The Santa Fe Public School System is dedicated to ensuring that every student has a positive, safe, and educational environment in which to learn. Their mission is to prepare each student so that they are ready to be a contributing and productive citizen upon graduation. The faculty, staff, and parents involved with the Santa Fe Public School System are committed to challenging and encouraging their students to achieve their maximum potential of academic and social excellence.
The Santa Fe Public School System also offers students who feel unsuccessful in a traditional high school setting or who need an individualized curriculum the opportunity to attend the Academy. The smaller class sizes at the Academy also mean that students receive more individual attention.
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Santa Fe Private Schools
Desert Academy (7-12)
Desert Academy is a co-educational independent school located in Santa Fe, New Mexico, dedicated to academic and personal excellence for students in grades 7-12. We offer a fully-accredited, college preparatory program, serving approximately 150 students with an average student teacher ratio of 8:1. We emphasize individual attention with class sizes not exceeding 15 students per academic class.
Desert Montessori School (PK-6)
Desert Montessori School is an outstanding, pre-k and elementary school located in the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains on the north side of Santa Fe, New Mexico.
The school promotes the long term growth within a Montessori education by creating unique physical environments staffed with dedicated professionals. Our school family reflects the vital spirit of Northern New Mexico and represents diverse heritages, capabilities and socio-economic backgrounds. This learning center, drawing upon a wide-ranging community support, forms a solid educational foundation for children ages 2 to 12 in pursuit of lifelong learning.
Fayette Street Academy (1-8)
Fayette Street Academy is a small alternative elementary/middle school in Santa Fe, New Mexico. We are a private independent not for profit, co-educational school, teaching students ages six through fourteen. Our curriculum includes math, reading, writing, languages (Chinese, Greek, Latin and French), geography, history, art and music. These subjects are woven together and integrated in an age appropriate child available format.
New Mexico Academy for Science (7-12)
The New Mexico Academy for Sciences and Mathematics strives to be a secondary school community of excellence that provides an enriched International Baccalaureate college preparatory curriculum to a multi-cultural student body of boarding and day students from Santa Fe, New Mexico, and across the globe. The provisions of the Earth Charter will guide and direct the decisions and actions of the community.
Rio Grande School (PK-6)
Rio Grande School is a co-educational, nonsectarian independent elementary school for students in pre-kindergarten through sixth grade. The school serves children who are ready and excited to learn, and welcomes families who are committed to their children's education. Rio Grande School is accredited by the Independent Schools Association of the Southwest (ISAS) and The State of New Mexico Education Department.
Santa Fe Girls’ School (6-8)
The Santa Fe Girls’ School’s mission is to foster intellectual growth and emotional strength in adolescent girls, preparing them for the demands of high school, college and young adulthood.
At The Santa Fe Girls’ School, learning is a dynamic, open-ended and very personal process that requires and encourages dialogue and the exchange of ideas among students and teachers.
Students who have the opportunity to develop a personal and trusting relationship with their teachers feel comfortable in sharing their “world view”. This “world view” is how the student perceives, organizes and internalizes information.
As the students share their ideas, teachers discover what experiences and cultural influences have come together to form each student’s perspective. Teachers can use this knowledge about their students to purposefully weave threads into the learning process that students can recognize and relate to their own experiences. This recognition leads to the student making a personal connection to the information. The student can then apply her knowledge to the challenge of new concepts, which fosters empowerment and a life-long love of learning.
Santa Fe Preparatory School (7-12)
Santa Fe Prep is an ambitious and diverse learning community dedicated to active discourse. We value our place in the community of Santa Fe, which enriches and defines us. We cultivate qualities of character, scholarship, and citizenship in our students that inspire them to act responsibly and compassionately at home, at school, and in the world.
Through the many dialogues that unfold on campus each day, our students exercise their minds in active inquiry. The discourse of Santa Fe Prep promotes the joy of discovery, the power of critical thinking and reflection, and the thrill of creativity. Our commitment to collaborative learning fosters an inclusive school environment grounded in trust, where students honor and respect each other and themselves.
The world is full of possibility. Empowered with the values and qualities inherent in our School, our students can embrace lives of thoughtful purpose.
Santa Fe School for the Arts (PK-8)
The Santa Fe School for the Arts & Sciences is committed to academic excellence, developed through Expeditionary Learning and a multicultural art and science enriched curriculum, in a an environment of respect, inclusion and diversity.
Our goals are to develop each child's personal talents and a life-long passion for learning and exploration; to create a caring environment where each child has opportunities for self-expression and growth; and to encourage the values of friendship, leadership, citizenship and service.
Santa Fe Waldorf School (PK-12)
The Santa Fe Waldorf School is an independent school, early childhood through twelfth grade, founded on the educational philosophy of Rudolf Steiner. The faculty and staff work out of a deep respect for the creative potential and spiritual nature in each human being. Our aim is to nourish the thinking, feeling and willing capacities of the developing young individual and to share the pedagogy with the school community.
