The
Santa Fe Public Schools system is the third largest
district in the state of New Mexico. It is administered
by a five-member, nonpartisan board of education that
establishes educational policies and appoints a
superintendent.
The public schools in Santa Fe are operated by Santa
Fe Public Schools, with two major high schools, Santa Fe
High School and Capital High School. The city has two
private liberal arts colleges: St. John's College, U.S.
and the College of Santa Fe and a community college,
Santa Fe Community College. The city has five private
college preparatory high schools, St. Michael's High
School, The New Mexico Academy for Science and Math,
Desert Academy, New Mexico School For The Deaf, and
Santa Fe Preparatory School. It is also home to Santa Fe
Indian School, an off the reservation school for Native
Americans. There are also several charter schools,
including Monte Del Sol charter school, Academy for
Technology and the Classics and Charter School 37. There
are numerous private elementary schools, Rio Grande
School, Desert Montessori School, La Mariposa
Montessori, Santa Fe School for the Arts, and The Tara
School.
Additionally, Santa Fe has a large network of private
schools, consisting of 32 schools ranging from
pre-Kindergarten through 12th grade, one of which?the
Santa Fe Indian School?is a federally funded boarding
school for Native Americans, run by the All Indian
Pueblo Council.
Public Schools Information: Santa Fe Public
Schools, 610 Alta Vista Street, Santa Fe, NM 87505;
telephone (505)467-2000; fax (505)995-3302
Colleges and Universities
Santa
Fe has several institutes of higher learning, all of
which have an enrollment of less than 2,000. The College
of Santa Fe is a private college offering associate and
baccalaureate degrees; it is particularly known for its
programs in the performing, visual, moving image, and
creative writing arts, and also has strong programs in
the humanities, education, business, conservation
science, and social science. St. John's College, which
has a campus in Annapolis, Maryland as well as in Santa
Fe, offers baccalaureate and advanced degrees. St.
John's is distinctive for its "great books" curriculum;
learning is based upon the study of books and no
textbooks are used. The Institute of American Indian
Arts, a fine arts college, offers associate and
baccalaureate degrees in creative writing, studio arts,
visual communications, and museum studies. Southwestern
College, devoted to the study of mental health, offers
master's degrees in counseling, counseling with a
concentration in grief and loss, and art therapy.
Southwest Acupuncture College offers a Master of Science
in Oriental Medicine. Santa Fe Community College serves
area residents with two-year college preparatory and
technical and vocational curricula.
Libraries and Research Centers
The Santa Fe Public Library operates two branches in
addition to its main facility downtown. Holdings include
nearly 300,000 volumes, as well as periodical
subscriptions, records, films, maps, and special
collections on the Southwest and New Mexico. The New
Mexico State Library, with more than 300,000 volumes and
700 periodical subscriptions, is a federal and state
documents depository. Research libraries located in
Santa Fe house special collections pertaining to such
diverse topics as Southwestern culture, comparative
religion, and Sherlock Holmes; other libraries are
affiliated with local colleges and government agencies.
The Santa Fe Institute conducts research activities in
the physical, biological, computational, and social
sciences, in areas such as cognitive neuroscience,
computation in physical and biological systems, economic
and social interactions, evolutionary dynamics, network
dynamics, and robustness. The National Center for Genome
Resources examines the influence of genetic variability
on infectious disease progression.
Public Library Information: Santa Fe Public
Library, 145 Washington Avenue, Santa Fe, NM 87501;
telephone (505)955-6780; fax (505)955-6676
