Top 10 Reasons Why Littleton Public Schools is the Best Place To Be:
1. All three LPS high schools — Littleton, Heritage, and Arapahoe — are nationally recognized and award winning. They have been featured in Newsweek Magazine’s Top High Schools in America and 5280 Magazine’s "Top High Schools in Denver."
2. LPS high schools have the highest graduation rate and the lowest dropout rate of any high schools in the Denver metro area.
3. 90 percent of LPS graduates are college-bound. LPS seniors earn $25 million annually in college scholarships.
4. LPS consistently has a high number of National Merit Scholars, Boettcher Scholars, and Presidential Scholars. Each year, students earn appointments to U.S. military academies.
5. Such success in high school is possible because of the strong academic foundation built over time in LPS elementary and middle schools!
6. 18 percent of LPS students are open enrolled. That is the highest percentage of any school district our size or larger along the Front Range.
7. LPS ranks at the top in math, science, reading, and writing in all grades and all areas tested on the Colorado Student Assessment Program (CSAP) test, compared to other Denver area school districts.
8. LPS is the only Denver metro area school district to be Accredited with Distinction, the highest academic accreditation rating given by the Colorado Department of Education. There are only 14 out of 178 school districts in Colorado that have been Accredited with Distinction!
9. We lead the rest of the country in 21st century learning. More than 10,000 computers, laptops, and netbooks are in use by students and staff in LPS, which represents an 82% increase from 2006. LPS offers one-to-one computing learning environments in all 5th grades and in all language arts classes grades 6 through 10. LPS teachers are known internationally for their use of instructional technology.
10. We take control of our destiny. The LPS community does not put off the difficult work until tomorrow. Instead, we tackle the tough issues together and solve them to the best of our ability.