Summary:
San Francisco Unified has 102 schools in San Francisco: 72 elementary, 13 middle and 17 high schools, serving students from elementary through high school. The records summarized here cover only a subset of those schools. Results vary sharply even among schools serving the same grade: grade-5 math ranges from 88% at one school to 0% at another, while the state result is 37%. The most important finding for families is that school outcomes are highly uneven, so an area-wide label would hide major differences.
Lowell High leads the supplied high schools in grade 11, with 93% in ELA, 87% in math and 85% in science—36, 55 and 46 percentage points above state results, respectively. Giannini Middle leads in grade 8 across all three subjects, scoring 78% in ELA, 64% in math and 67% in science, or 29, 27 and 32 points above the state. Elementary leaders differ by subject: Lawton Alternative leads grade-5 ELA at 89%, Chinese Immersion School at DeAvila leads math at 88%, and Clarendon Alternative leads science at 80%. At the low end, Wells High has 8% in grade-11 ELA; Lick Middle is lowest in all three grade-8 subjects; and Carver Elementary has 6% in grade-5 ELA and 0% in math.
Recent changes also differ: Lowell rose 6 percentage points in ELA, 16 in math and 17 in science from 2024–25 to 2025–26, while Lincoln High fell 8, 11 and 11 points in those subjects. SchoolDigger ranks Lowell in the 99th percentile and Giannini in the 95th percentile statewide, but those relative rankings are not test scores. Attendance offers additional context: Giannini, Lawton and DeAvila report chronic absenteeism of 11%, 11% and 5%, compared with 33% districtwide; Lowell pairs strong results with 18% absenteeism. The reported free/reduced lunch eligible measure, sy 2024–25, also varies among schools: Lau Elementary reports 82%, Buena Vista/Horace Mann 66%, and Lawton 58%; these figures are context, not an explanation of achievement.
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