High Schools near El Cerrito, CA

Private High School

Fusion Academy is a fully accredited private high school. We prepare students for life after high school with 1-to-1 classes and a completely personalized education experience. Private high school classes at Fusion have just one teacher and one student. Teachers can accelerate or slow down based on your student’s needs and personalize course content for your student’s interests. Schedules are customized around your family’s goals and plans. Students connect and collaborate with peers in a safe and structured environment. Coursework is completed as part of the school day. Daily reports for each class session are communicated to parents from your student’s teachers. NOTE: Tuition rates are calculated per course, per term and will vary based on the student’s custom curriculum.

Private High School

Fusion Academy is a fully accredited private high school. We prepare students for life after high school with 1-to-1 classes and a completely personalized education experience. Private high school classes at Fusion have just one teacher and one student. Teachers can accelerate or slow down based on your student’s needs and personalize course content for your student’s interests. Schedules are customized around your family’s goals and plans. Students connect and collaborate with peers in a safe and structured environment. Coursework is completed as part of the school day. Daily reports for each class session are communicated to parents from your student’s teachers. NOTE: Tuition rates are calculated per course, per term and will vary based on the student’s custom curriculum.

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Sterne's high school program is a college preparatory offering for neurodiverse learners — students with dyslexia, ADHD, and other language-based learning challenges — built on a strengths-based approach that fosters autonomy and critical thinking while providing integrated academic support.

High School

San Francisco Waldorf School's High School (9-12) offers a Waldorf curriculum integrating sciences, mathematics, humanities, and arts alongside distinctive opportunities including a global exchange program that places students at Waldorf high schools around the world and an Outdoor Education program with backpacking, kayaking, and river rafting experiences.

Studio Brightworks

Studio Brightworks is a dedicated studio model high school program. Students work through the Brightworks Arc—a cycle of collaborative exploration, self-directed project work, and public exposition completed twice per year—building a Professional Portfolio of Authentic Work.

High School

The high school program at San Francisco High School of the Arts is a four-year college preparatory curriculum spanning grades 9–12 that integrates humanities and STEM with pre-professional arts training, offering 20 AP courses and 14 UC-approved honors courses with small class sizes designed for seminar-style engagement.

Grades 9-10

Grades 9–10 is the high school portion of Alpha San Francisco's K–10 program, where students use an AI-driven, mastery-based model to complete core academics in roughly two hours each morning, then spend afternoons in life skills workshops covering areas such as entrepreneurship, public speaking, and coding.

College-Preparatory High School

Drew School is an independent, nonsectarian, coeducational college preparatory high school where students' questions, self-expression, and ambitions are central to the experience, supported by a 9:1 student-teacher ratio, 90 courses and electives, and 26 honors and advanced level courses.

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Preschool and Kindergarten Program

Mission Montessori is proud to offer the one-of-a-kind, holistic, child-led approach to early childhood education that Dr. Montessori pioneered over one hundred years ago.

Toddler Program

Our teachers introduce good habits, encourage the use of words to express needs, and warmly guide children to do things for themselves throughout the course of the day.

Public Preschool Program

Elementary School

Preschool

Holy Name Preschool is a Catholic preschool that focuses on the cognitive, physical, social, emotional, and spiritual development of each child, with a nutritional lunch, snacks, and music, soccer, and sports programs included in the curriculum at no extra cost.

Kindergarten

Holy Name's full-day kindergarten program follows California State Standards infused with Catholic teachings, with hands-on learning in small group stations, weekly Mass, and a year-long mentorship pairing each kindergartner with a fifth-grade buddy.

Kindergarten

Kindergarten at Mission Dolores Academy is the entry point to the school's Catholic K-8 program, where a Common Core, Science of Reading-grounded curriculum includes explicit phonics instruction through SIPPS alongside math, Spanish, PE, art, drama, and music.

Middle School Grades 6-8

Elementary Grades 1–5 is part of Mission Dolores Academy's K-8 Catholic academic program, where a Common Core Standards-based curriculum with a Science of Reading foundation is paired with Spanish instruction, Physical Education, Art, Music, and Drama.

Elementary School

Elementary School