Woodside Priory School

Woodside Priory School is a co-educational, college preparatory, boarding and day school for grades 6-12. It is located on 60 wooded acres in Portola Valley, about 30 minutes south of San Francisco, and north of San Jose/Silicon Valley - a safe, rural setting with close access to metropolitan advantages.

Benedictine monks fleeing Communist repression in post-World War II Central Europe founded the campus in 1957. The monks shared a vision of blending the rigorous academic standards of Europe with the culture of freedom, tolerance and "can-do" spirit that they admired in America. Father Egon, one of the founders called his school "an American miracle."