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 wrongful death suit against the Harrises and Klebolds. In 2000, youth advocate Melissa Helmbrecht organized a remembrance event in Denver featuring two surviving students, called "A Call to Hope." The library where most of the massacre took place was removed and replaced with an atrium. In 2001, a new library, the HOPE memorial library, was built next to the west entrance. On February 26, 2004, thousands of pieces of evidence from the massacre were put on display at the Jeffco fairgrounds in Golden. A permanent memorial "to honor and remember the victims of the April 20, 1999 shootings at Columbine