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  • In the boarding school evaluation:: A- and above account for 45% of the total, B- and above account for 40%, C accounts for 15%.

  • In the day school evaluation: A- and above account for 30% of the total, B- and above account for 51%, C and others account for 19%.

2025 Evaluation Methodology

1. [30% - Matriculation Dimension]: Ivy League admission rate, admission rate for Top 25 National Universities and Top 5 Liberal Arts Colleges, admission rate for Top 50 National Universities and Top 10 Liberal Arts Colleges, admission rate for Top 100 National Universities and Top 25 Liberal Arts Colleges, along with a summary of historical admissions data.

2. [24% - Academic Dimension]: Course offerings (AP, IB, Honors, and Advanced courses), percentage of teachers with a master’s degree or higher, percentage of AP exam scores of 3, 4, or 5, average scores on standardized tests (SAT and ACT), scores in AMC math competitions, and results in FRC robotics competitions.

3. [14% - Extracurricular Activities]: Alumni donation rate, number of clubs and activities, ratings for competitive sports teams, and ratings for arts programs.

4. [12% - FindingSchool Reviews]: FindingSchool website rating, review comments on FindingSchool, and historical rating trends.

5. [8% - Geographic Community]: State resource evaluation, density score of nearby top universities, distance to the nearest international airport, convenience of local amenities, transportation convenience, city crime rate, and educational level of the local population.

Overall
A
Matriculation A
Academics A
Extracurriculars A-
Community A
Reviews A-
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Woodside Priory is a coeducational, Catholic independent school for students in middle school, grades six through eight and in high school, grade 9 through 12. Situated within ten minutes of Stanford University on the San Francisco peninsula in Portola Valley, the Priory combines its 50-acre (20-hectare) rural campus with a challenging college preparatory curriculum, a 7-to-1 student-faculty ratio, and a full complement of competitive athletics and enriching co-curricular. As both a day and a boarding school, seamless interaction between boarders and day students provides an enthusiastic and spirited campus student life where local students blend with students from countries throughout the world. The Priory embodies the values of Benedictine education - a belief in order and personal responsibility, a respect for diversity, the importance of community life and the development of the whole person.
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School Stats

Average
Current School
Tuition
$89400
Enrollment
425
International Students
20%
Faculty with Advanced Degrees
80%
Teacher-Student Ratio
1:7
Endowment
$15 millions
AP
19
Average SAT Score
1410
Average ACT Score
30.6
Class Size
13
Boarding %
16

