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((Short description|Type of school in the Western U.S.))
((refimprove|date=October 2017))A '''ranch school''' is a type of [[school]] used in rural areas of the [[Western United States]].<ref name="nps.gov">((Cite web|title=National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: The Little Outfit Schoolhouse|url=((NRHP url|id=08001275))|format=PDF|date=2008|publisher=National Park Service|access-date=2015-01-04))</ref>

==History==
The ranch school movement began in the Western United States in the early 1900s as a way to educate children who lived on ranches in remote and rural areas, far away from regular schools in the towns and cities. The idea was popular and within a short time many ranch schools took on characteristics of a [[boarding school]] and a [[dude ranch]], where Easterners or city-dwellers could send their children as well.<ref name="nps.gov"/>

At the time, Americans widely believed that the arid climate of the Western states could help children recuperate from conditions like [[asthma]]. The hard work that went with living and working on a ranch and spending a lot of time outdoors was also appealing to those who wanted their children to grow up strong, healthy and independent. Most ranch school students rode a horse every day and were taught the basics of ranching and living outdoors, in addition to regular school teachings.<ref name="nps.gov"/><ref name="Arizona historical Society, pg. 263">((cite book|last=Arizona Historical Society|title=The Arizona Story|publisher=Gibbs Smith|year=2009|isbn=978-1423625957))</ref>

[[Arizona]] led the nation in the number of ranch schools, most of which were in the [[Tucson, Arizona|Tucson]] area. Many were for boys only, but there were some all-girls schools as well, such as the Hacienda del Sol school outside of Tucson or the [[Jokake School for Girls|Jokake School]] in [[Scottsdale, Arizona|Scottsdale]]. Most of the ranch schools were built for locals, but some ranchers — such as those at the [[The Little Outfit Schoolhouse|Little Outfit Ranch]] in Arizona's [[San Rafael Valley]] — established ranches with the specific intention of operating them as boarding schools for "city boys".<ref name="nps.gov"/><ref name="Arizona historical Society, pg. 263"/>

Ranch schools were advertised in magazines and newspapers, drawing in students and their families from across the country, and as a result are credited with contributing to the growth of the tourism industry in the [[Southwestern United States|Southwest]] in the early 1900s. By the 1960s, most of the ranch schools in the United States were closed or soon-to-be closed, marking the end of the traditional ranch school movement.<ref name="nps.gov"/> However, some ranch schools have survived, such as [[Deep Springs College]].

Many contemporary ranch schools are [[therapeutic boarding school]]s for "troubled teens".

==Gallery==
<gallery>
File:Students Of The Hacienda del Sol School Tucson Arizona 1930s.JPG|Students at the Hacienda del Sol ranch school in the 1930s
File:LO Sch Hou Dean 19 2x2 300ppi.jpg|Students of the Little Outfit Schoolhouse raising the US flag in 1943
File:Fuller lodge los alamos.jpg|Fuller Lodge was the main building at the [[Los Alamos Ranch School]] in [[New Mexico]].
File:Old Little Red Schoolhouse Beyerville Arizona 2014.JPG|The [[Little Red Schoolhouse (Beyerville, Arizona)|Little Red Schoolhouse]] in what is now [[Beyerville, Arizona]], was built in 1921 for the children of local ranchers and farmers.
File:El Dorado Schoolhouse Sulphur Springs Valley Arizona 2015.JPG|The El Dorado Schoolhouse in eastern Sulphur Springs Valley, Arizona, near the [[Faraway Ranch Historic District]]
</gallery>

==See also==
((Portal|Schools))

* [[One-room school]]
* [[Open-air school]]
* [[American Indian boarding schools]]
* [[Mace-Kingsley Ranch School]]

==References==
((reflist))

((Schools))

[[Category:Ranch schools| ]]
[[Category:School types]]
[[Category:History of Arizona]]
[[Category:Education in the United States]]

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