Pathways & Experiences

Personalized Learning

Supporting students’ unique academic needs

Every student comes to our school with different academic needs, and we have the flexibility to meet them where they are. From rebuilding high school credits to taking on advanced studies through college courses, our school offers opportunities that help each student keep moving their education forward.

Personalized Support

We offer in-class supports by special education professionals to students with learning differences.

Individualized Tutoring

Students have an optional 45 minutes of tutoring and additional academic support every day.

5280 Recovery High School is a full-inclusion school, supporting learners of all backgrounds and unique needs.

Program Highlights

Hands-on opportunities for real-world learning

Through our project-based learning model, students at 5280 Recovery High School learn both the academic skills they need to thrive in college and the soft skills that are so important in professional settings today.

Credit Recovery

5280 offers credit recovery opportunities so that students can catch up and graduate in a timely fashion. We offer EdGenuity for students who are behind in credits, with staff support and testing offered on Mondays. In addition, students can participate in summer school through DPS, at campuses that rotate each year.

Intersession

Intersession is a two-day deep-dive into an area of passion or interest that typically doesn’t occur within usual classes and academic disciplines. Offered twice a year, students can select the sessions that most interest them. Previous Intersession offerings include ziplining, rock-climbing, sewing, e-sports, stained glass, and more.

College Coursework

Juniors and seniors have the opportunity to pursue advanced studies through concurrent enrollment at local community colleges. To qualify for concurrent enrollment, students must have strong attendance (at least 85%) and grades (at least a 3.0 GPA).

Student Bell Schedule Tuesday-Friday

8:30-8:40 a.m

A.M. office hours (optional)

8:40-9:50 a.m.

Period 1

9:50-10 a.m.

Break

10-11:10 a.m.

Period 2

11:00-11:20 a.m

Break

11:20 a.m.-12 p.m.

B.O.A.T.

12-12:30 p.m.

Office hours

12:30-1:15 p.m.

Lunch

1:15-2:25 p.m.

Period 3

2:25-2:35 p.m.

Break

2:35-3:45 p.m.

Period 4

3:45-4 p.m.

PM office hours (optional)

Coursework Overview

At 5280, you’ll take all the usual mandatory classes—Humanities, English, Math, Spanish, Visual Arts, Woodworking, Biology, and so on. That said, we take a unique approach, often offering multidisciplinary classes for which you can earn credit in several subjects at once. Some examples include:

What if school actually felt real? Humathology is a project-based mashup of Humanities, Math, and Biology where we tackle big questions and build things that matter—designing therapeutic community gardens, taking on food apartheid, exploring sci-fi worlds, and creating original stories that imagine better futures (including your own).

Forensics AKA Who Done It? is a comprehensive class that studies the various methods of forensic analysis with guest speakers and hands-on activities to explore the various modalities. The course concludes by applying your new skills to make deductions about evidence in a variety of real life and fictional mock trials.

In Myths, Legends, and Folklore, students practice critical reading, analytical writing, and creative writing through the examination of short stories, myths, and excerpts from epic poems. The course covers the origin of myth in oral tradition, character archetypes, various polytheistic pantheons, and the “American Pantheon” of tall tales, fables, and cryptids, and their origin in Native American and European cultural roots.