Indian Springs School
| Indian Springs School | |
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| Address | |
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190 Woodward Drive Indian Springs Village, Alabama 35124 United States |
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| Coordinates | 33°20′27″N 86°46′17″W / 33.3409°N 86.7715°WCoordinates: 33°20′27″N 86°46′17″W / 33.3409°N 86.7715°W |
| Information | |
| Type | Private, boarding and day, secondary school |
| Motto |
Discere Vivendo (Learning Through Living) |
| Established | 1952 |
| Headmaster | Sharon Howell |
| Teaching staff | 27.1 (on a FTE basis) |
| Grades | 8–12 |
| Gender | Coeducational |
| Enrollment | 279 (2013-14) |
| Student to teacher ratio | 10.3 |
| Campus | 350 acres (1.4 km2) with an 11-acre (45,000 m2) lake |
| Color(s) | Maroon and Grey |
| Athletics | Boys' and Girls' Cross Country, Basketball, Bowling, Tennis, and Soccer Boys' Baseball and Golf Girls' Volleyball and Softball Student organized Ultimate Frisbee |
| Yearbook | Khalas |
| Website | www |
Indian Springs School is a private school that includes grades eight through twelve with both boarding and day students. It is at the base of Oak Mountain, in Indian Springs Village, Shelby County, Alabama, United States.
Indian Springs School was founded in 1952, endowed by Birmingham-born, MIT-educated businessman Harvey G. Woodward. He left in his will the funds and instructions for creating the school at his death in 1930 as a segregation academy. Woodward wanted to make the school available to both upper-class and lower-class people. He instructed that the school should use a holistic approach to learning (the school's motto is "Discere Vivendo", or "Learning through Living"). During its first years, the school was a working farm, which the students tended, although this element was shortly eliminated. However, Woodward also stipulated that the school could admit only Christian, white, boys, limitations that were sequentially abolished by 1976.
Indian Springs opened in 1952 with ten staff members and sixty students. The first director of the school was Louis "Doc" Armstrong. He made several changes to Woodward's original plans for the school, most notably Woodward's request that the school not be preparatory and not for Jews.
By the 1970s, the school had grown to include equal numbers of day students and boarders. An eighth grade was added, and the school began admitting girls in 1976.
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