Community Council organized the second Community Service Week of the school year, with community service opportunities and school bonding events, from March 18-22. Activities included an Animal Rights Club fundraiser that brought puppies to the quad, meal packing for Rise Against Hunger, Teachers vs. Students Jeopardy, sandwich-making for Midnight Mission and a Field Day organized by Prefect Council. Field Day...

Head of Upper School Beth Slattery mandated that teachers enforce the upper school’s cell phone policy in an email to teachers March 19. In the email,Slattery said the Upper School is tightening existing phone and headphone policies for the fourth quarter.“Please require students to place their phones in the cellphone caddy and do not allow them to retrieve it unless...

Memory, Self and Society will be a new course available to students in the 2024-2025 school year. It will be taught by English teacher John Garrison and will explore the role of memory from a cultural, psychological and literary perspective through a variety of media. Garrison said that the course will offer an opportunity for introspection and to write in...

The Upper School Deans revised the annual spring break college tour itinerary, replacing the Midwest tour with the East-South tour and leaving the Northeast tour unchanged. The New England tour will visit the University of Pennsylvania, Cornell University, Syracuse University, Colgate University, Amherst College, Drexel University, Lehigh University, Lafayette College, Villanova University, Trinity College, the University of Connecticut, Boston College,...

The boys’ tennis team started the season with a perfect 5-0 record. The team’s match against Loyola High School on March 7was postponed due to rain with the Wolverines up 8-5 at the time of postponement. The team also defeated Peninsula High School 12-6 Feb. 27, following the loss to the team in the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) playoffs last...

California residents voted in the primary election March 5to determine who will be on the November ballot for local, state and federal offices. President Joe Biden won the Democratic Party nomination with 89.2% of the vote, while former President Donald Trump won the Republican Party with 79.1% of the vote, according to the Associated Press. Among other elections for the...

The school received almost 1,300 applications for grades seven through 12 this year. The school is not releasing data on acceptance rates at this point as matriculation has not yet been finalized. In particular, a record number of male-identifying students applied for admission to the incoming seventh-grade class, with a total of 343 applications. The five-year average for seventh-grade applications...

The school announced that teacher salaries will increase again for the the 2024-2025 school year during a faculty meeting. The school introduced variable wage rates six years ago, changing the preceding constant rate of around 3%, according to History Department Head Celia Goedde. The school has increased salaries to match the pace of post-pandemic inflation and high costs of living...

A group of students hosted a bake sale to raise money for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society (LLS) as part of their Student Visionaries of the Year (SVOY) Program on the Quad on March 14. The team, WCKD Cancer Fighters, sold homemade baked goods, and the profit went directly towards researching a cure for cancer and improving the quality of...

Professor of Literary History and Author James Basker was selected as this year's Kutler Center Scholar in Residence. Basker is the president of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History and teaches at Barnard College and Columbia University. Basker recently released his fourth book, "Black Writers of the Founding Era: A Library of America Anthology,” last year. The book features...