Santa Fe Preparatory School
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| Santa Fe Preparatory School | |
| Address | |
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| 1101 Camino de la Cruz Santa Fe, New Mexico 87505, |
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| Information | |
| Head teacher | Jim Leonard |
| Enrollment |
340 |
| Grades | 7-12 |
| Founded | 1961 |
| Homepage | http://www.sfprep.org/ |
Santa Fe Preparatory School (Santa Fe Prep) is a fully-accredited, coeducational day school serving approximately 340 students in grades seven through twelve. Located in the historical capital city of Santa Fe, New Mexico, SF Prep provides a college preparatory curriculum. Accredited by the Independent School Association of the Southwest, Prep is also a member of the National Association of Independent Schools.
[edit] History
In February of 1961, a small group of parents and community leaders founded Santa Fe Preparatory School. Their goal was to create a college preparatory school where young people would be challenged, engaged and nurtured. The school opened on historic Canyon Road in 1963 with sixty-three students in seventh through ninth grades.
Enrollment increased dramatically, and in the early 1970s, the school moved to its current site, a thirteen-acre campus nestled in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, adjacent to the Santa Fe campus of St. John's College, U.S.. Since that time, Prep has added a state-of-the-art science wing, upgraded a campus-wide technology system, renovated existing buildings, such as the historic Meem art facility, built a new School Commons in 2001, and completed a LEED-certified library building in 2006 that houses over 11,000 volumes and provides state-of-the-art technology such as high speed wireless Internet access.
[edit] Campus
Prep’s campus is nestled on 13 acres in Santa Fe’s historic east side, in the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. Both middle and upper schools feature an outdoor quad where students and faculty gather and where graduation ceremonies are held. The historic Meem Art Building, housed in the original home of noted architect John Gaw Meem, includes studios for ceramics, drawing and painting, and photography.
The new library, opened in 2006, is one of only a handful of buildings to receive LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) status in New Mexico. It uses at least 30% less energy than a conventional building, captures all the rainwater running off the roof in two underground cisterns for irrigation, provides a view of the outdoors throughout, and the vast majority of materials used in construction were harvested or manufactured within a 500-mile radius and incorporate recycled materials.
[edit] Notable Alumni
- Tom Ford '79 (fashion designer)
- Brad Sherwood '76 (Comedian)
- Miguel Sandoval '69 (Actor)
- Dan Maas '88 (Graduate of Adams State College, multi time NAIA champion in the 1500 meters event in track)
- Tom Spier '96 (COO of Bear Naked)
- Lucas Kuppers-Kantor '07 (5 Sport Star at University Wisconsin Madison. He participates in Football, Water Polo, Synchronized Swimming, Ice Skating and racket ball. He was recently in the national semi-finals for Ice Skating where he lost to Bjorn Johnson of Minnesota. He is a Male Model/Pornstar. He is a regular in Jill Kelly's Dirty Debauntes. Michael Jordan is his uncle.
