Retreats
Class retreats build bonds that last all four years.
Our Community
You’ll find your people.
We are many unique individuals, in one caring community, where students feel welcomed and supported in being who they are.
Community Meeting
The center of our week.
Every week, about 400 students and staffulty gather for a student-run Community Meeting: a Moment of Reflection anyone may share, Moments of Talent, group presentations, and two to three senior speeches. Every senior gives one before graduating.
It’s also where you’ll hear the snapping that signals agreement. Along with Tea and Toast in the Commons and the piles of backpacks on the Central Plaza, it’s one of the traditions that make SA “so SA.”
Student life
Student life.
Dances, back-the-pack spirit games, and movie nights, run by students, for students.
Advisory
Mixed-grade groups of about 10 students and one faculty advisor, meeting weekly: a home away from home.
Coyote Cup
Classes earn points in dodgeball, pumpkin carving, lip sync, and more, and the winning class celebrates.
Dances
Homecoming, Winter Formal, the Spring Dance, and Prom.
Movie Nights
Students vote on the film and watch outdoors in the amphitheater, hosted by the Student Leadership Council.
Leadership
Over 30 ways to lead.
Nearly 45% of our students hold a leadership position. As Warren Bennis put it, “Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself.”
Student Leadership Council
Admissions All-Stars
Senior Mentors
Peer Tutors
DEI Advisory
Student Affinity Groups
Marketing & Communications Interns
Team Captains
Theater Arts Leadership
Tri-M Music Honor Society
Beyond the classroom
Clubs and teams.
Some of the ways students compete, build, and serve beyond the classroom.
Speech & Debate
The #1 Policy Debate team in the Golden Gate Speech Association, four years in a row. Students compete in policy and congressional debate, interpretation, and original oratory.
Robotics
Founded in 2017, Ellipse 6814 brings together more than twenty students from every grade in five sub-teams, and has reached the World Championships.
Community Engagement
Our Center for Community Engagement runs a Nonprofit Fair, Community Engagement Day, and quarterly school-wide volunteer days.
Belonging
A seat at the table.
We continually work to ensure that every student at Sonoma Academy thrives. We believe learning occurs best in a connected community, one that welcomes difference, advances equity, and engages local and global communities.
Student affinity groups include Asian, Black Student Union, Jewish, Latinx, LGBTQ+, and Multiracial Multiethnic People of Color, alongside a Queer Straight Alliance and a staffulty DEI Working Group.
Wellbeing
Safety and wellbeing are priorities.
A licensed counselor is on campus four days a week for individual students and small groups. Our Student Success Team meets twice a week, and every 9th grader is mentored by trained seniors.
Our Honor Code was developed by students and staffulty together, and its illustrations hang in most classrooms. We consider it a dialogue that continues to develop over time.
Daily lunch
Pull up a chair.
Lunch is included in tuition. Our food partner, SAGE, makes fresh meals from scratch in small batches, with vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free, and international options every day.
Expect daily entrees, soups, salad and sandwich bars, fresh fruit, and build-your-own bars, with composting, recycling, and a growing share of local and organic food.
Visit
Find your people.
The best way to feel the SA community is to spend a day in it.