 When the school opened with the spring semester of the 1965 - 1966 school year, it served both grades 7 - 9 and grades 10-12.There was no junior high school in the area, so the new school was designed to accommodate both junior and senior high school students.In 1974, a court ordered the almost 100% white school, along with the rest of Denver's school system, to begin desegregation busing.