San Francisco Unified School District

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The San Francisco Unified School District is a public school district in San Francisco, California. It is managed by the San Francisco Board of Education.

The district was California's first public school district when it was established in 1851.[1][2] It currently serves over 56,000 students in more than 160 institutions.[3] It is the only public school district within the City and County of San Francisco.

The San Francisco Unified School District utilizes an intra-district school choice system and requires students and parents to submit a selection application. Calfee School Guide was the first curricula-based non-profit program in the country to work with public middle school students to help them select and apply to public, magnet and public-charter high schools.

For six consecutive years, SFUSD has outperformed the seven largest California school districts on the California Standards Tests (CST). Newsweek Magazine’s national ranking of “America’s Best High Schools” (2007) named seven SFUSD High Schools among the top 5% in the country. In 2005, two SFUSD schools were recognized by the federal government as No Child Left Behind Blue-Ribbon Schools. [4]

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[edit] Schools

[edit] Secondary schools

[edit] High schools

Balboa High School
Balboa High School
Galileo Academy of Science and Technology
Galileo Academy of Science and Technology
Lowell High School
Lowell High School
Mission High School
Mission High School

Comprehensive schools

Alternative schools

[edit] Middle schools

Traditional schools


Alternative schools

[edit] K-8 schools

[edit] K-5 schools

[edit] Former schools

[edit] Secondary schools

[edit] High schools

  • J. Eugene McAteer High School (1973-2002) was located at 555 Portola Drive.
  • Polytechnic High School (1895-1972) [14] was located on Frederick Street across from Kezar Stadium.
  • Urban Pioneer Experiential Academy (2002-2004) [15]

[edit] Middle schools

  • Aim High Academy, 2003-2006 (relocated to Luther Burbank MS site and renamed as Small Middle School for Equity at the end of the 2005-2006 academic year)
  • Luther Burbank Middle School (closed at the end of the 2005-2006 academic year) is currently the home for the June Jordan School for Equity [a charter school] and Excelsior Middle School.
  • Benjamin Franklin Middle School (closed at the end of the 2004-2005 academic year) was located at 1430 Scott Street and renamed in the fall of 2006 as the Burl L. Toler Campus and is now home to both Gateway High School and KIPP SF Bay Academy [both charter schools].
  • Enola Maxwell Middle School (closed at the end of the 2005-2006 academic year) (formerly Potrero Middle School) and now home to I.S.A. High School.

[edit] K-8 schools

  • Treasure Island School (closed mid-term, December 16, 2005)
  • Twenty-First Century K-8 (became Willie L. Brown College Preparatory 2004-2005)

[edit] Elementary schools

  • Cabrillo Elementary School (closed at the end of the 2005-2006 academic year) was located at 735 24th Avenue in the Outer Richmond District.
  • Edison Elementary School est. 1934 at 3531-22nd St. in Noe Valley. Converted to Edison Charter Academy, a District Charter School in partnership with Edison Schools, Inc. in 1998. Became a State Charter School in 2001 separate from SFUSD. Converted from K-5 to K-8 in 2005.
  • Farragut School (closed in the early 1970s) was located on Holloway between Capitol and Faxon in the Ingelside District. Currently there are townhouses located there.
  • Golden Gate Elementary (closed at the end of the 2004-2005 academic year) was located at 1601 Turk Street between Steiner and Divisadero.
  • John Swett Alternative Elementary (merged with John Muir after 2005-2006 academic year) was located at 727 Golden Gate Avenue, between Franklin and Gough.
  • JBBP West (Japanese Bilingual Bicultural Program in the Sunset) was located at 3045 Santiago Street at 42nd Avenue for 3 years. The program moved to Rosa Parks Elementary at 1501 O'Farrell Street after the 2005-2006 academic year.
  • San Miguel Elementary (closed in the 1980s) was located at 300 Seneca Avenue in the Excelsior District.
  • William R. DeAvila Elementary (formerly Dudley Stone) (closed at the end of the 2003-2004 academic year) was located at 1351 Haight Street, between Masonic and Central in the Upper Haight.

[edit] See also

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