The mission of Colfax High School is to serve as an active part of a community based in tradition and strong values of supporting, serving, respecting and celebrating who we are. Colfax High School strives to meet the needs of all learners in a positive, supporting environment, believing strongly that all students can learn at high levels. We are dedicated to stimulating all students’ thinking, challenging their creative minds with inquiry, and reinforcing the value of taking risks in order to create principled, balanced, reflective thinkers and communicators. All programs at Colfax High School emphasize high expectations of scholarship and merit, as well as international mindedness so that students can be open-mindedly responsive to diversity and become positive, well-rounded citizens of this world. Colfax High School is the most north eastern of four comprehensive high schools in the Placer Union High School District, in the community of Colfax, California. Students are drawn from a rural 40 mile zone that parallels Interstate 80 from Christian Valley in the west to Emigrant Gap in the east and is bordered by the American and Bear Rivers. In 2018, Colfax High School received a 6-year accreditation from the Western Association of Schools and Colleges. In 2019, Colfax was authorized by the International Baccalaureate program and is currently in the second year of being an IB for All World School. Opened in 1959, Colfax serves 641 students in grades 9-12.
Colfax High School 24995 Ben Taylor Rd Colfax, CA 95713 530.346.2284
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