The Bishop's School (La Jolla)
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7607 La Jolla Boulevard La Jolla, California, 92037 United States |
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| Coordinates | 32°50′28″N 117°16′45″W / 32.841012°N 117.279216°WCoordinates: 32°50′28″N 117°16′45″W / 32.841012°N 117.279216°W |
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| Type | Independent |
| Motto | Simplicitas, Serenitas, Sinceritas ("Simplicity, Serenity, Sincerity") |
| Established |
Bishop's: 1909 San Miguel: 1951 Fully Merged: 1971 |
| Headmaster | Aimeclaire Lambert Roche |
| Faculty | 105 |
| Grades | 6-12 |
| Enrollment | 800 |
| Campus | Urban, 11 acres (45,000 m2) |
| Color(s) | Maroon & Gold |
| Mascot | Knights |
| Accreditation | WASC |
| Yearbook | El Miradero |
| Website | http://www.bishops.com |
The Bishop's School is an independent college preparatory Episcopal day school located at 7607 La Jolla Boulevard in La Jolla, a community of San Diego. Bishop's offers courses for students in the sixth through twelfth grades and has a 9:1 student-teacher ratio.
Bishop's was founded in 1909 by Ellen Browing Scripps and her half-sister, Virginia Scripps with gifts of land and funding at the request of the Right Reverend Joseph Horsfall Johnson, at that time Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles. Originally, it was a boarding school for girls only. The earliest parts of the campus were designed by architect Irving Gill, responsible for a multitude of buildings in downtown La Jolla. The current tower building was designed by Carleton Winslow as a replacement for the original Gill tower.
The school has had eleven Heads of School since its inception in 1909: from 1909 to 1915 by Anna Frances O'Hare Bentham; 1915 to 1918 by Margaret Gilman; 1918 to 1921 by Marguerite Barton; 1921 to 1953 by Caroline Cummins; 1953 to 1962 by Rosamund Larmour Lewis; 1962 to 1963 by Florence Stowell Bill; 1963 to 1971 by Ruth Jenkins; 1971 to 1974 by Philip Perkins; 1974 to 1983 by Dorothy Anne Williams; 1983 to 2009 by Michael Teitelman and 2009 to Present by Aimeclaire Lambert Roche.
The School is known for its reputation in academics, arts and athletics.
Bishop's became co-educational after merging with the San Miguel School of San Diego, California in 1971. In June 1983, the boarding department was closed. The school expanded to include sixth grade in the fall of 2009.
The Bishop's School's 11 acre campus is located in the heart of La Jolla, only one block away from the Pacific Ocean. At the center of the campus is the Quad, a grassy quadrangle that is an important part of school life at Bishop's. Tradition prohibits anyone from setting foot on the Quad before lunch on school days. Most of the school's buildings are situated around the Quad, including three of the school's most prominent buildings: Bentham Hall, St. Mary's Chapel, and the Tower. The school campus contains a total of 12 buildings, the oldest of which was built in 1898. Many of the historic buildings on campus were designed by architect Irving Gill, one of the pioneers of the modern movement in architecture.
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