Salesian High School

Salesian College Preparatory is a coeducational Roman Catholic college preparatory high school in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Oakland, in Richmond, California, United States. The school's patron saint is Saint John Bosco, the Italian founder of the Salesian order. The school's motto is "loyalty, excellence."__toc__HistoryThe campus established in 1927 is situated on 21 acres, in the Richmond, California North & East neighborhood that straddles the city limits of San Pablo, about eighteen miles from San Francisco. The school has a rivalries with St. Patrick-St. Vincent high school and Saint Mary's College High School.Since 1991 the school has held an annual golf tournament fundraiser to support disadvantaged students at the Richmond Country Club In 2014 the school was named the "best faith-based high school" by Parent's Press magazine. In 2015 the school raised funds to help out rival Middletown High School after the town was devastated by the Valley Fire. Furthermore in that year the school received an anonymous 250,000 US$ donation to update the science lab for STEM studies.