Welcome Back, Columbine Cougars!

Our staff has been hard at work preparing for a great start and is eager to greet you in just a couple of weeks. To our new families: welcome to the Columbine Community! You’ve joined an incredible group, and we’re so glad you’re here.

Columbine’s Mission: We believe that through inquiry and problem-based instruction, we build the interdisciplinary connections inspiring students to be creative, empathetic, and critical thinkers. Students are given opportunities to take risks, pursue their interests, and make choices throughout their learning process.

Columbine’s Vision: Columbine is a collaborative STEM community which inspires empathetic and creative problem solvers who positively impact the world around them.

Respectfully,

Julia Cooper, Principal

[email protected]

Please join me in welcoming our new Columbine Staff!

We have a collaborative partnership with the P-Teach program which fosters relationships between aspiring teachers from our St. Vrain community and mentor teachers at our site. Here are the apprentices working with us this coming school year:
New pTeach apprentices

• Rosemary Calvert, SpEd para
• Sara Marquez, Kinder (am)
• Lynsie Cortez, PreK (pm)

Returning pTeach apprentices

• Marisol Sanchez, 1st (am)
• Nevaeh Gomez, PreK (am)

Help us Celebrate our SVVSD Outstanding Classified Staff Award Recipient: Danielle Smith, Media Tech

Our Family Liaison is Here to Help!

He can help you with:

• Access community resources (including help with medicare, food, housing, jobs, etc)
• Free and Reduced Lunch Application
• Submitting school fees
• Getting materials and supplies for school
• Needed technology (internet and student iPads)

Backpack Distribution

We have received a generous donation of backpacks. Columbine will be holding backpack distribution on Wednesday, August 6th from 9:00am-3:00pm. We will have the line form at the Main Entrance, and we will continue to hand out backpacks until our supplies run out. Please stop by to pick up your backpack!

School Supply List

• The School Supply List for 2025-2026 in ENGLISH can be found HERE
• The School Supply List for 2025-2026 in SPANISH can be found HERE

Free and Reduced Lunch Forms

Each year, our community participates in completing the district Free and Reduced Lunch form paperwork. We ask that EVERY family completes the form, even if you do not believe that you will qualify for Free and Reduced Lunch Status.

It is easiest to complete this form online: Free & Reduced Meal Application LINK. You can also call Kari Jacobs, Nutrition Services Coordinator, for assistance (303-702-7793). We do have computers in the Main Office for parents to utilize to complete the Free and Reduced Lunch form. Please set up an appointment with the Main Office staff to use the computer or to get assistance with completing the form.

Back to School Night and Class Schedules!

Your student’s teacher will be posted on the front doors of Columbine on Friday, August 8th at 3:00pm. (Note: While we will make every effort not to make changes, this information is subject to change if movement is needed to balance classroom numbers.)

Back to School Night

• Date: Friday, August 8th
• Time: 4:30-6:30pm
• What: Open House Style (Drop in anytime between 4:30-5:30pm to meet your student’s teacher. No formal presentations will be given.)
• Bonus: Stay and socialize for dinner, available from 5:30-6:30pm (hot dogs and chips provided).
• Students are encouraged to bring in school supplies.

Start of the School Day

• On the first day of school, teachers will be out on the playground blacktop to help direct students to their teachers who will have signs with their names on them.
• Starting Monday, August 18–students will be allowed to enter the school building (entering in their designated door–see image below) starting at 8:20am and go directly to their classroom. School starts at 8:30 and instruction will begin in their classrooms shortly after the bell. The tardy bell rings at 8:35.
• On late start days, students will be able to enter the building at 10:50am and instruction begins at 11:00am with the tardy bell at 11:05am.
• We are serving breakfast between 8:00-8:20am. If your child will be joining us for breakfast, please have them enter through the front office doors (off Longs Peak Ave.)

Drop off and Pick up Locations

First day of school grades 1-5

Wednesday August 13th

Kindergarten

Kindergarten Assessment Days

• Please call the office to sign up for a kindergarten assessment times.
• Options: Tuesday, August 12th 9-11am or 1-3pm OR Wednesday, August 13th 9-11am or 1-3pm

First Day of School for Kindergarten

• Friday, August 15th
• Students will line up with their teacher in the front of the building by 8:20am (blacktop off Atwood).

Preschool

• The first day of Preschool is Monday, August 18th
• Please meet outside the preschool doors (Atwood St) for drop off at 8:20am

Parent Guidebook:

• Columbine Parent Guidebook 2025/2026

Fees

Student iPad Insurance: $25 – Pay in Infinite Campus

• The iPad insurance fee will be reduced or waived for students eligible for a free or reduced price lunch under the federal poverty income guidelines and homeless students as defined by McKinney-Vento.
• Read more about the LTP Student iPad Insurance Program

MATERIALS FEE OF $10 FOR GRADES K-5

• This fee will be maintained by your child’s school to purchase the following: school-specific and/or hard to find consumable and nonstandard classroom materials such as school planners and project-based three ring binders.
• By utilizing a fee, individual or specific school needs can be honored, costs are reduced by bulk purchase, and efficiency is met for items some schools may use and some may not.

Registration for the 25-26 School Year

If you will have a preschooler, kindergartner, or will be open enrolling at Columbine for the 2025-2026 school year, you will need to complete an enrollment application online. Please contact the Main Office if you have any questions.

***It is important to complete your child’s immunization paperwork and to turn this form in to the office. The state requires that schools have this completed paperwork on file for each student.***

Important Dates Coming Up

• Wednesday, August 6th
  • Backpack Distribution begins at 9:00am
• Friday, August 8th
  • 4:30-6:30pm Back to School Night. 4:30-5:30pm meet teachers in their classrooms, then join us for dinner and socialize from 5:30-6:30pm. We are providing dinner: hot dogs and chips.
• Tuesday, August 12th
  • Kindergarten Assessments 9-11am and 1-3pm
• Wednesday, August 13th
  • First day of school for grades 1-5
  • Kindergarten Assessments 9-11am and 1-3pm
• Friday, August 15th
  • First Day of Kindergarten
• Monday, August 18
  • First Day of Preschool

Interested in Volunteering?

If you want to volunteer this year at Columbine, please complete the following volunteer training. You will not be able to volunteer until this training is complete and we would LOVE to have you! Click the button above.

Reminders for Families

• Please remind your students they are not allowed to use electronic devices to call you during school hours. We would like them to come to the office to call parents, if necessary. This will help us to provide the right amount of support for your student. All cell phones need to be kept off or on silent during school hours and be in their backpacks.
• If at any time you need to get a hold of your student, please call the front office and we will contact your student during school hours.
• If you are picking up your student during school hours, you must present a photo ID. Please remember to report your child’s absence or tardiness to 303-776-2840 or email: floresmiranda_ana @svvsd.org
• Our office staff is always available to answer your questions- 303-776-2840
  • Yvonne Lopez, Principal’s Secretary, [email protected]
  • Karen Flores Miranda, Registrar/Attendance Clerk, [email protected]
  • Lupe Aguilera, Health Clerk, [email protected]
  • Luis Montes, Family Liaison, [email protected]

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