| Francis Parker School | |
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| Location | |
| San Diego, CA United States |
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| Information | |
| Type | Private Non-Sectarian |
| Established | 1912 |
| Head of school | Kevin Yaley |
| Grades | JK-12 |
| Number of students | 1,237 |
| Mascot | Lancers |
| Newspaper | The Scribe |
| Website | http://www.francisparker.org |
Francis Parker School, also known simply as Parker, is an elite college preparatory independent day school in San Diego, California, serving students from junior kindergarten through twelfth grade. Parker was founded in 1912 by Clara Sturges Johnson and William Templeton Johnson, themselves recent arrivals to the West Coast. The Johnsons' nieces had attended the original Francis W. Parker School in Chicago, founded eleven years earlier, and sought to recreate the same progressive education standards at the original institution.[1]
While the institutions are both named after Colonel Parker, the schools themselves differ in their day-to-day operation as well as the structure of institutions such as the student government.[2]
The original Parker campus was established in 1912 at its current location in Mission Hills ; a second campus, containing a middle and upper school, was established subsequently in Linda Vista . The upper and middle school campuses underwent a complete $45 million dollar renovation, which was completed in 2010.
Parker's main academic rivals are The Bishop's School located in La Jolla and La Jolla Country Day School also located in La Jolla.
In 2008, Francis Parker was recognized in the Wall Street Journal for being a top school that sends its students to prestigious colleges[3] and in 2011, CBS Moneywatch named it one of the best Ivy League feeder schools on the West Coast.
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