 | MISSION STATEMENT
At CSUS, we inspire motivated learners to lead meaningful lives in a rapidly changing world. Our intimate, collaborative community encourages students to pursue passions, explore new interests, build confidence, develop compassion and thrive in an environment of academic excellence.
PHILOSOPHY
At Crystal Springs Uplands School:
We believe that students learn best in an environment that
- promotes learning in diverse ways about a complex world
- stimulates intellectual and creative development
- nurtures the individual within an inclusive community of mutual trust, caring, and respect
- balances academic and extracurricular interests and accomplishments
We encourage
- critical thinking and intellectual risk-taking
- responsibility for one's ideas and actions
- personal integrity, ethical awareness, multicultural understanding and inclusiveness
- individual leadership and cooperative interaction
- respect for one's self and for the views of others
We endeavor to equip students with
- a spirit of inquiry
- a respect for human potential
- a sense of responsibility for the environment and to the global community
- a feeling of joy in lifelong learning
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| Crystal Springs Uplands School is committed to being a diverse and inclusive community. Such a community values and celebrates individual differences and ensures that each individual's unique background and perspective can inform and enrich the educational experience for all. In seeking to create and sustain a community that reflects the diversity of the Bay Area - racially, economically, and culturally - we provide a dynamic learning environment and strive to prepare students for the world in which they live. Our curriculum exposes students to myriad viewpoints and experiences that challenge and broaden their perspectives. CSUS believes that students, parents, faculty, staff, administration and trustees with inclusive perspectives and attitudes make our school a place of respect and compassion in which all members thrive and feel supported. |
STUDENT NON-DISCRIMINATORY POLICY | Crystal Springs Uplands School admits students of any race, color, religion, national/ethnic origin or sexual orientation to all rights, privileges, programs and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national/ethnic origin or sexual orientation in administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, financial aid programs, and athletic and other school administered programs. |
| | | Mansion History In 1911, Templeton Crocker decided that he wanted to build his own house as a wedding present for his bride, C & H sugar heiress Helene Irwin. Built at a cost of $1.6 million, the mansion renowned San Francisco architect Willis Polk designed for Crocker contained 35,000 square feet of living space, a 10,000 square foot basement, and 39 rooms including 12 bedrooms and 12 baths. It also featured a large wine cellar, elevator, dumbwaiter, four staircases and mezzanine level quarters for servants. The resulting mansion is not immense, but its interior of matching marble walls, silk wall coverings, Italian ironwork and finely crafted German woodcarving make it, according to local architectural experts, "unsurpassed by any other mansion in San Mateo County."
The mansion was completed in 1917. A gala party for dozens of San Francisco society members marked the opening. For ten years the Crockers entertained lavishly several weekends of every month at their "country home." The Crockers were, unfortunately, divorced in 1927 and the house was thereafter occupied by Mr. Crocker only periodically, as a "summer cottage" and "hunting lodge."
In 1942, Crocker sold the property to Romie C. Jacks (Monterey Jack cheese). Mr. Jacks died shortly after moving into the house, but Mrs. Jacks continued to live in a few rooms on the second floor for almost a decade, attended by 13 servants. In 1951, she rented the house to the Soviet delegation to the Japanese Peace Conference, then being held in San Francisco. The Russian consulate oversaw extensive cleaning and refurbishing before the ambassadorial party moved in. Local residents were astonished - and perhaps uneasy - to discover Ambassador Andrei Gromyko and his party in their midst.
For several years thereafter the house was unoccupied and most of the acreage was quietly sold for subdividing. The original gateposts of the estate can still be seen at the foot of Uplands Drive and Stonehedge. In 1956, the Crocker family reacquired Uplands, after a prospective buyer was unable to raise the $95,000 asking price. In March of that year, with the help of Mrs. Jennie Crocker Henderson and the blessing of the San Mateo County Historical Society, the Trustees of Crystal Springs School purchased the mansion and 10 acres of surrounding land to be the school's permanent home. Today, it serves as the focal point for a campus community of 350 students in grades six through twelve. Templeton Crocker, that bon vivant patron of the arts and sciences, would probably be well pleased with his mansion's new life.
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