 • Willow Creek Academy, K-8

This independent public charter school was begun in 2001 by a group of Sausalito parents who wanted to provide a public school option for Sausalito families.Prior to WCA's opening, basically all Sausalito children went to private schools, as Bayside was considered undesirable (after the military fort closed in the 1990s, the racial make-up of the school shifted dramatically when military families left, greatly lessening the number of white students).Willow Creek Academy has grown from its initial K-3 formation, housed on the Bayside campus, to a K-8 with approximately 380 students in the 2015–2016 school year.