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What a fantastic year!! 

From the Student Orientation in August of 2025 to the Senior Breakfast in May 2026, the PTSA and our families showed up and pulled our community together. Thank you all for donating, bringing home-baked goods, buying merch, and generally being supportive of the Bal community. We couldn't have done it without you!

THANK YOU!!

—With love from Bal PTSA

End of Year Staff Celebration Link to this section

The community brought in desserts and salads, just fantastic stuff. We also blew away expectations for the raffle, with a 2-night stay at a 4-bedroom house near Yosemite, a $100 gift certificate to Costco, See's Candy gift cards, a Keurig coffee maker, cute little potted succulents, Costco gift cards, coffee beans, chocolate, soda, wine, beer, and much more. The teachers were psyched! So much gratitude sloshing about.

Senior Clearance Day was all cleared out by the time we set up for the End of Year Staff Celebration, so it must have been a success.

Staff Appreciation Week: May 4-8, 2026 Link to this section

You really brought the love—thank you for thanking our educators.

Presenting... the next PTSA board for 2026-27!

1. Election of next year’s board
2. SFUSD's Bond Program - a multi-year capital improvement project that Bal has won!
3. Bike and Roll to school with the San Francisco Bicycle Coaltion
4. End of school plans 

Previous events: Link to this section

March 24, 2026 Family Meeting – Topic: End of Year activities/planning

See our slideshow on End of Year Planning. 

Tilak donated a scrumptious rice and chicken dish. Thank you, Tilak!

Feb 24, 2026: February Family Meeting 

Topic: Summer Opportunities: We heard from Gabrielle Wood from Bal's After School summer program, which frankly sounds fun and awesome (Email them at BALBOAASP@CYCSF.ORG). We heard from our "greatest hit" Tyree Johnson of MYEEP (Mayor's Youth Employment & Education Program) which once again has a whole bunch of opportunities for paying jobs for students this summer. We also heard from a new presenter for PITCH: Program for the Investigation and Training in Careers in Health, a 3-week program from UCSF (this year's deadline has passed). Summer is coming right up, so if you're interested in taking advantage of all that San Francisco has to offer this summer, seize the day! Here's the slide deck for the meeting. Once again, Tilak donated the food — sooooo good.

Jan 20, 2026:  Family Meeting

Topics: Cash for College event (about scholarships for college), Pathways, and the budget. See the slide deck here.

We all pitched in for food:  samosas and a veggie dish from Tilak's, plus pizza, orzo salad, broccoli slaw, pasta bake, cookies, fruit salad, and chicken brought by parents. 

Dec 17: Staff Holiday Appreciation Luncheon

Thank you to everyone who donated a dish to the Staff Holiday Luncheon on Wed, Dec 17th! And many thanks also to board member Justin, parent Shelly, and the family liaisons for helping out. Bal teachers and staff felt the love! It was a heartwarming event on a cold day.

December Family Meeting: Topic: Student Stress, Mental Health, Coping with the holidays ~ presented by the Wellness Center. See the presentation here.

Nov 18: Bucks for Buccs  Thank you to everyone who came out for our Bucks for Buccs party! It was fantastic to see such passionate support for Bal. Special thanks to Vino Rosso wine bar for hosting the event!  Not to brag, but who should show up and bring everyone to tears but the legendary Mr Finger, and the amazing VP Connie So! Wow! 

Funds were raised and fun was had.

Tuesday Nights Out was a fantastic success! 

VinoRosso Wine Bar and Vega Pizzeria shared 20% of all orders from November and December if parties mentioned "Balboa". We made slightly more than $1000 on this partnership! Thank you, Bal parent Vega!!

VinoRosso and Vega Pizzeria are family businesses owned by Bal parents!

MERCH CORNER Link to this section

We have an online store! You can now order online and pick up at the school office when school is in session.

October Family Meeting  Topics: The College Room from our very own Balboa High spoke about college and career related things. PTSA Meeting Slide Deck | College and Career Room Presentation Slide Deck

September Family Meeting  Topics: Approval of $10,000 2025-26 budget; Coach Fred and the Senior Football Captain about Sports; Gabrielle of Afterschool; JROTC; Bella from YAX. Indivisible SF gave us an informative and timely presentation about immigration and how to stick up for our rights and our neighbors rights, as enshrined in the US Constitution.

Balboa PTSA's First Ever Meet n Greet Link to this section

We had a fun evening on Aug 26 hanging out with parents and special guests Principal Arenson, Jenny Vo, Connie So, and Tyree Johnson! Motivated, organized, and sponsored by Jennifer of the PTSA Board — thank you, Jennifer! Held at the Check-in Lounge right around the corner from school. Good feels all around.

Who We Are Link to this section

Bal's PTSA (Parent Teacher Student Administrator) is a volunteer-run non-profit that raises and distributes funds to in-house groups supporting students, teachers, and administrators of Balboa High School. 

Molly Cooper, President

Mattias Karlsson, Treasurer

Raissa Zibell, Secretary

Justin Meek, Financial Auditor/Reviewer

Michelle Li, Board Member at Large

Shurrin Zeng, VP of Membership

Jennifer Cornejo, Fundraising Co-Chair

Melba Policicchio, Fundraising Co-Chair

Olga Maldonado, Communications and Interpretation

Erika Cortez, Board Member at Large

Jorge Leiva, Alumni representative

Contact: Email
Join: Join here

PTSA Calendar — Information  Link to this section

There are two kinds of PTSA meetings: Family Meetings and Board Meetings.  

All Family Meetings are at 6:00 PM in the Buccaneer Room.

Family Meetings for the Balboa Community Link to this section

All Family Meetings are open to the Balboa community—students, parents, and staff— and are held at 6:00pm in the Buccaneer Room at Balboa High School roughly every month during the school year. They cover a variety of topics, and a light dinner is served. Our student attendees get community hours! (Each year, Bal students are required to do 25 hours of community service.)

Board Meetings Link to this section

Monthly PTSA board meetings are held online to discuss plans and funding requests.

If you'd like to join our board meetings to see what is going on with Bal, we'd love to have you. Email us for a link to the zoom meeting (or about anything else). 

Why is it the "PTSA" instead of the "PTA"?  Link to this section

There are two options to name a local chapter of this national organization. PTA stands for Parent-Teacher Association, while according to Bal PTSA lore, PTSA stands for Parent-Teacher-Student-Administrators (association). It matches with our commitment to be inclusive of everyone, including our students and administrators. One love!