Matriculation

Matriculation

(2023)
Ranking University/College Students
#7 Johns Hopkins University 1
LAC #2 Amherst College 1
#20 University of California: Los Angeles 1
LAC #4 Swarthmore College 1
#22 Emory University 1
#25 New York University 1
#32 Tufts University 2
#41 Boston University 2
#44 Georgia Institute of Technology 1
#44 Northeastern University 1
#51 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 1
#55 University of Washington 2
#72 American University 2
#85 Lake Forest College 1
#89 Howard University 1
LAC #18 Wesleyan University 1
#121 University of Vermont 2
#151 Simmons University 1
LAC #36 Mount Holyoke College 1
LAC #39 Skidmore College 1
#234 Suffolk University 1
Delaware State University 1
Emmanuel College-Boston-MA 1
Endicott College 1
Franklin & Marshall College 1
Oberlin College 1
Penn State University Park 3
Pratt Institute 1
Roger Williams University 1
Rollins College 1
Stetson University 1
University of Guelph 1
University of Saint Joseph 1
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Matriculation
Ranking University/College 2023 2019-2022 2018-2021 2017-2020 2014-2018 Total
All schools 24 77 115 67 46
#1 Princeton University 1 + 1 1 + 1 + 4
#2 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1 + 1
#3 Harvard College 1 + 1 + 2
#3 Stanford University 1 + 1 + 1 + 3
#5 Yale University 1 + 1 + 2
#7 Duke University 1 + 1 1 + 1 + 4
#9 Brown University 1 + 2 1 + 1 + 5
#9 Northwestern University 1 + 1 + 1 + 3
#9 Johns Hopkins University 1 1 + 2 1 + 1 + 6
#12 University of Chicago 1 + 2 1 + 4
#12 Columbia University 1 + 1 1 + 3
#12 Cornell University 1 + 12 1 + 1 + 15
#15 University of California: Los Angeles 1 1 + 7 1 + 1 + 11
#15 University of California: Berkeley 1 + 1 1 + 1 + 4
#18 Vanderbilt University 1 + 1 + 1 + 3
#18 Dartmouth College 1 + 1 1 + 1 + 4
#20 University of Notre Dame 1 + 4 1 + 6
#21 University of Michigan 1 + 2 1 + 1 + 5
#22 Georgetown University 1 + 1 + 2
#22 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 1 + 1 1 + 3
#24 University of Virginia 1 + 1 + 2
#24 Emory University 1 1 + 2 1 + 1 + 6
#24 Carnegie Mellon University 1 + 2 1 + 1 + 5
#24 Washington University in St. Louis 1 + 1 1 + 3
#28 University of California: Davis 1 + 2 1 + 1 + 5
#28 University of California: San Diego 1 + 3 1 + 1 + 6
#28 University of Southern California 1 + 1 + 1 + 3
#33 Georgia Institute of Technology 1 1 + 1 1 + 1 + 5
#33 University of California: Irvine 1 + 4 1 + 1 + 7
#35 University of California: Santa Barbara 1 + 2 1 + 1 + 5
#35 New York University 1 1 + 7 1 + 1 + 11
#35 University of Wisconsin-Madison 1 + 1 + 2
#38 University of Texas at Austin 1 + 1 + 1 + 3
#39 Boston College 1 + 4 1 + 6
#40 Tufts University 2 1 + 1 + 4
#40 University of Washington 2 1 + 1 + 1 + 5
#43 Boston University 2 1 1 + 1 + 5
#47 University of Rochester 1 + 1
#47 Lehigh University 1 + 2 1 + 1 + 5
#51 Purdue University 1 + 1 + 2
#53 Case Western Reserve University 1 + 1 1 + 3
#53 Northeastern University 1 1 + 5 1 + 1 + 9
#58 SUNY University at Stony Brook 1 + 1 + 2
#60 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 1 1 + 1 + 3
#60 Santa Clara University 1 + 1 + 2
#60 Brandeis University 1 + 1
#67 University of Pittsburgh 1 + 1 + 2
#67 University of Massachusetts Amherst 1 + 1 + 2
#67 Villanova University 1 + 1
#67 Syracuse University 1 + 1 + 2
#67 University of Miami 1 + 1 + 1 + 3
#67 George Washington University 1 + 2 1 + 1 + 5
#73 Indiana University Bloomington 1 + 1
#73 Tulane University 1 + 1 + 2
#76 Pepperdine University 1 + 1 1 + 1 + 4
#82 Worcester Polytechnic Institute 1 + 1 + 1 + 3
#89 Southern Methodist University 1 + 1 + 1 + 3
