Featured Stories
In The Heights
Posted by & filed under Featured Stories. Before there was Hamilton, there was Lin-Manuel Miranda's first Broadway hit, In the Heights. Winner of the 2008 Tony Award for Best Musical, In the Heights is the story of three days in the life of a tight-knit Latino community in Washington Heights, Manhattan. The score features hip-hop, salsa, merengue, ...
Don’t Miss Our Annual College Night Presentation
Posted by & filed under Featured Stories. Santa Fe Prep is excited to announce this year’s speaker: Dr. Angel B. Pérez, Vice President for Enrollment and Student Success at Trinity College Monday, January 27 at 5:30 pm in the Santa Fe Prep Auditorium Recently featured in The New York Times Magazine article, "What College Admissions Offices ...
Raul Midón ’84 at The Lensic
Posted by & filed under Featured Stories. The wonderful and magnetic Prep grad Raul Midón '84 is returning home to play at The Lensic on February 5 at 7:30 pm. This performance is a community-wide benefit concert for Breakthrough Santa Fe and Tuition Assistance at Santa Fe Prep, and a chance to honor Jim Leonard's 21 years ...
Finding Purpose in High School and Beyond
Posted by & filed under Featured Stories. A Session for 8th Grade Parents at Prep Tuesday, January 14th, 5:30-6:30 pm, Founders’ Room Please join us for an interactive session with Middle School Head Chris Chakeres; Assistant Head/Upper School Head Suzie Matthews; Director of College Counseling Story Leonard; and Head of School Jim Leonard. You will ...
Winter Arts Night
Posted by & filed under Featured Stories. Santa Fe Prep's annual Winter Arts Night will take place on Tuesday, December 10. Please join us for refreshments and a student art show from 5:00 - 5:45 pm at the Meem, followed by student performances in the Driscoll Auditorium from 6:00 - 7:15 pm. The Visual Arts Department ...
Prep Students “Get on the Bus”
Posted by & filed under Featured Stories. During Thanksgiving week, eighth grade Global Studies and English classes, along with select Upper School English and History classes, attended the Millennium Villages Project (MVP) "Get on the Bus" tour. This is a traveling education exhibit that highlights the connections between global human rights issues and local community issues through ...
Introducing Santa Fe Prep’s Next Head of School
Posted by & filed under Featured Stories. On behalf of the Board of Trustees and the Head of School Search Committee, I am honored and delighted to announce the unanimous selection of Aaron I. Schubach as Santa Fe Preparatory School’s next Head of School, effective July 1, 2020. ...
Classroom Spotlight: Science 7
Posted by & filed under Featured Stories. Students in Robin Koval's 7th grade science class performed eight water quality tests in the Santa Fe River: pH, dissolved oxygen, demand for oxygen, nitrates, phosphorus, temperature, turbidity, and coliform bacteria. The data is submitted to a study with the Rio Research Round-up, where schools from the US and Mexico ...
Grandparents’ Day
Posted by & filed under Featured Stories. We love our Griffin Grandparents! On Tuesday, November 26, 2019, from 8:30 am to 1:00 pm, grandparents and grand “friends” are invited to spend the day on campus and experience their grandchild’s life at Santa Fe Prep. Lunch is included! Please RSVP to Advancement Associate Julia Abbiss by November 15, ...
Simtables Come To Prep
Posted by & filed under Featured Stories. Stephen Guerin, CEO of Simtable LLC of Santa Fe, visited Jocelyne Comstock's Natural Disasters class. Guerin spoke with the students about how computer simulations can assist in real world preparations for natural disasters, focusing on wild fires. Guerin works with the Forestry Service and other organizations to bring simulations for ...
9th Grade Interdisciplinary Learning
Posted by & filed under Featured Stories. Teachers Kristin Kalangis (English), Marc Reynolds (Biology), Lindsey Reader (Biology), and Jebb Norton (History) have joined forces to integrate the major themes and concepts of their 9th grade courses. Through the analysis of Daniel Quinn’s novel Ishmael in English class, the examination of major changes in the hominid fossil record in ...
Parent Open House
Posted by & filed under Featured Stories. Parents, please join us for our Parent Open House on Saturday, September 21, at 8:45 am on the Upper School Quad! Come and visit short sessions of your child's classes, meet faculty advisors and enjoy lunch with other Prep parents and our faculty and staff. Lunch is provided ...
College Horizons
Posted by & filed under Featured Stories. College Horizons is a week-long intensive program for Native American, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian high school students, specifically designed to encourage personal identity growth while preparing indigenous youth for the college application process. Over its 21-year history, the NM-based organization has helped serve over 3,300 Native students, including a number ...
Betting Against The Odds
Posted by & filed under Featured Stories. Our chances of holding US Commencement outdoors this very wet spring, in the US quad as is our custom, were maybe . . . 50-50. We’ve had two hailstorms in the last week and many showers. But the skies cleared on Friday morning as 47 seniors in the Class of ...
Mamma Mia! Competing For Top Honors At Enchantment Awards
Posted by & filed under Featured Stories. Santa Fe Prep is proud to celebrate the talents and accomplishments of the Performing Arts Department: This year’s Upper School Musical, Mamma Mia!, has been nominated for Best Musical, Best Direction, and Best Ensemble by the New Mexico High School Theatre Awards (also known as the Enchantment Awards). In addition, ...
Peyton Ellis ’20 Nominated For Mayor’s Arts Awards
Posted by & filed under Featured Stories. Congratulations to Peyton Ellis '20, who has been nominated for the 2018 Mayor’s Arts Awards. From artists to educators, philanthropists, supporters, nonprofits and businesses, the annual Mayor’s Arts Awards truly represent the best of Santa Fe, and the selection process is very competitive and difficult. The award recognizes individuals, organizations ...
Dancing With The Santa Fe Stars!
Posted by & filed under Featured Stories. What a fabulous gala Saturday evening! Seven amazing Prep parents, coupled with terrific instructors, showed how they could shake, rattle, and roll at Dancing with the Santa Fe Stars! These brave and talented dancers performed to hits from Saturday Night Fever, Grease, Singin’ in the Rain, and other ...
Santa Fe Prep Tanzania Project Update
Posted by & filed under Featured Stories. Teachers and student leaders from all four schools involved in the Tanzania Penpal Project met over Skype for the first time last week: Santa Fe Prep, the Irkisongo School in Arusha, theMajani ya Chai School, and Azania School in Dar es Salaam. 8th grade global studies teacher Dan Murray, 9th grade biology teachers Lindsey ...
Mamma Mia: The Musical!
Posted by & filed under Featured Stories. It's not the movie. It's not the sequel. It's MAMMA MIA: THE MUSICAL! It came first (well, after Abba) and is, by far, the best iteration of this timeless classic ...