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A Living Education at Big Rock Manzanita School and Institute is a WASCaccredited K12 independent college preparatory school in the Santa Monica mountains. Founded in 2014 Manzanita challenges educational paradigms and nurtures the whole child through its unique indooroutdoor curriculum blending rigorous academics land stewardship including a working organic farm and the study of local ecology on its 21acre campus and the protected lands that surround it. Manzanita sits at the foot of wild chaparral a doorway into natures most complex science lab. The campus is also a rich historical landscape an artists studio a naturalists field guide and a geologists dream.