Woodside Priory School (commonly known as
The Priory ) is an independent, co-educational,
Benedictine Catholic ,
college-preparatory , day and
boarding school in
Portola Valley ,
California , United States. It is located within the
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Francisco and is thirty minutes from San Francisco to the north and San Jose to the south.
History
The 2008 graduation procession was led by Brother Edward Englund (1942–2014).
The Priory was founded in 1957 by a group of seven Hungarian Benedictine Monks from Saint Martin's Archabbey in Pannonhalma , Hungary . In 1974, the monks affiliated with Saint Anselm Abbey in Goffstown, New Hampshire .
The school began on an 18-acre (73,000 m) ranch and over the years has expanded significantly to the point that the campus now encompasses some 50 acres (200,000 m). Originally the school was made up entirely of male boarders, but over the years the ratio of boarders to day students changed, and today the boarding school accounts for a smaller percentage of the upper school student body. In the early 1990s, the school began admitting females to the day program; the first coed senior class graduated in 1995. There have been female boarders since 2004.
The Priory was granted a seven-year accreditation by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC), the California Association of Independent Schools (CAIS) and the Western Catholic Education Association in June, 2019.
Athletics
The Priory offers football, cross country, volleyball, tennis, water polo, soccer, basketball, lacrosse, swimming, track and field, and baseball. In 2000, the girls' volleyball team won the state championship for Division V. The school competes in Central Coast Section (CCS) post-season competition.
The Priory basketball gym was prominently featured in Stephen Curry: Underrated a documentary about Stephen Curry .
References
External links
Ordinaries Churches
Cathedral
Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption
Former cathedrals
Old Saint Mary's Cathedral
Old Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption
Churches
List of churches in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Francisco
Nativity, Menlo Park
Our Lady of the Wayside, Portola Valley
Epiphany, San Francisco
Holy Name of Jesus, San Francisco
Mission San Francisco de Asís, San Francisco
Most Holy Redeemer, San Francisco
Notre-Dame-des-Victoires, San Francisco
Sacred Heart, San Francisco
St. Anne of the Sunset, San Francisco
St. Brendan, San Francisco
St. Cecilia, San Francisco
St. Dominic, San Francisco
St. Ignatius, San Francisco
St. Joseph's Church, San Francisco
St. Patrick's, San Francisco
St. Paul's, San Francisco
Saints Peter and Paul, San Francisco
St. Vincent de Paul, San Francisco
Education
Higher education
Saint Patrick's Seminary and University
University of San Francisco
High schools
Sacred Heart Preparatory, Atherton
Notre Dame High School, Belmont
Mercy High School, Burlingame
Marin Catholic High School, Kentfield
Woodside Priory School, Portola Valley
Archbishop Riordan High School, San Francisco
Convent of the Sacred Heart High School, San Francisco
Immaculate Conception Academy, San Francisco
Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory, San Francisco
St. Ignatius College Preparatory, San Francisco
Stuart Hall High School, San Francisco
Junípero Serra High School, San Mateo
Closed
Mercy High School, San Francisco
Priests
Independent schools
Secular private schools Religious private schools
Elementary and middle school districts by high school district served
Public districts
Cabrillo USD Jefferson UHSD La Honda-Pescadero USD San Mateo UHSD Sequoia UHSD South SF USD
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