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Campus Facilities
Santa Catalina's campus covers 36 acres landscaped with lawns, flowering shrubs, California live oaks, and Monterey pines. Its buildings reflect the colonial Spanish architecture of early California, with white stucco walls, arched cloisters, and red clay tile roofs. A focal point is the 70-year-old Hacienda, from which the Rosary Chapel and all other school buildings were patterned.
 The Bedford Family Gymnasium houses physical education classes, basketball and volleyball courts, and dressing room facilities. The Science Building was modeled after facilities at the Lawrence Hall of Science in Berkeley. It houses seminar rooms, technologically sophisticated science classrooms and laboratories, and a 200-seat lecture hall. Santa Catalina has six regulation tennis courts, one of which is a lighted championship court with stadium seating. The Salyer Aquatic Center is home to our water polo team, swimming and diving team, and swimming and certification classes for both Upper School and Lower School students. The track and field complex includes a regulation softball and soccer field and facilities for physical education classes.- A Classroom annex.
 The two-story classroom building includes faculty offices. The Sister Mary Kieran Memorial Library was dedicated in 1967. The library serves both Upper and Lower Schools, currently holds over 30,000 volumes, has wireless internet network connections, and a bank of 30 wireless laptop computers for student and teacher use. The Middle School Classroom Building houses English, history, art, religion, foreign language, and science classes, as well as the Lower School Administrative Offices. The Lower School Multipurpose Room serves as a meeting place for lower school Friday assembly, as music classroom space, and as extracurricular activity meeting areas. Lower School Classrooms grades 1 through 5, and the Middle School Math classroom. The Service League Cottage provides an on-campus presence for our parent service organization. Sullivan court serves as a meeting place for students and faculty and is the site of the Upper School Commencement Ceremony. Generations of students have met in Study Hall for morning assembly. This space is transformed when we host dances and traditional events. Santo Thomas houses Upper School administration offices, classrooms, and the computer lab. Santa Rosa houses the Pre-Kindergarten classrooms, the Kindergarten classrooms and the bookstore. Santo Domingo Hall houses the dining hall, the school health facility, and various offices. La Cappella de Santa Rosaira - the Rosary Chapel - was built in 1954, donated by Mrs. Marcia Farrell Hart and dedicated to her father, James Farrell. She commissioned the San Francisco architect Germano Milano and the gifted artisans who created its furnishings, insisting on the finest materials and most expert workmanship: the chalice and other vessels, wood carving by Alec Miller, chandeliers by Forge in the Forest, stained glass windows by Carl Huneke, pews and alter of Honduras mahogany, redwood ceiling, and exteriors of Carmel stone. Mrs. Hart oversaw every aspect of its construction and provided altar flowers every year at Christmas and Easter until her death in 1992. The Anniversary Garden was a gift from Santa Catalina Alumnae upon the school's 50th Anniversary. The Hacienda was the original school building. It now houses the Upper School Admission Office, the Business Office, and the Development Office. Convent, attached to the Hacienda, once served as a dormitory. It now houses faculty offices. Santa Inez houses the Public Relations and Alumnae Relations offices, as well as a faculty apartment. Long Dorm housed freshman students and faculty for most of its tenure. It houses the school archives and one faculty home. Hills Hall houses junior students, senior students, and faculty. Thompson Dormitory houses freshman students, sophomore students, and faculty. The Greer Family Dormitory, our newest residence hall, houses sophomore students, junior students, and faculty. Eight faculty apartments house faculty and their families. Eight faculty apartments house faculty and their families. The Sister Carlotta Performing Arts Center seats 500 in this technically state-of-the-art professional theater. The Mary L. Johnson Music Center features a dance studio, music studios, a 150-seat recital hall and a faculty office suite. The Mary L. Johnson Music Center features a dance studio, music studios, a 150-seat recital hall and a faculty office suite.
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