Growth, exploration, and belonging.
Middle school in PSD is a time to explore new interests, strengthen academic skills, and build community. Students can dive into STEM labs, world languages, music, and athletics while developing the confidence and character they’ll carry into high school. With supportive teachers and a focus on belonging, PSD middle schools help every learner thrive.
Blevins
PSD’s Project-Based Learning middle school, featuring a free, in-house after school program
- Project-Based Learning: interest-based classes that are grounded in hands-on learning and collaboration
- Smaller-school environment
- Strong social-emotional support
- Affective needs center-based program
- Career & Technical Education Pathways: Family & Consumer Science, Sewing, Culinary Arts, Multimedia Production, Game Design, Design & Technology, Journalism/Newspaper, Woodcrafting, Theatre Tech, Construction & Manufacturing
Boltz
South Fort Collins's inclusive neighborhood middle school with dual-language immersion programming and strong supports for diverse learners.
- Center-based autism program and Bridges autism program
- Middle school to high school transition support for at-risk students
- Excellent choice for multilingual learners
- Co-teaching model
- Career and Technical Education (CTE) Pathways: Family & Consumer Science, Health Sciences, Teen Living, Culinary Arts, Fashion Design, Design & Technology, Theatre Tech, Computer Science
- PLC Journey Toward Collective Efficacy: Boltz is actively engaged in a Professional Learning Community (PLC) journey, where educators collaborate regularly to analyze student data, align instruction to standards, and build collective efficacy to improve outcomes for all learners.
- Cross-Curricular Literacy Focus: Boltz integrates language arts and math literacy across subjects to deepen student understanding and critical thinking.
- Social Emotional Learning (SEL): SEL is intentionally embedded into instruction to support students’ emotional development and interpersonal skills.
- High School and Post-Secondary Readiness: Academic programs are designed to prepare students for success in high school and future educational opportunities.
- Diverse Elective Offerings: Students can choose from electives such as band, orchestra, dance, choir, drama, musical theater, engineering, visual arts, Spanish, and more.
- Dual Language Program: Boltz offers the only middle school Dual Language Program in Fort Collins, where students take core classes in Spanish to develop bilingualism, biliteracy, and cultural competency.
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CLP MS
A small and close-knit IB World School at the base of the Poudre Canyon
- Strong academic growth and performance
- Supportive, small school community
- Career and Technical Education (CTE) Pathways: Design & Technology, Architecture & Building, Woodcrafting, Computer Science, Robotics
Kinard Core Knowledge
PSD’s award-winning, choice-only* Core Knowledge middle school
- PSD's only National Blue Ribbon middle school, with an additional US Department of Education Green Ribbon Award and Professional Learning Community at Work Model School designation
- Award-winning music program, including a Best Community for Music Education distinction
- Core Knowledge requires all students to learn visual arts and music in addition to core subjects
- Robust leadership programming including Kinard CARES and Global Leadership
- Center-based integrated learning supports program
- Career and Technical Education (CTE) Pathways: Design & Technology, Game Design, Computer Science, Family & Consumer Sciences, International Foods, and Wood Crafts
Lesher MS
A model IB World School offering transitional bilingual education and an Integrated Learning Services center-based program.
- Strong academic performance
- No Place for Hate school
- Co-teaching program
- Career and Technical Education (CTE) Pathways: Design & Technology x2, Computer Science x2, Entrepreneurship, Sewing, Outdoor Living
Lincoln MS
Northwest Fort Collins’s IB World middle school with a trauma-informed and service learning focus
- Excellent choice for multilingual learners
- Impact learning: an educational approach where students apply their knowledge and skills to address real-world problems and make meaningful contributions to society, fostering practical experience and tangible outcomes
- Career and Technical Education (CTE) Pathways: Design & Technology x2, Multimedia Production, Digital Design, Coding, Outdoor Living, Computer Science
Preston MS
Southeast Fort Collins’s STEM-focused middle school, offering accelerated course offerings and local and international travel opportunities
- Strong academic performance (National School to Watch three times, including in 2025)
- Pre-AP course offerings
- Co-teaching model
- Center-based affective needs program
- Career and Technical Education (CTE) Pathways: Diverse electives (Robotics & Coding, Engineering & Design, Outdoor & Environmental Education, Business, Innovation & Leadership
Tinmath MHS
A middle-high model that eases transitions and strengthens community, a state-of-the-art new building, and a thriving ICAP (Individual Career & Academic Plan) structure.
- Professional Learning Community guided by the Four Essential Questions model to inform instruction
- Middle School Career & Technical Education Pathways: Family & Consumer Sciences, Multimedia Production, Computer Science, Technical Theater, Culinary Arts, Design & Technology, Entrepreneurship, Coding, Digital Design
- High School Career & Technical Education Pathways: Architecture & Construction, Business & Marketing, Computer Science, Culinary & Hospitality, Design & Multimedia Arts, Education & Training, Engineering, Health Science, Interior & Fashion Design, Production & Managerial Arts, Welding & Manufacturing, Career Tech Center Pathways
Webber
Southwest Fort Collins’s rigorous neighborhood middle school, emphasizing whole‑child development via strong core academics, diverse electives, and a culture built around the “6 Ps.”
- Discovery program
- Strong music program and strong athletics
- Pre-AP offerings
- Advisory program to connect each student to trusted adults
- Career and Technical Education (CTE) Pathways: Family & Consumer Sciences, 3D Modeling & Design, Teen Living, Intro to Culinary Arts, International Foods, Intro to Interior Design, Sew Creative, Design & Tech x2, Robotics Engineering 1, Wood Crafts, Coding, Game Design, Outdoor Living
Wellington MHS
A small-town, close-knit, smaller high school environment with a renowned agricultural program and community service opportunities
- Strong arts and athletics programs
- Strong family and consumer sciences
- State-of-the-art facilities including for art, technology, woodwork, metalwork, commercial FACs kitchen, ensuring a hands-on learning experience that nurtures creativity and technical skills
- Career and Technical Education (CTE) Pathways: Agriculture, Architecture & Construction, Business & Marketing, Comp Sci, Culinary & Hospitality, Design & Multimedia Arts, Education & Training, Interior & Fashion Design