Fairmont Private Schools
Fairmont Private Schools (Fairmont) is the largest and oldest secular, co-educational preschool - 12th grade private school in Orange County, California, United States. Fairmont consists of five campuses: Fairmont Preparatory Academy (9 - 12th grade), Anaheim Hills Campus (preschool - 8th grade), North Tustin Campus (pre-kindergarten - 8th grade), Historic Anaheim Campus (preschool - 8th grade), and San Juan Capistrano (preschool - 12th grade) which together aim to teach a consistent program from preschool through 12th grade. History 1953 Fairmont was founded in June 1953 by Kenneth Holt, an educator who pushed for greater instructional autonomy than the public school system would allow for. What is now Orange County's oldest and largest secular, co-educational P-12 private school first began as a summer school program, which run out of Mr. Holt's Anaheim home. It was popular with its families, who convinced Mr. Holt to remodel his house and open a new school in September of that same year. The school was founded in 1953 by a former public school teacher, Kenneth W. Holt after seeing a need for smaller class sizes and phonics approached teaching. The original campus still exists today and serves as the Fairmont Schools Historic Anaheim Campus. 1955