Complex sentence: Collins was born in San Francisco to David and Ann Collins, a working-class family with nine children, and was a fourth-grader at St. Agnes School in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco.
Split into simpler sentences: Collins was born in San Francisco to David and Ann Collins, a working-class family with nine children. He was a fourth-grader at St. Agnes School in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco.