Best STEM Schools in San Francisco, CA

Middle School

The 6th Grade is the inaugural middle school offering at Rise University Preparatory, an independent Christian school that equips students academically, socially, and spiritually with the goal of 100% university acceptance.

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.

Middle School

The middle school program at HSArts offers a rigorous academic curriculum spanning grades 6–8, combining humanities and STEM with a comprehensive arts program, all in small-class settings that allow for seminar-style engagement and individualized attention.

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.

Hamlin Summer Reading Lab

Lower School

The Lower School at San Francisco Day School covers grades 1–5 within the school's K-8 coeducational program, where two instructors share each classroom through the signature Teaching Fellows program and the curriculum emphasizes embracing challenge, productive struggle, and understanding each child's individual learning style.

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.

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.

Grades 6-8

Grades 6-8 is the middle school portion of Live Oak's independent K-8 program, where each grade has its own dedicated STEM lab and students take the Social Impact Studio — a class weaving together historical changemaking and hands-on community action around social justice themes.

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.