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Brush Ranch School

Closed Tererro, New Mexico

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Address: Tererro, NM
Type: Boarding School
Operated: Closed 2004
Serves: Co-ed

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Brush Ranch School was a boarding school in Tererro, New Mexico. It closed in 2004.

Staff

Notable staff

Bryan Delaney

Residential staff
Elsewhere in the industry
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Documents

From the Unsilenced archive

1 document about Brush Ranch School that Unsilenced collected and Kids Over Profits does not hold a copy of. They open on Unsilenced's Google Drive. Their whole folder: Brush Ranch School.

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Research notes

Newcomb and Kitty Rice founded Brush Ranch camp in 1956; a boarding school for middle and high school students with learning differences opened on the property in the 1970s (youretheheartofus.com, 'Brush Ranch: A Brief History').
The final season of operation was 2004, after which the property was sold (youretheheartofus.com, 'Brush Ranch: A Brief History').
In January 1999 the headmaster was Gary Emmons; the 283-acre campus straddles the Pecos River and the school took average-to-bright children with learning differences and acting-out behaviors (Struggling Teens visit report, February 1999).
Added 2026-09-23 from the research network map (seeds/new-facilities.json).

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Reporting this program

This program closed in 2004, so the state agency that licensed it can no longer act against it. Other channels may still be able to: the boards that license the people who worked here, law enforcement, and the civil courts.

The New Mexico reporting channels list each one and what it can do. Time limits depend on the state, the kind of harm and the survivor's age, and many states have lengthened or removed them for child sexual abuse, so a program closing long ago does not by itself mean it is too late. Laws change, so the time limits we list were correct when we checked them but may have been updated since; a lawyer can tell you where things stand now.