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Denver Public Schools granted P.S.1 its first charter in 1995, and the school opened with 63 students in temporary quarters at the Denver Public Library. Shortly thereafter, it moved to the Veterans of Foreign Wars building at 9 th and Bannock. In the first four years, the school grew to approximately 200 students. Denver Public Schools permitted a renewal of charter in February of 2002.

In 1998, P.S.1 moved into the historic Rocky Mountain Bank Note Building on the corner of 11 th and Delaware. David Owen Tryba Architects won the prestigious AIA Design Award for their innovative concept. Flooded with plenty of natural lighting, sixteen classrooms surround a large common area with a modern computer lab upstairs.

P.S.1 Charter School, located in inner-city Denver, provides a unique educational opportunity for those students as well as many students from local neighborhoods within the Denver Public School District who seek an alternative. It also attracts increasing numbers of suburban youth who are dissatisfied with the size and programming of their neighborhood schools. These students represent an ethnic mix that is 48% Latino, 24% African-American, 24% Caucasion, 2% Native American, and 2% Asian.

P.S.1 enrolls students who are seeking educational programming for the gifted, those who have significant special needs, those who are very self-directed and seek a school that will support their creativity and commitment to their own education. P.S.1 also enrolls students who have been suspended, expelled, or simply asked to leave their previous school.