Columbine High School Columbine High School Columbine High School (CHS) is a high school in Columbine, Colorado, United States. The school is part of the Jefferson County Public Schools district. The school is located at 6201 South Pierce Street, one mile west of the Littleton city limits and one-half mile south of the Denver city/county line. The official school colors are blue and silver. Columbine High School opened in the fall of 1973 with a capacity for 1,652 students. It was named after the surrounding community of Columbine, which in turn was named after the state flower of Colorado: the columbine. The school's
Columbine High School massacre in the shooting. The Columbine shootings influenced subsequent school shootings. Many school shooting plots mention it. Shortly after, a rash of copycat threats led to the closing of entire districts. One arrested student boasted he could "outdo" its number of casualties. The first copycat may have been the W. R. Myers High School shooting, just 8 days later, when a 14-year old Canadian student went into his school at lunchtime, with a sawed-off .22 rifle under his dark blue trench coat, and opened fire, killing one student. A month after the massacre, Heritage High School in Conyers, Georgia had a