Though it is less than 50 square miles, the city of San Francisco is home to more than 90 private schools that serve about 22,000 K-12 students, according to the California Department of Education.

The average annual tuition for private high schools in California is $19,800, according to the Education Data Initiative, and top schools in Los Angeles can be $30,000 or more. Jamie Bakal ...

The University of California, Berkeley, is the highest-ranked public school in the Western U.S. and Stanford University is ...