008 we've changed things around. Cheerleading, volleyball, basketball, softball is what Eaglecrest does best, football has talent but is decent. Schools very since especially the new wing. I recommend parents to try out Eaglecrest if given the chance to.
—Submitted by a parent

Eaglecrest is an amazing school to go to. Every school has mistakes and so does Eaglecrest. Security sometimes seem to be very biased on race, but the other faculty staff are amazing. We have an AMAZING performing arts group. Sports are really good especially Volleyball and Basketball. Grandview and Eaglecrest are the biggest rivals and its always in good fun. We have a nice variety of AP classes and we have amazing teachers doing a program in Sci-Tech. It helps people who want to pursue a career in engineering & other fields of interest and some people end up working for Lockheed Martin, Disney Imaginary, & other big name companies. Sci-Tech is amazing and was really fun. And the staff teaches with high standards. They hold many 'labs' that are usually after school that help kids that want to raise their grades up. In sports we have Academic Hallway which are for kids that have F's. The kids mostly raise their grades up and are still able to participate.
—Submitted by a student