The Mesa Ranch School was a ranch school in Mesa, Arizona, that was established in 1902 by H. David Evans, a Briton with a Cambridge education who arrived in Arizona in 1899.
[1] It was designed to offer students from the eastern seaboard a western ranch lifestyle in a "dry and equable climate".
[1][2] Life at the school was described as "simple, even rough, the boys living each in his own cabin, keeping horses and making camping trips.
"[2] In the mountains near Flagstaff the school maintained a summer tutoring camp.
[3] The Mesa Campus was located 2+1⁄2 miles SE of downtown Mesa on El Rancho Bonito near the modern intersection of Stapley Dr and Southern Ave.