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Infant Program

Mission Montessori’s infant program is uniquely designed to be homelike and nurturing, while also stimulating intellectual growth, confidence, and a desire to explore.

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

Preschool

San Francisco Waldorf School's preschool is a mixed-age, play-based program where Waldorf-trained teachers guide young children through imaginative stories and play, outdoor time, creativity, and craftwork, fostering a lifelong love of school.

Grade School

The Grade School (K-5) at San Francisco Waldorf School offers a balanced curriculum integrating sciences, mathematics, humanities, and the arts, taught by Waldorf-trained teachers within a human-centered, holistic educational approach.

Middle School

The Middle School program at San Francisco Islamic School integrates academic coursework aligned with California Common Core standards alongside Quranic studies, Arabic language, and an Islamic Studies curriculum centered on the teachings of the Quran and the life of the Prophet Muhammad.

Extended Care

SFIS Extended Care is an after-school program serving elementary and middle school students, offering academic tutoring support, free play, and regularly scheduled art and enrichment activities.

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.

Middle School

SF Day's Middle School spans grades 6–8 and uses a high school-style schedule of homeroom and subject-specific classrooms, with roughly 55 students per grade. The program pairs a rigorous academic curriculum with robust arts, innovation, and athletics, and builds community through structures such as daily advisory, affinity circles, interest clubs, and mixed-grade electives.

Preschool

Our teachers provide a warm, caring, joyful environment that encourages preschoolers’ natural curiosity, and instills confidence in their innate abilities. By balancing traditional instruction in reading, writing, and math with art, music, and foreign language, the Stratford preschool curriculum teaches 21st century skills of communication, collaboration, and problem solving. The open, caring, family-oriented atmosphere at Stratford School helps preschoolers feel safe – physically and emotionally – and nurtures the whole child, both mind and heart. Note: Part-time programming is subject to availability.

Pre-Kindergarten

The Stratford pre-kindergarten curriculum teaches students to ask questions and think critically. Pre-K students begin their day with imaginative STEAM play, designed to develop their natural curiosity and problem-solving skills. They enjoy Spanish class several times a week, and progress at a faster rate than other pre-K students because of Stratford’s focus on English language fundamentals. You’ll find that your child’s teachers care deeply about each student and about their families. The relationships and friendships your child develops here will shape their future success. Note: Part-time programming is subject to availability.

1st–5th Grade

San Francisco Schoolhouse's K-5 program uses a progressive, project-based approach in which students engage in immersive interdisciplinary projects, adventure days providing real-world experiences, and skills-based instruction across all disciplines, with social-emotional learning woven throughout.

Middle School

San Francisco Schoolhouse's middle school is a small, project-based program where interdisciplinary, inquiry-driven units build core academics, social-emotional competencies, and civic engagement across single- and multi-age groups, using San Francisco's parks, neighborhoods, and cultural institutions as extended learning spaces.

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.

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.

Public Preschool Program

After Care Program

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.

Elementary

Synergy's elementary program is part of a progressive, independent TK-8 school with an interdisciplinary, multi-sensory curriculum spanning language arts, math, science, Spanish, visual arts, music, drama, and physical education, grounded in a long-standing commitment to equity, social justice, and student empowerment.

Middle School

The middle school program at Synergy is a progressive, independent grades 6–8 program where mixed-grade collaborative work, project-based learning, and a strong commitment to social justice and community engagement shape the academic experience.

Preschool

The KMS Preschool is a mixed-age program for our 2 to 4 year old children. Our program is designed to be age appropriate, taking into account each child and his or her developmental process.

Infant Program

The KMS Infant & Toddler Program provides a safe and nurturing environment for children between the ages of 3 months to 24 months, supervised by highly qualified caregivers.

St. Stephen Preschool

St. Stephen Preschool is a faith-based preschool program whose mission centers on educating the whole child—spiritually and intellectually—within a nurturing, inclusive environment that celebrates diversity and supports each child's individual pace of learning.