Santo Nino Regional Catholic School (PK-6)
Santo Niño Regional Catholic School offers you the best of Catholic education in the Southwest, and shares the well-deserved reputation of Catholic schools throughout the United States! It provides an excellent academic program for students, but more importantly a unique environment in which children grow in knowledge of their world, their God, and their responsibility to each other.
St. Michaels High School (7-12)
St. Michael's High School, with a college preparatory curriculum, has as its mission to educate every student in a spirit of faith and academic excellence according to Roman Catholic Principles in the Lasallian tradition of the Christian Brothers.
St. Mike's is part of a worldwide network of Christian Brothers schools that base education on the principles of our founder, St. John Baptist de La Salle: to make a difference in each student's life and cooperate with one another in a spirit of trust and caring and to provide an education that is practical, accessible to all, and comprehensive.
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Santa Fe Colleges and Universities
Santa Fe Community College
Santa Fe Community College is responsible for providing the region with affordable high quality education and training. Presented through a variety of delivery methods and time formats, this includes basic skill programs; certificates and technical degrees; associate degrees with four year transfer potential, and personal enrichment courses both for credit and not for credit. These offerings are designed to add value to the lives of our community members by broadening opportunities; enhancing personal income; improving working and living conditions; and fostering richer, healthier lives. The College also responds to the economic and workforce needs of the community by quickly and flexibly providing essential training, especially in emerging technologies.
As a public institution, SFCC is responsible to the taxpayers of the state of New Mexico and the taxing district of Santa Fe, as well as to its students, faculty, and staff, all of whom support it through their tax dollars, tuition dollars, and labor. It is incumbent upon the College to use its resources efficiently and effectively.
College of Santa Fe
CSF is a private college founded in 1859 by the Lasallian Brothers, a Catholic teaching order devoted to the following ideals still embraced on campus today:
• Excellence in teaching
• Service to the community
• A holistic approach to learning
• Respectful, collegial relationships
We seek to help students understand the world and find ways of making it better. For us, that includes students of every demographic. We are diligent in offering flexible programs so that all are welcome and able to study here. We emphasize thoughtful academic advising, and pay specific attention to ethical values, both in and out of class.
We are committed to educating the “whole student.” Our core curriculum includes interdisciplinary team-taught courses that explore complex subjects in the humanities, creative expression, social and natural sciences.
St. Johns College
St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland and Santa Fe, New Mexico, has chosen not to participate in any collegiate rankings surveys. We have asked U.S. News and World Report not to include the College, and we have not sent current information for use in the survey. St. John's College is opposed in principle to rankings. We want to explain to you some of our reasons: Rankings do a disservice to students and their parents as they search for the best college.
Institute of American Indian Art
The Institute of American Indian Art is a four year fine arts college offering Degrees in Creative Writing, Studio Arts, New Media Arts, and Museum Studies.
Southwest Acupuncture College
Southwest Acupuncture College is a classical school of Oriental medicine offering an accredited professional degree program leading to a Master of Science in Oriental Medicine (M.S.O.M.). With the primary responsibility of educating students to become independent healthcare providers, our foremost goal is to provide excellence in the education of those prospective practitioners. A concomitant goal of the college, to cultivate leadership and service to the community in this emerging field of effective medical care, is fostered in the curriculum and the educational format as well as the life of the college community through our on-site low cost public clinic and numerous off campus extern clinics where we offer free services. In order to accomplish the goals of sustaining the highest quality of education, and promoting the greatest caliber and realization of professional performance, the staff and faculty are continually re-evaluating the program and supporting areas of institutional activity, seeking ways to enhance and maintain the college’s standard of excellence.
Southwestern College
SWC is unique (in the true sense of the word) in its Transformational Education in an ecumenical tradition. What does that mean? To me it means that through creative, authentic, interactive experiences, we endeavor to enhance ourselves and our consciousness profoundly so that we may then be of greatest service to others in therapeutic relationship. Here, the spiritual is emphasized but the specific tradition is not prescribed. On our campus, you may see any number of spiritual traditions, ancient and modern, from all continents, reflected in the practice of students, faculty or staff. So as a student member of the SWC community, you will find that spirit is explored and woven into your helping identity so that your full personhood will be brought to bear against the dynamic, spiritual and/or sociopolitical issues that prevent others from attaining their own full presence and manifestation in this life. That is the true essence of what I would call the "therapeutic relationship"..
With a solid, stable base of graduate programs and certificates, we find ourselves excited to be adding even more offerings in the near future. Our Art Therapy program is one of the largest in the country, and the chair of that program, Deborah Schroder, has presented internationally and published a book on Art Therapy. The Grief, Loss and Trauma track of our Counseling program is chaired by Janet Schreiber, who is the former director of the Elizabeth Kubler-Ross Hospice Program at Northern NM Community College. Indeed, our program has been endorsed by Dr. Kubler-Ross. You can see that SWC is a strong, dynamic player in the world of Transpersonal academic training programs, and we are taking our presence in that world to a new level.
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Los Alamos Schools
