Library Summer Challenge: School Contest
You can help win money for your school! Read, listen to audiobooks, tackle fun activities and log your progress, all on your way to help improve your school's finisher rate. Every school that shows improvement will be entered into a drawing to win $800!
Contest Rules
The Library Summer Challenge takes place June 1 - July 31. Register starting May 1.
How to Participate
When registering for the Library Summer Challenge, select the school you or your child will be attending next fall. The points you earn for your activities and reading will automatically count toward the school competition!
Sorry, parents and teachers: the School Contest part of the Summer Challenge is only for the students (ages 4 - 18). But please encourage and cheer them on! Also, group participation will not be counted in the school contest.
How to Win
- Only Jefferson County Public Schools are eligible.
- Every school will be notified of their finisher rate from 2024.
- Each school will try to improve its finisher rate from the year before. Schools that shows improvement will be entered into a drawing to win $800. Schools that did not participate previously will be given the average 2024 finisher rate as their rate.
- Jeffco students, it's time to accept the Summer Challenge. Sign up. Choose your school. Read. Log your progress. And win!
School Categories
One school in each of the five categories is awarded a cash prize of $800 from Jefferson County Library Foundation., opens a new window
Congratulations to Our Winners!
Ninety-three schools improved their 2024 Finisher Rate, opens a new window in and were entered into the 2025 Library Summer Challenge School Contest drawing. Here are your winners in each category:
- Weber Preschool
- Lawrence Elementary
- Deer Creek Middle School
- Green Mountain High School
- Bear Creek K-8
Keep reading and we'll see you next summer!
Schools Eligible for the 2025 Drawing
Preschool
- Bergen Preschool
- Campbell Early Learning Center
- Columbine Hills Preschool
- Compass Montessori - Golden Preschool
- Compass Montessori - Wheat Ridge Preschool
- Coronado Preschool
- Foothills Preschool
- Foster Preschool
- Free Horizon Montessori Preschool
- Governor's Ranch Preschool
- Kendallvue Preschool
- Lumberg Preschool
- Marshdale Preschool
- Montessori Peaks Preschool
- Mortensen Preschool
- Mountain Phoenix Preschool
- Patterson International Preschool
- Peak Expeditionary Preschool
- Powderhorn Preschool
- Semper Preschool
- Shaffer Preschool
- Shelton Preschool
- Sierra Preschool
- Stevens Preschool
- Van Arsdale Preschool
- Warder Preschool
- Weber Preschool (Drawing Winner)
- Wilmot Preschool
Elementary Schools
- Adams Elementary
- Belmar School of Integrated Arts
- Bergen Elementary
- Blue Heron Elementary
- Columbine Hills Elementary
- Fairmount Elementary
- Foothills Elementary
- Fremont Elementary
- Governor's Ranch Elementary
- Green Gables Elementary
- Hackberry Hill Elementary
- Hutchinson Elementary
- Kendallvue Elementary
- Lawrence Elementary (Drawing Winner)
- Little Elementary
- Lumberg Elementary
- Mitchell Elementary
- Mortensen Elementary
- Mount Carbon Elementary
- Normandy Elementary
- Peak Expeditionary at Pennington
- Powderhorn Elementary
- Ralston Elementary
- Red Rocks Elementary
- Secrest Elementary
- Stevens Elementary
- Stober Elementary
- Stony Creek Elementary
- Swanson Elementary
- Ute Meadows Elementary
- Welchester Elementary
- West Woods Elementary
- Westridge Elementary
- Wilmot Elementary
Middle Schools
- Carmody Middle School
- Creighton Middle School
- Deer Creek Middle School (Drawing Winner)
- Dunstan Middle School
- Falcon Bluffs Middle School
- Ken Caryl Middle School
- Manning Options School
- Summit Ridge Middle School
High Schools
- Arvada High School
- Evergreen High School
- Golden High School
- Green Mountain High School (Drawing Winner)
- Lakewood High School
- Long View High School
- McLain Community High School
- Ralston Valley High School
Charter / Option / Multi-Level
- Bear Creek K-8 (Drawing Winner)
- Bradford K-8 South
- Foster Dual Language P-8
- JeffCo Remote Learning Program
- Jefferson Academy Coal Creek Canyon
- Jefferson County Open Elementary
- Jefferson County Open Secondary
- Jefferson Junior/Senior High School
- Lincoln Academy
- Montessori Peaks Academy
- Pomona Jr/Sr High School
- Rocky Mountain Deaf School
- Sobesky Academy
- Three Creeks K-8
- Woodrow Wilson Academy
