Getting started
Knowing what to do next is half the battle. School often assumes kids already have that muscle.
CMYK High is a small, independent high school for capable but disengaged teens — personalized AI academics, live coaches, human skills you can see grow, and time in the real world.
CMYK isn’t decoration. It’s how we organize the skills that make school matter again.
Bright kids can do the work — and still feel like none of it connects to a real person or a real future. Scores show an outcome. They rarely show purpose, growth, or the full student.
That question shows up over worksheets, revisions, drills, and lectures. Left unanswered, it turns capable teens into students who are just going through the motions.
Knowing what to do next is half the battle. School often assumes kids already have that muscle.
Materials, deadlines, and steps pile up. Without systems, even smart students look “unmotivated.”
Starting is not finishing. Kids need practice finishing hard things — with a coach, not another reminder app.
We kept the parts of high school that change a life and rebuilt the rest — AI for academics, coaches for the human work, pathways into the real world, and time outside.
AI tutors deliver core academics one-on-one, adapting to each student's pace and gaps — including credit recovery and acceleration when they're ready.
Getting started, staying organized, communicating, and persisting — practiced with a live coach until students can run their own systems.
Every student has a dedicated coach who knows them and holds a high bar — plus hands-on pathways into design, tech, trades, business, and internships.
The Wasatch is our second campus. Weekly expeditions, service, and hands-on challenges build resilience, teamwork, and a body that's as engaged as the mind.
The math homework doesn't change. What changes is its relevance. Students see how real work becomes evidence of a skill — and how repeated evidence becomes growth they own.
A strong desire to learn — and the systems to keep track of time, materials, and goals so that desire turns into finished work.
Abstract thinking, problem solving, and practical tasks — plus the habit of adding real value to a team and improving the culture around you.
Meaningful connections that help both people grow — practiced in seminars, projects, and everyday collaboration.
Sending and receiving meaning clearly — and building the resilience to take meaningful risks, adapt, and persist.
Ratings are earned through demonstrated evidence over time — not awarded for completing an assignment. Coaches, AI academics, and real projects create the evidence. The credential makes the growth visible to the student and to parents.
Pathways help turn “Why am I doing this?” into “I'm building something.” Hands-on work, internships, and credentials that connect learning to a future worth caring about.
Graphic design, video, and creative tools — a natural fit for visual, creative thinkers.
Coding, robotics, and hands-on AI — building real things and learning to make AI a tool you command.
Entrepreneurship, construction, and the trades — pathways to independence and real earning.
Work-based learning and industry credentials that mean something after graduation.
The AI delivers the academics. That frees our coaches to do what only people can do: help students start the work, build systems, stay with hard things, and grow human skills on purpose.
Rigorous core instruction, on demand.
In person — routines, plans, and follow-through.
There's no rigid bell schedule. Students build the day from three kinds of blocks and choose how to arrange them — lead with academics, start with an internship or rec, or come for the afternoon. What never flexes is mastery: the work gets done, and done well.
Personalized, mastery-based coursework with an AI tutor and a coach close by — students move on only once they've truly got it.
Live, coach-facilitated discussion, collaboration, and real projects — where teens practice communication, teamwork, planning, and follow-through.
Hands-on pathway projects, internships, recreation, weekly field days, and Wasatch expeditions — learning that moves into the real world.
Get early access and updates on enrollment and launch. We're building a small founding cohort in Lehi, Utah — and waitlist families hear first.
Thanks for joining the CMYK High founding waitlist. We'll reach out soon with next steps and an invitation to our first info session.
CMYK is the four inks — cyan, magenta, yellow, and black — that layer together to make every color you've ever seen. At CMYK High, those colors map to human skill families: Personal, Professional, Interpersonal, and Global. Students grow across all four, and the combination is what makes a full person — not a single track.
Capable teens who've become bored, disengaged, or lost in a traditional classroom — especially kids who ask “Why am I doing this?” and who need help with the everyday skills school assumes but rarely teaches: getting started, keeping track of work and materials, managing time, and finishing what they start. It's also a fit for students recovering credits, ready to accelerate, or who simply learn differently.
Human skills are the Personal, Professional, Interpersonal, and Global competencies that sit alongside academics — things like Self Management, Communication, Resilience, and contributing on a team. Coaches practice them with students in person through routines, plans, and real projects. We don't outsource that work to phone apps or reminder stacks.
CMYK High is based in Lehi, Utah, on the Wasatch Front — with the mountains, canyons, and rivers of northern Utah serving as our outdoor campus for weekly field days and expeditions.
Pathways connect academics to real direction — design and digital media, technology and making, skilled trades and business — through hands-on projects, internships, and industry credentials. They help students answer “Why am I doing this?” with work that leads somewhere.
Yes. There's a real difference between learning from AI and learning to use it, and we teach both. Alongside their AI tutor, students get hands-on practice using AI as a tool and thinking partner — how to prompt it well, pressure-test what it gives back, and apply it to writing, research, design, coding, and problem-solving.
No. Transcripts still serve their purpose. Alongside them, students turn everyday coursework and projects into evidence of growth in human skills a GPA was never designed to show. Ratings like Emerging, Developed, and Solidified are earned through demonstrated evidence over time. Students own the credential; the system authenticates it. The credentials supplement the transcript — they don't replace it.
Small by design. We keep cohorts intentionally limited so every student is truly known by their coach. Our founding class is especially small — one reason to join the waitlist early.
We're finalizing these details as we prepare to open, and accreditation and a recognized path to graduation are core priorities. Waitlist families will be the first to receive full information on tuition, the academic pathway, and enrollment.