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The campus on 88 acres includes a pond, woods, fields, a Lower School, an Upper and Middle School building; the Bettcher Convocation Center with classroooms, a stage and auditorium; the Community Resource Center housing a K-12 library with over 21,000+ books and periodicals, Lower, Middle and Upper School computer labs, a videography lab, a Kiva gathering place, and four foreign language classrooms equipped with laptop carts; a full-size gymnasium; a Fine Arts Center with Lower, Middle and Upper School art studios, four acoustical vocal and instrumental music rooms, and a Black Box theater; five playing fields, six tournament quality tennis courts, and an all-weather track. Intrinsic to our charged learning environment is a talented and committed faculty who see themselves not as disseminators of information but more as facilitators who help students construct their own understandings and gain their own insights.