The Fountain Valley School of Colorado is a private, co-educational independent college preparatory school for students in 9th through 12th grades. The school's primary campus is located on 1,100 acres (445 ha) of rolling prairie at the base of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The school also owns and uses a 40-acre Mountain Campus near Buena Vista.
FVS is a member of the Association of Boarding Schools, or TABS, and is home to the Gardner Carney Leadership Institute for teaching professionals.
History
In 1929, art patron Elizabeth Sage Hare organized a group of her friends to join her in founding an independent boarding school. The site chosen for the school was a large ranch owned by Jack Bradley, which Hare purchased in November 1929. The school opened as a boarding school for boys in September 1930. Fountain Valley School became coeducational in 1975.
Curriculum
One of Fountain Valley School's signature programs is its Western Immersion Program. Students take a week-long trip during their sophomore year to Fountain Valley's western campus near Buena Vista to "learn about Colorado's history, geology, geography and social and cultural issues of the American West in a hands-on environment".[3]
Extracurricular activities
Notable alumni
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^ abRoberts, Sam (8 February 2018). "John Perry Barlow, 70, Champion of an Open Internet, Dies". New York Times. . . . he was dispatched by his parents to Fountain Valley School in Colorado. . . . He forged a lifelong friendship there with Mr. Weir, a guitar-toting fellow student who would found the Grateful Dead with Mr. Garcia and others in 1965.
^Navarro, Linda (17 April 2020). "A look back in Colorado Springs: A surprising Grateful Dead connection". Colorado Springs Gazette. Retrieved 9 October 2023. Incongruous as it might seem, the school has a connection to . . . The Grateful Dead. And it's all about two 15-year-old sophomores at Fountain Valley School in 1962: Bob Weir, who became one of the Dead's co-founders, and group lyricist John Perry Barlow.
^Kjellstrand, Carl M; Rahman, Mohamed; Ing, Todd S, eds. (29 August 2012). Dialysis: History, Development And Promise. World Scientific Publishing Company. p. 115. ISBN9789814439947.
^Grimes, William (9 May 2017). "Edwin Sherin, 87; Directed 'Law & Order'". New York Times. p. A21. At 16, Mr. Sherin dropped out of DeWitt Clinton High School, where he was the star quarterback, and made his way to West Texas, where he worked on a cattle ranch before resuming his education at the Fountain Valley School in Colorado Springs. He graduated in 1948.
