• Four year, tuition-free, public school, founded in 1982.
  • 600 students in grades 9-12.    
  • About 90% of students are from San Francisco.
  • Student population: ca. 35% white, 33% Latino; 33% Asian; 12% African American; 4% multiple or declined to state.  
  • Academic, college-prep curriculum.
  • Student population by discipline: 5% are enrolled in creative writing; 10% in band, 14% in orchestra, 2% in piano,  8% are in dance; 6% in media, 13% in theatre & 8% in theatre technology, 22% in visual,  & 12% in vocal. 
  • Entrance to School of the Arts is by audition/portfolio assessment. There is an active outreach program to assist with the audition process.
  • Operates five days a week, with academic classes in the morning and the arts disciplines in the afternoon.
  • Collaboration with Lines/Alonzo Dance Company, Bay Area Video Coalition, San Francisco Symphony, Music Arts Educators, etc.
  • Average class size : 28; Graduation rate : 99%.
  • Graduating seniors are regularly accepted into top private and state universities, and colleges.