He attended Navarre High School in Florida and Andale High School in Kansas, and graduated from Samuel Clemens High School in Schertz, Texas. He grew up on a farm in Andale and has also lived in Arkansas, New Mexico, Texas and Florida. He has described his parents as 'free-spirited hippies.' Haynes has five siblings, including brothers Clinton and Joshua, and a sister, Willow. Colton Lee Haynes was born either in Wichita, Kansas, or Andale, Kansas, a town of 900.