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January each year. Eighth graders graduated on "Step-Up" day by moving up one tier on a set of wooden pilings built into a hillside between the Art and Music buildings. Two other long-standing traditions are the fall Book Fair to raise money for the school, and "Kite Day", which takes place in the Fall. Students, parents and friends of the school picnic and fly kites on the hillsides overlooking the main campus.
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Paradise Drive. Today, Marin Country Day School has a larger student body of 540 students.
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