Justice High Charter School (4496)
805 EXCALIBUR
LAFAYETTE, CO 80026
Charter School.
Alternative Education Campus (AEC).
95
Total Students Served
Grade 6 - Grade 12
School District:
Boulder Valley Re 2 (0480)
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Justice High Charter School
2024-2025
Justice High School (JHS) serves non-traditional, at-risk students and it is the truancy and expulsion school for Boulder Valley School District (BVSD). JHS serves approximately 125 to 135 students a year that reside in Boulder County and in the Northern Denver Metropolitan area. The school is the result of the community's need to address its growing truancy and delinquency issues. In the summer of 2002, the Chief Judge of the Boulder County District Court at the time convened a task group that …
eventually recommended an alternative high school to support disenfranchised youth; therefore, JHS became a school in 2002 under BVSD and later received its charter status through the Colorado Department of Education (CDE) on January 12, 2006. CDE designates JHS as an Alternative Education Campus (AEC) because 100% of the student population is categorized in at least one of fifteen high-risk indicators such as a suspended or expelled from school, over-age/ under-credited, student is pregnant or is a parent, homelessness, parent in jail, has an Individualized Education Plan (IEP), history of substance abuse, etc. (CDE AEC Report, 2023). Non-traditional students find no comfort in learning within large traditional schools; therefore, enroll at JHS as an alternative. Over the past five years, enrollment has increased from serving approximately 120 students annually to over 130 (Infinite Campus, 2024). The school has experienced multiple demographic changes such as enrolling more middle school students, increase in students that identify as LGBTQ+, and finally, an increase in female students to compose a balanced population of 53.7% male to 46.3% female student body, which is a significant change as it has historically served an overwhelming male population. In essence, JHS has shifted away from being a school that primarily served expelled and suspended students or delinquent juveniles involved in the judicial system to a school that serves students that need small class sizes, a safe and welcoming community, individualized attention, and a home away from home.  For the most part, the school leadership, support service providers, and the majority of the core content teachers have remained intact; however, the school has had some turnover of key staff members that has impacted progress. Nevertheless, JHS has experienced yearly increases in school performance. From 2013-2018, the school?s School Performance Framework (SPF) accountability report had gone from Priority Improvement to Improvement (SPF, 2013-2018). Since 2019, JHS has displayed a Performance status rating with CDE (SPF, 2019-2024). By retaining and recruiting talent, establishing a shared vision, equitable allocation of resources, utilization of multilateral improvement processes, and cementing distributive leadership norms, JHS continues to be rated as a Performance school. With that said, JHS has an array of challenges and shortfalls that are addressed in this plan which was created from data analysis and feedback gathered from interviews, questionnaires, and culture/climate surveys of the school's Board of Directors, school staff, students, families, and external stakeholders. JHS utilizes a year round improvement system that involves all stakeholders. This process is facilitated through a distributed leadership and shared decision making model that relies on committees. The Instructional Core Team focuses on improving teaching and learning, the Student Support Team emphasizes engagement and the effectiveness of wraparound services, and the Leadership Team monitors progress and emphasizes accountability and transparency. Monthly, the school has an accountability meeting in which goal attainment strategies are discussed and input from parents and students is taken into account. At the end of the school year, the school completes an End of Year (EOY) Report. On that report, each school goal is measured through analysis and triangulation of multiple data sets. Outcomes are summarized and areas of strength and improvement for the next year are identified. These findings are reviewed with the staff, students, parents, and community partners to share concerns and gather insight on improvement strategies.
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