San Francisco Community School

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School Type

  • Elementary School
  • K-8 School
  • Middle School

Grades

TK
K
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8

Estimated Enrollment

290

Principal

  • Laurie Murdock

Hours

Mo: 9:30 am-4:00 pm
Tu: 9:30 am-4:00 pm
We: 9:30 am-2:30 pm
Th: 9:30 am-4:00 pm
Fr: 9:30 am-4:00 pm

K-5

  • MTThF 9:30am-3:45pm
  • W 9:30am- 2:30pm

6-8

  • MTThF 9:30am-4:00pm
  • W 9:30am- 2:15pm

School Tour

School Tours are happening at 9:30 am on the dates below.  There is no need to RSVP; just come to the Main Office and we will meet you there. 

Thursday, October 12

Thursday, October 19

Friday, October 27

Thursday, November 2

Friday, November 17

Thursday, November 30

Thursday, December 7

Friday, January 26th (Newly Added)

 

Looking forward to meeting you in person.

Sign up for a school tour at sfusd.edu/tours.

Neighborhood

School Meals

  • Breakfast
  • Lunch
  • After School Supper

View menus at sfusd.edu/menus.

School Code

493
Overview

San Francisco Community School is a small, K-8 school in the Excelsior neighborhood. Since its inception in 1972, the school has been committed to reflecting the socioeconomic and ethnic diversity of San Francisco. In our work, we intentionally take the backgrounds and circumstances of students, educators, and the community into account. The explicit mission is for ALL students to achieve high academic standards and have a positive school experience. We believe that to ensure success, we must measure our progress and hold ourselves accountable for our roles in the results. Our teachers meet twice each week, once as a full staff and once in grade level teams. They plan collaboratively, create assessments, analyze student work, and provide support for adjusting instruction to meet students' needs.

Teachers make learning relevant and interesting through science-based, challenge-driven projects. Students experience a strong sense of community because they are in multi-age classrooms. They participate in daily class meetings and schoolwide conflict resolution and a strong, unified adult culture. We support personalized learning and relationship-building by limiting class size to 20 in grades K-3 and to 25 in grades 4-8. Students in K-5 at SF Community participate in two nine-week, science-based, challenge-driven projects each year. We want all of our students to find joy and success in using powerful ways of thinking, performance skills, academic confidence, and habits of organization and discipline to learn from meaningful tasks and issues. We are committed to ensuring that every student leaves our school well-prepared for high school, college, and for their lives beyond school. To that end, we promise to communicate and collaborate with families regularly and frequently about their children's academic progress and school experience. We promise to solicit and respond equitably to the ideas, needs, and opinions of the families and students we serve.

Programs

Before School

Before School Recess (9:00am-9:30am) Breakfast available

After School

City Scholars ExCEL ASP is open to students K-8 from 3:30-6:30 p.m. (2:30-5:30 p.m. on Wednesdays)

"Boys and Girls Club - M,T,TH,F 4:00pm- 6:00pm and W - 2:15pm-6:00pm"

Special Education

  • Resource Specialist Program Services

School Day Academic Enrichment

  • Playworks

Arts Enrichment

  • Art Class
  • Choir
  • Computers
  • Drumming
  • Gardening
  • Instrumental music
  • Visual and Performing Arts (VAPA)

Arts Enrichment Description

K-5: Dance, Visual Art, Music
6-8: Art Electives (variety of options yearly)
K-8: Voices of Joy Choir
4-8: Instrumental music lessons (individual or group)
ASP: variety of options yearly

Athletics

  • Basketball
  • Track and Field
  • Volleyball

Student Support

  • Access to nurse
  • Advisory
  • Counselor
  • Family liaison
  • Health and wellness center
  • Instructional coach
  • Social worker
  • Speech pathologist
School Data

General education entry grade seats per application

17.00%
Contact Info

Address

125 Excelsior Avenue
San Francisco
CA
94112

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Location

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San Francisco Community School
Grades
TK, K, 1-8
125 Excelsior Avenue, San Francisco, 94112
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Hours
Mo: 9:30 am–4:00 pm
Tu: 9:30 am–4:00 pm
We: 9:30 am–2:30 pm
Th: 9:30 am–4:00 pm
Fr: 9:30 am–4:00 pm