Santa Monica Montessori School: Santa Monica Montessori School in Santa Monica in west Los Angeles County, CA, is a private early childhood, elementary and junior high school offering Montessori school programs to children in grades Pre-K through to 7th. The Santa Monica Montessori School offers an enriched curriculum including exercises in practical life, sensorial, mathematics, reading, language, grace / courtesy, science, geography, history, fine arts, humanities, foreign languages and music. Our internationally diverse faculty are selected carefully for their love of teaching and respect for the Montessori method.
Santa Monica is a city situated on Santa Monica Bay in western Los Angeles County, California.
Founded in 1975, Cornerstone Academy is a private, nonprofit school in the Portola District of San Francisco and primarily serves families from San Francisco and the Peninsula. The grade span is preschool through high school.
Cornerstone Academy is founded on Christian values, supports the home and churches of students in providing an education that is grounded in the Christian values of the Bible as reflected in the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.
- Elementary, middle & high school programs with continued Chinese language instruction from grades 1 - 12. Our academic program consists of core subjects in English, Mandarin, math, science, social science, religious studies, physical education, fine arts, and electives. For High School, honors and Advanced Placement courses are offered in a variety of classes.
- ESL program for middle & high school students
- Full boarding program for international high school students
Located in Huntington Beach, Orange County, Heritage Montessori School offers an excellent education to children ages 2 through to fourth grade. We follow a well defined, rigorous curriculum that is a blend of classical Montessori roots, modern enhancements, and innovative activities that encourage the development of fundamental skills. Our children test, on average, approximately two years above grade level.
Each child progresses on an individual basis within a social setting that is compatible for him / her. Our staff are creative, caring, educated, and enthusiastic in what they do. At Heritage, we want our children to grow into independent problem solvers and caring, responsible citizens. The Montessori Method has been time-tested for over 100 years and has achieved worldwide success.
Our teachers prepare the environment with a series of sequential, manipulative and sensorial materials that ultimately bridge the gap between concrete and abstract learning. With a great understanding of human development, the teacher observes each child, reflects upon his / her observations and individualizes the curriculum.
Odyssey School is a private, independent co-educational middle school for gifted and talented students in west San Mateo in the San Francisco Bay Area, CA. Odyssey provides gifted students a creative, integrated, experiential curriculum that nurtures intellectual curiosity and emotional risk-taking in an intimate, challenging, yet safe community, resulting in personal accountability, ethical decision-making and an intrinsic passion for learning.
The most salient characteristic of the Odyssey course of study is an integrated curriculum. We want students making connections among disciplines, between what is occurring in the real world and their classes, as well as a connection to the real issues in their lives and their course of study.
Middle School Program (Grades 6-8) for Gifted & Talented Students:
Suibjects / features include:
- Math
- Science
- Humanities
- Writing
- Literature
- Art
- Drama
- Japanese
- Tai Chi
- Dance
- Chorus
- Stage Combat
- Odyssey's 3 year program culminates in a 3 week trip to Japan.
Holy Cross Lutheran School is a Preschool and Junior Kindergarten School offering programs to 3, 4 & 5 year olds in Livermore (in the Tri-Valley region of the San Francisco Bay Area) in Alameda County, approximately 33 miles from San Francisco. Our mutual goal is to provide a happy experience for your child in which to learn co-operative living, creative expression and academic achievement in a non-structured settring, and to increase good feelings about himself / herself as a person of worth and a child of God.
The purpose of Holy Cross Lutheran School is to relate to each child the Love of God and the presence of Christ in the child's life by providing a warm Christian atmosphere in which to nurture the child's emotional, spiritual, social, mental and physical development.
- Programs for 3, 4 & 5 year olds
- Preschool program
- Jr. K School program
- Godly Play
- 1/2 day programs (mornings or afternoon)
- Individual attention
- Active, hands on activities
With its focus on the whole child - mind, body, soul - Holy Cross Lutheran School is one of the premier schools in all of the Tri-Valley.
Situated in the heart of Redwood City CA, in the San Francisco Bay Area, West Bay Christian Academy is a private elementary school that offers a Christian educational environment for international and American students in K4-8th grade. With small class sizes in a nurturing environment, students are taught to respect others, live cooperatively in community, and embrace a Biblical worldview.
Our faculty brings over 100 years of experience and includes teachers whose energy and technological savvy enhance the balance of traditional and multimedia instruction in the classroom. During those years, thousands of children graduated from these schools to enter and successfully complete their high school education. Many have received honors and academic scholarships.
Christian Elementary School Program for Boys & Girls:
- Covering students in K4 - 8th Grade
- Small class sizes
- Nurturing Christian educational environment
- Christian values
- Students taught to respect others
- Embrace a Biblical worldview
Located in Culver City in Western Los Angeles County, CA, Turning Point School offers preschool (from 2 years, 10 months), kindergarten, elementary and middle programs through to 8th grade, as well as before and after school programs and summer camp.
At Turning Point School, we strive to address the comprehensive educational needs of the whole, multi-faceted child. Here, the child is the focus, the teacher the facilitator. In an intimate and focused learning environment, students are able to realize their individual potential.
Through a variety of methods and in a diversity of environments, students build upon their individual strengths. They develop skills for sound judgment and learn how to learn, developing, as they go, their own understanding of the world. By making it relevant to them personally, by helping them reflect on who they are and how they, as individual citizens, can apply their knowledge, we release them solidly into the world.
Students emerge from Turning Point School self-assured in the quality of their ideas and actions, confident in their abilities, and well prepared for the path ahead.
* Education programs from primary (from 2 years 10 months) through to 8th grade:
- Primary and Kindergarten programs
- Elementary School programs
- Middle School programs
- Before and After School programs
- Summer Camp programs
* Our curriculum includes reading and literature, writing mechanics, math, science, social studies, visual arts, performing arts, technology, foreign languages, athletics and human & heath development