Best Private High Schools in San Francisco, CA

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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.

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The high school program at San Francisco Christian School teaches every subject through a biblical worldview, with students growing through music, visual arts, technology, community service, and competitive athletics alongside their academic coursework.

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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.

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Rise Prep's high school program emphasizes college readiness and the development of both academic skills and moral character. Teachers are dedicated long-term and have an average of 10 years teaching experience. Our College Counseling is one of our star programs.

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.

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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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JCHS is a college preparatory high school that integrates deep learning, universal wisdom, and Jewish values through a broad curriculum spanning Humanities, Jewish Studies, Math, Science, World Language, and Visual & Performing Arts, alongside signature programs such as Freshman Seminar, Journeys, and the senior Keystone Project.

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San Francisco University High School

San Francisco University High School is an independent high school whose program centers on inquiry, care, integrity, agency, and interconnection, engaging a diverse community in what the school describes as a transformational pursuit of learning aimed at cultivating purpose larger than self.

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ICA Cristo Rey Academy

ICA Cristo Rey Academy is a Dominican Catholic, all-girls college preparatory high school in San Francisco's Mission District, grounded in the pillars of Study, Prayer, Community, and Service. The school combines academic rigor with a distinctive Corporate Work Study program, and holds the distinction of being the oldest and last all-girls school in the city.

Archbishop Riordan High School

Archbishop Riordan High School is a Catholic, college-preparatory high school in the Marianist tradition, offering a rigorous academic curriculum alongside a house system and co-curricular activities grounded in values of faith, community, inclusivity, service, and justice.

The Bay School

The Bay School is a San Francisco high school whose curriculum emphasizes depth over breadth, pairing rigorous coursework in humanities, sciences, mathematics, world languages, and the arts with a distinctive Immersive term model in which students spend three weeks in a single intensive course.

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Convent & Stuart Hall's high school is an independent Catholic program rooted in the Sacred Heart tradition, offering a rigorous curriculum that includes IB and AP coursework alongside a model that educates young men and women both separately and together.

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