April 4th, 2024

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Who’s the Best?


It seems obvious that Aspen View Academy is. While we all know this is true, let’s make it official. It’s time to recognize metro Denver’s best by voting in Colorado Community Media’s 2024 Best of the Best contest, which gives readers a chance to weigh in on what they love most about their communities.


“Best of the Best gives our community bragging rights to say, `we’re the best,’” said Mindy Nelon, CCM marketing and community engagement specialist. “When we reach out to the winners and let them know they won, they are super excited. Best of the Best continues to grow year after year, which means our community loves it and that makes me proud to be involved.”


Contest voting is open and will continue through April 15th. Readers can vote on their favorites in many different categories, including automotive, beauty and wellness, community, entertainment and lifestyle, events, finance, fitness, food and beverage, home and garden, medical, pets and animals, professional, real estate, religion, retail, retirement, and travel.


“Best of the Best is 100% reader voted, therefore winners are truly the Best of the Best for the communities they serve,” said CCM Advertising Director Erin Addenbrooke. “For all winners, it is an honor to display the Best of the Best logo for the entire year showing each community they are the best at what they do.”

We hope you agree that Aspen View Academy is the best school in Castle Rock and that you are willing to take a couple minutes of your time to officially vote for AVA.  


AVA is represented is a few categories:

  • Charter school
  • School, college, or university
  • After School Program (this is a write-in category)
  • Teacher
  • Summer Camp


To vote in Castle Rock, visit: Vote for the best school in Castle Rock  You will need to open the “community tab” and then scroll down to find the 5 categories listed above.

Middle School Only News

2024 Washington D.C./New York Trip

Final Parent/Student Mandatory Meeting!!

Thursday, April 11th 6-7pm in the Middle School Commons

Please click on the picture below for more information

Middle School Winter Sports


Check out the Athletic calendar on our website and come cheer on our AVA Wolves!



General Announcements

The Colorado Rockies have their home opener tomorrow, Friday, April 5th. Students may wear their favorite sports team jersey. It does not have to be a Rockies jersey or even a baseball jersey, it can be any sport. Have some fun and show off your favorite team. Students must wear uniform bottoms.

AVA has started the state mandated testing, the Colorado Measurement of Academic Success (CMAS). 3rd-5th graders will be testing on April 9th-11th. 5th and 8th graders will be testing on April 15th and 16th.


Parents, please make appointments around your student's testing schedule as we will not be calling into the classrooms during their testing time.

Have you logged your volunteer hours?

Please log your hours on the HelpCounter Website. All AVA families who have completed their 30 hours (15 for single parents) by April 15th will be invited to The End of the Year Volunteer Event on May 5th at Ubergrippen. Watch your email for your invite.

Our volunteers logged 222 hours in the month of March. Thank you to all of our volunteers! Every month we will be doing a monthly drawing for our volunteers to win a gift card. Our volunteer of the month is Eric Lute! Please stop by the front office to pick up your gift card.

Thank you to everyone who completed the Parent Satisfaction Survey. While we did not get the number of responses needed for an additional dress of choice day, we are thrilled to announce the 4 winners who were randomly selected from those who completed the survey.

The following families won a gift card to Amazon.com!



Please stop by the office to pick up your prize!

Nicolas Family

Edgington Family

Dancler Family

Singer Family

Quarter 4 Clubs

Listed below are the available clubs that will run during the 4th quarter. All after school club registrations will occur in My School Bucks. Registration for clubs will remain open until filled or April 11th. Clubs will start the week of April 1st.


Q4 5th Grade Band with Mrs. Knestis

Q4 5th Grade Orchestra with Mrs. Knestis

Q4 Coding Club with Mrs. Orness (2nd-8th)

Q4 D & D Club with Mr. Jaren (5th-8th)

Q4 Hands to Hearts with Mrs. Lopez (K-3rd)

Q4 Inspired Swifties 2.0 with Mrs. Orness (2nd-8th)

Q4 Inspired Swifties with Mrs. Orness (1st-8th)

Q4 Lego Masters with Mrs. Reynolds (K-6th)

Q4 Let's Get in Gear and Engineer with Mrs. Reynold's (1st-6th)

Q4 AVA CHEER Era with Mrs. Robertson and Mrs. Coffelt (K-3rd)

Q4 Volleyball Developmental Clinic with Mrs. Farrell (5th-8th)

Q4 Trading Card Game Club with Mr. Jaren (5th-8th)

Please RSVP here.


We need some volunteers to make this a successful event. Sign up here to volunteer.


PTO is in need of 2 liter bottles for our upcoming Glow Party. If you have any you'd like to donate, please drop them off in the office. Thank you!

Staff Spotlight

This group of people makes up our Office Staff. Some of their faces you see regularly, some of them work more behind the scenes, but all of them are essential to our school running as well as it does. 


Holly Landauer (IT Manager) is great at meeting everyone, from staff to students, at their various tech abilities and needs. Mrs. Laundauer is happy, helpful and resourceful. When she's not at school, she likes to read, travel, go to the theater and discover new trails with her dog.


Amy Dixon (Office Manager/Registrar) loves everything about working at the school - her coworkers and how exciting the students keep things everyday. Mrs. Dixon is knowledgeable, enthusiastic and organized. Outside of school she loves spending time with her family and grandbabies.


Stacy Steiner (Business Assistant) would love to be on the beach with her family when she's not at school. Mrs. Steiner loves working at the school because of the people and community we have. She is hilarious, caring and diligent.


Jordan Spivey (IT Specialist) is cheerful, patient and supportive. He spends free time hanging out with family, riding motorcycles and playing video games. Mr. Spivey enjoys working at the school because of the staff and students that make his job worthwhile.


Jacenta Wirth (Nurse) looks forward to coming to work because of the environment and support we have here. Mrs. Wirth is thoughtful, sweet and knowledgeable. In her free time she loves coaching track and field, being with her kids, adventuring in the mountains, working out and baking.


DeAnn Carson (Volunteer Coordinator/Communications) is caring, easy-going and efficient. She loves being at the school because of the community and relationships she's built over the years. Mrs. Carson enjoys being outside, hiking and paddle boarding and spending time with her family.


Monica Woodall (Front Office) is welcoming, entertaining and outgoing. She loves working at the school because of the people, and the relationships she builds with the families, students and staff. Mrs. Woodall can be found attending her kids sporting events and activities, skiing, reading, watching movies and hanging out with family and friends.  


Mindy Baumann (Health Assistant) is magical, compassionate and loving. Mrs. Baumann likes that each day is different, she enjoys learning new things and getting to know all of the students. She loves spending time with her grandkids, baking, reading and exploring with her husband.

Please click on the above image to learn more about the Youth Reading Program sponsored by Nothing Bundt Cakes. Click on the Reading Tracker image to download and print that page. This program is open to all grades PreK-8th grade.

Saturday, April 13th

5:00-9:00pm


Please click on the above KNO image to see the flyer and find out more information

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General Information: (720) 733-3436 office@aspenviewacademy.org 

Fax: (303) 660-5959

Attendance Line: (303) 660-5940

Health Room: mbaumann@aspenviewacademy.org

Volunteer Coordinator: dcarson@aspenviewacademy.org

Before/After Care: (303) 888-3040 tlund@aspenviewacademy.org

Lunchroom Manager: xsknight@dcsdk12.org

Pre-K: PreK@aspenviewacademy.org

Enrollment: enrollment@aspenviewacademy.org

Registrar: adixon@aspenviewacademy.org

PTO: pto@aspenviewacademy.org


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Castle Rock, CO 80109

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