#89 Fordham University 1 + 1
#93 University of Iowa 1 + 1 2
#93 Gonzaga University 1 1 + 2
#93 Loyola Marymount University 1 + 7 1 + 9
#98 Rochester Institute of Technology 1 + 1
#98 Texas Christian University 1 + 1 + 2
#98 University of San Diego 1 + 1 + 1 + 3
#98 University of Oregon 1 + 6 1 + 8
#105 American University 2 1 + 2 1 + 6
#105 San Diego State University 1 + 1
#105 University of Colorado Boulder 1 + 3 1 + 5
#115 Howard University 1 1
#115 University of Utah 1 + 1
#115 University of San Francisco 1 + 1 + 2
#115 University of Arizona 1 1 + 2
#124 University of Denver 1 + 2 1 + 4
#133 Chapman University 1 + 4 5
#133 California State University: Fullerton 1 + 1 2
#133 University of Vermont 2 2
#142 Oregon State University 1 + 1 1 + 3
#142 Clark University 1 + 2 1 + 4
#151 Colorado State University 1 + 1
#151 Simmons University 1 1
#163 Seattle University 1 + 1
#185 California State University: Fresno 1 + 1
#236 University of New Mexico 1 + 1 2
#249 Pace University 1 + 1 + 2
#249 Suffolk University 1 1 + 2
#260 Regis University 1 + 1
#269 University of Nevada: Las Vegas 1 + 1 1 + 3
#280 California State University: East Bay 1 + 1 2
#303 Montana State University 1 + 1
#332 Boise State University 1 + 1
Penn State University Park 3 3
University of Maryland: College Park 1 + 1 2
University of Saint Joseph 1 1 + 2
University of California: Santa Cruz 1 + 2 1 + 1 + 5
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1 + 1 1 + 1 + 4
Matriculation
Ranking University/College 2023 2019-2022 2018-2021 2017-2020 2014-2018 Total
All schools 9 32 30 35 25
#1 Williams College 1 + 1 + 1 + 3
#2 Amherst College 1 1 + 2
#4 Pomona College 1 + 1
#4 Wellesley College 1 + 1 + 2
#4 Swarthmore College 1 1 + 1 + 1 + 4
#9 Bowdoin College 1 + 1 1 + 1 + 4
#9 Carleton College 1 + 1 1 + 1 + 4
#11 Wesleyan University 1 1 + 1 + 3
#11 Middlebury College 1 + 1 1 + 3
#11 Grinnell College 1 + 2 1 + 4
#11 Claremont McKenna College 1 + 2 1 + 1 + 5
#11 Barnard College 1 + 1 1 + 1 + 4
#16 Vassar College 1 + 1 + 2
#16 Hamilton College 1 + 1 + 2
#16 Smith College 1 + 1 + 2
#21 Colgate University 1 + 1 + 1 + 3
#21 Haverford College 1 + 1 + 1 + 3
#24 Bates College 1 + 1 1 + 3
#25 Colby College 1 + 1
#25 University of Richmond 1 + 1 + 1 + 3
#27 Macalester College 1 + 4 1 + 6
#30 Bryn Mawr College 1 + 2 3
#30 Bucknell University 1 + 2 1 + 1 + 5
#30 Lafayette College 1 + 1 1 + 1 + 4
#33 Colorado College 1 + 4 1 + 6
#34 Mount Holyoke College 1 1
#35 Franklin & Marshall College 1 1
#35 Scripps College 1 + 1 + 2
#35 Occidental College 1 + 1 1 + 1 + 4
#38 Skidmore College 1 1 + 1 + 1 + 4
#39 Trinity College 1 + 1
#39 Kenyon College 1 + 1 1 + 1 + 4
#39 Pitzer College 1 + 1 + 1 + 3
#46 Connecticut College 1 1 + 2
#46 Whitman College 1 + 1 + 2
#56 Wheaton College 1 + 1 + 2
#59 St. Lawrence University 1 + 1
#67 Reed College 1 + 1
#73 Lake Forest College 1 1
#75 Lawrence University 1 + 1 1 + 3
#82 Juniata College 1 + 1 1 + 3
#89 University of Puget Sound 1 + 1
#93 Lewis & Clark College 1 1 + 2
#93 Whittier College 1 + 1 + 2
#100 Sarah Lawrence College 1 + 1 + 2
#152 Emmanuel College-Boston-MA 1 1
Oberlin College 1 1 + 2 1 + 5
United States Military Academy 1 + 1
Matriculation
Ranking University/College 2023 2019-2022 2018-2021 2017-2020 2014-2018 Total
All schools 1 4 0 3 0
#1 University of Toronto 1 + 1
#2 University of British Columbia 1 + 1 + 2
#3 McGill University 1 + 1 + 2
#11 Simon Fraser University 1 + 1
#12 Dalhousie University 1 + 1
#19 University of Guelph 1 1
Matriculation
Ranking University/College 2023 2019-2022 2018-2021 2017-2020 2014-2018 Total
All schools 0 1 0 0 0
#33 University of St. Andrews 1 + 1

