Located in the heart of downtown Santa Barbara, Anacapa School is an independent, co-educational school for grades 7-12 that offers a high-quality education in an enriching environment. Anacapa empowers students to excel at critical thinking, creativity, integrity, and compassion through experiential and project-based learning that serves the needs of the whole student. Through its 5:1 student-to-teacher ratio, the Anacapa approach fosters intelligent and complex discourse between students and their faculty. It is also designed to promote collaboration within the classroom and to optimize both independent and collaborative thinkers through community engagement with downtown Santa Barbara’s art, culture, and government organizations.