King's Academy, a school of about 144 acres that can host about 650 students, is quite an amazing place. The entire campus was built from scratch in only 18 months. Everything is still sparkling and beautiful. The school deliberately plants only trees and plants that are local to the region. These trees and plants were also chosen because they all require very little water. Speaking of water, though, the thing that really inspires me is school's system of watering the lawns with gray water. That means all the used shower water from the school's inhabitants keeps the grass here green and plentiful.
The school is now going into its second year and will have about 260 students. Most students are either day students or weekday boarders, who sleep in the dorms Sunday trough Wednesday and then go home every weekend. As for full boarders, there are only about 60 on the entire campus, of which only about 17 are girls.
The school is still very young and very fragile. Students get very little free time during the day and have much less freedom than I would expect from a boarding school. Lights our for everyone is at 11:00 and study hours are from 8:00 to 10:00 at night. Dinner is from 6:30 to 7:30 but afternoon activities keep students busy from 4:30 to 6:15. Then, during the day, students have very few free periods. With all this structure, King's Academy seems to me to be a high school version of Eaglebrook. Maybe students will get more freedom in the future, but for now it looks like the school needs to keep students busy so that they don't have the chance to do anything that could hurt the school's reputation.
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