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San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD), established in 1851, is the only public school district within the City and County of San Francisco, and the first in the state of California. [3] Under the management of the San Francisco Board of Education , the district serves approximately 49,500 students across 121 schools.
On November 20, 2023, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors passed a motion ordering the inclusion of Proposition G: Offering Algebra 1 to Eighth Graders on the March 2024 Local Ballot. [1] Written by Supervisor Joel Engardio , the measure acts as a non-binding policy statement urging the San Francisco Unified School District to reverse their ...
The school's original campus, on Glenwood Road, opened in 1929. Named after Herbert Hoover and they claim to be the only high school named after a president while they were in office, [4] [5] the school was built to serve the northern Foothill area of Glendale, which had experienced rapid development in the 1920s. [6]
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In 2009 the GUSD had 2,620 employees, of which about half are classroom teachers. Beginning in the 2016–2017 school year, GUSD started officially commemorating the Armenian genocide, having April 24 off as a holiday. They are the first school district in the nation to do so. [4]
Balboa High School is named for 16th-century Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa.Founded in 1928, campus construction was completed in 1931. In the spring of 1952, students at Balboa invented a variation on a conga line dance which inspired bandleader and songwriter Ray Anthony to compose an accompanying hit song with the same name, "The Bunny Hop".
Following the opening of the new South San Francisco High School campus on B Street in 1951, the old campus was renamed Spruce School and used for intermediate grades (4-8). A significant portion of the main building was demolished in 1959 with the remaining structure modernized in 1958 and 1966 to house Spruce Elementary School.
One, San Francisco, is a consolidated city–county. California law makes no distinction between "city" and "town", and municipalities may use either term in their official names. [ 6 ] The first municipalities to incorporate were Benicia and San Jose on March 27, 1850, while the most recent was Oakley on July 1, 1999. [ 7 ]