In the Company of Girls
It's about the remarkable presence of girls, not the absence of boys.
Learning
Intellectually engaging, collaborative and interdisciplinary, a Castilleja 6th through 12th grade education is carefully scaffolded to allow each student the opportunity to become her best and most authentic self.
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Leading
Castilleja's unique leadership development program is woven seamlessly throughout the daily lives of students in and out of the classroom.
Alumnae Spotlights
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As this year’s Arrillaga-Morris speaker, Sarahi Espinoza Salamanca—the founder of DREAMer’s Roadmap (DMR), a free mobile app that helps undocumented students find scholarships to pay for college—shared her experiences as an immigrant, a young entrepreneur, and a woman leader.
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![Fall Athletics Teams Awarded CCS Scholastic Awards]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1572984113/castilleja/oqf7dxxgoeijlrlworx2/CCSlogo.gif","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1572984113/castilleja/oqf7dxxgoeijlrlworx2/CCSlogo.gif","width":379}])
In order to be named a CCS Scholastic Team, the team’s average GPA needed to be within the top five of the Central Coast Section of all teams competing in that sport during that season of competition.
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Innovating
By engaging in a variety of hands-on making, tinkering, and engineering projects, students hone core competencies that empower them as innovators.
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In April, we submitted our architectural designs to the City of Palo Alto, and in July, the City of Palo Alto released the Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR) regarding our proposal. Both of these steps are key milestones in our Conditional Use Permit (CUP) application process.
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Castilleja admits students of any race, color, national and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national and ethnic origin in administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship and loan programs, and athletic and other school-administered programs.