Southwestern Academy (San Marino Campus)

Here, you can reach your highest potential, participate in sports and activities, and make lifelong friendships. Our students study on two picturesque and complementary campuses in San Marino, California, and Rimrock, Arizona. Southwestern's vision is to offer American and international students personalized, stimulating classes and supportive, nurturing care that allows individual student success, understanding of diverse cultures, and preparation for college and life.
Southwestern offers and shall continue to offer programs to strengthen students through small classes—typically of eight to twelve students—with personalized lessons, achievement grouping, two unique campuses in safe environments, and especially by supporting student achievements through an involved, nurturing, caring staff who create an environment for individual student success.
Southwestern balances enrollments by actively promoting cultural diversity and social heterogeneity in its student body. We seek to admit motivated, successful students who want smaller classes and personalized instruction. We also believe in giving a chance to students who may have experienced unsuccessful schooling elsewhere when they have the abilities and willingness to try. We believe in giving students love and encouragement to overcome obstacles and provide and stimulate participation in a wide variety of activities and athletics that they might not encounter in a larger setting. We work with students who want to be here and help their fellow students. If a student continues to hurt the community, we will help find a more appropriate placement for that student. Our staff decisions about students will be based on each case's assessment, rather than a comparison with rigid standards. We will work to recruit American and international students who will benefit from and add to our school.
Support and encouragement for students will be our standard in all academic and disciplinary decisions. We will remove obstacles from students who want to reach their full potentials and encourage students at each step. We will pay special attention to each individual, particularly those needing our guidance. We shall keep building our caring and love of students, using patience and the extra time we gain because of our small class sizes. Our object is never to fail students unless they give us no choice but to help them be successful. This takes all our best teaching skills, and we are pledged to use those skills. Maintenance and enhancement of our two campuses will continue to build the most attractive, safe, comfortable, complete facilities possible.
You will arrive at Southwestern as a citizen of your country and leave as a citizen of the world. As you interact with students from different cultures, you will gain a new perspective and make treasured friendships that reach across international borders. Southwestern offers dozens of opportunities beyond schoolwork. You may be active in clubs, create art and music, participate in student government, join our sports teams, and donate your time in community service. Students celebrate several special events, and field trips are regularly scheduled to take advantage of the area's learning opportunities.