About Us

Colorado Springs Early Colleges is a community of about 590 students that is relational, innovative, and like no other campus in the city.

As a small high school, CSEC provides a world-class education in a personal, supportive atmosphere.

We assess every student who enrolls, meet them where they are at academically no matter the level and move them toward earning their high school diploma and college credits. 

Sharing space with Colorado Technical University, CSEC’s goal is to make college courses available—and free—to those who are ready to begin college-level course work now.  For those not college ready, we are a high school first and offer college prep classes to students with the goal of preparing them to be college- ready in less than two years.

We offer CTU’s college-level courses on campus for our students as part of the normal school day. These courses are taken with other CSEC high school students.  And what we don’t offer here, students can take at PPCC or UCCS.

The end result is that students can leave CSEC with both a high school and a college transcript in hand, knowing they have been equipped for post-secondary success.

Think College!  Think Career!

 

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CSEC Facts

  • We are a tuition-FREE public charter high school open to any student in Colorado Springs and the surrounding area.

  • Three CSEC buses transport students from the south and east sides of town with several stops along Woodmen Road.  Carpooling options are also available.

  • Our district is the Charter School Institute.  (We are not affiliated with any Colorado Springs school district.)

  • CSEC students can take college classes while still in high school through CTU, UCCS, or on any of the PPCC campuses.

  • Students can join CSEC as a full-time or part-time student.  (Part time students must be enrolled in an academic program--private school or homeschool-- apart from CSEC.)

  • CSEC is a community of 450-plus students with 300 students taking on-campus classes (including CTU college courses and/or high school classes) and over 150 taking off-campus college courses at PPCC or UCCS.

  • Our school year begins in mid-August and ends before Memorial Day. On campus, we offer a 5-period, daily schedule from 8 a.m. to 3:10 p.m.

  • Upon graduation, CSEC students leave with a high school transcript and a college transcript from each of the institutions attended.

  • We offer many GT Pathway college courses guaranteed to transfer to any college or university within Colorado.

  • Three CSEC buses transport students from the south and east sides of town with several stops along Woodmen Road.  Carpooling options are also available.

 

 

 

CSEC shares a campus with CTU and partners with CSEC to offer CTU college courses to CSEC students as part of  CSEC's normal school day.

          

  CSEC is authorized by Charter School Institute, a state-wide organization that acts somewhat like a school district.

            

Colorado League of Charter Schools supports CSEC with training and other services.		             

Many CSEC students attend off-campus classes at Pikes Peak Community Collegeand at University of Colorado at Colorado Springs