EFBA (Education Française Bay Area)
St. Philip Catholic School, 665 Elizabeth St, San Francisco, CA 94114
About
EFBA (Education Française Bay Area) offers French classes, immersive summer camps, cultural outings, cultural activities, online French classes, afterschool French classes, private and semi-private lessons, creative projects, outdoor activities, cultural exploration, and family events. The program uses a part-time school model made up of three interconnected programs: online French classes, afterschool French classes, and summer camps. EFBA also created the Virgule curriculum, a French-learning textbook series for children, and offers both French as a Second Language (FSL) and Francophone tracks with small-group immersive instruction led by experienced French-speaking educators.
• Ages: 5–18 years old
Founded in 2009, EFBA is a 501(c)3 nonprofit French school dedicated to fostering bilingualism in children aged 5 to 18 and promoting bilingualism by teaching French in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. EFBA is WASC accredited since 2014, and its camps are ACA-accredited since 2019. The program offers an accredited pathway for children and teens to learn French through a play-based and project-based 12-year curriculum aligned with DELF proficiency benchmarks, and internationally recognized DELF exams serve as independent benchmarks of progress. EFBA uses a community-centered approach that brings language learning beyond the classroom through immersive cultural outings in person and online, and it partners with schools and communities across San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley, Mountain View, San Carlos, Palo Alto, San José, and surrounding areas.
The EFBA team is first aid/CPR certified and background check verified, and the French teaching staff are French-speaking professionals from diverse educational backgrounds. The leadership team includes Gabrielle Durana, Founder and President of EFBA. Immersive summer camps are led by counselors directly from France.
Parent and student feedback includes comments that EFBA offers cultural outings across the Bay Area where children use interactive workbooks and outdoor games and connect with French speakers from diverse backgrounds. One parent reports that EFBA provided a special needs assistant in a small afterschool class, and another notes that their child started with no French and now speaks with grandparents. Other comments describe EFBA as feeling like a school community with structure and consistency, and mention that teachers are described as amazing and that the program balances learning and fun. Gabrielle Durana states that preserving native languages nurtures family well-being and a child’s identity at EFBA, and that EFBA champions linguistic and cultural diversity as an invaluable asset.
Last updated June 16, 2026.
• Ages: 5–18 years old
Founded in 2009, EFBA is a 501(c)3 nonprofit French school dedicated to fostering bilingualism in children aged 5 to 18 and promoting bilingualism by teaching French in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. EFBA is WASC accredited since 2014, and its camps are ACA-accredited since 2019. The program offers an accredited pathway for children and teens to learn French through a play-based and project-based 12-year curriculum aligned with DELF proficiency benchmarks, and internationally recognized DELF exams serve as independent benchmarks of progress. EFBA uses a community-centered approach that brings language learning beyond the classroom through immersive cultural outings in person and online, and it partners with schools and communities across San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley, Mountain View, San Carlos, Palo Alto, San José, and surrounding areas.
The EFBA team is first aid/CPR certified and background check verified, and the French teaching staff are French-speaking professionals from diverse educational backgrounds. The leadership team includes Gabrielle Durana, Founder and President of EFBA. Immersive summer camps are led by counselors directly from France.
Parent and student feedback includes comments that EFBA offers cultural outings across the Bay Area where children use interactive workbooks and outdoor games and connect with French speakers from diverse backgrounds. One parent reports that EFBA provided a special needs assistant in a small afterschool class, and another notes that their child started with no French and now speaks with grandparents. Other comments describe EFBA as feeling like a school community with structure and consistency, and mention that teachers are described as amazing and that the program balances learning and fun. Gabrielle Durana states that preserving native languages nurtures family well-being and a child’s identity at EFBA, and that EFBA champions linguistic and cultural diversity as an invaluable asset.
Last updated June 16, 2026.
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