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They also played at the 2013 America's Cup in San Francisco, Super Bowl 50, and the New Year's Day Parades in Rome (2017 & 2024), and London (2019). The school also has a Pep Band, a Jazz Combo that regularly participates in California Musical Educators competitions, a drumline, and a Color Guard team that performs with the band during parades.
Colossus of Rhodes, artist's impression, 1880. The Colossus of Rhodes (Ancient Greek: ὁ Κολοσσὸς Ῥόδιος, romanized: ho Kolossòs Rhódios; Modern Greek: Κολοσσός της Ρόδου, romanized: Kolossós tis Ródou) [a] was a statue of the Greek sun god Helios, erected in the city of Rhodes, on the Greek island of the same name, by Chares of Lindos in 280 BC.
Saint Peter School - Mission District, San Francisco - It opened in 1878. Previously its students were Irish or Italian American, but by 2014 95% of the student body was Latino and about two thirds were categorized as economically disadvantaged.
Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory, commonly known as SHC, is a Catholic school located in the Cathedral Hill neighborhood of San Francisco, California. Founded in 1852, Sacred Heart Cathedral is the oldest Catholic secondary school and was the first co-ed Catholic high school in San Francisco. SHC is owned by the Archdiocese of San Francisco.
The church opened on July 15, 1855, and three months later, on October 15, the school opened its doors to its first students. SI was the high school division of what later became the University of San Francisco, but it has since split from the university and changed locations five times due to the growth of the student body and natural disaster ...
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 ...
The school was originally founded by Mother Mary Keating on August 16, 1887, as the first School of the Sacred Heart west of the Rockies. The first year enrolled 30 young women operating in two rented Victorians at the corner of Bush and Octavia. In 1888, they purchased a larger building at Franklin and Ellis for $10 in gold coin.
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.