Founded in 1924, Southwestern is an accredited, non-profit, independent school for boys and girls from across the United States and around the world, preparing for universities and for life with classes from first grade through high school. The San Marino Campus is about eight acres in the heart of this beautiful residential city ten miles east of downtown Los Angeles and just south of Pasadena. The campus includes seven steel and concrete buildings of Spanish Mission architecture, circling sports fields. Lincoln Hall is the main academic building, with an assembly and study hall, nine classrooms, science lab, library, and two computer centers. Classes and dorms are wired for computers and connected to the campus network and the Internet.
Students also have e-mail and voicemail boxes and personal pagers for communications.
Since classes are limited to around twelve, rooms are small and each student is involved. The hall converts to an auditorium for plays, programs, and dances. Other buildings have classes in English as a second language for international students, art, music, and humanities subjects. Beaver Creek Campus Beaver Creek Ranch Campus spreads across 180 acres deep in a redrock canyon, one hundred miles north of Phoenix, near Sedona, Arizona. The campus is surrounded by National Forest lands, with the creek running behind the school buildings.