EDUCATIONAL PHILOSOPHY: Secondary Learning Center is dedicated to striving for academic competence through daily practice. We build skill levels in various ways, most involving traditional means of study. Included in our depth of academic exploration is the focus on individual organization and responsibility, as well as the understanding that independent thinking within a humane environment allows maximum growth.
ACADEMIC FREEDOM: Secondary Learning Center offers a variety of academic subjects. Once students have reached a satisfactory level of competence in those areas, they are encouraged to seek employment, internships, apprenticeships and/or college placement in order to demonstrate mastery in their chosen subjects. Most juniors and seniors are encouraged to take college level classes (for full college credit) in addition to Secondary Learning Center curriculum. Our students have historically attended both the College of Santa Fe and Santa Fe Community College.
The following is a list of selected colleges to which our students have been accepted: American University, Antioch, Bard, Beloit, Colorado College, Columbia, Cornish College of the Arts, CU-Boulder, CU-Denver, Denver University, Evergreen, Findlay, Georgetown, Goucher, Grinnell, Hampshire, Harvard, Lesley, Lewis and Clark, Northwestern University, Oberlin, Pitzer College, Reed, Rochester Institute of Technology, Tulane, UC-San Diego, UC-Santa Cruz, University of Chicago, University of Minnesota, University of Oregon, Wellesley, Wheaton, Yale University.