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San Francisco Unified


At a glance
679thof 1,543 California districts▼ 33
Better than 55% of California districts
555 Franklin St.
San Francisco, CA 94102-5207
·(415) 241-6000·All California district rankings →
Statewide performance 2016–2025
2025: better than 56% of districts
113
Schools
48,706
Students
17
5-star schools
Top rankedLowell High50th of 2,162 California high schools
Biggest riser
Parks (Rosa) Elementary up 1,208 spots statewide this year
Smallest classes
Academy (The)- SF @McAteer 9.9 students per teacher
Newly ranked this year
Independence High
SchoolDigger ratings
5★
4★
3★
1★
0★
12 schools without a SchoolDigger rating (too few tested students)
Summary:

The San Francisco Unified district contains 106 schools serving grades K-12, representing a district of extreme contrasts where world-class academic institutions exist alongside schools facing profound challenges.

Top-performing schools like Lowell High, Sunset Elementary, and Giannini (A.P.) Middle rank among the best in California, boasting high test scores and graduation rates with low chronic absenteeism. Notably, some schools like Chin (John Yehall) Elementary and Ulloa Elementary achieve this high performance while serving significant populations of economically disadvantaged students, demonstrating that poverty does not universally preclude success.

Conversely, schools such as Mission High, Revere (Paul) Elementary, and Buena Vista/ Horace Mann K-8 rank in the bottom quartile statewide, struggling with low proficiency rates and very high chronic absenteeism, despite often receiving the highest per-student spending in the district. This creates a significant equity gap, where a student's educational experience varies drastically depending on which school they attend.

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SchoolDigger data sources: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Census Bureau and the California Department of Education.

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