Sacred Heart Preparatory (Atherton, California)
Sacred Heart Preparatory is an independent, private, Society of the Sacred Heart-affiliated college preparatory school in Atherton, California, United States. It was established in 1898 and is located at 150 Valparaiso Avenue across the street from Menlo Park. It is one of very few coeducational schools of the Sacred Heart in the United States and abroad; most are all-female.
It has a student population of approximately 550 in grades 9 through 12. There are currently about 100 faculty and staff.
Sacred Heart Schools Atherton was founded in 1898 as a Roman Catholic women's boarding school in the tradition of the Religious of the Sacred Heart (RSCJ) in Menlo Park. Construction of what is now known as the "Main Building" began in the same year.
The school went co-educational in the 1970s and became one of only three Sacred Heart Schools in the country to educate in this fashion. The school continued to grow, and now the ratio between male and females is nearly equal. The school also ended its boarding program in earlier years, and has evolved into the present Sacred Heart Schools Atherton.
Sacred Heart holds a reputation for very strong academics, especially on the West Coast, and graduates consistently go on to attend top-tier universities, most notably Ivy League colleges, The University of California, Berkeley, The University of Notre Dame, Stanford University, The University of California, Los Angeles, Duke University, Loyola University Maryland, Santa Clara University, and Northwestern University. Sacred Heart graduates 100% of its students, with 100% of the student body being accepted and attending four-year universities. Small class sizes, averaging 15 students, lead to high levels of interaction between students and faculty.
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