General Info

Professional Tutoring Services of Silicon Valley (PTS) has been helping students achieve academic success in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1992 and has extended to the Monterey/Carmel area since 2006. It has more than 30 professional tutors that can go to your home, local library, or our central office located in Los Altos. We offer tutoring in all academic subjects for grades K-College, including Math (Calculus, Statistics, Finite Math, Linear Algebra, and more), Chemistry, Biology, Physics, Reading, Writing, ESL, Spanish (K-College), French, History, Economics, and more. We also have several elementary level tutors that help with reading, writing, organization, homework, and study skills. Rates from $35 per hour. PTS also offers AP, SAT 1 and 2 courses Spanish and French courses for kids K to 3rd grade on Friday afternoons in Los Altos, $20 p/h Spanish for adults on Friday mornings in Los Altos High school math and Spanish summer courses; credits can be granted through your school PTS has many applicants for tutoring positions every month, only a few make it to our roster. Applicants go through an extensive interview process involving questions in their academic area, reference checks, inspection of transcripts, and are asked to do a "mock" tutoring session. In particular, Math and Spanish prospective tutors go through extra testing, making us specialists in these areas.