Fairmont Preparatory Academy is a private college preparatory

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located in

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. It is one of the campuses of the Fairmont Private Schools system. It has been an IB World School since August 1995.

Awards and recognition

For the 1990-91 school year, Fairmont Private Junior High School was recognized with the Blue Ribbon Award from the

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, the highest honor that an American school can achieve. School officials were presented with a Blue Ribbon School of Excellence award at a

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event held on March 25, 1991, at a ceremony hosted by

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and

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. In 2008, the

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recognized Fairmont Preparatory Academy as having one of the strongest

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calculus programs in California.

History

Fairmont Middle and High School (later renamed Fairmont Preparatory Academy) opened for the 1993-1994 school year on the site of the Stanton estate, which includes a hacienda-style house built in 1929 by Col. Philip A. Stanton. The Phillip Ackley Stanton House building was entered into the

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on November 21, 1980.

Class sizes

Fairmont Preparatory Academy has comparatively small class sizes. For example, its Anaheim, CA campus has a student/teacher ratio of 13.26.

Fairmont Private Schools

Founded in 1953, Fairmont Private Schools is the largest and oldest non-sectarian

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in Orange County. The Fairmont Schools consists of five campuses: Fairmont Preparatory Academy (9 - 12th grade), Anaheim Hills (pre-kindergarten - 8th grade), North Tustin (pre-kindergarten - 8th grade), Historic Anaheim (preschool - 8th grade), and San Juan Capistrano (preschool - 8th grade) which together aim to teach a consistent program from preschool through 12th grade.

Images

Image:FairmontHighCourtyard.JPG, The courtyard inside the school. Image:FairmontGym.JPG, The school gym.

References

External links

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National Center for Education Statistics data for Fairmont Preparatory Academy (grades 1-6)National Center for Education Statistics data for Fairmont Preparatory Academy (grades 7-12)
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