Award Winning Schools

Stapleton is home to eight schools and a lot of smarts. In fact, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, Colorado has the second most highly educated workforce in the nation. And Stapleton has attracted a particularly well-educated group of homebuyers: 80% are college graduates. In addition, 44% of the Stapleton Denver homebuyers have earned graduate degrees. More specifically, Stapleton's own Denver School of Science and Technology (DSST) sent 100% of their graduates to college last year.

Knowing the smart personality of the Stapleton community is another reason to find your new Denver home in Stapleton.

High Schools
Denver School of Science and Technology (DSST) is Stapleton's first Charter high school in the Denver Public School system. Every year, Denver School of Science and Technology, sends several Denver Public school students into the Colorado workforce by requiring juniors and seniors to complete an internship. All of this explains why in the last three consecutive years 100% of DSST’s graduates were accepted to college.

Elementary Schools
Westerly Creek Elementary School (K-5) and William R. Roberts ECE-8 are both Denver Public Elementary School.

Bill Roberts offers classes from early childhood development to eighth grade. And, it is a green energy efficient campus in by being heated and cooled by using geothermal renewable energy.

The Swigert-McAuliffe International campus includes two separate schools: Swigert International School serves ECE though second grade. Beginning in 2012, the school will add a grade level through fifth grade. McAuliffe International School will then open with sixth grade in the 2012-2013 school year, but will eventually serve sixth through eighth grade and include one additional grade each year. 

The Swigert-McAuliffe campus is located at 3480 Syracuse St. 

The Montessori Children’s House of Denver is a private preschool and elementary school that was established in 1991. The school’s Stapleton campus is its fourth Denver location, offering a curriculum that emphasizes science, art, math, reading, geography, cultural studies and peace education. 

Early Childcare/Daycare Schools
Stapleton's Primrose School offers educational childcare with expertise in early childhood development.

Knowledge Beginnings is a Denver childhood development daycare center in Stapleton, while the Community Academy offers preschool classes in the former Hangar 61.

Specialty Schools
Anchor Center for Blind Children, founded in 1982, made its new home in Stapleton and now educates nearly 400 blind children in Denver, Colorado each year.