San Francisco Waldorf High School is a local gem where college prep is balanced with a Waldorf backbone with plentiful arts and music electives, a hands-on approach, outdoor education, and a supportive community, while providing the skills needed to thrive beyond college. Students attracted to a quarter system will love this school. Whether attracted to the senior projects, the weaving looms, or the rotating science curriculum, students coalesce in a tree-lined street proxima

Jewish Community High School of the Bay is a pluralistic Jewish high school that is a local gem attracting students from around the Bay Area. With around 45 kids per grade, the school caters to a variety of academic levels with personal attention to each student. Because it’s a small school, students feel that they matter. Teaching is high quality based on learning, with constructive feedback along the way. Stress is kept down . . .

Looking for a progressive school for your tween boy? Field Middle School offers a progressive learning curriculum with a Montessori feel in an all boys environment, focused on the needs of the middle schooler. Founded in 2021, Field Middle fosters executive function skills while maintaining rigor. The program offers opportunities for acceleration, deeper learning, and skills development. 

Alta Vista specializes in project and inquiry based learning with customized rigor. Alta Vista School (AVS) fosters a love of STEM and arts.

Brightworks of San Francisco pioneered project based learning in K-12 education, now nestled among trees in the Presidio.

Chinese American International School (CAIS) is well known in San Francisco for Mandarin program preK2 thru 8th grade, with entry at 6th.

The Lycée (preschool thru 12th grade French) opened an international baccalaureate (IB) program for 6th-12th graders who don't speak French.

Red Bridge is a school in Dogpatch San Francisco. They assign groups by level (not age) in categories of autonomy, reading, writing, math.

 San Francisco Schoolhouse is a progressive, affordable gem in Hayes Valley SF, with low student-teacher ratio and half the typical tuition

Kittredge School is a small, warm school with traditional academics and a focus students reaching their potential while instilling values

 The Brandeis School of San Francisco is a pluralistic Jewish Day School (see details below) that is warm and welcoming.

Parents with neurodiverse, gifted, or 2E children struggle to find a school. Hence, my excitement to to tour Saint Brigid Academy.

The state recently approved New School of San Francisco (NSSF)’s charter and expanded it to middle school. I interviewed co-founder Ryan