Welcome to PHS!
General William J. Palmer High School is a modest-sized secondary school located in downtown Colorado Springs, Colorado. The school has a student body of approximately 1800, and attracts enrollment from all over the city. The flagship high school of School District 11, Palmer has the oldest International Baccalaureate (IB) program in the area, founded in 1993. Palmer is located at 301 North Nevada Avenue in Colorado Springs. The present building was built by the Works Progress Administration under Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1940. Originally named Colorado Springs High School, Palmer High School was re-named in 1959 after the city's founder, General William Jackson Palmer.
Palmer Learning Forum Goes Live
Once District 11 approved the use of Wikis, the staff at Palmer conceived the idea of the Palmer Learning Forum. The Forum is hosted on District 11 servers so we have better control over the development and design of it. Our general goal is to give students and staff a vehicle where information is shared. Classes, courses, Professional Learning Communities, and other groups as needed will use the Forum. As one teacher mentioned, his classes get into a great discussion, the bell rings, and the discussion ends. With the Forum, the discussion can continue with students and teacher writing from home or school. The access to the forums is limited by passwords; others are open to the public. Eventually the private forums will have access through invitation/enrollment. To go to the forum, click here. The Forum can also accessed through a link on the student page.
Care and Share Fundraising
Care and Share officially starts on November 3rd. Student council representatives will be collecting every Tuesday and Thursday in second period classes for about three weeks. You will have the same two students each collection day so if there are any issues please let me know. Food is kept in my office, so let’s fill up the office this year. The collection dates are as follows: 11/4 11/6 11/13 11/18 11/20
Student government will also hold other activities such as Can-a-Date, a dance called Fall Fling in Eagle Wing, and pie in the eye, hat days, flannel PJ day, Slipper Day to promote and contribute to the donations. We ask everyone to please attend these functions since they are promoting a worthy cause. Remember that every dollar that is donated is equivalent to ten pounds of food. We ask you to please contribute to the cause and help Palmer High School wipe out hunger!
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School Schedule for
2008-2009
Sports Schedule for
2008-2009
2007-2008 in Review
Multimedia Media Class
Kick-It Web Site
View Photo Gallery of Grease
Palmer Students Train to Be Olympians
Spaced Out
Art Gallery
Palmer hosts its first Chautauqua
New Commons