SFUSD staff outline fiscal stabilization plan as district confronts enrollment and attendance declines

The San Francisco Unified School District Board of Education on March 4 held a special budget study session in which Deputy Superintendent Chris Mompanitas and district fiscal staff laid out revenue assumptions, enrollment and attendance trends, and a multi‑year fiscal stabilization plan meant to restore the district’s long‑term financial stability.

Mompanitas told the board the district’s revenue mix includes federal, state and a comparatively large share of local dollars — driven by measures such as PEAF and parcel taxes — and that revenues are derived by plugging enrollment and average daily attendance (ADA) into state fiscal tools. “We literally plug in the assumptions on the left, and this is a publicly available document online,” Mompanitas said of the state’s LCFF ‘dartboard’ and calculator the district now uses.

Why it matters: SFUSD is funded on a three‑year average of ADA, and Mompanitas said the district’s attendance (funded ADA) — roughly 44,790 — is substantially below registered enrollment, which he said is about 48,768, reducing the revenue the district receives. He warned the district’s concentration funding tied to unduplicated pupil percentage is also declining and remains a fiscal pressure.

The staff presentation outlined three tiers of fiscal stabilization measures that will be reflected in the district’s second…