At the SFUSD Enrollment Fair yesterday, the District gave out a handout, “Four Year Comparison of Round 1 Demand: 2003-04, 2004-05, 2005-06 and 2006-07 (Data for K, 6, 9 programs). The handout was given at the District’s booth and the assignment seminars. We had reported on this handout earlier in the year.
Here is the good news that there were room at hidden gems throughout the City. Here are some of the hidden gems that received the same or less number of of #1 First Choices than they have space for:
John Yehall Chin
Frank McCoppin-General Education
Frank McCoppin-Chinese Bilingual
Garfield
Glen Park
Gordon Lau-General Education
Harvey Milk
Jean Parker
John Muir
Junipero serra
Marshall Spanish Immersion
McKinley
Miraloma
New Traditions
Redding
SF Community School
Sunset
Spring Valley
Sunnyside
Sutro
Ulloa Chinese Bilingual
Yick Wo
There are elementary schools that are extremely popular with parents. Here are the elementary schools that had the most number of #1 First Choice Requests. The data shown is the number of #1 Requests in 2006-07, #1 Requests in 2005-06, and #1 Requests for 2004-05.
Claire Lilienthal-General Education 267/184/198
Alice Fong Yu 208/173/162
Lawton 177/230/207
Rooftop 167/161/168
Alamo 147/174/153
Clarendon General Education 137/140/141
Buena Vista Spanish Immersion 135/123/131
West Portal 115/109/84
Alvarado 97/126/100
Here are the elementary schools that had the most number of Total Requests. The data shown is the number of Total Requests in 2006-07, Total Requests in 2005-06, and Total Requests for 2004-05.
Rooftop 819/733/632
Clarendon 771/681/624
Lawton 753/783/633
West Portal General 716/643/500
Claire Lilienthal 699/585/531
Alamo 618/566/446
Jefferson 497/478/401
Argonne 470/387/280
Lakeshore 456/476/459
Alice Fong Yu Chinese Immersion 455/394/380
Alvarado General Education 381/391/308
Buena Vista Spanish Immersion 368/362/358
Alvarado Spanish Immersion 354/365/305
Ulloa General Education 342/335/249
Commodore Sloat 316/305/271
Clarendon Japanese Bilingual 311/311/278
Sherman General Education 308/231/115
West Portal Chinese Immersion 306/263/179
Robert L. Stevenson-262/312/233
Other than Alavardo (Noe Valley) and Buena Vista (Potreo/Mission), the most request schools are on the west side.
For those parents looking for a west side school, you are in luch. There are some great schools that are in the west side that had less #1 Choice Request than they had spaces (although they had a large number of total requests). These (and all of SFUSD’s schools) are worth looking into to see if the school fits your child’s needs:
Dianne Feinstein (Parkside-the District’s newest school) (The Chronicle reported that it had room in its kindergarten class for more students.)
Frank McCoppin-General Education (Inner Richmond)
Frank McCoppin-Chinese Bilingual
McKinley (Castro at 14th Street)
New Traditions (Haight)
George Peabody-(Inner Richmond)
Sunnyside (near City College)
Sunset-(41st Avenue and Ortega)
Sutro-(Richmond)
Ulloa Chinese Bilingual-(Outer Sunset)
Here are the middle schools that had the most number of #1 First Choice Requests. The data shown is the number of #1 Requests in 2006-07, #1 Requests in 2005-06, and #1 Requests for 2004-05.
Presidio-620/591/613
Hoover General Education-465/530/406
A.P. Giannini-460/483/446
Aptos-239/203/231
MLK Jr.-200/220/219
Marina-181/263/259
Here are the middle schools that had the most number of Total Requests. The data shown is the number of Total Requests in 2006-07, Total Requests in 2005-06, and Total Requests for 2004-05.
Presidio 1444/1379/1302
Herbert Hoover 1412/1422/1295
A.P. Giannini 1280/1256/1191
Roosevelt 771/695/658
Aptos-717/624/663
Marina 686/748/798
Francisco 374/373/392
MLK Jr. 370/429/438
James Lick 344/300/346
James Denman 335/305/360
Horace Mann 256/316/353
Here are the high schools that had the most number of #1 First Choice Requests. The data shown is the number of #1 Requests in 2006-07, #1 Requests in 2005-06, and #1 Requests for 2004-05.
Abraham Lincoln-873/908/798
George Washngton-673/702/681
Galileo 217/167/184
Wallenberg 167/190/290
Burton 163/146/203
AAS at SOTA 105
Balboa 79/106/73
Notice the large jump between Lincoln and Washington to the third most requested high school for first choice, Galileo.
Here are the high schools that had the most number of Total Requests. The data shown is the number of Total Requests in 2006-07, Total Requests in 2005-06, and Total Requests for 2004-05.
Lincoln-3430/3314/3529
Washington-3236/3123/3309
Wallenberg-1723/1843/2466
Galileo-1459/1207/1220
Burton-646/723/926
Balboa-630/643/523
AAS at SOTA-616
John O’Connell-465/495/821
June Jordan-394/248/330
Thurgood Marshall-365/470/669
Mission-340/360/590
International Studies Academy-290/460/662
ISA, Burton and Thurgood Marshall have had a dramatic decrease in the number of applicants over the last three years. It is good to see that Balboa has kept its increase in enrollments over the last two years-let’s hope that it continues to either keep its jump or increase the number of requests.
Galileo has received some “buzz.” But its principal has left to be the Assistant Superintendent in charge of high schools (good move on the District’s part). Let’s hope that Galileo also keeps its buzz.
November 20th, 2006 at 8:20 am e
Galileo has done more than receive some buzz - its test scores have taken a huge jump over the past few years. As an SFUSD high school parent myself, I now hear it mentioned regularly in the same context as Lincoln and Washington.
November 20th, 2006 at 8:20 am e
Galileo has done more than receive some buzz - its test scores have taken a huge jump over the past few years. As an SFUSD high school parent myself, I now hear it mentioned regularly in the same context as Lincoln and Washington.
November 21st, 2006 at 8:32 am e
Yes, I have been hearing some good things about Gallileo. In a couple of years when our kids finish middle school, I will be taking a close look at the school.
Nice to see another public school on the up-and-up in Frisco town.