The Presentation School
OVERVIEW
→ Founded in 1997
→ The only independent, non-profit school in Sonoma
→ One class per grade serving TK-8th grades
→ Last 8th Grade Class Size: 21
→ Fully accredited through California Association of Independent Schools, Western Association of Schools and Colleges
→ Other Memberships: NAIS, DHS SEVIS
OUR SCHOOL
TPS is a vibrant, open-minded, and caring community offering the highest excellence in academic preparation for high school and a welcoming school community for K8 families in the Sonoma and Napa valleys. We offer a rigorous academic program in K-8 grounded by Common Core standards in small classes where individualized attention and student-centered learning are present. TPS offers a full academic program and includes specialist classes as integral to a holistic education offering Spanish, PE, Performing and Fine Art, Music, SocialEmotional Learning, Library, and Technology in all K-8 grades. TPS prioritizes emotional and social intelligence as key to becoming a compassionate and effective leader and therefore fully utilizes the YALE RULER curriculum and is a RULER school. The school is situated in a parklike setting on 4.5 acres.
THE MIDDLE SCHOOL DIFFERENCE
TPS offers an intimate class size in middle school with all students moving through the program as a single cohort. The middle school offers levelled math courses for students to test into high level math at an earlier grade. Classes that feature horizontal knowledge such as art and PE offer mixed grade classes. The middle school program features a Rising Leaders program which focuses on developing leadership, community belonging, and personal growth in our middle schoolers. Eighth graders at TPS are required to designed, implement, and reflect on a year-long community service project which focuses on individual student impact in the wider community. Students present their projects, findings, and reflections annually to a panel of community service leaders from throughout Sonoma and Napa valleys.
OUR MOTTO
The Presentation School is an intentional community devoted to the growth and welfare of young people. We all work towards understanding and embodying the values that form the philosophical foundation for our School: especially the mission’s entreaty to LOVE, LEARN, LEAD.
LOVE We strive to create graduates who have developed a greater sense of themselves and their roles as active community builders. We strive to create kind graduates who embody the values of love, gratitude, respect, service and integrity.
LEARN We strive to create graduates who are both critical and creative thinkers, strong and effective communicators, and collaborative problem-solvers.
LEAD We strive to create graduates who are of service to others and their community. We strive to create graduates who communicate respectfully and clearly, who can and will speak up for others, and can clearly explain what they think and why.
New Accreditation
TPS is proud to share that after formal and thorough review last school year, we have been awarded full accreditation and membership status with California Association of Independent Schools (CAIS). TPS is proud of the achievement of such a rigorous process to evaluate academic and community excellence. Presentation has full and dual accreditation with CAIS and the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC.)
RULER SPOTLIGHT!
The Center for Emotional Intelligence at Yale University has selected TPS to be a RULER Spotlight School! This community-wide accomplishment is recognition of the effective integration of our RULER Social Intelligence curriculum into every facet of our community. We are grateful that Yale has afforded us this recognition and they, too, celebrate our school as we actively pave the way toward a more emotionally intelligent community.
GRADUATE PROFILE
Our students are prepared to attend the most competitive schools in the Bay Area and beyond. Presentation graduates attend a wide variety of independent, parochial, and public high schools upon graduation, excelling wherever they go. Who they are in all of these places matters greatly to Presentation.