Special Education Extended School Year

If you think your child is eligible for ESY, please contact your Childs Case Manager or reach out to esy@sfusd.edu

Families can reply to the ESY letter in any of the following ways:

• Email: send an email to esy@sfusd.edu
• Mail: check the appropriate box on the Assignment Letter, sign, and return via USPS Mail to the following address:

Please note that students who are currently receiving transportation as part of their Individual Education Plan, (IEP) will automatically be offered Transportation for ESY if they enrolled by May 19th. 

Families who miss the May 19th deadline are still welcome to enroll in ESY. 

For ESY, our home-to-school and school-to-home transportation service will continue as written in a student's IEP. 

Transportation to an alternate site occurs when transportation to an IEP service is written in a child's current IEP.

These PK/TK programs will stay at their sites:

Jefferson EES • Junipero Serra Annex EES • Commodore Stockton EES • Brett Harte EES • Guadalupe EES • Argonne EES • San Miguel EES • Noriega • Tule Elk EES • Las Americas EES

These PK/TK programs will move to the following receiving sites:

Raphael Weill EES

Cobb EES, PK SDC • Grattan EES • Muir PK SDC • Raphael Weill EES

Theresa Mahler EES

Theresa Mahler EES • Zaida T. Rodriguez EES

John Mclaren EES

El Dorado PreK • John Mclaren EES • Jose Ortega PreK • Paul Revere PreK • Sheridan PreK

Tenderloin ES

Hours:
8am - 12pm

Programs: RSP, MM, AF MM, AF MS, SOAR, M/M, Cross Cat, Reading Clinic

Bessie Carmichael • BVHM • Chavez • Chinese Immersion, De Avila • Creative Arts • Chin • Chinese Ed Center • Claire Lilienthal • Cobb • Feinstein • Flynn • Garfield • Gordon J Lau • Harvey Milk • Jean Parker • Marshall • Moscone • McKinley • New Traditions • Redding • Rosa Parks • Sanchez • SF Montessori • Sherman • Spring Valley • Tenderloin • Yick Wo

Lakeshore ES 

Hours:
8am - 12pm

Programs: RSP, Mild/Mod, Autism Focus Mod/Severe, SA MS, MS Cross-Categorical 

Alice Fong Yu • Diane Feinstein • Drew • Francis Scott Key • Stevenson • Sunset • ER Taylor • Ulloa • Lakeshore • West Portal • Sloat • Revere • Sunnyside • Miraloma • Rooftop • Clarendon

Hillcrest ES

Hours:
8am - 12pm

Programs: RSP, MM cross cat, AF MM, AF MS, MS cross cat

Bret Harte (RSP) • Carver • Cleveland • Guadalupe • Longfellow • Malcolm X • Jose Ortega • SF Community • Sheridan • Vis Valley ES • Hillcrest • Starr King • Daniel Webster • El Dorado • Alvarado • Bryant ES • Dolores Huerta • Glen Park • Mission Ed Center • Monroe • J Serra ES

Lafayette ES

Hours:
8am - 12pm

Programs: PK - DHH, PK SDC, DHH K-5 RSP, AF MS, AF MM, MS cross cat, MM cross cat

Alamo • Alvarado • Chavez • Lafayette • Argonne • Jefferson • Lawton • McCoppin • Peabody • Sutro • Grattan • Muir

Note: Description of Specialized Classrooms

Hoover MS

Hours:
9-1pm

Programs: MM cross-cat, MS cross-cat, AF MM, AF MS, DHH, SOAR

Alice Fong Yu (RSP) • Creative Arts • Francisco MS • AP Giannini MS • Gateway MS • Marina MS • Presidio MS • Rooftop • Roosevelt MS • Lawton MS • Claire Lilienthal MS • Lick MS • Denman MS • Hoover MS • Aptos MS • BVHM • Civic Center • Everett MS • Paul Revere • SF Community • Vis Valley MS • Willie Brown MS • ML. King MS

Note: Description of Specialized Classrooms

Balboa HS

Hours:
9-2 pm

Programs: Credit Recovery, MM, MS, AF MS, DHH, Access

Balboa • Burton • June Jordan • Mission • Thurgood Marshall • C.A.R.E Bayview and Buchanan • SF International • Lowell • John O'Connell 

Galileo HS

Hours:
9am 2pm

Programs: MM, MS, Access

Downtown • Galileo • Gateway • Ida B. Wells • Hilltop HS • Civic Center • UCSF (HHI only) • Woodside, Youth Chance • The Arc • Wallenberg • Bay Street Transition 

Washington HS

Hours:
9am 2pm

Programs: Credit Recovery, MM, MS, AF MS, ALL SOAR, DHH

Lincoln • Washington • Lowell • Mission • Galileo • Independence • Academy • Marshall • SOTA

McAuley

Hours:
9:00 -3:00 pm

Programs: MM CEEP

Note: Description of Specialized Classrooms

Fri Mar 10: Deadline to hold IEPs offering ESY services. 

Mon May 15: Special Education Department will send PWN ESY Assignment Letters via email to families for students with ESY services on their current IEPs

April 14: Deadline for Families of students with Transportation to accept ESY. 

• April 19 - May 10: Requests for transportation received after April 19 through May 10 will only be implemented on June 20.  No changes after June 13, because of the short period of ESY.

Fri May 19: Deadline for families to accept/decline ESY assignment and services

Mon June 12: First day of ESY

Mon June 19: HOLIDAY, no ESY

Mon and Tues July 3 and July 4: HOLIDAY, no ESY

Wed July 12: last day of ESY for grades PreK-8 (*Progress Reports must be submitted)

Wed July 19: last day of ESY for high school and ACCESS (*Progress Reports must be submitted)

We are in the final stages of preparation for our Extended School Year (ESY) 2022. By now families should have received their ESY letters and filled out the online form to let us know their students will be coming. Final confirmation and placement letters will be sent out to families the week of May 9th.

