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SPS Students Explore Bhutan
A group of SPS Upper School students departed for Bhutan on March 9 and will return on March 22. Click here to read history teacher Tom Gentry-Funk's trip blog and to see photos!
Beauty And The Beast Performances for Area Schoolchildren Continue
The cast of Sandia Prep’s middle school musical, Beauty And The Beast, continued to entertain visiting groups of local elementary students today, presenting shows for students from Sunset Mesa School and and Los Ranchos Elementary.
Junior Civitan Students Take Local Students on 
a Reading Adventure
As part of their Libros program, 17 members of Sandia Prep's Junior Civitan treated a group of students from Los Ranchos Elementary to a morning of book shopping and reading fun, paid for with funds earned through Civitan work projects. The Los Ranchos students chose $20 worth of new books; the SPS students then read to them and helped them with their own reading. Libros is an ongoing Sandia Prep service project. Click here to watch video.
Headmaster Heath Profiled in Albuquerque The Magazine
Headmaster Dick Heath is profiled in the March issue of Albuquerque The Magazine. Click here to view the article.
SPS Choir Wins State Competition
The SPS Upper School Choir won the New Mexico State Choral Competition (3A Division) held on Friday and Saturday, February 26 and 27.
Next up, the group will perform at the District 7 Large Group Choral Festival on Monday, March 8, to be held at Central United Methodist Church in Albuquerque. If they should receive a perfect score from the judges there, SPS Choral Director Pat Jones has promised to let students dye her hair!
Especially for Students and Parents
Click here to view Headmaster Heath's advice for 9th grade students and their parents as they met with faculty advisors to plan each student's upper school program.
Sandia Prep's National Workplace Awards In The News
Click here to read a recent article in New Mexico Business Weekly about Sandia Prep's national workplace awards from the American Psychological Association.
Sandia Prep is one of only 5 organizations from across North America to win the Amerian Psychological Association’s 2009 National Psychologically Healthy Workplace Award, one of 10 employers to win Best Practices Honors, and the only organization in the country to be honored in both categories this year. The awards were given in Washington, D.C. Click here to read more.
SPS Student Athletes Sign with Stanford and Providence
On February 4, Sandia Prep varsity track athlete Bronson Duran ’10 signed ro run track with Stanford University (California) and varsity soccer athlete Melina Toman ’10 signed to play soccer with Providence College (Rhode Island).
Duran has competed for five years as a member of Prep’s Varsity Track team and has been team captain for three years. He is involved with Junior Civitan community service and has sung with the Sandia Prep chorus for seven years.
Toman has played on the Girls Varsity Soccer team for five years and has been captain for three years. She also participates in Prep’s Student Government Association and Junior Civitan community service.
SPS Alumnus Serving As White House Fellow
Sandia Prep graduate Raul Torrez '95 is serving as a White House Fellow following his appointment by President Obama. Torrez, an Assistant Attorney General in the NM Attorney General's office & a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney, is one of just 15 appointees and the only New Mexican to be named.
Click here to view the White House news release.
Click here to view video of President Obama meeting with this year's class of White House Fellows. (Raul Torrez is seated 2 seats to the right of the President.)
Sandia Prep Names New Head of School
The Sandia Preparatory School Board of Trustees proudly announces the selection of Steven Albert as Sandia Prep’s next Head of School effective July 1, 2010. Albert will succeed Headmaster Dick Heath, who will retire in July after successfully leading the School since 1986. Read more…
Students Continue Cross-Cultural Partnership in Mexico
SPS students recently continued their collaboration with students near Tulum, Mexico.
See video.
Read more…
Alumnus' Entry Chosen for International Solar Design Competition
SPS alumnus Roque Sanchez '05 is a key leader of the Rice University team whose entry was 1 of 20 from around the world selected to participate in the Solar Decathlon at The National Mall in Washington D.C. Read more...
Performing Arts Center Opens
Sandia Prep’s new $5 million, 23,000-square-foot Performing Arts Center is now complete. The facility includes middle school classrooms and a new admission center. Click here for 
photos from the dedication festivities.
Click here to view KRQE News coverage of the event.
Click here to read remarks from Kristen Ellingboe '10 and Ryan Hunter '15.
More Sandia Prep News :
"West Mesa Victims Appear On Billboards" - Madison Ries '09 featured on KOB-TV, 5.7.09
"Suspending Athletics Crushing Realization" - Silas Horst '09 for the Albuquerque Journal, 5.6.09
"Top Employers Find Productive Workplace More Important Than Ever; Five Organizations Receive APA's Psychologically Healthy Workplace Awards, Ten Honored for Best Practices " - Hispanic PR Wire, 3.2.09
"The Big Picture: RISD Grads Work On NASA Rover" - The New York Times, 11.16.08 (featuring SPS alumnus Carl (Chip) Conlee ''01)
The Other Schools" - Albuquerque Journal 11.18.07
"AP vs. IB vs. Neither" - Jay Matthews, education columnist, Washington Post 11.13.07
"New Web Site LIsts High Schools" - Chronicle of Higher Education 11.08.07
Featured in Newsweek’s “America’s Best High Schools” 2005 issue. Click here to view.
Snow Policy: Sandia Prep will close or delay opening school according to the decision announced by Albuquerque Public Schools, unless specifically published otherwise. Listen to 770 KKOB-AM for information on school closures or delays.
