Last Call: Round 5 Best Bets
The August 8, 2014 wait pool list for SFUSD is out. Here are the schools sorted by the ratio of waitpool applicants to kindergarten seats. The deadline to change your wait pool school is August 15.The...
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Data: Attendance Areas' Residents per Kindergarten Seat
The discussion about Clarendon AA got me thinking about attendance area schools and what their real capacity is. I've always found SFUSD's map below to be an odd way of looking at AA capacity. To...
View ArticleOpenings at your child's school (Kindergarten or otherwise!)
As some parents are anxiously waiting to get calls from SFUSD and get off the waitlist for their dream school it seemed a good time to start a dialogue regarding any openings at your kids school....
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Data: More Maps on Kindergarten Demand and Capacity
As we wait for the end of the 10-day count/Round 5, here's a few more maps on kindergarten demand and capacity.Do AA residents want to attend their AA school?The next map is useful to show AAs where...
View ArticleRequest from a Reader: Information on Tule Elk Park TK
A reader writes in that her family just got a spot for their child at the Tule Elk Park Early Education School (http://www.sfusd.edu/en/schools/school-information/tule-elk-park.html). She's looking for...
View ArticleReader Request: Chances of Getting SFUSD Mandarin Immersion in K vs 1st grade?
A reader sent in this question:Our older child has been attending a Chinese immersion preschool that continues to elementary. We will be considering Kindergarten options for this coming year. Our...
View ArticleReader Request: Share Your Experience With Spring Transfer?
A reader has written in to ask if folks would mind sharing their experience with the lottery for spring transfer. This reader has a child in kindergarten at her attendance area school, Harvey Milk, but...
View ArticleA New School Year Means...Seeking New Bloggers! Updating School Tour Info!
It's September in San Francisco. There's finally warm weather, the apples are crisper and more delicious, and it's almost time for Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, And that means it's time to warn your boss...
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Hello From Confused (but hopeful) Parents From Pac Heights!
Hi there SF K File Readers!We are excited to start our year long journey to find and get accepted in the right school for our Small Fry. It seems these days we are lurking on this site and/or attending...
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Henrietta's Hunt Begins
Hi SF K Files friends,I am excited to share my elementary school tour notes with this wonderful community over the next few months. I have enjoyed and appreciated this site ever since I stumbled upon...
View ArticleSave the Date: October 25th, SFUSD Enrollment Fair
Just a note to remind everyone the School Enrollment Fair is coming up!Saturday, October 25, 20149:30 am to 2:30 pmJohn O'Connell High School2355 Folsom StreetSFUSD says, "See all public schools and...
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School Tour: Brightworks
Brightworks learning areaBrightworks. One of the first few schools we have toured. And boy, am I impressed or what!I apologize in advance for a rather lengthy review. But there were way too many things...
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Trying to avoid the dread..
Hello everyone! I'm DFB aka "the dread-filled bunny," a silly name that is a fair description for how I feel at the start of this adventure.Back when I first graduated from college, I had a couple...
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Parents for Public Schools workshop
As I mentioned in my first post, I went to a Parents for Public Schools workshop. Some things I learned, besides the overwhelming number of elementary schools: The speaker started off the evening...
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TK and then to K - New Blogger
Hello and ¡Hola! to all the people reading this blog and looking for Kindergarten and TK classes for next year. I am part of a bicultural (Mexico and US) family living in Bernal Heights. I have two...
View ArticleSchool Tour: Alvarado
There is nothing much that I can write about Alvarado that is not already written by previous posters here.Its a solid school with a very involved parenting community. It was one of the first public...
View ArticleAnother Alvarado School Tour – Beautiful School, some questions about TK
As a middle school teacher I’ve had the benefit of meeting students from all over the district in my 6th grade classes. The students from Alvarado always seemed very well prepared, socially and...
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School Tour: Spring Valley Science
I am trying to write up my thoughts on the few schools that we have toured so far quickly. Before it all merges together in my head. I have driven past Spring Valley school on many occasions and so was...
View ArticleSchool Tour: Presidio Hill
I am really not sure how I felt about Presidio Hill School.I liked parts of it, felt some parts were too much, didn't like other aspects of the school ( besides tuition ;). This post is really for me...
View ArticleOpenings at SF Community K-8 for Spring Semester!
This just in from SF Community:If you're considering an SFUSD spring transfer, SF Community School (SFC) has a just a couple open spots in each of the following grades-- K, 1st, 2nd, and 5th.To learn...
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