Bosque School

Since our founding in 1994, Bosque School has grown from an idea around a dining room table to a blossoming 45-acre campus full of community members who believe strongly in our core values of scholarship, community and integrity. Over the past 24 years, nearly 1,000 students have graduated from Bosque School and taken on the world through higher education and rich, meaningful work and life experiences.

Bosque challenges traditional education by providing an inquiry-based approach, where students tackle solutions to complex problems through research and discovery. Our goal is to help students develop problem-solving and critical-thinking skills that will last a lifetime, while encouraging creativity and expression through a strong cross-curricular approach, encompassing varying disciplines of study.

Our dedicated and innovative faculty embraces progressive methods of teaching to capitalize on their students' innate curiosity and to challenge them through immersive course study and interactive activity. 75% of our teachers have advanced degrees in their chosen discipline.

Bosque School is one of only a few schools in the region that hosts a full range of community engagement programs in which faculty, staff, students, and alumni are involved as scholars, citizen scientists, leaders, and mentors. These programs include the Service Learning program, the Bosque Ecosystem Monitoring Program (BEMP), the Sofia Center for Professional Development, Horizons Albuquerque at Bosque School, and Bosque Summer. We pride ourselves on our signature grade-level inquiry and research projects, including the Senior Thesis and Colloquium, where students are fully engaged in working with experts in areas of their interest.

Over the years, Bosque’s students—artists, actors, musicians, scholars, poets, and athletes—have earned numerous state, district, and metro area titles and honors. Our graduating classes are earning more than $6 million in merit scholarships to colleges and universities worldwide. Most importantly, faculty and students are challenging themselves to maintain and improve upon our strong belief and understanding in how we approach diversity, equity, and inclusivity in our community.

Bosque School awards approximately $3.4 million in need-based financial aid to 55% of our students each year. We are committed to making Bosque an inclusive and socio-economically diverse community of learners. No matter where you look on our 45-acre campus, you will see students, faculty, staff, and families living our core values of scholarship, community, and integrity. We believe strongly that living these values allows us to celebrate our differences, challenge our assumptions as we learn from each other and from our local, national, and international communities.

Our mission is to prepare young men and women to become lifelong learners with the highest character values and academic goals in a natural New Mexico setting with strong family and community involvement. Bosque School Core Values:

• Bosque School is a student-centered community. The question of what is best for students is at the heart of what we do and is the guiding principle in our decisions.
• Bosque School offers a dedicated and caring faculty, small classes and an education that recognizes each student as an individual.
• Bosque School seeks students who can meet the academic challenges of our curriculum and who will contribute positively to the quality of life at the school.
• We seek to make learning a lifetime passion. We hope that our students will become readers who love the beauty of the written word or thinkers who are excited by understanding a complicated scientific process – not simply students who know the correct answer on an exam.
• We balance traditional academic requirements with courses in the arts, technology, service learning and physical education.
• We respect our teachers and encourage excellence in the classroom. We offer competitive salaries, benefits and professional development opportunities in order to attract and retain outstanding teachers.
• Bosque School’s faculty members serve as mentors and role models to the students, both within the classroom and beyond.
• Bosque’s faculty, administration, and staff, regardless of department or office, must be committed to the education of young people.
• We are committed to the larger community. Along with the privilege of attending an independent school comes the responsibility to give back. We seek alliances and contacts with our sister schools, both public and private, and we continually seek out ways to contribute to the well-being of Albuquerque.
• We embrace diversity and work hard to create a student body and faculty that reflect the ethnic, cultural and economic diversity of the larger community in which we live.
• As our name promises, we will be ongoing caretakers of the land on which our school lives; we will honor its ancient history by actively participating in the preservation of its future.
• Our buildings will be designed to complement the land and will provide spaces in which students and teachers can work together, where teachers are visible and available to students during the academic day.
• We will practice prudent financial management. While we look to our constituents and beyond for the funds that will make our dreams a reality, we will endeavor to make our fundraising efforts as responsible and unobtrusive as possible. We will continue to strive for efficiency in our operations, affordability in our pricing, and to provide value to those who invest their time and money in us and, above all, entrust their children’s education to us.
• A strong sense of school community is paramount at Bosque. From the small details of daily school life to large events in the school’s history, every effort is made to maintain the integrity of the school community and the values articulated here.

Bosque School will practice continuous self-assessment to ensure that we are being true to these core values. By doing so, we will build a tradition to guide future decisions of the school and to provide a sense of stability. We will foster pride in our achievements, but never forget that we began as the dream from a handful of caring parents who believed that children are special and deserving of a school that believes the same.