College Partner: University of Colorado at Denver

ECA is partnering with the University of Colorado at Denver (UCD) to provide college courses to its students. UCD courses are taught at the ECHS facility and at the main UCD campus in downtown Denver.

 

 

The Early College Program

The Early College of Arvada movement began in 2002, supported in large part by the small high school reform program of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Since that time, nearly 250 early college high schools have been created throughout the country.

In addition, several more schools were re-designed from the previous "middle college" model in which students attend both high school and college courses on a college campus. Middle Colleges have been in existence for the last thirty years and have consistently shown great success in providing access to college for thousands of students from a wide diversity of backgrounds.

The first Early College of Arvada in the Denver area was Southwest Early College under a charter from Denver Public Schools. It's design and results greatly influenced the design of Early College of Arvada. SEC founder Christopher Gerboth wrote and gained approval for the ECA charter from the Colorado Charter School Institute in 2007 and serves as the director of student success.