Welcome to The 2025-2026 School Year!

About DGS

Denver Green School - Southeast is a K-8 program in the Virginia Vale neighborhood. We are proud of our "hands-on, brains-on" approach to learning where students get outside the classroom and bring learning to life and how our students have demonstrated their learning. We are proud of both our students’ academic outcomes as well as our systems to support their social-emotional wellbeing. In 2022, Denver Green School - Southeast was named a Whole Child Distinguished School for providing equitable and inclusive environments where students are healthy, supported, engaged, challenged, safe, and socially and emotionally intelligent.

Round One of DPS School Choice starts on December 2, 2025 and closes on Jan. 20, 2026. We will be hosting tours throughout the fall. See our Tours Page for more information.

Here are some highlights of what students experience:

• On-sight farm run by Sprout City farms that provides opportunities for students to get their hands dirty while learning about local food production. 

• An excursion program to get schools out in the community to learn. Just this year, students at various grades have gone to the symphony, Red Rocks, the library, grocery stores, and various museums. 

• Challenge programming made possible by having double the staff time normally allocated to Gifted and Talented programming in DPS. See more details here.

• Personalized instructional time is provided for 45 minutes daily four times a week. A team of specialists work with a single grade level to provide focused instruction for all students. We maintain a full time reading interventionist and math interventionist, as well as special education and multilingual education teachers. 

• Rigorous curriculum, including two reading programs that reflect science of reading: CKLA for reading comprehension and Orton-Gillingham for foundational reading skills. In math, we are leading the district in implementing a problem based curriculum in K-5. Additionally, each grade works to integrate themes of sustainability through literacy, science, and social studies programming. 

• Transitional Native Language Programming will be offered in elementary grades starting in the fall of 2025. This means that Spanish speaking licensed staff will support students towards a goal of biliteracy. This option is available for families of students who speak Spanish at home. 

Spring Conference Signup

Please click on the links by homeroom teacher below for conference signup February 10th-12th.Typically spring conferences are optional for students and hopefully you have recieved information from your student’s homeroom teacher about whether they feel it necessary to meet or not. Either way you are always welcome to sign up for a conference if you wish.

Kindergarten - Robert Sutro

Kindergarten - Stacey Garcia (coming soon)

1st Grade - Jasmine Gunderson

1st Grade - Melissa Colunga

2nd Grade - Brooks Hardcastle

2nd Grade - AJ Ecton

3rd Grade - Katie Heinz

3rd Grade - Kari Ouellette

4th Grade - Travis Ostrom (coming soon)

4th Grade - Matt Meyer (coming soon)

5th Grade - Maddie Sarlo, Bethany Morton 

6th Grade - Deaton, Lutz, Aude

7th Grade - Wagner, Sena, Peck, Edelman

8th Grade - Stiebel, Montoya, Peck, Edelman

Innovation Plan Renewal 2025-2026

Innovation Plan School Application - Denver Green School

Luminary Learning Network (LLN) Zone Plan

Registration at DGS

Please note that you must first fill out a choice application, and when it’s time for registration, you will be notified.

RETURNING FAMILIES

Refer to our REGISTRATION TAB

NEW TO DPS, REFER TO One of our new registration tabs

Daily Schedule & Calendar for the 2025-2026 School Year

Daily Schedule: Monday - Thursday 8:50 am - 4:20 pm & Friday 8:50 am - 1:30 pm

Breakfast starts at 8:35 AM in the cafeteria

Calendar: The DGS calendar is slightly different from the district calendar for days off and professional development

DGS is proud and excited to be part of the Luminary Learning Network, Denver's first Innovation Zone, which allows DGS more flexibility and autonomy to implement our Mission and Vision to be the best school we can be for our students and families. Our current innovation plan can be found here (coming soon!). We will be updating our innovation plan for 2026.