Chavez (Cesar) Elementary

Located at 825 Shotwell St., in San Francisco, California, Chavez (Cesar) Elementary is a medium-sized primary school that teaches 397 students (grades K through 5), overseen by San Francisco Unified.

Across the 106 schools in San Francisco Unified (48,706 students total), Chavez (Cesar) Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Chavez (Cesar) Elementary reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (93%). The remainder breaks down as 3% multiracial, 3% Black. The wider county runs roughly 16% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Chavez (Cesar) Elementary has 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 24.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Chavez (Cesar) Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 74% of students at Chavez (Cesar) Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, San Francisco County runs at roughly 54%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Chavez (Cesar) Elementary is in the bottom 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 35.4%; Chavez (Cesar) Elementary posts 14.7%, -20.7 points below that line.

Across the wider county, San Francisco County reports that the typical household earns roughly $140,970 per year, roughly 60% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Chavez (Cesar) Elementary is one of 132 public schools in San Francisco County (combined enrollment of about 56,505 students).

Moscone (George R.) Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Chavez (Cesar) Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Chavez (Cesar) Elementary at 4th of 6; the average score across the group is 22.2%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 3%: 411 students in 2018 compared to 397 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share rose from 86% to 93%. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 17.5:1 in 2018 to 24.6:1 today.

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