Burton (Phillip and Sala) Academic High

Burton (Phillip and Sala) Academic High operates as a moderately sized four-year high school in San Francisco, California, one of the schools within San Francisco Unified. Current enrollment sits at 1,047 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 25% larger than the state mean of about 838.

Burton (Phillip and Sala) Academic High is one of 106 schools operated by San Francisco Unified, a district that teaches 48,706 students overall.

Demographically, Burton (Phillip and Sala) Academic High records that 46% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school records 37% Asian, 8% Black, 5% multiracial, 2% Pacific Islander. By comparison, San Francisco County as a whole is about 16% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 55 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.1:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 18.2:1 average. An estimated 68% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of San Francisco County's rate of about 54%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Burton (Phillip and Sala) Academic High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 39.2%, the actual is 46.8%, a residual of +7.7 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (San Francisco County) shows that median household earnings sit near $140,970, roughly 60% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Burton (Phillip and Sala) Academic High is one of 132 public schools in San Francisco County (combined enrollment of about 56,505 students).

El Dorado Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Burton (Phillip and Sala) Academic High comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 23.4%.

Burton (Phillip and Sala) Academic High operates from a high-density location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count stayed largely flat: 1,063 students in 2018 compared to 1,047 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment edged up from 32% to 46% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 20.3:1 in 2018 to 19.1:1 in 2025.

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