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Location:
Colorado Springs, CO
School Type: Co-Ed
Boarding Grades: 9-12
Enrollment: Boarding: 166 (Day 84)
Annual Boarding Tuition: Boarding: $40,000
Annual Day Tuition: Day $21,700
Student to Teacher Ratio: 5:1
School Focus: College Prep
Average Class Size: 14
% Students on Financial Aid: 37%
Endowment Size: 23,000,000
Accommodates ADHD Students: No
School Supports LD: Yes
School Supports ESL: Yes
Year Founded: 1930
School Type: Co-Ed
Boarding Grades: 9-12
Enrollment: Boarding: 166 (Day 84)
Annual Boarding Tuition: Boarding: $40,000
Annual Day Tuition: Day $21,700
Student to Teacher Ratio: 5:1
School Focus: College Prep
Average Class Size: 14
% Students on Financial Aid: 37%
Endowment Size: 23,000,000
Accommodates ADHD Students: No
School Supports LD: Yes
School Supports ESL: Yes
Year Founded: 1930
Fountain Valley School of Colorado
Fountain Valley Co-Ed Boarding School Information:
Fountain Valley School is a close-knit residential community offering diverse and challenging learning opportunities in academics, athletics, the arts, community service and character development.
The School’s rigorous college preparatory standards are enhanced by its setting in the Rocky Mountain West. The open prairies and snow-capped mountains offer not only a stunning panorama but also serve as a source of inspiration and aspiration. Students are encouraged to embrace new experiences, find themselves, and develop their talents in association with new friends from Colorado and around the world.Our School
Located in the Rocky Mountain West, Fountain Valley School offers a college-preparatory, boarding and day school program for motivated students within a close knit and supportive community. The generous landscape of open prairie and snow-capped mountains is a continual source of personal inspiration, as well as a reminder of the opportunities and responsibilities that lie beyond the School’s boundaries.
Our Mission
Fountain Valley School of Colorado is dedicated to providing a rigorous college-preparatory curriculum in academics, athletics and the arts. Our community endeavors to foster a lifelong love of challenge and learning in an environment of diversity and mutual respect, and to prepare adolescents to become individuals who are open-minded, curious, courageous, self-reliant and compassionate.
Our Values
Francis Froelicher, the School’s founding headmaster, believed that Fountain Valley School should prepare students “to write their own history.” To empower them to do so, the School seeks to nurture all students in their pursuit of excellence and strives to develop in all students the following core values:
- Open-mindedness:
- Curiosity:
To value lifelong pleasure in intellectual exploration and discovery; to receive the consequent satisfaction of achievement and excellence through focused, creative effort. - Courage:
To embrace challenge intellectually, physically, emotionally and spiritually as a pathway to insight and self-understanding; to stretch and see beyond one’s perceived boundaries. - Self-Reliance:
To be responsible; to exhibit initiative and accountability, working independently and collaboratively. - Compassion:
To demonstrate care and service to others, and to live a balanced and healthy life, enjoying the harmony of work and play.
