[1] The school offers its students the rigorous International Baccalaureate program (IB) as well as an array of Advanced Placement courses (AP).

The first year enrolled 30 young women operating in two rented Victorians at the corner of Bush and Octavia.

In June 1939, Maud Lee Flood donated the home she had shared with her deceased husband at 2222 Broadway.

In 1956, they purchased the Hammond House (also located next door on the other side of the Flood Mansion) for $165,000 to open Stuart Hall for Boys.

[3] Dianne Feinstein attended this school before becoming the city's mayor and later state of California Senator.