Recovery high schools help kids heal from an addiction and build a future

A mosaic in the computer lab at 5280 High School in Denver. Colorado's only high school with a recovery program opened in 2018 as a public charter school and today enrolls more than 100 students.

"Recovery schools offer an opportunity really for peer support and mutual aid in a kind of a supervised and structured way," Levy said. The Denver school enrolls about 100 students annually, making it one of the biggest recovery high schools in the nation. This year, the per-pupil cost is about $25,000 per student but the school receives only about $15,000 from federal, state, and local funding, according to Mouton. The remaining money comes from donors.

"The No. 1 step is just letting them know out of the gate, no matter what's going on, that we love them," said Brittany Kitchens, the school's recovery coach."We are here for them."

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