Monte del Sol Charter School

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Monte del Sol Charter School
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Monte del Sol Charter School
Address
Monte del Sol Charter School
4157 Walking Rain Rd.

, ,
87507

United States
Coordinates 35°37′29″N106°00′35″W / 35.6246°N 106.0098°W / 35.6246; -106.0098
Information
Type Charter high school
Opened2000 [1]
School district Santa Fe Public Schools
CEEB code 320609
NCES School ID 350017000816 [2]
PrincipalZoe Nelsen [3]
Faculty31.30 (FTE) [4]
Grades7 - 12 [2]
Enrollment349 (2018–19) [4]
Student to teacher ratio11.15 [4]
Color(s) Red, black, and white    
Athletics conference NMAA
MascotDragon
Website www.montedelsol.org

Monte del Sol Charter is a public charter high school in Santa Fe, New Mexico. As of 2017, the school had 353 students and 25 classroom teachers. [2]

The school was founded by Tony Gerlicz, who originally planned to emphasize arts and music classes and a less rigid hierarchy. [5] The school received its charter in 1999 and began offering classes in 2000. During its first term the school operated out of the Santa Fe Boys & Girls Club. From 2001 to 2003 the school operated in a strip mall during construction of a new campus. Since the 2003–2004 school year, the school's campus has been on the southwestern edge of the city in the Nava Ade neighborhood. [1]

In 2008 Gerlicz left the school to head the American School of Warsaw, and was eventually replaced as principal by Angela Ritchie. Ritchie used a more top-down management style, emphasized improving the school's test scores, and worked to resolve the school's budget shortfall by cutting some art and music programs. [5] Ritchie left the school in 2011.

In 2014, the school was named one of the best schools in the state by U.S. News & World Report . [6]

The school describes the Coalition of Essential Schools as a guide to its development. [7]

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