COLORADO TIMBERLINE ACADEMY, INC. Information

Colorado Timberline Academy is a non-traditional college preparatory, co-ed, secondary boarding/day school dedicated to changing the lives of students who have experienced difficulties in a previous high school setting. Our mission is to prepare students academically and socially for the challenges they face upon graduation. Through our diverse curriculum and outdoor programs we foster freedom with responsibility, creativity, and respect for self, each other and the environment. CTA has been a life changing school for our son. He was "falling through the cracks" at our local high school and was not becoming the successful, happy young man we knew him to be. CTA changed all that. Every member of the staff is outgoing and genuinely passionate about CTA and all it represents. Their love for the kids, the outdoors, academics, and life in general is readily apparent. Our son never had a day of homesickness as he was welcomed with open arms into this small and close community. He took up rock climbing which has now become one of his passions. He learned how to safely back country ski. He loves to golf, and Dan bent over backwards in order to get him into Durango quite often so that he could continue to play and enjoy that hobby. I tell people that the premise of CTA is "healthy body, healthy mind". What I mean is that through lots of physical activity and being outside in that beautiful environment, it helps to calm a teenage brain to be able to then focus on schoolwork as well. Our son is now headed off to college as a happy, passionate, confident, engaged young man. We count our blessings everyday that we found CTA.