News

September 15, 2023

Head of School’s Notebook: Beginnings

After the excitement of the start of the year, we are more fully back into the routine of the school and students are settling into the rhythm of their lives on the Mesa. Part of what makes this transition into regularity so seamless is that last week, we all spent time away from Cate in …

April 6, 2023

Cate Students Attend Performance of Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992

On March 28, students from English 11, Staging Activism, and Theatre Performance classes traveled to the Mark Taper Forum in Downtown LA to attend a performance of Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992. Originally performed as a one-woman show by playwright and scholar Anna Deavere Smith, Twilight is a work of verbatim theatre that uses first-person accounts …

February 2, 2022

Super Bowl-Bound Von Miller Visits Cate School

Less than 48 hours after defeating the San Francisco 49ers in the NFC Championship game and punching a ticket to Super Bowl LVI, Los Angeles Rams linebacker Von Miller made a special appearance at Cate School to kick off its celebration for Black History Month. The eight-time Pro Bowler and Super Bowl 50 Most Valuable …

May 20, 2021

Introducing the Jack Ballard Recording Studio

The Cate School music department is proud to unveil the brand-new Jack Ballard Recording Studio. Located in Booth Commons, the state-of-the-art studio includes equipment used by professional musicians and features a 32-channel SSL console, Warm-Audio compressors, EQ, Shure, and Neumann microphones, and more.  “Since my arrival nine years ago, more and more students have arrived …

September 20, 2019

Cate Launches #InYourCorner – Mental Health Resource

At Cate, we hope to provide the best care possible for each and every student. Nothing is more important than your health and well-being. As mental health challenges are on the rise across the country, we know that Cate is no exception. In addition to offering mental health education through our Human Development department and …

June 2, 2017

Student Commencement Speech | Fran Duffy-Boscagli ’17

Since my sophomore year, I’ve been writing for our school newspaper, the El Batidor, or as we like to call it affectionately, El Bat. My three-year career in journalism began my sophomore year during which I was placed in the opinion section. I gave Cate my pointed opinions on pressing topics like our response to …

May 28, 2017

Cate’s 104th Commencement

May 1, 2017

Ellis Jones ’72 Headmaster’s Chair

On April 26, 2017, a newly endowed faculty chair, the Ellis Jones ’72 Headmaster’s Chair was awarded to Paul Denison ’79. Read the transcript from Head of School Ben Williams’s presentation below. We have the great good fortune at Cate to have alumni who long after their experience on the Mesa choose to invest in …