International Boarding School in Sacramento CA area

Lake Tahoe Preparatory School:
Located in Olympic Valley (otherwise known as Squaw Valley), northwest of Lake Tahoe in Placer County, CA, Squaw Valley Academy is a college-preparatory international day and boarding school for grades 6-12, with boarding in grades 9-12.

Accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges, Squaw Valley Academy meets the California state standards for middle and high school students. Tahoe City and Truckee are located within ten miles, Sacramento 100 miles to the west, Reno 45 miles to the east and San Francisco 200 miles west.

Squaw Valley Academy is a safe, clean campus nestled in a valley at the edge of the Tahoe National Forest and within five miles of Lake Tahoe. Our campus is located two miles from Squaw Valley USA, the six-peak, thirty-ski-lift site of the 1960 Winter Olympics. The Sierra Nevada provides the ideal location to support our commitment to real accomplishment and personal achievement through Outdoor Education.

At an elevation of 6,200 feet, the SVA campus experiences the full range of seasonal climates with about 300 days of sunshine each year. The average temperatures range from a low of 20 degrees in the winter to a high of 85 degrees in the summer.

Location and Facilities:

Boarding:
Two separate residential buildings accommodate students and staff on-campus at Squaw Valley Academy. Students live in en-suite dormitory rooms or in off-campus SVA houses with SVA staff and other SVA students.

Each dormitory has washing machines and dryers, and students do their own laundry. Adult staff is on duty twenty-four hours per day in dormitories and off-campus SVA houses when students are in-house.

The campus of the Academy extends beyond its buildings and into the outdoor world of the Sierra Nevada. The environment surrounding the campus holds as much potential to learn and to accomplish as the bookshelves of the indoor classrooms. Together, academics and the outdoor world provide a balanced education.