Gateway High

Gateway High, a low-enrollment senior high in San Francisco, California, run under Gateway High District, hosts 464 students, covering grades 9 through 12. That puts it 45% leaner than the typical public school in California, which averages around 838 students.

Gateway High sits inside Gateway High District, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

On the student-mix side, Gateway High logs that 42% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 28% White, 13% Black, 8% multiracial, 8% Asian. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 16%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Gateway High has 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.1:1. The state averages around 18.2:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 53% of students at Gateway High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (San Francisco County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $140,970 per year, 60% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, San Francisco County runs 132 public schools (combined enrollment of about 56,505 students), of which Gateway High is one.

KIPP San Francisco Bay Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area. Gateway High is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

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