Kindergarten

Grades 1–5 is part of St. Stephen School's K-8 Catholic academic program, accredited by both WCEA and WASC, with curriculum grounded in Archdiocesan Guidelines and California State Standards alongside integrated faith formation.

Lower School

Alta Vista's Lower School is an independent elementary program built on a STEAM-based, inquiry-driven curriculum integrating science, mathematics, literacy, and social studies through an interdisciplinary approach. The core program is enriched with Spanish, garden and sustainability, visual arts, drama, music, and physical education.

Summer Camp

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.

Middle School

St. Peter's middle school program covers grades 6–8 with a rigorous core curriculum—religion, language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies—taught by subject-specialist educators, alongside a broader Catholic mission focused on holistic development and preparing students for college-preparatory high schools.

Preschool

The preschool program at Golden Bridges School follows a Waldorf-inspired approach centered on imaginative play, oral storytelling, singing, baking, and handwork within a calm, home-like setting, with children spending time outdoors daily in McLaren Park and at Hawk Creek Farm.

Grades 1-5

Grades 1–5 at Golden Bridges School is the lower elementary portion of a Waldorf-inspired K–8 program that integrates academic foundations with experiential learning, the arts, and environmental stewardship, including a full day each week at the school's working farm, Hawk Creek Farm.

Transitional Kindergarten

St. Philip's kindergarten through 8th grade program is a Catholic elementary school rooted in faith and values, offering a rigorous academic curriculum that includes Spanish, Art, Music, Technology, and Physical Education, alongside enrichment activities and a comprehensive sports program.

Middle School

The middle school grades are the upper portion of St. Philip's TK–8 Catholic academic program, where a rigorous curriculum rooted in Gospel values is paired with enrichment classes in Spanish, Art, Music, Technology, and PE, and community service requirements that increase each year through 8th grade.

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.

Kindergarten

Grades 1–5 are the lower school years of Live Oak's independent K-8 program, where every classroom is led by two fully qualified teachers who collaborate to plan lessons, assess student work, and respond to individual needs.

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.

Elementary School

St. Cecilia's elementary program is part of a WCEA-accredited TK–8 Catholic school where parents and teachers collaborate to support each student's academic, spiritual, and social development, with instructional aides supporting classrooms through sixth grade.

Junior High

Junior High is the 7th–8th grade program at St. Cecilia, a WCEA- and WASC-accredited TK–8 Catholic school in San Francisco whose mission centers on academic and spiritual formation guided by Gospel values.

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.

K-8 Program

KZV's elementary program is part of the school's bilingual Armenian-English education, where students work toward proficiency in reading, writing, and conversing in both Armenian and English alongside core academics in math, science, and social studies.

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.

Middle School

La Scuola's middle school program delivers multilingual education through the International Baccalaureate Middle Years Program (IB-MYP), with Reggio Emilia pedagogy continuing into grades 6–8 and Italian offered at beginner, intermediate, or advanced levels for incoming students. No prior Italian experience is required, and roughly 70% of the curriculum is taught in English.

Pre-Kindergarten Program

Grades 1–8 at St. Anne is the elementary and middle school portion of a Catholic academic program committed to developing the whole person — spiritually, intellectually, physically, and emotionally — and accredited by both WASC and WCEA.

Middle School

Kindergarten

Grades 4 Through 8

Grades 4 through 8 is the upper portion of Burke's K–8 independent school for girls, where the academic program balances rigor with real-world relevance, emphasizing "a focus on real-world problems, purpose, life skills, and preparing our graduates to approach their future with confidence, and resilience."

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.

Primary Grades

Primary Grades (1–3) at Holy Name is part of the school's WCEA/WASC-accredited Catholic academic program, with a daily core curriculum of language arts, math, religion, science, and social studies supplemented by enrichment classes including physical education, music, art, and computer technology.

Elementary School

The elementary school program at Saints Peter and Paul School spans kindergarten through fifth grade and extends learning beyond the common core through a curriculum that includes Spanish, Italian, art, coding, robotics, and physical education, alongside core academic subjects.

