At Indian Springs School, we believe in individualizing the educational experience. This allows students to construct their own unique, rigorous curriculum and to learn to explore their passions.
Our graduates may attend the most prestigious colleges around the country and across the world, but our approach to academics means that they discover something even more valuable—how to grow as a scholar, an individual, and a citizen.
Boarding has always been at the heart of Indian Springs School. Today, this experience continues to foster friendships, enhance personal responsibility, and create diverse educational opportunities. Learning through Living embodies potential. You can explore these possibilities through immersing yourself in on-campus life.
Whether you prefer an extra hour in the library, laughter over a dinner with friends, or both, boarding at Indian Springs School means making a choice to slow down, and to step up—to take the time to engage with people, with a place, and with a sense of purpose.
Set on 350 idyllic acres, Indian Springs School is a resource as much as a retreat. Our Fertile Minds Learning Garden and top-quality sports facilities help feed the body. Our sustainably designed facilities help feed the mind.
Emphasizing the quality of student life, our environment embodies the values of community, responsibility, and opportunity. Whether you are on campus for the day or make it your home for the year, this is a space for exploration, education, and engagement.
Louis “Doc” Armstrong, Springs’ founding director, suggested that our important work is “to bridge the gap between what is and what might be” in the ways we learn, think, act, and participate in the wider world. This work is undergirded and extended by the generosity of all who share our mission.
Every gift makes a difference. Regardless of your age or situation, we have a means of giving to the school that suits your circumstances. Our Advancement staff stands ready to help.
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The Kayser Academic Center unites the school’s Academic and College Advising Offices, Technology Center, Library, Research Services, and Archives at the heart of the campus. It maintains a collection of nearly 14,000 books, magazines, newspapers, and DVDs, with thousands of additional publications available electronically. Students and faculty can search the library's collection from anywhere via our online catalog.
Renovated in 2014 thanks to a generous gift from the Kayser family in memory of Leo Kayser Jr., former Board member, alumnus parent and grandparent, the Center offers quiet spots to read, study, research, and write. The Slaughter Reading Room and Engel Terrace provide additional spaces for students to work together on small group projects.
Services & Resources
Reference and Research Assistance
Course-specific and Assignment-specific Library Instruction
Peer-to-peer Tutoring and Writing Support through the Student-led Writing Center (run by our student Commissioners of Education)
Audiovisual Equipment (Digital Voice Recorders, Headphones, Chromebooks, and CD Players)
The library charges overdue fines of 5 cents per item per day. Items can be renewed indefinitely unless other students or faculty request them. If an item is lost, the cost of replacing the item will be billed to the borrower on record.
The Indian Springs DVD collection is held in the AV Room (to the right as you enter the front of the Kayser Academic Center). DVD cases shelved by title are located in the rear stacks (behind the Fiction classification) for your perusal. Three rules govern DVD lending:
Up to five DVDs may be checked out at a time.
DVDs may be kept for up to seven days each.
The library must receive the consent of a parent or guardian for anyone under 17 wishing to check out movies rated R.
The school archives, located to your left as you enter the front of the Kayser Academic Center, holds items of historical interest to Indian Springs School. The archives includes past yearbooks, photos dating back to the school’s founding in 1952, rare books, and other memorabilia.
Links to our databases, along with usernames and passwords, are available on the Student Resources Board behind the IndianSprings.org login. You can access the Alabama Virtual Library Databases without a password within the State of Alabama. Please see Mrs. Van Horn in the library if you need assistance.
The library's new titles are announced via the library Tumblr blog. New additions to the collection are temporarily shelved in the “New Books” alcove of the Slaughter Reading Room. New magazines are housed on the shelves flanking the fireplace in the back of the Reading Room. Remember, if there's a book you want that we don't have, just ask! We can get it.
To check out a book, you must come to the Kayser Academic Center. Currently, there is one self-service checkout workstation for your convenience, with checkout instructions displayed next to it on the circulation desk. Of course, Mrs. Van Horn is always glad to help you. Just ask!
The online catalog contains detailed information about all of the library's holdings (books, DVDs, etc.) and links directly to the library's database subscriptions as well as online versions of books, magazines, journals, and newspapers.