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Last spring, approximately 26,000 SFUSD students in grades 3 to 8 and 11 took the California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress (CAASPP), the results of which were just announced last week.
We don't rely solely on annual test results to see how our students are doing, but we do take the results of the CASSPP very seriously. Tests are one source of information regarding how well we are serving our students. More importantly, they are a helpful tool for our educators to reflect on what their students need.
—Dr. Vincent Matthews, Superintendent
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Forty percent of SFUSD middle schoolers are already taking computer science courses, and now we're expanding the program in elementary schools! This gives our students an early start in a subject matter that is increasingly important in the 21st century.
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You don't have to be a programmer to get your children started in computer science, and CS isn't just learning programming languages and creating phone apps. Get some tips on how to get your child started.
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Do you have questions about switching to Family Portal? Check out the website or the FAQ, which continues to be updated with more questions and answers. To make a correction to your account, you can fill out the account update request form.
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The California Department of Education released the 2017 CAASPP results, and we are the only large urban school district to have over half of our students meet or exceed Common Core Standard for both English Language Arts and mathematics.
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National School Lunch Week begins on Oct. 10, and we have a new menu item to celebrate! Find out more about what's new in school food.
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Enrollment fair on Oct. 14
Learn about our schools at the Enrollment Fair on Oct. 14, or come to a workshop on the enrollment process.
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Get ready for the big one
Participate in the Great California ShakeOut and make sure your family is ready for the next big earthquake.
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SFUSD in the News
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Four Bay Area schools achieve Blue Ribbon status
Four Bay Area schools on Friday received the Blue Ribbon honor. The award, given on behalf of the United States Department of Education, recognizes hundreds of public and private schools every year. George C. Payne Elementary School in San Jose, Sunset Elementary School in San Francisco, Albany Middle School in Albany and Amador Valley High School in Pleasanton are among 25 California schools that received the national award.
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Using a jigsaw activity to help every student engage with literature
Kyle Halle-Erby, a 12th grade English teacher at San Francisco International High School likes the jigsaw activity because it helps his English language learning students feel comfortable participating in literature discussions. He’ll often do a jigsaw activity before a literature discussion to help students playing different facilitating roles prepare together before joining a group where they will be the only person with that role.
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SFUSD continues to excel in statewide testing, but disparities persist
Report cards are in for California’s school districts and show a positive performance trend in San Francisco, where students’ scores not only exceeded state averages, but are on the rise for the third consecutive year since the state revamped its academic testing system.
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San Francisco schools aim for a zero carbon footprint by 2040
The San Francisco Board of Education voted unanimously Tuesday night in favor of a plan to achieve carbon neutrality—the phasing out of fossil fuel use entirely—by 2040. Board officials say the San Francisco Unified School District now has in place the nation’s most aggressive carbon reduction goal of its kind.
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SF public schools to shift focus, resources on homeless students as numbers rise
Commissioners mulled over the financial impact of a resolution that would provide additional funding to schools with large numbers of homeless students. The resolution, sponsored by Commissioner Matt Haney, will go before the full Board of Education in mid-October for a vote and would align the San Francisco Unified School District with federal policies around serving homeless students.
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Football in America: The Bay Area
On the running track encircling storied Kezar Stadium, a few minutes before the start of inner-city Mission High’s game against visiting non-conference San Mateo, senior safety/running back Jamal Dixon, dressed in his brown Mission Bears uniform, approaches his mother for their weekly ritual. From the stands, the scent of marijuana wafts down from the tiny crowd. But mother and son don’t notice.
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San Francisco school board moves forward on teacher housing project
The San Francisco school board took a big step toward building apartments for some teachers and their classroom aides, a closely watched project that seeks to ease the housing crisis for educators. The board voted unanimously Tuesday evening to enter into an agreement with Mayor Ed Lee’s office of housing and development to pursue the construction of up to 150 units on a former school site in the Outer Sunset neighborhood.
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Salesforce millions have S.F., Oakland schools freely trying innovations
When Joe Truss took over two years ago as principal at Visitacion Valley Middle School in San Francisco, he looked at the classrooms, with their slide-in-sideways wooden desks organized in rows, and thought they evoked the 1950s more than the 21st century.
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Must-see high school football experiences in San Francisco
San Francisco is a city defined by its quirks, and high school football in The City certainly has its quirks. The typical experience of Friday night lights is replaced by afternoon sunshine dimmed by fog. Between tradition, tremendous sights and unique surroundings, prep football in San Francisco encapsulates the many oddities and idiosyncrasies of the high schools that call The City home.
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The next generation of California public school students will skip the 'mission project'
The changes to the Spanish colonial period in history class include the omission of the mission construction project, long a rite of passage for 9-year-olds studying California history in the fourth grade. But while the project captures nostalgia, all the parents SFGATE heard from for this story welcome the new framework. Many disliked the assignment because it failed to address the complexities and nuances of the colonial period, while some loathed the amount of work and hassle it created at home.
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A whole school approach to behavior issues
When Michael Essien became an administrator at Martin Luther King, Jr. Academic Middle School in San Francisco it was immediately apparent that he needed to help teachers get behavior issues under control. Learn how Essien and his staff are leveraging the relationship building expertise of support staff to support teachers in the classroom.
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SFUSD to streamline suicide prevention efforts targeting middle and high schoolers
The San Francisco Board of Education on Tuesday approved a policy on suicide prevention targeting students in grades 7 through 12 in schools throughout the district. The “model youth suicide prevention policy” was born out of a concerted effort by parents, educators, mental health specialists and legislators to prevent youth suicides in California, which remain a leading source of death among youth nationwide.
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Politics, social justice at forefront of education on first day of school in SF
Visitacion Valley Middle School students returning to school on Monday were preoccupied with a mid-morning solar eclipse, but their teachers set a more serious tone for tolerance in the upcoming school year. About a dozen teachers at the school sported “Black Lives Matter” T-shirts and welcoming smiles among the predominantly minority student body that buzzed about the cafeteria on Monday morning, the first day of the 2017-18 school year.
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SF curbs teacher shortage with new recruitment programs
The San Francisco Unified School District has hired enough teachers for nearly all of its classrooms, resuming instruction today with only five open positions for in-classroom teachers. Last year, comparatively, the school district scrambled to fill some 38 open positions by the first day of school, according to SFUSD spokesperson Gentle Blythe.
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