San Francisco Unified School District

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San Francisco Unified School District
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Type and location
Type Public
Established 1851
Country United States
Location San Francisco, California
District Info
Superintendent Carlos A. Garcia
Students and staff
Students 55,571 (2010-2011)[1]
Other information
Website http://www.sfusd.edu/

San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD), established in 1851, is the only public school district within the City and County of San Francisco, and the first in the state of California.[2] Under the management of the San Francisco Board of Education, the district serves more than 55,500 students in more than 160 institutions.[3]

SFUSD utilizes an intra-district school choice system and requires students and parents to submit a selection application. Every year in the fall, the SFUSD hosts a Public School Enrollment Fair to provide families access to information about ALL the schools in the district. For enrollment in the 2012-2013 school year, the Enrollment Fair will take place on 05 November 2011.[4] 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).[5] Newsweek’s national ranking of "Best High Schools in America" named seven SFUSD high schools among the top five percent in the country in 2007. In 2005, two SFUSD schools were recognized by the federal government as No Child Left Behind Blue-Ribbon Schools.

Contents

[edit] Schools

[edit] Secondary schools

[edit] High schools

Balboa High School
Galileo Academy of Science and Technology
Lowell High School
Mission High School
Comprehensive schools
Alternative schools

[edit] Middle 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) 555 Portola Drive.
  • Newcomer High School (was located at the old Laguna Honda Elementary)
  • Polytechnic High School (1895–1972) Frederick Street across from Kezar Stadium.[6]
  • Urban Pioneer Experiential Academy (2002–2004)
  • Woodrow Wilson High School (____-_____) 400 Mansell Avenue (renamed as Phillip & Sala Burton HS)

[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) was located at 325 La Grande Avenue. It is currently the home for the June Jordan School for Equity (Small public school), and City Arts and Technology High School (Charter school).
  • Gloria R. Davis College Preparatory Academy (closed at the end of the 2006-2007 academic year) was located at 1195 Hudson Street [7]
  • Excelsior Middle School was merged into International Studies Academy [ISA HS] in the fall of 2008 allowing for a 6-12 grade 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).
  • Horace Mann Middle School (was merged with Buena Vista K-5 to form a K-8 program starting in fall 2011 while supporting the 7th & 8th graders who had started at Horace Mann)
  • 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

  • Willie L. Brown Jr. Academy College Preparatory School, 4-8 (formerly Twenty-First Century K-8) (closed at the end of the 2010-2011 academic year for considerable renovations as well as academic issues.)
  • Treasure Island School (closed mid-school year, 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.
  • William R. DeAvila Elementary (formerly Dudley Stone Elementary) was located at 1351 Haight Street, between Masonic and Central in the Upper Haight. The school was closed at the end of the 2004-05 school year and briefly rented to City College of San Francisco. Before the start of the 2009-10 school year, the school district re-opened DeAvila as the Chinese Immersion School at DeAvila. Kindergarten and 1st grade students were enrolled for 2009-10, with the plan of gradually expanding the school to comprise grades K-5.
  • Diamond Heights Elementary (currently home to the San Francisco Police Academy & PAL) was located at 350 Amber Drive, just behind the Diamond Height's Safeway. The building was built in the 1960s hugging the Diamond Heights/Glen Park Canyon. Almost immediately upon completion, the property was determined to be unsafe and sliding into the canyon. The school was closed for one year, shored up and reopened. It was closed as a public school in the 1980s. Subsequently, the building is used by the SFPD for cadet training.
  • 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 Elementary (closed in the early 1970s) was located on Holloway between Capitol and Faxon in the Ingleside 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. Creative Arts Charter School now resides at this campus.
  • JBBP West(Japanese Bilingual Bicultural Program in the Sunset) was located at 3045 Santiago Street at 42nd Avenue for 3 years, after having been housed at William De Avila for 2 years. Due to the small size of the Santiago campus and a growing student population, the program moved to Rosa Parks Elementary at 1501 O'Farrell Street after the 2005-2006 academic year, and was renamed JBBP Rosa Parks.
  • Laguna Honda Elementary was located at 1350 Seventh Avenue in the Inner Sunset.
  • San Miguel Elementary (closed in the 1980s) was located at 300 Seneca Avenue in the Excelsior District.
  • John Swett Alternative Elementary (merged with John Muir after 2005-2006 academic year) was located at 727 Golden Gate Avenue, between Franklin and Gough.

[edit] See also

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[edit] References

  1. ^ Educational Demographics Unit (2011). "California Public Schools - District Report: 2010-11 District Enrollment by Grade San Francisco Unified". California Department of Education. http://data1.cde.ca.gov/dataquest/Enrollment/GradeEnr.aspx?cYear=2010-11&cGender=B&cType=All&cChoice=CoEnrGrd2&TheCounty=38,San%20Francisco. Retrieved 2011-11-04. 
  2. ^ San Francisco History Center (2008) (.PDF). San Francisco Unified School District Records. 1854-2005 (Bulk 1874-1978). San Francisco Public Library. p. vii. http://sfpl.lib.ca.us/librarylocations/sfhistory/pdf/sfusdrecords.pdf. Retrieved 2010-02-11. 
  3. ^ Educational Demographics Unit (2011). "California Public Schools - District Report: 2010-11 District Enrollment by Grade San Francisco Unified". California Department of Education. http://data1.cde.ca.gov/dataquest/Enrollment/GradeEnr.aspx?cYear=2010-11&cGender=B&cType=All&cChoice=CoEnrGrd2&TheCounty=38,San%20Francisco. Retrieved 2011-11-04. 
  4. ^ "SF Public School Enrollment Fair". San Francisco Unified School District. 2011. http://www.sfusd.edu/en/news/current-news/2011/11/sf-public-school-enrollment-fair-offers-parents-opportunity-to-learn-about-school-options.html. Retrieved 2011-11-04. 
  5. ^ "About SFUSD: Did you know". San Francisco Unified School District. 2007. http://portal.sfusd.edu/template/default.cfm?page=about.didyouknow. Retrieved 2010-02-09. 
  6. ^ Wagner, Venise (1997-04-21). "Poly High alums seek spirit of '68". The San Francisco Chronicle. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/e/a/1996/10/04/NEWS5156.dtl. 
  7. ^ http://portal.sfusd.edu/template/default.cfm?page=ms.davis

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