The Bay School of San Francisco ~ Academics

Learning at the Speed of Life

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Our academic philosophy reflects our commitment to thoughtful inquiry, impassioned creativity, elegant communication, skilled collaboration, deliberate skill practice and the consideration of real-world questions. These priorities suggest a bias toward depth rather than breadth; require resilience and patience; and bring students face to face with those difficult questions that often have no simple answers.

Bay’s curriculum grows from a largely skills-based, integrated approach in the freshman and sophomore years to an increasing interplay between the requirements for college admission and the talents and enthusiasms of the students in grades 11 and 12. Courses taken in students’ first two years at Bay provide a solid foundation for the vast array of electives taken in their junior and senior years.

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