Guffey Community Charter School

Welcome to Guffey Community Charter School, a tiny school focused on its students and community.

This is a school where teachers and parents and students are partners in developing educational strategies.

Guffey School is one of the oldest charter schools in Colorado, in operation since 1996. We formed because we are over an hour away from the offices of our authorizing school district, Park County RE-2, and the ability to have a degree of autonomy is well suited to our extremely rural and isolated location.

We operate under Policy Governance, which means that our Board concerns itself solely with ends, leaving the means of achieving them entirely up to the Administrator and the teachers.

We have a typical enrollment of about 30 students. In most years we have three multi-age classrooms, K-2, 3-5, and 6-8, so each teacher has a small class. It isn't uncommon for us to graduate 8th graders who have been at this school since Kindergarten.

We take very, very seriously our school vision statement, created by our entire community back when the school was founded:

Guffey is a place of learning and service that nurtures the light of the individual spirit by treasuring our countryside, the classroom, and the community, both local and global, in an atmosphere of safety, kindness, and joy.

Guffey School has its own song, written by students working with former Guffey resident Lissa Hanner.