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Welcome to Ruth Asawa School of the Arts!
Enjoy your summer!
School is now closed. Students return Monday, August 18, 2025 - Schedule
New Student Orientation Information
Attendance
Calendars
Daily Bell Schedule
Activity Days Schedule
Students follow Activity Day schedule on School Fest days. What’s changes from the daily bell schedule? Academic & Art classes are 5 min shorter. Lunch is a full hour!
Activity Days
September 2025 (Day TBD) - Club Rush
October 2025 (Day TBD) - Octoberfest
December 2025 (Day TBD) - Winterfest
Friday, February 2026 (Day TBD) - Lovefest
Friday, May 2026 (Day TBD) - Mayfest - NoArts Block this day
Help with StudentVUE and ParentVUE
More about this school
School Type
- High School
Grades
Estimated Enrollment
Principal
- Stella Kim
Assistant Principal(s)
- Amber Mosby
- Carlos Herrera
Hours
Wednesday is an early release day and students are released at 2:20pm.
School Tour
School Tour Dates:
Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2024
Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2024
School Tours begin at 1:20pm in the Dan Kryston Memorial Theater (main theater). Campus parking is limited.
Sign up for a school tour at sfusd.edu/tours.
Uniform Policy
Neighborhood
School Code
Overview
Vision: The Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts is a public, audition-based, alternative high school in the San Francisco Unified School District committed to equity and excellence in the arts and academics for all of our community members.
Mission: The Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts is a college preparatory school that provides an experience uniquely rooted in dynamic arts programs that reflect our city’s cultural diversity. Promising young artists and thinkers collaborate with teachers, professional artists, and their community to explore and develop their personal identity through art, insight, and movements that reflect and influence the world around them. Academic and Arts classes inform each other, balancing creative play with dedicated discipline, and building expertise in both classical and contemporary areas of study. Students devote themselves to studying how art, academic inquiry, and authentic expression impact civic engagement and social justice in local and global communities. Ruth Asawa SOTA is dedicated to the values of Respect, Openness, Safety and, Engagement.
Programs
Language
- Spanish World Language
Special Education
- Resource Specialist Program Services
- Separate class - Mild/moderate
School Day Academic Enrichment
- Academic counseling
- Advanced Placement (AP) classes
- Career Technical Education (CTE) Academies
- College classes at CCSF or SFSU
- Individual learning plans
- Internships available
- Project-based learning
- Service learning
- STEAM (science; technology; engineering; arts; mathematics)
- Student portfolios
- Tutoring in school
Arts Enrichment
- Art Class
- Artists in Residence
- Arts residency
- Band
- Choir
- Concert Band
- Creative writing
- Dance
- Drama
- Drumming
- Ethnic Studies
- Guitar
- Instrumental music
- Jazz
- Mariachi
- Media arts
- Mixed media
- Music program
- Orchestra
- Performing arts
- Photography
- Rock Band
- STEAM
- Theater
- Visual and Performing Arts (VAPA)
- Visual and Performing Arts (VAPA) Teachers
- Visual arts
- Vocal Performing Arts
- Writing or poetry
Arts Enrichment Description
Student Support
- Access to nurse
- Advisory
- Counselor
- Family liaison
- Mentoring
- On-site nurse
- Social worker
Career Technical Education Academies
- Arts, Media and Entertainment
College Counseling
- Academic counseling
- College and/or career counseling
- College and/or career fair
- College application workshops
- College tours and visits
- Personal statement workshops
- UCSF Early Academic Outreach Program (EAOP)
School Data
School Accountability Report Card (SARC)
School Accountability Report Cards (SARCs) are required by state law and are intended to provide families with important information.
School Accountability Highlights
Published annually by SFUSD to provide access to key data points and three-year trends related to student achievement and school culture-climate. The highlights are available in English, Spanish, Chinese, Arabic, Filipino, and Vietnamese.
Social-Emotional and Culture Climate Report
SFUSD annually surveys families and school staff on a range of school climate indicators that have been found to predict positive student academic achievement. The social-emotional learning of students in grades 4-12 is also assessed.
School Plan for Student Achievement (SPSA)
School communities gather twice a year to review data and previous actions in order to intentionally plan for the coming months. The School Plan for Student Achievement is the template on which this review and stakeholder engagement process is codified.