Best Private Schools in San Mateo, CA

Private Middle School

Fusion Academy offers a completely personalized private middle school experience. From classes to scheduling, everything is customized around your student. We balance academics and socialization to create a private junior high school experience unlike any other. Private middle school classes at Fusion Academy are 1-to-1: just 1 student and 1 teacher per class. Teachers match your child’s pace and preferences so they can learn better, dive deeper, and never get left behind. 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.

Private Middle School

Fusion Academy offers a completely personalized private middle school experience. From classes to scheduling, everything is customized around your student. We balance academics and socialization to create a private junior high school experience unlike any other. Private middle school classes at Fusion Academy are 1-to-1: just 1 student and 1 teacher per class. Teachers match your child’s pace and preferences so they can learn better, dive deeper, and never get left behind. 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.

Children's House

The Children's House is a carefully prepared Montessori environment where children develop fundamental skills through hands-on exploration, cultivate deep concentration, and discover the joy of purposeful work. Mixed-age groupings foster a family-like community where children learn from one another across the curriculum of Practical Life, Sensorial, Language, Mathematics, and Culture.

Elementary

The elementary program uses the Cosmic Curriculum, an integrated approach where children explore the interconnectedness of all subjects to understand their place in the universe.

Elementary School

The elementary school program serves bright, curious students who benefit from structured support with self-regulation, executive functioning, and social-emotional learning. Classrooms combine rigorous academics with hands-on, multisensory instruction, small class sizes capped at 10, and both a teacher and Behavior Specialist in every classroom to address each student's learning profile.

Middle School

Pre-K

The pre-kindergarten program offers a play-based curriculum with age-appropriate activities and learning opportunities that promote positive self-esteem, social, emotional, physical, intellectual, and spiritual development.

Pre-Kindergarten

The pre-kindergarten program offers a play-based curriculum with thematic, hands-on activities designed to support social, emotional, physical, intellectual, and spiritual development. The program uses the Responsive Classroom approach and emphasizes cooperative play, positive relationships, and service learning.

Elementary

The elementary program is part of Stanbridge Academy's K–12 school for students with learning differences and social communication challenges. The program emphasizes small class sizes with an 8:1 student-to-teacher ratio, individualized instruction, executive functioning support, social-emotional learning, and curriculum-based experiential learning including day trips and overnight experiences.

Middle School

Stanbridge Academy's middle school program serves students with mild to moderate learning differences and social communication challenges. The program emphasizes individualized instruction, executive functioning support, social-emotional development, and curriculum-based experiential learning that builds independence and confidence.

Children's House

The Children's House is a prepared Montessori environment designed to integrate four main areas of learning: Practical Life, Sensorial, Mathematics, and Language. Children learn through exploration and are guided by their inner motivation in a warm, clean, orderly, and beautiful setting that bridges home and school experiences.

Elementary

Elementary School

Elementary

UP Academy's elementary program uses deep interdisciplinary project-based learning where students spend a quarter on each topic, combining hands-on exploration with daily math and language arts, language instruction in Mandarin or Spanish, and weekly art, music, and PE.

Brighten UP

Brighten UP is an after-school enrichment program offering a rotating menu of activities including arts, coding, robotics, and maker projects. The program operates on a trimester basis with different offerings throughout the week.

Kindergarten

Grades 7–8

The middle school program encompasses grades 6–8, continuing St. Gregory's emphasis on developing the whole person spiritually, intellectually, and morally within a Catholic educational framework.

High School

Kindergarten Through 8th Grade

The kindergarten through eighth grade program at St. Timothy Catholic School, rooted in Gospel values and the Roman Catholic faith, nurtures students' spiritual, academic, and personal growth while forming responsible and creative members of society.

Middle School

The middle school grades at St. Timothy Catholic School, part of the kindergarten through eighth grade program rooted in the teachings of Jesus Christ and guided by Gospel values. Students grow in faith, intellect, and character while pursuing high academic achievement and forming themselves as responsible, creative members of society.

Upper School

The Upper School program is part of Nueva's preK–12 independent school for gifted learners, where inquiry- and project-based learning, design thinking, and social-emotional growth prepare students to make choices that benefit the world. The program offers college counseling, a writing and research center, interdisciplinary academics, trips, arts, athletics, clubs, and an internship program.

Middle School

Elementary School

Middle School

Middle School