Lycee Francais De San Francisco (Sausalito)

At Lycée Français de San Francisco’s Ortega campus, the secondary program combines an authentically French education with an international, bilingual model aimed at developing adaptable global thinkers through academic excellence in a caring, diverse environment. Teaching emphasizes curiosity, critical thinking, empathy, and excellence; in middle and high school this shows up through rigorous bilingual coursework, growing student autonomy, and inquiry-driven, interdisciplinary learning that connects classroom study to real-world and global contexts. (lelycee.org)

For Lycée Français de San Francisco’s Ortega campus (middle and high school), families start in the school’s Veracross admissions portal by creating an account, paying the non-refundable $150 application fee, and completing the checklist to submit an application. (lelycee.org) The process then includes admissions meetings on Zoom—middle school applicants/families meet with an admissions associate, while high school parents and applicants meet separately—and applicants upload required materials in Veracross, including documents plus a short introductory video for Grades 6-12. (lelycee.org) Requirements published on the site include report cards as a checklist item, review only of complete applications, and for students not currently in the French system a teacher Zoom evaluation to confirm French level; more broadly, the French Track requires strong French and may require testing, while the International Track has no French prerequisite. (lelycee.org) The current admissions page lists January 23, 2026 as the deadline, with K-12 electronic notifications on Thursday, March 19, 2026 at noon and responses due Thursday, March 26, 2026 at 10 a.m.; after those dates, applications are reviewed on a rolling basis, and applications from families relocating from abroad are also mostly rolling. (lelycee.org) I did not find a published Ortega-specific waitlist policy or a formal current list of admissions priority categories on the reviewed admissions pages; the closest related note is that meetings are optional for parents of sibling applicants, which does not explicitly state sibling priority. (lelycee.org)