Marin County Housing Authority
It's an unusual setting for a school: an apartment in the low-income, high-rise Golden Gate Village subdivision in Marin City, built in the 1950s and operated by the Marin County Housing Authority.
A former living room, decorated with a piano, a football and a drum, now serves as a classroom, where students gather for an assembly each day before starting work. A bedroom with homemade bookshelves serves as the library; student-done paintings and vocabulary lists decorate the walls of other bedrooms-turned-classrooms.
As the students were in class in one of the third-floor units, the father of one student was working on his broken car in the parking area. For his family, commuting to school is not a big deal -- just walking up two flights of stairs.
The school uses three of the 21 apartments and a refurbished boiler room at 79 Cole Drive. But it's more than the physical plant that distinguishes Marin City's Women Helping All People Scholastic Academy -- the 2-year-old private school is run entirely by women.
| Marin County Housing Authority
A former living room, decorated with a piano, a football and a drum, now serves as a classroom, where students gather for an assembly each day before starting work. A bedroom with homemade bookshelves serves as the library; student-done paintings and vocabulary lists decorate the walls of other bedrooms-turned-classrooms.
As the students were in class in one of the third-floor units, the father of one student was working on his broken car in the parking area. For his family, commuting to school is not a big deal -- just walking up two flights of stairs.
The school uses three of the 21 apartments and a refurbished boiler room at 79 Cole Drive. But it's more than the physical plant that distinguishes Marin City's Women Helping All People Scholastic Academy -- the 2-year-old private school is run entirely by women.
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