Key Enrollment Dates:

August - March 10 - Student Case managers hold IEPS to include ESY services.

March 27 - ESY assignment letters sent out to families

• Special Education Services will be sending Assignment Letter to all students who have ESY services as part of their current Offer of FAPE.
• This notice will inform families of their child’s ESY site assignment.
• The letter will outline the process for accepting/declining ESY.
• The letter will be sent via Parentvue and email and letters will be mailed to all families 

April 14th - Students who accepted their assignment by the April 14th deadline and are currently receiving transportation as part of their Individual Education Plan, (IEP) will automatically be offered Transportation for ESY. 

• Important Note - Families who miss the April 14th deadline are still welcome to enroll in ESY. The April 14th Deadline is to ensure that transportation has enough time to schedule the buses before school starts.
• Requests for transportation received after April 19 to May 10  will only be implemented on June 20.  No changes will be made after June 13, because of the short period of ESY.

May 19 - Deadline for ESY students without transportation to accept their ESY Assignment.

• Prek- 8 ESY will consist of 4 hours (240 minutes) of instruction and educational learning activities based on students’ current IEP goals.
  • ES Hours: 8am - 12pm
  • MS Hours: 9am - 1pm
• High School ESY will consist of 5 hours (300 minutes) of instruction and educational learning activities based on students’ current IEP goals. 
  • HS Hours: 9am - 2pm
• Each teacher will develop a classroom schedule, based on student need and communicate this to families before June 9th.

*Breakfast and Lunch are provided during ESY

SFUSD does not provide programming after ESY hours. Programming held at ESY school sites is hosted and coordinated by outside organizations. In an effort to support families and their children during the summer, we would like to provide resources from various community organizations that provide camps and aftercare. If you are interested in finding aftercare programming for your child near their ESY assignment, contact the following organizations to inquire about availability:

Hillcrest

• Mission YMCA, 4080 Mission St, (415) 586-6900

Lafayette

• Richmond District Neighborhood Center, 741 30th Ave, (415) 751-6600

Lakeshore

• Bay Area Community Resources Summer Learning @ Lakeshore, 220 Middlefield Dr
  • Contact Sunset Neighborhood Beacon Center for information about this programming: 3151 Ortega St, (415) 650-7699

Tenderloin

• Boys and Girls Club Tenderloin Clubhouse, 115 Jones St, (415) 351-3125
• Shih Yu-Lang Central YMCA, Boeddeker Park, 260 Eddy St, (415) 292-2316

Hoover

• Bay Area Community Resources Summer Learning @ Hoover
  • Contact Sunset Neighborhood Beacon Center for information about this programming: 3151 Ortega St, (415) 650-7699

For additional resources, see below:

DCYF Out-of-school-time Information 

• Check out DCYF's guide here, including this map of DCYF funded programs across the city

DCYF Summer Camps & Programs List

• See DCYF's list of Summer Programming for children in grades K-8 throughout the city

SF Recreation & Parks Programming

• Explore programming from Therapeutic Rec & Inclusion Services

• After-School Program Waitlist Enrollment Begins May 1

  With current after-school program participants being rolled over for the 2023-24 school year, we have potential availability at some of our after-school sites. You can join the after-school program waitlist starting on Monday, May 1 at 10 a.m. If a spot is available, we will email you before the end of May. If a spot opens during the 2023-2024 school year, you will be notified and have three days to respond. For more information and to enroll starting May 1, click the link below. After-School Waitlist Registration

• Rec & Parks Summer Day Camp Catalog (available in Spanish and Chinese here)

ESP will be in person this year.

If your child and their teacher and or para are assigned to the same ESY site, we will do our best to assign students to their regular teachers for ESY.  Class lists will be developed once families have had an opportunity to accept/decline ESY assignments.

ESY position offers are made based on seniority and program need. We do our best to assign paraeducators to classrooms where they are familiar with the students and/or teacher; however, this is not guaranteed. 

Extended School Year (ESY) is an extension of existing Special Education Individual Education Program (IEP) services provided during the summer recess to assist a student in maintaining skills on goals and objectives from their current IEP.  The primary goal of ESY is to limit regression of skills gained during the school year.

Not all students with IEPs are eligible for ESY.  Eligibility must be based on data and determined by an IEP team (5 C.C.R. Section 3043). 

Reasons for eligibility include:

• Patterns of Regression: Regression is a loss of critical skills after a significant break from instruction (i.e, summer recess, Winter break).  This can include academic, behavioral or life skills.  All students are expected to demonstrate some skill regression after a break, but patterns of significant losses in critical skills may suggest the need for ESY.
• Rate of Recoupment: Rate of recoupment is the amount of time required to re-learn skills following an extended break from school.  After breaks, nondisabled students typically require some time to recoup skills (i.e., 4-5 days is the typical time it takes a student to recoup skills after Winter Break); however, extensive recoupment periods may suggest the need for ESY.
• New or Emerging Skills: Some students may be at a crucial point in skill acquisition or readiness.  If students are in the early stages of developing and demonstrating new skills and an interruption in services is likely to undermine that progress, they may be eligible for ESY services.
• Nature & Severity of Disability: Some students have disabilities that are likely to continue indefinitely or for a prolonged period.  In this situation, interruption of the student’s educational programming may cause regression and render it impossible or unlikely that the student will attain a level of self-sufficiency and independence in view of his or her disabling condition.

For additional general ESY questions contact: esy@sfusd.edu