Aurora breaks ground on Colorado's first health sciences high school
Aurora Public Schools, the Community College of Aurora, and UCHealth are building a magnet school with nursing, imaging, and respiratory-therapy pathways. It opens in August 2027.
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Aurora Public Schools broke ground on a health sciences high school that the partners describe as the first of its kind in Colorado. CBS Colorado reported that the district is building it with the Community College of Aurora and UCHealth. Students will be able to train toward nursing, medical imaging, and respiratory therapy, and the plan includes clinical rotations.
The school is scheduled to open in August 2027. Enrollment starts November 13. Classrooms are not open yet, and the first students have not started. What happened now is the groundbreaking, with those three partners tied to the magnet school.
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