Coronado High School is located on Mesa Road and Fillmore Street, on a mesa overlooking Colorado Springs, with a view of Pikes Peak and Garden of the Gods.

The school's colors are scarlet red and new gold, and its mascot is the cougar.

Coronado has 19 sports programs, including 7 during the fall, 5 during the winter, and 7 during the spring.

[citation needed] In 2008, Coronado's FIRST Robotics Competition Team 2996 "Cougars Gone Wired" was founded.

[3][4] Coronado students enrolled in the KUGR-TV class produce a weekly television show for the student body, which is viewable on the school's YouTube channel.