Future Students
High school is more than where you go to class. It’s where you discover what you’re good at, meet your people, try something new, and start building what comes next.
At Wheat Ridge High School, you’ll have opportunities to challenge yourself academically, explore careers, get involved, build real-world skills, and make your high school experience your own.
Ready to see what life at Wheat Ridge is like?
Why Attend Wheat Ridge?
There’s more than one way to be a Farmer.
At Wheat Ridge High School, there is more than one way to be successful.
For more than a century, Wheat Ridge High School has been a cornerstone of our community. Today, we continue that tradition by giving students opportunities to challenge themselves academically, discover their interests, build real-world skills, and find a place where they belong.
Whether you already know what you want to do after high school or are still figuring it out, Wheat Ridge gives you the opportunity to explore what comes next.
Students can build an academic experience that matches their goals through Advanced Placement, honors, concurrent enrollment, and other advanced coursework.
From English and history to science, mathematics, world languages and the arts, students have opportunities to challenge themselves while preparing for college, career and life after graduation.
Experience Wheat Ridge
Don’t Just Read About Us. Come Be a Farmer for a Day.
The best way to figure out whether Wheat Ridge is right for you is to experience it yourself.
Future students can shadow a current WRHS student, tour the building and attend classes alongside a student host. WRHS currently offers shadow opportunities on Mondays and Tuesdays during eligible parts of the school year.
See classrooms, meet students and teachers, walk the halls, and experience a real school day at Wheat Ridge.
Find Your Path
Wheat Ridge offers unique Career & Technical Education and Career Pathway programs where students can explore areas such as:
- Agriculture and Urban Farm Management
- Translation Services
- STEM and Engineering
- Technical Theatre
- Visual Arts and Digital Media
- Career Explore
- Work-Based Learning
- The Board Factory, where students design, build and ride their own boards while developing real-world technical and career skills
Students can also connect classroom learning to the real world through internships, apprenticeships, job shadows, career speakers, industry partnerships and other work-based learning experiences. Visit our Career Hub to learn more.
You don't have to wait until after graduation to start discovering what you're good at.
Your Future Starts Here
The Career Hub
Start exploring life after high school before graduation.
Whether you already know exactly what you want to do or have absolutely no idea, the Career Hub helps students explore their options.
Quick Links for Future Students
EnrollJeffco
With EnrollJeffco, you can enroll in your neighborhood school or choice enroll at a different school that may be a better fit for your student's unique needs.
School Finder
With School Finder, there are three easy ways to learn about schools:
- By name
- By proximity
- By other criteria like Dual Language, special education, gifted, Montessori, Science, Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) and more.
School Insights
With School Insights you can view data on school culture, teacher-to-student ratios, student academic performance and information about each school.