AP Scores

(2023)
Number of students took AP test
164
Number of tests taken
448
88%
Score 5
Score 4
Score 3
Other scores

Academics

AP

(19)
Art History
Calculus AB
Calculus BC
Environmental Science
French Language and Culture
Macroeconomics
Art History
Calculus AB
Calculus BC
Environmental Science
French Language and Culture
Macroeconomics
Microeconomics
Spanish Language and Culture
Spanish Literature and Culture
Statistics
Chemistry
Computer Science A
English Literature and Composition
Psychology
United States Government and Politics
Physics C: Mechanics
European History
Studio Art: 2-D Design
Studio Art: 3-D Design
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Sports

(11)
Baseball
Basketball
Cross Country
American Football
Lacrosse
Polo
Baseball
Basketball
Cross Country
American Football
Lacrosse
Polo
Soccer
Swimming
Tennis
Track and Field
Volleyball
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Extracurricular Activities and Clubs

(59)
MS Journalism
MS Panther Science Club
The Video Game Programing Club
Marine Biology
Marble Racing Club
Badminton Club
MS Journalism
MS Panther Science Club
The Video Game Programing Club
Marine Biology
Marble Racing Club
Badminton Club
Boardgames and Conversation Club
Rock Band Club
Chess Club
Technovation
Girls Who Code
Yearbook
Fantasy Sports Club
Daraja Club
Public Form Debate Club
Magic The Gathering Club
Dance Club
Math Club
PRISM
Debate Club
Dream Volunteers
Formula 1
Comics and Literature
Junior State of America
Robotics
Volleyball Club
Esports Club
The Investment Club
Animal Lovers Adventure and Fun Club
Design Service Guild
Innocence Club
MUSE
Jewelry Club
Newspaper Club
Surf Rider Club
Model UN
Global Baking Club
Origami Club
Astrophysics Club
Priory Honors Society
Economics
Science Bowl
Photography Club
User Experience Club
All are Welcome
Glass Club
Cooking and Baking Club
Computer Science Club
Tabletop Co-op
Priory Biomedical Club
Priory Signs! American Sign Language Club
Pure Ideology Club
Math is Tough - MIT
Bring Change To Mind - BC2M
Priory Girl Up Club
Pop Dance Club
Engineering Club
Sustainability Club
Golf Club
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Arts

(17)
Chamber Choir
Choir
Drama
Guitar
Jazz
Music
Chamber Choir
Choir
Drama
Guitar
Jazz
Music
Music Theory
Speech
Theater
Art History
Ceramics
Digital Photography
Drawing
Glass
Art
Design
Spectrum
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Contact Info

http://www.prioryca.org
302 Portola Road, Portola Valley, CA 94028
650-851-8223
admissions@prioryca.org
California

Basic Info

Co-ed
Boarding Grades: 9-12
Urban
ESL: No
Year Founded: 1957
Campus Size: 50 acres
Boarding Rate: 16%
Religious Affiliation: Catholic

Application Info

Deadline: 01/09
Interview: Skype, Others
School Code:
TOEFL: 2055
SSAT: 8296
ISEE: 52527

Frequently Ask Questions about Woodside Priory School

Tell me a bit about Woodside Priory School.
Woodside Priory School is Co-ed private boarding school located in California, US. It was founded 1957 , and currently has about 425 students, 20.00% of whom are international students.

For more official information, please visit http://www.prioryca.org.
Does Woodside Priory School have rigorous academic requirements?
Woodside Priory School is offering 19 AP courses.

Woodside Priory School also have 80% of faculties whose degrees are master and above.
Where do Woodside Priory School students typically go for their colleges?
Based on the most recent matriculation data, 1.32% go to top 50 US universities and colleges*, 3.62% go to top 25, and about 0.99% go to Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford and MIT.

*Ranking is based on the 2024 US News College Ranking.
What is the application requirement for Woodside Priory School?
Similar to most private schools in the US, Woodside Priory School’s typical admission requirements include school transcript, recommendation letter, application essay, and interview (often optional, but highly recommended).
What is the latest tuition for Woodside Priory School’s Co-ed student?
The total fee for Woodside Priory School in 2024 is $89,400 which typically includes tuition, boarding fee, student management fee and a few other fees associated with managing international students.

For more information, please contact school’s admission team at admissions@prioryca.org .
Where is Woodside Priory School located?
Woodside Priory School is located in the State of California of USA. The closest major city is San Jose, which is about 16 miles away from school. Most families can choose San Jose International Airport to travel in and out of school.
How popular is Woodside Priory School on FindingSchool network?
Based on FindingSchool monthly traffic data as well as onsite search record, Woodside Priory School is among the most popular schools, within top 55 for all schools on FindingSchool.

Also Woodside Priory School has been favorited by 611 users.
How to start with an application with Woodside Priory School?
The first stop is to carefully review the school profile on FindingSchool to learn more about Woodside Priory School. Most of them are directly provided by the school.

Also it is highly recommended to visit Woodside Priory School’s official site: http://www.prioryca.org or call them at 650-851-8223.
Please share a few nearby schools that are close to Woodside Priory School?
Yes, here are few: Archbishop Riordan High School, The Athenian School and Monte Vista Christian School.

The closest major city is San Jose. You can find out more schools near San Jose here.
What is the FindingSchool rating for Woodside Priory School?
The overall rating for Woodside Priory School is A.

The section ratings of Woodside Priory School are:
A for Matriculation
A for Academics
A- for Extracurriculum
A for Community
A- for Students and Parents reviews

Nearby City

San Jose, California
San Jose, the heart of Silicon Valley, is the largest city in Northern California by both population and area. As of 2020, the city had a population of over 1 million, making it the most populous city in the Bay Area. Known for its innovation, San Jose is a hub for technology and startups, hosting major companies like Cisco and Adobe. The city is also celebrated for its cultural diversity, thriving arts scene, and Mediterranean climate, making it a vibrant and dynamic place to live and work.
Population (2022) 948,279
Cost of Living Higher than average 53%
Nearby Airport San Jose International Airport

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