Hi, BBA,
Thanks for posting. I’ll take your word for it that Pueblo County doesn’t have boarding schools. Even if I’d known that, it would hardly have mattered. If the fictional McNally Academy bothered you, then I guess Serenity, NM would have driven you wild! It doesn’t exist, of course, nor do the characters, and neither does the school outside of Pueblo. So yes, essentially you got it right. I threw a dart at the map and picked a place at a convenient distance for the time elapsed out of Serenity. Sorry that it seems to have bothered you so much, but it IS fiction, after all.
—-Gordon Korman—-