The school has 370 students, and is located in Ross, California, 11 miles (18 km) north of San Francisco.

In 1916, a group of 15 families in Marin County, California, pooled resources to start a local private school.

The elder of the two sisters, Katharine Fleming Branson, was Associate Director of Studies at the Beard School in Orange, New Jersey.

Laura Elizabeth Branson was a teacher of mathematics and science at The Shipley School in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, and had formerly served as head of the Department of Mathematics at Rosemary Hall in Greenwich, Connecticut.

[4] The actual report that named four sex offenders sparked an investigation at University High School where the coach Randy Taylor was employed after Branson.