The city of Littleton, Colorado - a suburb in the south portion of Denver - is well served by the district of Littleton Public Schools. Boating over 15,000 students from grades kindergarten through twelfth, the district regularly earns distinctions from the Colorado Department of Education and a wide variety of other groups, including having several of their high schools featured in Newsweek
. Magazine as being among the best high schools in the country. Though the Littleton Public Schools district was not officially incorporated until 1889, its roots were planted nearly thirty years earlier when a group of settlers met at the cabin of R.S. Little, the man who bought the land that would become Littleton. They voted to establish a school district, education being important to pioneers, and the first schoolhouse was built in the winter of 1865. As Littleton grew, so did the importance of its school district; through the next century, it was at the forefront of teaching techniques, a tradition it maintains to this day. LPS includes 14 elementary schools (Lewis Ames, Centennial Academy of Fine Arts Education, East Elementary, Eugune Field International Baccalaureate, Benjamin Franklin, Highland Elementary, Mark Hopkins, Lois Lenski, Peabody, Ralph Moody, Damon Runyon, Carl Sandburg, Mark Twain and Laura Ingalls Wilder), 5 middle schools (Euclid, Goddard, Isaac Newton, John Wesley Powell and Pathways) and 4 high schools (Arapahoe, Heritage, Littleton and Options). It has two charter schools (Littleton Academy Public Charter and Littleton Preparatory Charter school) and includes a unique preschool called The Village for Childhood Education. Another innovation LPS uses is a single school for troubled or special needs children, called the Redirection Center, that serves children from grades 6 to 12. The only other infamy that sometimes reflects on LPS is an association with the Columbine Massacre that is misinformed - Columbine High School is not a part of the LPS school district, nor is Columbine High even in Littleton. http://www.littletonpublicschools.net/Default.aspx?tabid=36 or http://www.littletongov.org/
