Sage Ridge School
high school in Reno, Washoe County, Nevada
Sage Ridge School is a private, co-educational, college-preparatory school located in Reno, Nevada. Founded in 1998, the school serves 228 day students (as of 2024) across grades 1 through 12.
The school emphasizes small class sizes, a rigorous curriculum, and an educational framework including five core pillars: Scholarship, Respect, Integrity, Courage, and Community. Academic and extracurricular offerings include outdoor education programs, the arts, athletics, and a senior capstone thesis project with an internship component.
History
Founding
Sage Ridge School was conceived in 1996 by a group of families in the Reno–Tahoe area who sought to establish an independent school as an alternative to boarding school options elsewhere.
The school was established in 1998 on a 40-acre campus in the Mount Rose foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains, on land donated by the Nell J. Redfield Foundation.
Sage Ridge School is accredited by the Northwest Association of Independent Schools (NWAIS), an independent school accrediting body in the western United States.
Expansion
The school initially offered grades 6 through 8, then gradually added grades: grade 5 in 2005, grade 4 in 2016, grade 3 in 2019, and grades 1 and 2 in 2026. The school is organized into three divisions: Lower School, Middle School, and Upper School.
In 2023, the school opened the 24,000-square-foot E.L. Wiegand Student Activity Center.
The public source identifies “Sage Ridge School” as high school in Reno, Washoe County, Nevada. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Sage, Ridge and School.
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