Welcome to Bay!
Congratulations, new Bay families! We are thrilled you have decided to join The Bay School community. Through the Bridge to Bay newsletter and this webpage, we will keep you updated about events and important deadlines. In August, you will be entered into our student information system (called MyBay) and begin receiving our regular school communications, including our weekly newsletter, The Current.
Welcome Day
Sunday, May 4, we will hold our Welcome Day event for new students and their parents/guardians.
Please join us for games, food, and the chance to start making connections with other new Breakers. You will meet some key members of our staffulty and get information about the months ahead. We will host an informal program for new parents/guardians and, of course, celebrate your family’s next chapter with us!
Bay Splash: April 26
New parents/guardians are invited to our annual community party! Rather than hold an annual fundraiser (such as an auction), we do all of our spring fundraising through Giving Days and let the party just be a party. We’d be thrilled to have you join us in celebrating Bay!
Saturday, April 26
6 to 10 p.m.
Bimbo’s 365 Club
RSVP for Bay Splash
Tickets are $50, but we don’t want ticket price to be a barrier to anyone. On the RSVP page, you will find codes to apply for a discount.
Need Accommodations?
If you believe your student will be in need of a learning plan at Bay, more information can be found below. For detailed information about the Learning Services trajectory at Bay, click here.
For questions, or if you'd like to schedule a parent or parent/student meeting, please contact Kristina Sears.
For new students to receive a learning plan that includes academic accommodations, the Learning Services team will need to review a psychoeducational or neuropsychological assessment report for the student. The assessment report must meet these criteria:
- The report must be written by a licensed clinical psychologist who specializes in assessment.*
- The report must be completed no earlier than 6th grade.
- If there is a recommendation for extended time, it needs to be specific (e.g., 50% or 100%).
- If there is a recommendation for the use of a computer, it should specify access for taking notes and/or completing tests.
- Diagnoses with specific DSM-V or ICD-10 code numbers are required.
- Academic and cognitive testing measures and scores must be reported.
*The only exception is for students whose primary diagnosis is a receptive/expressive language disability or a student who is a dyslexic learner without executive functioning difficulties. This type of evaluation should be conducted by a licensed speech/language pathologist or a specialist in language-based learning disabilities.
Getting to Bay
Bay’s location is of course one of our defining features. When you arrive here, you truly feel like you’ve crossed over into a special place. Our students and staffulty come from many points in the Bay Area, and there are numerous options to find a commute that works best for you.
- Bay's own San Francisco & Marin bus service
- Bay provides a bus service with two lines: one from Marin and one from the southern end of SF. See this year’s schedule.
- San Francisco Muni buses
- The 43 Masonic bus line stops across the street from school. This bus crosses the city up the middle, all the way from Crocker Amazon, passing through so many neighborhoods along the way—the Excelsior, Forest Hills, the Panhandle, Laurel Heights, to name a few. You’re never far from a 43 stop.
- The 30 Stockton stops a few minutes from our front door (at Sports Basement) and goes from Mission Bay through downtown, Chinatown, the Marina, and more.
- Carpool with other families or students
- Lots of Bay families and 12th grade students set up carpools. This is common for our students from the East Bay.
- PresidiGo - Presidio's own bus service
- The Presidio runs two free shuttle lines: one that loops from the Embarcadero with a pick up on Van Ness and Union and another that goes along the southern part of the park, stopping near Baker Beach on Lincoln and near 14th Avenue and Lake Street. Both of these stops are easily accessible from western SF neighborhoods.
Bay's Strategic Design
We are proud to present Bridge the Bay and Beyond, The Bay School’s new Strategic Design, which sets the vision and priorities for our next five years. In 2023–2024, we celebrated our 20th anniversary. We enter our third decade confident that the unique features of a Bay education are more beneficial than ever for young people. Click below to hear from our Head of School, Luke Felker, as well as Bay teachers and students about what makes our school so distinctive and how we are deepening our commitment to those features.
The initiatives we’ve outlined will directly benefit your students when they join the Bay community!
Visit the Strategic Design website and watch the video below to see where The Bay School is headed.
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We’re thrilled to welcome your family to our community! Explore the videos below and don't hesitate to reach out with any questions—we can’t wait to see you on campus soon.