Red Rocks Academy
Location
Sedona Arizona, United States of America
History
Red Rocks Academy was founded at around the same time as the US War of independence started. Founded by the Hopi Indians of Arizona as a method to hide the magical abilities of their people from the growing European presence in the US colonies.
By the end of the War of Independence, then President Elect General George Washington, a magical sensitive, traveled west to the Mississippi River and encountered these native people in their own journey to seek out Magicals. Washington agreed to hide the abilities of the people by limiting the expansion westward. This lasted only through his own term as President.
During the Spanish expansion into California and the South west, Spanish and Mayan magicals also began to seek out the commune, eventually forming the town of Sedona in what became the Arizona territory. Negations began in 1895 to begin teaching the young witches and wizards being born to settlers, and in 1900 the school curriculum was reworked. Today the curriculum is similar to Hogwarts and its East Coast counterpart, Salem Witches Institute of Magic.
Academics
Students enter school at age 11 and graduate by 17. Some students are invited to stay on at Red Rocks an additional year for a valuable apprenticeship.
Students take two major exams during their studies. In third year they sit for the SMART (The Standard Magic Aptitude and Role Test) and at the end of their seventh year they sit for the ADEPT (Advanced Demonstration of Employment and Proficiency Test).
Culture
Students have upperform prefects and a Head Boy and Head Girl, beginning in Fourth Form. Head Boys and Girls are instrumental in selecting their replacements from the ranks of both Sixth and Seventh Forms.
There are four houses:
- Kananeski-Anayeni (fire)(red/gold)
- Apoyan-Tachi (earth)(yellow/black)
- Untunktahe (water)(green/silver)
- Awiteli-Tsta (air) (blue/copper)
Each house has a token natural element, and are based on personality.
