Isabelle Vigueria didn’t apply. A Scholastic medal for the first chapter of her unfinished novel brought the Denver Woman’s Press Club to the Monument Academy graduate with $2,500 for tuition.
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Monument Academy’s Elementary School Made $1 Million. Its High School Lost $579,000.
Monument Academy closed its 2025-26 books with a $288,000 surplus, and the number hides more than it shows. The charter’s elementary campus in Monument earned $1.0 million; its middle school lost $141,000; its high school, with 90 students, lost $579,000. The surplus also depends on a $531,000 credit from a bond refinancing and on federal […]
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School Spotlight: Monument Academy Middle School, Where Logic Is a Requirement
Monument Academy’s East Campus is four-fifths middle school. A look at grades six to eight: Core Knowledge, a required semester of Logic, a year of Latin or Spanish, the elective list, the Lynx in the CCAL, and how a family gets a seat.
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The State Released 2026 Test Scores. Where D38 Finished Among Its Peers.
The state released its 2026 test results on Aug. 19. Adjusted for who each school teaches, the two schools at the extremes of D38 are not the ones the raw table names.
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School Starts Aug. 12 in D38, Aug. 11 at Monument Academy
Lewis-Palmer School District 38 opens to most students on Aug. 12, eighth graders on Aug. 13, and Monument Academy starts its youngest children on Aug. 11. Start dates, bell schedules, bus fees, meal prices and back-to-school events for 2026-27.
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School Spotlight: Monument Academy, the Charter That Rebuilt Its High School
School Spotlight is a Monument Independent series profiling the schools that serve Tri-Lakes families — every D38 school, plus The Classical Academy, the D20 charter that many Monument students call home. We’ve done the two comprehensive high schools, Lewis-Palmer and Palmer Ridge. Here is the third door: Monument Academy, the classical charter that closed its […]
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Drains, Lanes and Automobiles
The developer behind the Highway 83 and Walker Road rezoning also owns the private water utility that would serve it — a new plant regional reviewers say is about $1m short of funding.
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Blame the Buildings? What D38’s Test Scores Actually Show
Critics blame new apartments for D38’s test scores. The data shows scores are flat, far above Colorado, and the district’s lowest scores are its own charter.
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At Highway 83 and Walker Road, a Setback for Density
El Paso County’s planning commission has voted 6-1 to recommend rejecting two rezonings that would allow apartments beside Monument Academy and the rural Walden neighborhood. The county commissioners will have the last word on July 23rd. For the better part of four hours on June 18th, the El Paso County Planning Commission listened to residents […]
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Rezoning at the Schoolhouse Gate
A plan to drop hundreds of apartments onto a rural stretch of Highway 83 reunites a familiar Tri-Lakes cast — and the county’s own staff recommends approval even as the county’s own plan argues against it.