Upper School Graduates

San Domenico ranks in the Top 4% of College Prep Schools in America. We balance the rigor with fully integrated social-emotional programming, advisors, mentors, and in the Upper School, block schedules that allow for greater day-to-day balance and flexibility. Read our Portrait of a Graduate.

Our Upper School graduates have gone on to colleges and universities such as CA Polytechnic, University of California, Carnegie Mellon University, Chapman University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Duke, Johns Hopkins University, New England Conservatory, Pepperdine University, Princeton, and Yale. Read more about college advising at San Domenico.

Unifying Curriculum

As a K-12 school, our program builds on itself year after year, allowing students to find a sense of place, settle in, and grow into their best selves. Rather than isolating subjects from one another, professional development at SD empowers teachers across disciplines and school levels to collaborate. One of many positive results? Students begin to understand design thinking; how systems and information are related and interconnected. Here, you may find your self performing a play in a theatre class, that you wrote in your English class, after studying the subject in your ethics class! This approach to learning focuses on purposeful thinking and writing, rather than rote memorization or test-taking strategies—better preparing students for upper school and college.

Faculty

Our faculty and administration were drawn to SD for the same reasons as our families—purposeful learning in intimate classroom settings where individual interaction is the norm, not the exception and curriculum is anchored by a deep and authentic connection to our core values of study, reflection, community, and service.