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SFUSD staff present data and framework for student-assignment redesign; board seeks models before April vote
Summary
District staff presented ZIP-code, distance and diversity analyses and a draft 1'5 evaluation framework tied to the district strategic plan, and said they will develop 3'4 models for board review with a first reading expected in April; parents urged neighborhood schools, greater transparency and special-education access.
SAN FRANCISCO ' At a Jan. 29 meeting of the ad hoc committee on student assignment, San Francisco Unified School District staff presented new analyses of where students live and which schools families requested in round 1, and unveiled a draft framework the board will use to score conceptual assignment models.
"One third of all schools have more than 50% of enrolled students living in the same zip as the school," staff analyst Orla O'Keefe told commissioners as she reviewed ZIP-code enrollment data and first-choice request patterns. She also said distance analyses of kindergarten applicants showed 47% requested a school within a mile of home, 71% within 1.5 miles and about 81% within roughly 2.5 miles.
The presentation tied that data to the district's strategic-plan goals: access and equity, student achievement and accountability. Nancy Waymack, who walked the board through a proposed scoring tool, said the framework "will reflect the goals of the strategic plan, and it's intentionally subjective," with raters using a 1'5 scale to judge each model's trade-offs.
Staff outlined several conceptual models on a spectrum…
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