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District presents student-assignment changes and enrollment trends, warns of secondary decline
Summary
Educational Placement Center reported on student assignment changes (diversity-index modifications, extreme-poverty weighting), demand and capacity patterns, and a projected decline in secondary enrollment that could affect planning and school budgets.
Educational Placement Center staff presented updates to the student assignment process and enrollment projections. Changes to the diversity index were highlighted: mothers education was removed, extreme poverty was added as a weight, and priority was provided in appeals for permanent site-based staff who live in San Francisco and have worked full-time at the site at least three years.
Staff reported application and demand figures: 3,972 kindergarten applicants (up 103 from last year), declines in secondary applications consistent with demographers forecasts, and very high demand at some schools (e.g., Clarendon had 792 requests for 40 seats, yielding 29 applicants per seat). Overall, 87% of applicants were assigned to a school on their choice list.
The presentation also showed program-level demand increases at several schools and announced Chinese Mandarin immersion expansions at Star King and Jose Ortega. Key deadlines were April 6 for appeals and amended applications and May 4 and June 1 for offer mailings.
Commissioners requested additional analyses: disaggregated participation by round (round 1 vs. later rounds), ethnicity and language breakdowns for families who did not submit applications in round 1, sibling verification practices, and neighborhood-level patterns of who receives their choices.
