Cathedral School for Boys

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Cathedral School for Boys
1275 Sacramento Street

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Coordinates 37°47′31.8″N122°24′50″W / 37.792167°N 122.41389°W / 37.792167; -122.41389 Coordinates: 37°47′31.8″N122°24′50″W / 37.792167°N 122.41389°W / 37.792167; -122.41389
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Type Private, Boys, Episcopal
MottoMinds, Hearts, Hands, Voices
Established1957
Head of schoolBurns Jones
GradesK–8
Enrollment265 [1]
Student to teacher ratio7:1
Color(s)Red and Gold   
MascotForbes the Hawk
Accreditation CAIS
Affiliations NAIS, CAIS, NAES, IBSC
Endowment$30 million
Website www.cathedralschool.net
Lesson and Carols Rehearsal 2015 Lessons and Carols Service .jpg
Lesson and Carols Rehearsal 2015

Cathedral School for Boys is a K-8 all-boys private Episcopal day school located next to Grace Cathedral on Nob Hill in San Francisco, California. Students are drawn from across San Francisco and the Bay Area.

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Founded in 1957, the school has two divisions: Lower School (K-4) and Upper School (5–8), with approximately 265 students and 60 faculty and staff members. The head of the school is Burns Jones.

Cathedral is a member of the National Association of Independent Schools, the California Association of Independent Schools, National Association of Episcopal Schools, and the International Boys' Schools Coalition. The school's motto is “Minds, Hearts, Hands, Voices.”

History

Spearheaded by Grace Cathedral's dean at the time, C. Julian Bartlett, as well as several local families, Cathedral School for Boys was founded as an alternative to the existing single-sex schools in San Francisco, as well as to provide the cathedral with a source of choristers for its choir of men and boys. The school opened in 1957 in the offices and crypt of Grace Cathedral with 10 students in 4th and 5th grades, slowly expanding to 1st through 8th grades by 1962 and opening a Kindergarten in 1972. The school reached its current size in 1995 with the addition of a second section in the Upper School grades, bringing the student body to a size of 265. [2]

Campus

Construction on the school's building began in 1965 on the northwest corner of the cathedral's close, [3] and the building opened in September 1966. Since then, the school has undergone multiple expansions and renovations, most recently in 2021 with the competition of the Learning Commons and renovations of all the classrooms in the original school building. [4]

Students

Cathedral School has two divisions: the Lower School consists of grades K through 4, and the Upper School grades 5 through 8. Cathedral's primary entry points are in Kindergarten, and later in 5th and 6th grades where class sizes grow from 24 to 36 students. All students wear a uniform; in Lower School, students wear gray slacks, a blue Oxford shirt, and black shoes; Upper School students additionally wear a school-issued tie. For special occasions, students also wear a blazer with the school crest embroidered on the chest.

Athletics

Cathedral offers school-organized sports for all students in every grade. Among the sports offered are soccer, cross country, and golf in the fall; basketball in the winter; and baseball, golf, track and field, and volleyball in the spring. Cathedral competes against other private schools in San Francisco and the Bay Area, and it uses its on-site gymnasium and nearby city fields as facilities. Cathedral's mascot is Forbes the Hawk. [5]

Music & Performing Arts

Dating back to its founding partly as a choir school for Grace Cathedral, Cathedral School maintains a robust music and performing arts program. Classes in those subjects are mandatory from kindergarten to eighth grade, and all students participate in one drama performance every year. Students in grades 3–8 participate in the Field Foundation Public Speaking Competition annually. Additionally, all second graders have the opportunity to audition for the Grace Cathedral Choir of Men and Boys, one of only a handful of remaining Episcopal men and boys cathedral choirs in the country. The 25 boys in the choir are all students at the school, while the men are a professional ensemble. [6]

Notable alumni

Recognition

Heads of School

See also

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