San Francisco Community Alternative School

San Francisco Community Alternative School

Public Elementary, Middle School | Grade K-8
125 Excelsior Ave,  San Francisco, CA
San Francisco Unified School District
4.2
275 Students
B+
Niche Grade

School Details

Head of School
Nora Houseman
Student Teacher Ratio
21:1
Math Proficiency
37%
Reading Proficiency
47%

Niche Grade

B
Academics
B
Teachers
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Niche Grade Details

Academics
Reading Proficiency
47%
Math Proficiency
37%
Teachers
Student Teacher Ratio
21:1
Teachers
13
Full Time Teachers
13
Teachers in First or Second Year
46.1%

GreatSchools Rating

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Test Scores

Math
14.2%
State Average
17.9%
Science
22%
State Average
9.9%
GreatSchools Test Scores Rating
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Teachers and Staff

Students Per Counselor
26,600:1

Student Diversity

Male
57.1%
Female
42.5%
Hispanic
40%
White
24.7%
Two or more races
12%
Asian or Pacific Islander
11.3%
Black
10.2%
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander
1.1%
Native American
<1%
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School Rankings

#86 Most Diverse Public MS in California
Source: Niche

Specialty School Programs

Free/Reduced Lunch Offered

This School’s Reviews

GreatSchools Reviews
4.2 41 Reviews
1.0 parent
2/5/2024
This school is honestly horrible, My daughter has been going to SFC since kindergarten, it was an amazing school at first but this new principale has changes on everything and the lunch lady likes to put her hands on my daughter and other students. The security guard is very disrespectful with stude...
5.0 parent
7/24/2022
Our son attended kindergarten last year and we are really happy with our choice. It's nice to be in a smaller school where everyone knows your child and we are excited about the level of parent engagement and how easy it was to feel part of the school community at large. As with every school, it has...
5.0 parent
4/17/2022
While the scores reported on this site gave us some pause, we chose SFC for the things that made it stand out to us: the project based learning, the focus on community building, the diversity of the students, teachers, and staff, the small size of the classes and overall school, and the beautiful si...
2.0 parent
11/23/2019
Good location, nice little garden, diverse, friendly staff and students. However, they are not the best academically. Steady progress with slight academic improvements.

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