Poudre High School is located in Fort Collins, Colorado, United States.

The school serves approximately 1,900 students with the most northwestern part of Fort Collins and outlying communities as its boundary.

The original building was 142,000 square feet, had 43 teaching stations, and housed 1,150 students from Fort Collins, Waverly, Wellington and LaPorte.

The new construction strives to provide daylight to as many interior spaces as possible; a centrally-located outdoor environmental learning center brings natural light to the heart of the building.

In the 1970s, four students created a mural along the 100 hallway, in the lower level of the building, that symbolizes a student's journey through high school, focusing on the Beatles' musical transition as its theme, highlighting the progression toward increased individuality in both cases.

One former principal censored a part of the mural, depicting a seven-foot tall woman smoking a two-foot long cigarette.

In September 2002 the 1.5 X life size Bronze Sculpture of a running and leaping male and female Impala were installed near the main entrance to Poudre High School.

The scoring system was changed in 2014 to reflect several other factors and relied on public, rather than self-reported, data.

Poudre High School also hosts a robust unified sports program, with teams made up of athletes with and without disabilities.

The project ties in with an option for concurrent enrollment in culinary classes at Front Range Community College, and Toplyn views the food truck project as a pathway for students interested in a career in the culinary arts to learn business and entrepreneurship skills.

[27] After securing health department approval along with the necessary city and state retail licenses, Toplyn planned to have the truck serve at school athletic events,[28] but, beginning in the summer of 2016, it will also function as a Kids Cafe (a program of the Food Bank for Larimer County), serving meals to low-income children ages 5–18.

[29] Kaleidoscope is Poudre High School's award-winning literary arts magazine, publishing student work.

The Thespians also run an improvisation troupe, Playwrighting Club and the "Theatre in the Classroom Program".

Musical productions have included Fiddler on the Roof (1994), Anything Goes (1998), Annie Get Your Gun (1999), Carousel and Pippin (2000), Guys and Dolls (2002 and 1996), Crazy for You (2003), Damn Yankees (2004), 42nd Street (2005), Oklahoma!

Recent plays have spanned several genres: the French story of Cyrano de Bergerac (2004), Aristophanes' Ancient Greek comedy The Birds (2005), the American classic Our Town (2006), Bertolt Brecht's The Caucasian Chalk Circle (2007), the melodrama Under the Gaslight (2008).