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San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD), established in 1851, is the only public school district
School district
School districts are a form of special-purpose district which serves to operate the local public primary and secondary schools.-United States:...

 within the City and County of San Francisco, and the first in the state of California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...

. Under the management of the San Francisco Board of Education
San Francisco Board of Education
The San Francisco Board of Education is made of seven Commissioners, elected by voters across the city to serve 4-year terms. It is subject to local, state, and federal laws, and determines policy for all the public schools in the San Francisco Unified School District.- Founding :In October 1849,...

, the district serves more than 55,500 students in more than 160 institutions.

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. Calfee School Guide
Calfee School Guide
The San Francisco Unified School District is one of twenty five full-choice enrollment systems in the United States that allows parents and students to select their schools of choice in a required district application...

 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
Newsweek
Newsweek is an American weekly news magazine published in New York City. It is distributed throughout the United States and internationally. It is the second-largest news weekly magazine in the U.S., having trailed Time in circulation and advertising revenue for most of its existence...

’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
No Child Left Behind Act
The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 is a United States Act of Congress concerning the education of children in public schools.NCLB was originally proposed by the administration of George W. Bush immediately after he took office...

.

High schools

Comprehensive schools
  • Balboa High School
    Balboa High School (San Francisco, California)
    Balboa High School, colloquially known as Bal, is an American public high school located near the Excelsior District in the Mission Terrace neighborhood of San Francisco, California. Balboa serves grades nine through twelve as part of the San Francisco Unified School District .Balboa is a...

  • Galileo Academy of Science and Technology
    Galileo Academy of Science and Technology
    Galileo Academy of Science and Technology is a public secondary school located in San Francisco's Russian Hill and Marina District neighborhoods...

  • Abraham Lincoln High School
    Abraham Lincoln High School (San Francisco)
    Abraham Lincoln High School is a California Distinguished, fully accredited comprehensive public high school located in the Sunset District of San Francisco, California...

  • Mission High School
  • George Washington High School
    George Washington High School (San Francisco)
    George Washington High School is a public high school in Richmond District, San Francisco, California. The school is a part of the San Francisco Unified School District...



Alternative schools

Middle schools


K-8 schools


K-5 schools


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.
  • Urban Pioneer Experiential Academy (2002–2004)
  • Woodrow Wilson High School (____-_____) 400 Mansell Avenue (renamed as Phillip & Sala Burton HS)

Middle schools

  • Aim High Academy
    Aim High Academy
    Aim High is a middle school summer academic enrichment program that was designed and created at San Francisco's Lick-Wilmerding High School in 1986, by Alec Lee and Eleanor McBride, two Lick-Wilmerding teachers. A founding grant from the San Francisco Foundation helped launch the program...

    , 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, and City Arts and Technology High School [both are charter schools].
  • Gloria R. Davis College Preparatory Academy (closed at the end of the 2006-2007 academic year) was located at 1195 Hudson Street
  • 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.

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)

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
    City College of San Francisco
    City College of San Francisco, or CCSF, is a two-year community college in San Francisco, California. The Ocean Avenue campus, in the Ingleside neighborhood, is the college's primary location...

    . 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.

See also

  • San Francisco County high schools
  • San Francisco Board of Education
    San Francisco Board of Education
    The San Francisco Board of Education is made of seven Commissioners, elected by voters across the city to serve 4-year terms. It is subject to local, state, and federal laws, and determines policy for all the public schools in the San Francisco Unified School District.- Founding :In October 1849,...

  • Reading Partners
    Reading Partners
    Reading Partners is a children's literacy nonprofit based in the San Francisco Bay Area with programs in 26 school districts throughout California, New York, and Washington DC...

     an SFUSD partner organization

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