Best Language Schools in San Francisco, CA
We strive to help your child become a passionate learner who is confident and creative; flourishing through Montessori's unique approach to education. At our school, you'll find a home away from home...
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.
Responds quickly
Speaks Spanish
Play-based infant and toddler care and preschool. Children engage in a variety of age-appropriate activities that promote skills-based and project-based learning. Curriculum includes math, literacy,...
Speaks Spanish
Presidio Knolls School (PKS) is an independent school serving students from preschool through grade 8, accredited by the California Association of Independent Schools (CAIS) and the Western...
Preschool
PKS's Reggio Emilia-inspired preschool uses an emergent curriculum built around children's own ideas and interests, with bilingual Mandarin and English learning woven through projects, play, art, and inquiry so that all students develop basic Mandarin skills by the end of their first year.
Elementary
PKS Elementary delivers a bilingual Mandarin-English curriculum through an inquiry-based, project-centered approach, organizing study into Units of Exploration that span all major disciplines alongside daily specialist classes in areas such as Maker/Science Lab, Performing Arts, Visual Arts, and Multimedia.
Also offers: Middle School
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The Hamlin School is an independent K–8 girls' school founded in 1863 in San Francisco. The school offers K–8 Spanish instruction, a STEM-focused program designed to address gender gaps in science and...
Grades 1-4
Grades 5-8
The Grades 5–8 program at The Hamlin School is a K-8 girls' school that weaves Social and Emotional Learning throughout the academic curriculum and embeds grade-level capstone projects — including an entrepreneurship market in Grade 5 and a Washington D.C. immersive trip in Grade 7 — into a broader mission of preparing girls to become thinkers, leaders, and individuals of integrity.
Also offers: Spanish Summer Camp
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St. Peter's Catholic School is a K-8 parochial school in San Francisco's Mission District, operating as a ministry of St. Peter's Parish and part of the Archdiocese of San Francisco since 1878. The...
Kindergarten
St. Peter's kindergarten uses a 50/50 Dual Language Immersion model, with half the school day taught in English and half in Spanish, covering subjects including English Language Arts, Religion, Math, Science, Social Studies, Art, P.E., and Technology.
Elementary
St. Peter's elementary program (grades K–5) builds foundational skills in English Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, and Social Studies, and nurtures Catholic faith through religion class, Masses, and prayer services. The school holds dual accreditation from WCEA and WASC, and offers a Dual Language Immersion curriculum with instruction in both English and Spanish.
Speaks Spanish
KZV Armenian School (Krouzian-Zekarian-Vasbouragan) is an Armenian community school in San Francisco serving pre-K through 8th grade. The school offers a bilingual Armenian-English education, with...
Ovsanna Misserlian Preschool / Pre-Kindergarten
Ovsanna Misserlian Preschool is KZV Armenian School's early childhood program, where classes are conducted entirely in the Armenian language and a child-initiated, developmentally appropriate creative curriculum addresses social, emotional, cognitive, creative, and physical growth. Teachers and assistants are bilingual, experienced, and trained in pediatric CPR and First Aid.
Pre-K Blue Group
The Pre-K Blue Group is one of the preschool classrooms at KZV's Ovsanna Misserlian Preschool, where instruction is conducted entirely in Armenian and the curriculum follows a child-initiated, developmentally appropriate approach spanning social-emotional, literacy, math, science, and physical development.
Also offers: Pre-K Red & Yellow Group, K-8 Program
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Cornerstone Academy is a private, faith-based PK–8 school in San Francisco affiliated with Cornerstone Evangelical Baptist Church, with roots going back to 1975. The school operates across two...
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Cornerstone Academy's Cambridge Campus is a faith-based private school affiliated with Cornerstone Evangelical Baptist Church, serving grades 4 through 8. The campus houses the middle school program,...
Preschool
Cornerstone's preschool program combines a bilingual Chinese-English curriculum with learning through music, storytelling, crafts, dance, and play, with Cantonese instruction at this level.
Lower School
Cornerstone Academy's Lower School covers grades K through 5 at the Silver Campus, building academic foundations alongside character development grounded in Christian principles, with a bilingual Chinese-English program that teaches Cantonese in kindergarten before transitioning students to Mandarin.
Also offers: Middle School
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San Francisco High School of the Arts is an independent college-preparatory school serving grades 6–12 that integrates rigorous academics with pre-professional training in the visual and performing...
K–5 Elementary School
The K–5 elementary program at San Francisco High School of the Arts builds a strong academic foundation alongside arts training, reflecting the school's mission to provide exceptional education in traditional arts and academics while focusing on character development.
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.
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La Scuola International School is an independent, multilingual preschool-through-grade-8 school with campuses in San Francisco and Silicon Valley. It is the only school in the world that combines...
Italian Immersion Preschool
La Scuola's Italian Immersion Preschool combines a Reggio Emilia play-based approach with the International Baccalaureate Primary Years Program, emphasizing autonomy, collaboration, and inquiry in small-group classroom settings.
Preschool (Mission Campus)
Also offers: Elementary School, Middle School
Speaks Spanish
La Scuola International School is a private, independent school serving preschool through grade 8 across campuses in San Francisco and Silicon Valley. It is the only school in the world combining...
Preschool
La Scuola's Italian Immersion Preschool blends the Reggio Emilia approach with the International Baccalaureate Primary Years Program, offering a play-based environment where children build autonomy and collaboration through art, music, drama, and inquiry in small class settings.
Elementary School
The elementary program at La Scuola is grounded in the International Baccalaureate Primary Years Program and the Reggio Emilia approach, combining inquiry-based learning with Italian language immersion across grades K–5. It is the only program in San Francisco accredited as both an IB Primary and Middle Years school, connecting students to a global community across more than 150 countries.
Also offers: Middle School
Speaks Spanish
La Scuola International School's Mission Campus is an independent private school serving grades K–8, and is the only school in San Francisco accredited as both an International Baccalaureate Primary...
Preschool
La Scuola's preschool program combines the Reggio Emilia approach — emphasizing autonomy, collaboration, and play-based learning — with the International Baccalaureate Primary Years Program, making it the only school in San Francisco to offer IB-PYP from the early childhood level.
Elementary School
The elementary school program at La Scuola's Mission Campus is the K–5 portion of the school's Reggio Emilia-inspired, Italian language immersion curriculum, accredited as an International Baccalaureate Primary Years Program (IB-PYP) — the only such accreditation for a K–8 school in San Francisco.
Also offers: Middle School
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San Francisco Pacific Academy is an independent K-8 private school offering a bilingual English-Russian curriculum with an emphasis on higher-level mathematics and literacy in both languages. The...
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