10% More Students Assigned San Francisco Public Schools For Next Year

SAN FRANCISCO — Assignment letters are going out this week to more than 15,400 students in the San Fransciso Unified School District for the 2025-26 academic year, a 10 percent increase from the previous year, according to the district.

Sixty-one percent of students who applied for transitional kindergarten, kindergarten, sixth grade or ninth grade were assigned to their first choice school and 90 percent will receive one of their choices.

The district received 15,472 applications for the coming school year compared to 14,133 for the current year. One factor was an additional 673 transitional kindergarten applications due to increased interest and more 4-year-olds becoming eligible under the state’s new universal transitional kindergarten program, according to the district.

Families have until March 27 to accept or decline their assignment. Waitlist assignments will start April 21 and continue through Aug. 29.

Those who have not yet applied for the coming academic year can do so at sfusd.edu/apply.