Why Presentation?
TPS is a vibrant, open-minded, and caring community for TK-8th grade families in the Sonoma and Napa Valleys.
We offer a rigorous academic program in TK-8th grade 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, Social-Emotional Learning, Library, and Technology in all TK-8th grades. TPS prioritizes emotional and social intelligence as a key to becoming a compassionate and effective leader and therefore fully utilizes the YALE RULER curriculum and is a RULER school.
The Presentation School Mission.
At The Presentation School, we cultivate curious LEARNers by blending academic excellence with personal growth. Our values of LOVE, service, community, and integrity guide us in nurturing empathetic LEADers, preparing students to face the future with courage and capability.
Founded in 1997
One class per grade serving TK-8th grades
Last 8th grade class size: 21
The only independent, non-profit school in Sonoma
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 of Emotional Intelligence at Yale University has selected TPS to be the 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.
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 leveled math courses for students to test into higher 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.
Eight graders at TPS are required to design, 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.
TPS Standardized Test Results
TPS utlizes the Education Records Bureau (ERB) Standardized Testing each spring in 3-8 grades. TPS consistently performs at or above 95% of schools nationally. In the independent school category, TPS performs at or above 76% of independent schools, including schools where aptitude testing is a requirement for entry.
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.
Ashley Hall (SC)
The Branson School
Cardinal Newman HS
Convent of the Sacred Heart
Credo High School
French American International High School
Justin Siena High School
Lick Wilmerding High School
Marin Academy
Marin School of the Arts
New Tech High School
Port-Gaud School (SC)
San Francisco International High School
Sonoma Academy