Cleveland Elementary

Cleveland Elementary is one of the small elementary schools in San Francisco, California, operated by San Francisco Unified, with 300 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Cleveland Elementary sits 35% below that benchmark.

Within San Francisco Unified, which oversees 106 schools and 48,706 students, Cleveland Elementary is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Cleveland Elementary lists that 83% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest looks like 7% Asian, 5% multiracial, 3% Black. By comparison, San Francisco County as a whole is about 16% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Cleveland Elementary reports 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 22.2:1. The state averages about 22.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 70% 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 residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Cleveland Elementary falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 38.0%; this one comes in at 10.3%, -27.6 points off the demographic line.

Around the school, census data for San Francisco County shows median household earnings sit near $140,970, about 60% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, San Francisco County runs 132 public schools (combined enrollment of about 56,505 students), of which Cleveland Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Jordan (June) School for Equity, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Cleveland Elementary ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 34.3%.

Cleveland Elementary operates from a high-density location.

Five-year trend. Cleveland Elementary's enrollment has decreased 21% since 2018, when it stood at 378 (now 300). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 23.6:1 in 2018 to 22.2:1 today.

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