School Boundary Changes

School attendance areas are dynamic and may be changed as necessary to address overcrowding, plan for future growth, and protect educational excellence. While we cannot offer any guarantees that a neighborhood will remain within a particular school’s boundary, during boundary change processes we evaluate relocating bussed areas first and strive to assign areas that are within the walk distance to a school.  We encourage all community members with questions about current or future boundaries to contact the Planning and Enrollment Department.

For New Schools

Boundary changes are needed when a new school is built, to direct existing and future neighborhood students to balance projected enrollments.

For Established Schools

Boundary changes to existing schools are needed when school capacities and projected enrollment numbers are no longer balanced.  

Boundary Change For Fall 2025

On December 9, 2024, the Board of Education approved the recommended boundary change.

The boundary change will move the Canyon Creek attendance area to Eaglecrest High School. 

This change will be effective starting in the 2025-2026 school year for all incoming 9^th graders.  This change will not impact current students attending Cherokee Trail. Here are additional implementation details:

1. Current students that reside in the Canyon Creek area in grades 6-8 will be provided guaranteed School Choice to Cherokee Trail.  Families will need to submit a School Choice application anytime between December 1 and January 31 to notify the district of their intentions.
2. Younger siblings of current Cherokee Trail students who will have concurrent enrollment in high school with their older sibling(s) will be provided guaranteed School Choice to Cherokee Trail. Families will need to submit a School Choice application anytime between December 1 and January 31 to notify the district of their intentions.
3. Continued bus service for the Canyon Creek to Cherokee Trail through the 2027-2028 school year (until all current CT students have completed high school).
4. Guaranteed School Choice to Eaglecrest for current 9^th-11^th grade students from the Canyon Creek area.  Families will need to submit a School Choice application anytime between December 1 and January 31 to notify the district of their intentions.
5. New permanent bus service for parts of the Canyon Creek area that are outside to the walk distance to EHS.

Students that are interested in learning more about each school before making a decision are encouraged to attend one of the following events:

• CT events
  • Future Cougar Family Night
  • Wednesday, January 22, 2025
  • 6:00-7:30 pm
• EHS events
  • Raptor Welcome Night
  • Tuesday, January 28, 2025
  • 6:00-8:00pm

Current 8^th grade students can also expect to receive communication from either school pertaining to next school year.  Eaglecrest will be visiting middle schools between January 22^nd and January 29^th, 2025 and Cherokee Trail will be visiting middle schools between February 20^th and March 3^rd, 2025.  Counselors will go to the middle schools at a designated time to meet with students and provide registration materials. Families are encouraged to reach out to the school directly for any additional information or to request a tour.  Here are the contacts for each school:

• Cherokee Trail High School:
  • Dr. Enrique Rosales, Assistant Principal
  • 720-886-1916
• Eaglecrest High School:
  • Tanya Bond, Assistant Principal
  • 720-886-1002

If you have any additional questions, please contact Matt Schaefer, Director of Planning, Enrollment, and Charter Schools at planning@cherrycreekschools.org. Thank you for your continued partnership as we work to ensure every school in the Cherry Creek School District offers a high-quality, excellent education for each and every student.  

Boundary Change For Fall 2024

On March 11, 2024, the Board of Education approved the following overflow boundary change. 

Scenario A: An overflow boundary change from Altitude Elementary to Woodland Elementary for students residing in Southshore at Aurora Filing No. 19 and the southern portion of Southshore at Aurora Filing No. 17.

Due to overcrowding at Altitude Elementary School and under-enrollment at Woodland Elementary School, overflow boundary adjustments for these schools are needed to balance projected enrollments and to accommodate future growth in the Southshore community. 

The overflow boundary change process underwent an extensive community engagement process. The District’s Long-Range Facility Planning Committee first identified three scenarios with the goal of alleviating overcrowding pressures, balancing enrollment, ensuring student safety, and maintaining efficient use of district facilities. These three options were presented to the community during two open house meetings on February 5th and 6th and via an online survey. More than 200 people attended the community meetings and more than 600 survey responses were received. Community feedback indicated a strong preference for Scenarios A and C. All feedback was shared with the District Leadership Team and the Board of Education. Ultimately, Scenario A was chosen because it significantly minimized the number of current students impacted (data below) and is one of the areas located closest to Woodland.

The new boundaries will be implemented in the 2024-2025 school year (see map below). This boundary change will have no impact on middle or high school school assignment.  Please follow this link to search next year’s school boundaries by address.

As a reminder, this change will be effective starting in the 2024-25 school year and will not impact any boundaries for the middle and high schools. This change allows for two exceptions:

1. All students entering 5th grade in the 24-25 school year will be assigned to remain at Altitude.
2. All siblings of 5th grade students can remain at Altitude for one additional year so families do not have children attending two different elementary schools. Please contact the Admissions and Records Manager, Jeremy Wimer, at jwimer@cherrycreekschools.org by April 12, 2024 to request attendance for the 24-25 school year.

Students living in the boundary change area will be provided bus transportation to Woodland Elementary School.

Please send any questions or feedback to Planning@cherrycreekschools.org 

Boundary Changes For Fall 2023

On December 12, 2022, the Board of Education approved the following boundary changes.  

Multiple solutions were considered:

B)  Reassign elementary students west of Mountain Vista to Aspen Crossing Elementary. (45 students live in this area)

The new boundaries will be implemented for the 2023-24 SY.

• • • • • • • 2023-24 SY: All new students moving into the area will be assigned to Dakota Valley.
            • 2023-24 SY: Students entering PreK & KG will be assigned to Dakota Valley.
            • 2024-25 SY: Students entering 2^nd & 3^rd grade will be assigned to Dakota Valley.  Families may request in January 2024, to remain at Mountain Vista on School Choice transfer.
            • Bus service will be provided to Mountain Vista through the 2024-25 SY.

• • • • • • Younger siblings and current students can submit Choice transfers to attend / stay at Mountain Vista. However, bus transportation will only be provided through the 2024-25 SY.
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          • All current Mountain Vista students in the area north of Quincy Ave can request to transfer to Dakota Valley earlier than reassigned. 
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          • Bus transportation will be provided to Dakota Valley according to District Policy EEA starting in 2023-24 SY. 

3.)  Sunrise Elementary area students will be assigned to the Smoky Hill HS feeder area.  

During the 2018-19 SY, the boundary for Eaglecrest HS was adjusted and students in the Summit & Arrowhead Elementary areas were re-assigned from Eaglecrest HS to Smoky Hill HS.  At that time, it was suggested that the Sunrise Elementary area also be re-assigned to Smoky Hill to provide further relief to Eaglecrest.