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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.


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School / Office Address: 201 Polhemus Road,94402
San Mateo
California
USA
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Anne Sullivan Nursery School and Kindergarten, Wildomar
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Anne Sullivan Nursery School and Kindergarten is located in the city of Wildomar in Riverside County, CA. Accredited by the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC), we provide full-day and half-day preschool and kindergarten programs for ages 2 years 9 months through kindergarten. We aim to prepare children academically, emotionally, socially and physically for formal schooling. We are proud that our school is open to all children regardless of race, creed, religion, ethnicity, gender or disability.

Our dedicated staff provides a safe and emotionally healthy environment. Children participate in hands-on activities with a variety of open-ended materials that are geared to meet their needs and their diversity of talents and temperaments.

The school is situated on 30 acres of countryside which offers the children the benefits of a peaceful and expansive natural setting. This allows our teachers to supplement classroom instruction with learning experiences based within nature itself, stimulating the children’s interest in and respect for the world around them.
Early Childhood Program for ages 2 years 9 months through kindergarten:

- Full-day & half-day preschool program
- Full-day & half-day kindergarten program

The kindergarten follows a curriculum encompassing language, reading, math, science, Spanish, music, art and physical education.
Brentwood School, Los Angeles
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Brentwood School is an independent day, co-ed school for K-12 students with two campuses in Sunset Boulevard and South Barrington Place in Los Angeles. Families from throughout Hollywood, Beverly Hills, Brentwood, Beverly Glen and surrounding communities value Brentwood School as a vibrant and diverse community whose purpose is to promote personal and intellectual growth. We provide challenging, engaging programs including an exceptional liberal arts education in a nurturing learning environment, devoting care and attention to every student.

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Education Programs:
- Kindergarten Program
- Lower School Program
- Middle School Program
- Upper School Program

Additionally:
- Athletics Program
- Arts Program
- Summer School

* Our Kindergarten curriculum emphasizes language arts, language experience stories, math, social studies and science.

* We provide our students with an exceptional liberal arts education. The program is designed to stretch and broaden students in the academic arena, in the arts, in athletics, and in their moral development.
West Bay Christian Academy
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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
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Heritage Montessori School
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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.

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- Kindergarten:
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- Elementary Program (Grades 1-4):
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Nurture And Nature Early Childhood Education Center, Millbrae
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