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 The film is believed to have been inspired by several shootings that are listed before the credits, Columbine being among them. The first documentary on the massacre may have been the TLC documentary "Lost Boys" in 2000. The 2002 Michael Moore documentary film "Bowling for Columbine" won several awards. Also in 2002, A&E made "Columbine: Understanding Why". In 2004, the shooting was dramatized in the documentary "Zero Hour". In 2007, the massacre was documented in an episode of the National Geographic Channel documentary series, "The Final Report". In the 2009 film "April Showers", which was written and directed by Andrew