Mapleton Public Schools is a unified school district in Adams County, Colorado, based in the unincorporated community of Sherrelwood. It encompasses industrial and commercial areas immediately north of Denver, including North Washington and parts of Sherrelwood, Thornton, Twin Lakes, and Welby. , the school district enrolled 7,095 students at twenty schools.

Unlike other school districts in the state, schools in Mapleton do not have attendance boundaries, and students and families can choose to attend any school in the district.

History Mapleton Public Schools was established in 1955 as Adams County School District 1 following the merger of two other districts. When Mapleton was founded, the district was primarily made up of farmland.

Up until the 2000s, the school district had performed poorly on state assessments.

In fall 2007, the district changed its school assignment policy to where all families in the district choose which schools they will send their children to, instead of having attendance boundaries for elementary and middle schools; previously the district had a single large comprehensive high school which covered the entire district. The schools were all made to be relatively small campuses, the district called them "small-by-design" schools. The district's only comprehensive high school, Skyview High School, closed at the end of the 2006–07 academic year and was replaced with several smaller high schools.

In 2019 the State of Colorado was looking for a temporary manager of the Adams 14 School District. Mapleton requested to be a potential manager of the district, along with three other organizations; the other three were not school districts. Adams 14 asked for Mapleton to temporarily operate its district. The Colorado State Board of Education however chose not to let Mapleton manage Adams 14.

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Enrollment and demographics Mapleton Public Schools is located immediately north of Denver. It is centered on the junction of four freeways: Interstate 25 (I-25), I-76, I-270, and U.S. Route 36. Its boundaries encompass large parts of North Washington, Thornton, and Welby, as well as small parts of Sherrelwood and Twin Lakes.

In the 2024–25 academic year, there were 7,095 students enrolled in Mapleton's twenty schools. The district employed 914.21 staff members (on a full-time equivalent basis), including 404.57 classroom teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 17.54. The demographic makeup of the district is mostly Hispanic (51%) and White (41%), and 9.9% of students speak English less than well.

Performance Mapleton Public Schools was accredited with an improvement plan by the Colorado Department of Education .

Governance The district's superintendent is Mike Crawford.

Schools Mapleton has twenty schools, including a stand-alone preschool, four elementary schools (one for grades K–3 and three for K–6), one 4–8 intermediate school, six K–8 schools, one junior/senior high school, four high schools, one K–12 school, an online program, and an alternative high school for young adults. In addition to the stand-alone preschool, eight other schools offer a prekindergarten program. Ten of the schools are located on two campuses: the Skyview and Broadway Campuses, the latter of which also has the district headquarters. The other ten schools have their own locations.

+ Schools in Mapleton Public Schools School Grades Enrollment (2024–25) Location Notes Academy High School 9–12 399 Skyview Campus Achieve Academy PK–8 370 Stand-alone Adventure Elementary PK–6 429 Stand-alone Clayton Partnership School K–8 430 Skyview Campus Explore PK–8 PK–8 557 Stand-alone Global Intermediate Academy 4–8 346 Broadway Campus Global Leadership Academy 9–12 400 Broadway Campus Global Primary Academy PK–3 272 Broadway Campus Mapleton Early Career Preparation 9–12 306 Skyview Campus Mapleton Expeditionary School of the Arts 9–12 393 Skyview Campus Mapleton Online K–12 152 Online Physical presence at Broadway Campus Meadow Community School PK–8 378 Stand-alone Monterey Community School K–8 440 Stand-alone North Valley School for Young Adults 9–12 102 Skyview Campus Alternative high school for young adults up to age 21 Performing Arts School on Broadway 7–12 169 Broadway Campus Preschool on Poze PK 193 Stand-alone Trailside Academy PK–8 492 Stand-alone Valley View Innovation School PK–6 183 Stand-alone Adding grades until reaching PK–8 Welby Community School of the Arts PK–6 308 Stand-alone York International School K–12 776 Stand-alone Offers an International Baccalaureate program

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