Junior High

The Junior High program at Saints Peter and Paul School spans sixth through eighth grades, preparing students for high school and beyond within a Salesian Catholic tradition that emphasizes reason, respect, and the development of individual talents.

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.

Elementary School

The Elementary School program at La Scuola is rooted in the International Baccalaureate Primary Years Program and Reggio Emilia approach, with Italian language immersion woven throughout grades K-5.

Tiny Knights Preschool

Tiny Knights Preschool uses a play-based curriculum that emphasizes social, emotional, physical, and cognitive development through varied indoor and outdoor activities including art, music, and motor development. The program is part of St. Gabriel's Catholic parish school community and collaborates with families to support each child's individual growth.

Elementary School

St. Gabriel's elementary program is part of a Catholic parish school serving preschool through 8th grade, accredited by both WCEA and WASC, with a curriculum infused with Christian values and co-curricular offerings that include Academic Decathlon, a Science Discovery Lab, and a Learning Support Program.

Utopia Preschool

Utopia Preschool is a separate preschool program at St. Thomas More that emphasizes each child's individuality while building community among peers, families, and staff, with a focus on diversity, curiosity, and early foundations for learning.

Kindergarten

The elementary grades at St. Thomas More are part of a Catholic Archdiocesan school whose curriculum follows California State Standards and Archdiocesan Guidelines, with instruction in mathematics, English language arts, social studies, religion, art, technology, and visual and performing arts, supported by teacher's aides in the lower grades.

Kindergarten

St. Vincent de Paul School's K–8 program delivers Catholic education rooted in experiential, innovative, and courageous learning, with a core curriculum spanning Religion, English Language Arts, Mathematics, Social Studies, and Science, alongside co-curriculars including Italian, Visual and Performing Arts, and Physical Education.

School Age Care Program

K-8 Program

St. Finn Barr Catholic School's K-8 program is rooted in Catholic faith and serves a diverse community, with a mission to develop critical thinkers, lifelong learners, and compassionate students who live Gospel values.

Middle School

St. Finn Barr's middle school program serves grades 6–8 within a Catholic academic community dedicated to developing critical thinkers and lifelong learners who live Gospel values. Middle schoolers complete grade-level service hour requirements and are supported by a dedicated subject-specialist team covering language arts, math, science, and social studies.

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.

Middle School

The Grades 6-8 portion of Mission Dolores Academy's K-8 Catholic program, where middle schoolers follow a Common Core-based curriculum and receive dedicated high school placement support through MDA's Mentoring Program, which guides eighth graders through applications, essay writing, and HSPT preparation.

Elementary School

Middle School

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.

Upper Elementary

Upper Elementary is the 3rd–5th grade program at Brightworks, a project-based K-12 school in San Francisco's Presidio, where students grow their capacity to manage their own work through collaborator-facilitated, interest-based group projects that integrate academic skills with collaborative problem solving, iteration, and reflection.

Middle School

Brightworks Middle School grounds grades 6–8 in project-based learning, where students take increasing ownership of complex, multi-step projects while collaborators explicitly teach project management, iteration, growth mindset, and reflection as foundational skills.

Elementary School

The elementary program at Convent & Stuart Hall is part of an independent, Catholic K–12 school rooted in the Sacred Heart tradition, combining a rigorous curriculum with a philosophy that educates girls and boys separately and together.

Middle School

Preschool

Cornerstone's preschool program introduces children to a bilingual Chinese-English curriculum—Cantonese alongside English—through music, storytelling, crafts, dance, and play, grounded in the school's Christian faith tradition.

Lower School

The Lower School covers grades K through 5 at Cornerstone Academy's Silver Campus, building academic foundations within a faith-based program that integrates Christian character development, volunteer service, and a bilingual Chinese-English curriculum.

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.

Middle School

Cornerstone Academy's middle school occupies the Cambridge campus and offers grades 6–8 within the school's faith-based, bilingual Chinese-English academic program, balancing structure and rigor with a nurturing environment as students prepare for more demanding high school coursework.