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The Thacher School is a co-educational boarding high school for grades 9-12 located in Ojai, 85 miles northwest of Los Angeles, Ventura County in California. The School serves academically talented students who will benefit from a rigorous college preparatory experience with ACT, SAT and AP courses.

The School’s extraordinary location at the edge of the Los Padres National Forest and traditional family environment promote the virtues of personal growth and self-reliance tempered by an increasing awareness of the needs of others and a shared responsibility for a healthy and happy community. We are accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges.


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Boarding Life:
Dormitory life is a rich blend of studying, relaxing, sleeping, and enjoying with friends and prefects. In each dorm, senior prefects help administer rules and serve as role models for other students. Faculty members are also an integral part of dorm life, as most live in apartments attached to the dormitories.

During the course of four years students and faculty become close and develop friendships that last well beyond teenage years.

While every dorm room is furnished with a bed, desk, closet, dresser, and direct connection to the Internet, students quickly decorate their rooms to reflect their own personalities and preferences. Each student creates his or her own little haven.

Dormitories are arranged by grade and gender for ninth, tenth, and eleventh graders. Due to the various leadership roles that seniors hold, they are housed across campus in the various dormitories.


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Travel time to Thacher is approximately two hours from the Los Angeles International Airport, an hour and a half from Burbank International, or an hour from the Santa Barbara Airport.

By car, you will approach Ojai from either Interstate Highway 5 or U.S. 101.

Directions from Highway 5:
* Exit onto 126 West just north of Six Flags Magic Mountain, in the city of Saugus. (From this exit, this route takes approximately one hour.)
* Drive through Fillmore and on to Santa Paula.
* Exit onto 150, which takes you through the town of Santa Paula.
* Stay on this winding road until you come to the Ojai Valley overlook; continue to the bottom of the grade, pass Boccali’s Restaurant. Look for Carne Road and turn right onto Carne.
* Follow Carne Road, across Grand (a stop) to where Carne bends; at this point, the road has become Thacher Road.
* At the stop sign, continue straight on Thacher Road.
* The Thacher School is at the top of the hill. Signs will direct you to Admissions parking and our office. Welcome!

Directions from Highway 101:
* Exit onto 33 North just north of the city of Ventura. (From this exit, this route takes approximately 30 minutes.)
* Drive through Casitas Springs and Oak View.
* Continue straight through the traffic light where route 33 merges with route 150. Stay on 150, following signs to downtown Ojai. (The Post Office tower is your downtown landmark.)
* Pass through downtown. A couple of miles outside of town you will see a sign for Carne Road. Turn left onto Carne Road.
* Follow Carne Road, across Grand (a stop) to where Carne bends; at this point, the road has become Thacher Road.
* At the stop sign, continue straight on Thacher Road.
* The Thacher School is at the top of the hill, to your left. Signs will direct you to Admissions parking and our office. Welcome!

School / Office Address: 5025 Thacher Road
Ojai
California
USA
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