Community - Equity - Engagement - Stewardship
DENVER GREEN SCHOOL
SOUTHEAST
High Expectations - Relevance - Shared Leadership
Fall Conference Signups!
Kinder - Stacey Garcia (coming soon!)
7th - Wagner, Sena, Peck, Edelman
New 6th - 8th
Refer to our NEW 6th-8th Registration Tab
RETURNING FAMILIES
Refer to our REGISTRATION TAB
Prospective Families/Tours
We invite any families who are considering Denver Green School - Southeast for the fall of 2027 to join us for an in-person tour. For elementary grades, we are a part of the Central East Enrollment Zone. Our middle school serves a neighborhood boundary. We suggest that any interested families participate in Round 1 of School Choice, which opens on December 1. Learn more on our School Tours page.
About DGS
Denver Green School - Southeast is a K-8 program in the Virginia Vale neighborhood. We are proud of our "hands-on, brains-on" approach to learning where students get outside the classroom and bring learning to life and how our students have demonstrated their learning. We are proud of both our students’ academic outcomes as well as our systems to support their social-emotional wellbeing. In 2022, Denver Green School - Southeast was named a Whole Child Distinguished School for providing equitable and inclusive environments where students are healthy, supported, engaged, challenged, safe, and socially and emotionally intelligent. Additionally, we have received the state’s highest rating of Green (Performance) on the School Performance Framework.
Here are some highlights of what students experience:
On-site farm run by Sprout City farms that provides opportunities for students to get their hands dirty while learning about local food production.
An excursion program to get schools out in the community to learn. Just this year, students at various grades have gone to the symphony, Red Rocks, the library, grocery stores, and various museums.
Challenge programming made possible by having double the staff time normally allocated to Gifted and Talented programming in DPS. See more details here.
Personalized instructional time is provided for 45 minutes daily four times a week. A team of specialists work with a single grade level to provide focused instruction for all students. We maintain a full time reading interventionist and math interventionist, as well as special education and multilingual education teachers.
Rigorous curriculum, including two reading programs that reflect science of reading: CKLA for reading comprehension and Orton-Gillingham for foundational reading skills. In math, we are leading the district in implementing a problem based curriculum in K-5. Additionally, each grade works to integrate themes of sustainability through literacy, science, and social studies programming.
Transitional Native Language Programming will be offered in elementary grades starting in the fall of 2025. This means that Spanish speaking licensed staff will support students towards a goal of biliteracy. This option is available for families of students who speak Spanish at home.
Daily Schedule & Calendar for the 2026-2027 School Year
Daily Schedule: Monday - Thursday 8:50 am - 4:20 pm & Friday 8:50 am - 1:30 pm
Breakfast starts at 8:35 AM in the cafeteria
Calendar: The DGS calendar is slightly different from the district calendar for days off and professional development
Innovation Plan Renewal 2025-2026
Learn about Denver Green School SE in this video
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DGS is proud and excited to be part of the Luminary Learning Network, Denver's first Innovation Zone, which allows DGS more flexibility and autonomy to implement our Mission and Vision to be the best school we can be for our students and families. Our current innovation plan can be found here (coming soon!). We will be updating our innovation plan for 2026.
