Schools with more low income and low performing students have smaller class sizes. Lowell average math class has 29 students, Thurgood Marshall 20 and Well 12.
What does unduplicated pupil percentage mean? I googled and the best I could come up with is the percentage of kids who are one of : (eligible for free or reduced price school meals, are English Learners, or are foster youth). So the kids at SOTA tend have less need, which jibes with what my daughter says. She says a lot of K-8 private school kids go there, which she thinks is annoying but to me speaks to the high quality of the education there. All of our high schools should be competitive with private schools.
I am of the impression that SFUSD generally has good high schools, at least for the vast majority of kids: Lowell, SOTA, and Lincoln are great. Washington, Balboa, and Galileo are very good and Wallenberg, Burton and Academy are not bad. The rest have some obvious issues, most obviously low graduation rates but all but Mission are small in aggregate about 20% of all students.
I know people who think that all schools should offer a great education, and it's hard to disagree but not everyone can be above average either.
Schools with more low income and low performing students have smaller class sizes. Lowell average math class has 29 students, Thurgood Marshall 20 and Well 12.
What does unduplicated pupil percentage mean? I googled and the best I could come up with is the percentage of kids who are one of : (eligible for free or reduced price school meals, are English Learners, or are foster youth). So the kids at SOTA tend have less need, which jibes with what my daughter says. She says a lot of K-8 private school kids go there, which she thinks is annoying but to me speaks to the high quality of the education there. All of our high schools should be competitive with private schools.
I am of the impression that SFUSD generally has good high schools, at least for the vast majority of kids: Lowell, SOTA, and Lincoln are great. Washington, Balboa, and Galileo are very good and Wallenberg, Burton and Academy are not bad. The rest have some obvious issues, most obviously low graduation rates but all but Mission are small in aggregate about 20% of all students.
I know people who think that all schools should offer a great education, and it's hard to disagree but not everyone can be above average either.