Platte Canyon High School

Platte Canyon High School, located in Bailey, Colorado, United States, was founded in 1957. The school building is located on Highway 285 in Park County.

Platte Canyon High School
View of the school from U.S. Highway 285
Location
57243 U.S. Highway 285 Bailey , Colorado 80421 United States
Coordinates	39°25′16″N 105°32′09″W
Information
School type	Public high school
Established	1957; 68 years ago (1957)
School district	Platte Canyon 1
CEEB code	060075
NCES School ID	080237000087[1]
Principal	Mike Schmidt[2]
Teaching staff	16.45 (on an FTE basis)[1]
Grades	9–12
Enrollment	224[1] (2023–2024)
Student to teacher ratio	13.62[1]
Color(s)	Royal blue and silver
Athletics conference	CHSAA
Mascot	Husky
Feeder schools	Fitzsimmons Middle School
Website	pchs.plattecanyonschools.org

Athletics

Platte Canyon High School is a member of the Colorado High School Activities Association (CHSAA) and the Frontier League. The Platte Canyon Huskies participate in 2A football (Colorado Conference) and 3A Frontier League basketball, baseball, cheer, cross country, speech and debate, softball, track & field, volleyball, wrestling, along with 4A Inter-League girls' swimming and 5A State League alpine skiing.

2006 hostage crisis

Main article: Platte Canyon High School hostage crisis

On September 27, 2006, a "hostage situation" was reported at 11:40 a.m. local time (1740 UTC) at the high school. Duane Roger Morrison, 53, of Denver,^[3] reportedly said that he had a bomb. Morrison took six female students as hostages in a second-floor room and released four of them while keeping the other two.^[3][4] Once SWAT members approached, one of the female hostages, identified as 16-year-old Emily Keyes, was shot and critically wounded. She was taken away by a helicopter, and was later declared dead from her injuries.^[5] Morrison then shot and killed himself. The other female was not wounded.