Issue date: September 22, 1999

Castilleja School Castilleja School</em> (September 22, 1999)

1310 Bryant St.

Palo Alto

Phone: 328-3160

Joan Z. Lonergan, head of school

Grades: 6-12

Tuition: $15,925, including tuition and full food service

Enrollment: 385. Founded in 1907, Castilleja is the only non-sectarian, all-girls middle and high school in the Bay Area. Typically about 25 percent of the students come from Atherton, Menlo Park, Portola Valley and Woodside. School started September 1.

Class size: Classes average 17 students for the middle school, 14 for the high school.

Facilities: Plans call for renovating both the oldest building on campus -- the administration building, constructed in 1910 -- and the Elizabeth Hughes Chapel Theatre.

Athletic director: Jez McIntosh, who has coached both basketball and track at Castilleja, is the new athletic director and chair of the physical education department.

Focus: For 92 years, Castilleja has strived to live by the five C's -- courage, conscience, courtesy, charity and character -- put forward by the school's founder Mary Lockey. Its goal is to prepare students to flourish in a diverse and every-changing global community.

Open house: Dates for the open houses are: Sunday, October 24 and December 5, from 1 to 3:30 p.m. for the middle school; Sunday, November 14, from 1 to 3:30 p.m. for the upper school. Applications for the 2000-2001 year are due January 18.