Southwestern Academy offers you something unique and special. It’s more than a place to maximize your learning, explore new interests, develop new talents, and prepare for the college of your choice. It’s also a place where you’ll belong. Our close-knit community of students and teachers provides a warm, supportive environment and personal attention.

Maurice Veronda founded Southwestern in 1924 among acres of orange groves in San Marino, California. Forty years later, we added a campus in Rimrock, Arizona in a stunning redrock canyon. For all these years, Southwestern Academy has proudly taught, nurtured, and shaped generations of young people. Today it operates as an independent, non-profit organization under my direction.  

Though much has changed at Southwestern Academy during that time, the most important things have remained constant. The caring faculty, enthusiastic staff, and active student life programs help each student find his or her place in our community. Come see for yourself how good it feels at Southwestern.

Kenneth Veronda
Headmaster