NEWS + ANNOUNCEMENTS
SAVE THE DATE: March 2 • 5:00 – 7:00 Open House for prospective students and their families.
Meet our outstanding faculty, tour our school campus and see why Monte del Sol is such a special school community, where every student is known and seen as a unique...
Read More »Monte Del Sol Charter School awarded $40,000 grant from The New Mexico Economic Development Department to use for Outdoor Education
Monte del Sol was excited to be one of the 61 programs chosen through its Outdoor Equity Fund to provide outdoor education and career training to more than 22,000 youth...
Read More »Monte in the News: Udell Calzadillas Chavez speaks on Outrageous Love the Podcast: Our Journeys to Responsiveness
What does it mean to be a responsive educator in the 21st century? Our very own Udell Calzadillas Chavez, World Languages Department Chair and teacher joins Dr. Hollie from Culturally and...
Read More »Monte in the News: With hundreds of students and a multimillion-dollar expansion on the way, Monte del Sol celebrates 25 years
A great article about celebrating our 25th anniversary, on April 25th! Read more.
Read More »Monte in the News: Hear Founding Faculty, Wendy Leighton on the Big Show with Honey Harris.
Wendy talks about our school’s founding and history and the 25th anniversary celebration of Monte del Sol. Listen here
Read More »Monte del Sol in the News: Monte del Sol Charter School plans expansion of 22-year-old campus | Santa Fe New Mexican
Monte del Sol Charter School wants a dedicated gymnasium — and more — to celebrate its 25th anniversary. It’s high time to revitalize the school’s 22-year-old campus at 4157 Walking...
Read More »Monte del Sol in the News: Monte Del Sol celebrates Black History Month | Santa Fe New Mexican
Soriba Fofana shows middle schoolers the steps to a West African dance during a visit to Monte del Sol Charter School by the Wassa Dance and Drum Ensemble on Wednesday,...
Read More »Monte del Sol article in the Santa Fe New Mexican!
Monte del Sol Charter School wants a dedicated gymnasium — and more — to celebrate its 25th anniversary. It’s high time to revitalize the school’s 22-year-old campus at 4157...
Read More »Congrats to our Award-winning Fashion Designers at the Santa Fe Trash Fashion Contest!
Congratulations to Exsel Manalu-Trules, Lorenne Felix, Damien Crawford, Yolotzin Rojas De Sandoval and Natalya Vigil for winning awards at the Santa Fe Trash Fashion Contest, at the Santa Fe Convention Center....
Read More »Kudos to: Monte students and faculty taking part in Model International Criminal Court (MICC) in Poland
On November 12, Monte del Sol’s world history teacher, Dayni Staddon will lead eight high school students from New Mexico, including Monte students Samuel Mitchell, Samuel Walling, Jazmin Ruiz and...
Read More »Monte del Sol Student artists in SFCC’s annual Santa Fe Regional Art Exhibition
Show Opening: October 24, 5 – 7 pm Over thirty Monte Del Sol student artists are participating in SFCC’s annual Santa Fe Regional Art Exhibition. This juried exhibition will be...
Read More »Monte del Sol Seniors attend the fifth annual Women in Business Conference
Monte seniors, Savannah Trujillo, Stephani Gonzalez, Yesenia Avila and Amy Garcia, who are all interested in business for their future careers attended and were interviewed by the Santa Fe New Mexican...
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Kudos to: Monte students and faculty taking part in Model International Criminal Court (MICC) in Poland
On November 12, Monte del Sol’s world history teacher, Dayni Staddon will lead eight high school students from New Mexico, including Monte students Samuel Mitchell, Samuel Walling, Jazmin Ruiz and...
Read More »Journey to Japan: 2024
In early June, 16 Monte students with faculty members Dayni Staddon and Margarita Blanco and our wonderful leader, Satori Murata went to Japan. The journey began with four days in...
Read More »Monte del Sol Teachers interviewed on Radio Free Santa Fe • March 20. 2024
Listen to Monte teachers Wendy Leighton and Molly Mackinnon discuss education in New Mexico with Honey Harris on her BIG SHOW on Radio Free Santa Fe 98.1 FM.
Read More »Kudos to our Monte Seniors!
Kudos to our Seniors! Fabian Larranaga received the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) Scholarship and one from Trout Unlimited. Emiliano Alarcon Macias is a recipient of the Davis Scholarship. Emlee...
Read More »Seventh grade Civil Rights Annual Gathering covered in Santa Fe New Mexican
The gathering, spearheaded by humanities teacher and seventh grade POD advisor, Wendy Leighton highlighted artwork, research and presentations that students did on icons such as Michelle Obama, Rosa Parks, Christopher...
Read More »Monte del Sol students featured in Santa Fe New Mexican article
High school consequential: New graduation standards aim for meaningful learning In House Bill 171 — signed into law by Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on Friday afternoon — lawmakers handed out...
Read More »Monte STEM Team wins at the Governor’s STEM Challenge!
At the Governor’s STEM Challenge on January 20, Monte del Sol won a Showcase Award from Urenco USA for their project, “Blueberry: A Friend for Life.” In this project, the team...
Read More »Monte del Sol Future City Team returns to Washington DC for the national competition!
Our amazing tiny Future City team has done it again! They took home the trophy and other first place awards! They will return to Washington DC for the national competition...
Read More »Eight Monte Students receive Scholastic Art Awards
We congratulate these talented Monte students as well as Alicia Jones, Arts Department Chair, and our teaching artists. Winner of 2 Golden Key Awards: Nolyn Ortiz Winners of Gold Key...
Read More »November 10 • 7:00 • Santa Fe Convention Center • Monte Student Designers present at Recycle Santa Fe Fashion Show!
Monte has four groups of students showing in the Recycle Santa Fe Fashion Show! Come support them as they walk the runway in their recycled dresses! Seating is limited....
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