SANDIA PREPARATORY SCHOOL

'Sandia Preparatory School'

Sandia Preparatory School logo
'Established'	1932-1942 Sandia School1966-Present Sandia Prep
'School Type'	Private Secondary Preparatory Day
'Students'	670 approx.(coeducational)
'Grades'	6-12
'Name'	Sandia Preparatory School
'Address'	532 Osuna Rd NE
'Town'	Albuquerque NM 87113
'Community'	Urban
'Religion'	non-sectarian
'Accreditation'	Independent Schools Association of the Southwest
'District'	None
'Subdistrict'	None
'Nickname'	"Prep"
'Mascot'	Sundevil
'Colors'	Cardinal Red and Columbia Blue
'Motto'	"Constant Possum" With devotion, all things are possible
'Literary Magazine'	La Chispa
'Newspaper'	Sandia Prep Times
'Yearbook'	Sandglass
'Headmaster'	Dick Heath
'Distinctions'	Ruth Hanna McCormick Simms who started the original Sandia School was the first American woman on the cover of TIME magazine
'Website'	http://www.sandiaprep.org/index.html

'Sandia Preparatory School' is a private, secular college preparatory school located in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
In 1958, Barbara Young Simms began to investigate the possibility of starting a girls day school in Albuquerque. In 1965, she secured land, established a board of trustees and formed the Sandia School, a nonsectarian school. In late January 1966, the Rev. Paul G. Saunders, an Episcopal priest, was selected headmaster and, later that year, the school opened. The year began with 75 students in grades 5 through 10 (grade 11 was added the next year; grade 12 the year after), and finished with 82 students.
In 1969, Orell Phillips served as interim headmaster while the school's board searched for a new head. In 1970, Mose Hale became third headmaster. Three years later, Sandia School became coeducational. In 1974, Elton Knutson was selected as fourth headmaster.
The school began to refer to itself as Sandia Preparatory School during the 1975-76 academic year. Fifth-grade classes were discontinued in the 1985-86 school year. For the next academic year, Dick Heath joined Sandia Prep as its fifth (and current) headmaster.
Since its founding in 1966, Sandia Prep has grown from a girls' school serving 82 students in three buildings to a coeducational institution serving 625 students in multiple buildings and facilities that fill a 30-acre campus. The first graduating class in 1969 consisted of six girls; this year's graduates numbered 81.
Sandia Prep is "descended" from the original Sandía School, a private day and boarding school for girls founded by Ruth Hanna McCormick (Barbara Young Simms' aunt by marriage) in 1932. Its first year, Sandía School held classes for five students and one teacher in a private house where Manzano Day School is now located. The school was formed in part to help prepare girls for further study or college in the Eastern United States.
In 1937, the school moved to a new permanent campus (now part of Kirtland Air Force Base). Mrs. Simms commissioned architect John Gaw Meem to design the school complex in the territorial style. By 1938, the school had 75 students, nine of whom were boarders, and 18 faculty. In 1942, due to World War II, Sandía School closed. A number of alumnae from the first Sandía School actively participated in the organization of the current Sandia Prep School.

Contents

Athletics

New Mexico State Championships

External links

Athletics

New Mexico State Championships

★ Boys Soccer 1985, 1987, 1988, 1990, 1992, 1993, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006

★ Girls Soccer 2002, 2004, 2006

★ Volleyball 2004

★ Baseball 2001, 2005

★ Boys Doubles Tennis 2004

★ Girls Team Tennis 2002, 2005

★ Girls Singles Tennis 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005

★ Girls Track 1998, 1999

External links

★ Sandia Preparatory School website