Cortez High School, at 121 E. First St. in

Cortez, Colorado Cortez () is a home rule municipality that is the county seat and the most populous municipality of Montezuma County, Colorado, United States. The city population was 8,766 at the 2020 United States Census. History In 1886, the town was built t ...

, was built in 1909 and operated as a school until 1968. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016. It was Cortez' old high school, most recently Calkins Jr. High School. It became a junior high school in 1946 when

Montezuma-Cortez High School Montezuma-Cortez High School (M-CHS) is a public senior high school located in Cortez, Colorado, United States, serving 721 students in grades 9–12. It is part of the Montezuma-Cortez School District RE-1. The first high school was constructe ...

opened. Its National Register nomination document was not available during government shutdown in January 2019.

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National Register of Historic Places in Montezuma County, Colorado School buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Colorado School buildings completed in 1909 High schools in Colorado 1909 establishments in Colorado {{Colorado-NRHP-stub