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Midland School

Po Box 8 5100 Figueroa Mtn Road, Los Olivos, CA, 93441-0934 -

School Notes Overview:

Midland School provides a unique college preparatory boarding school experience to a diverse student body at relatively low cost. Through study and work, it teaches the value of a lifetime of learning, self-reliance, simplicity, responsibility to community and the environment, and love for the outdoors. Midland School is a community of students, teachers, and families in pursuit of academic excellence and moral lives. We are guided by the following precepts: the essential ingredients of learning are a student, a teacher, and an idea; a simple, self-reliant lifestyle, close to nature, teaches us to develop our inner resources, to distinguish between needs and wants, and to appreciate life's fundamental joys and challenges; a school community entrusting students with authentic leadership roles, emphasizing individual and collective responsibility, and relying on its own work to meet its basic needs, prepares its students to take care of themselves and to serve others; and in this age of increasing concern about our environment, Midland students learn, through academic education and everyday example, to be good stewards of the earth....

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School Overview:

	Midland School
School Membership(s)	National Association of Independent Schools State or regional independent school association The Association of Boarding Schools (TABS) Other school association(s)
Religious Affiliation	Nonsectarian
Grades Offered	Grades 9 - 12
County	Santa Barbara County, CA
Student Body
Total Students	86 students
Student Body Type	Co-ed
	This School	(CA) School Avg.
% Students of Color	25%	41%
Students by Grade
	Grade 9 - 24 students
	Grade 10 - 24 students
	Grade 11 - 20 students
	Grade 12 - 18 students
Academics and Faculty
Total Classroom Teachers	17 teachers
	This School	(CA) School Avg.
Teacher : Student Ratio	1:4	* Ntl. Public School Avg. » 1:16
School Days in Calendar Year	198 days	180 days
Hours in School Day for Students	n/a	6 hours
Finances and Admission
Admission Deadline	None / Rolling
Yearly Tuition Cost	$36,000
Head of School	Will Graham

School Notes:

Midland School provides a unique college preparatory boarding school experience to a diverse student body at relatively low cost. Through study and work, it teaches the value of a lifetime of learning, self-reliance, simplicity, responsibility to community and the environment, and love for the outdoors. Midland School is a community of students, teachers, and families in pursuit of academic excellence and moral lives. We are guided by the following precepts: the essential ingredients of learning are a student, a teacher, and an idea; a simple, self-reliant lifestyle, close to nature, teaches us to develop our inner resources, to distinguish between needs and wants, and to appreciate life's fundamental joys and challenges; a school community entrusting students with authentic leadership roles, emphasizing individual and collective responsibility, and relying on its own work to meet its basic needs, prepares its students to take care of themselves and to serve others; and in this age of increasing concern about our environment, Midland students learn, through academic education and everyday example, to be good stewards of the earth.
Profile last updated: 09/02/2009

In the News:

2 Midland students receive scholarships (The Santa Ynez Valley News)
posted on November 18, 2009 at 03:30:30 pm
Two new Midland students recently received full two-year scholarships to attend the college preparatory boarding school.
Winter D. Horton Jr. dies at 80; co-founder of L.A. public television station KCET (Los Angeles Times)
posted on November 14, 2009 at 02:42:48 am
The broadcasting pioneer helped shape public television programming in the 1960s and later was appointed by President Clinton to the board of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Winter D. Horton Jr., a broadcasting pioneer who co-founded KCET in Los Angeles, helped shape the nation's public television programming in the 1960s and later was appointed to the Corporation for Public ...
Education Briefs (The Santa Ynez Valley News)
posted on November 2, 2009 at 03:31:00 pm
Midland School senior William Johnston-Carter, of San Luis Obispo, has been named a Commended Student in the 2010 National Merit Scholarship Program.
Midland wins top honor (The Santa Ynez Valley News)
posted on October 12, 2009 at 02:40:26 pm
Midland School in Los Olivos was the only school to receive the 2009 Governor's Environmental and Economic Leadership Award (GEELA) among 15 organizations honored Sept. 30 in Los Angeles at the Governor's Global Climate Summit 2.
A full course of cross country (The Santa Ynez Valley News)
posted on October 8, 2009 at 02:24:57 pm
The starter’s gun went off Wednesday. Minutes later a worker opened a metal gate, then clanged it shut behind the last runner. The cross country field was off into a vast backcountry, the dirt grade dotted with oak trees.

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School Zip Statistics:

About This Zipcode (93441)	School Zip (93441)	(CA) State Average
Population (Approximate)	1,301 people	33,864,644 people
% (age 25+) w/College Degree	44%	32%
Population Average Age	41 years old	33 years old
Average Household size	2.7 persons	2.8 persons
Median Household Income	$61,339	$51,306
Avg. # of Rooms in Household	5.6 rooms	4.8 rooms
Median Age of Housing Structure	35 years old	41 years old
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% Owning / % Renting	62% / 38%	55% / 45%