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Giannini (A.P.) Middle
Test scores
CAASPP 2023-24 . % met or exceeded standardWhat this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 77 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 65 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 47 and 36. Reading and writing scores are up about 4 points since 2014, while math scores have held steady.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 71% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 56% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 15 points, placing it in California's top 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Giannini (A.P.) Middle
Giannini (A.P.) Middle is one of the well-populated 6-8 campuss in San Francisco, California, operated by San Francisco Unified, with 1,183 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 80% larger than the state mean of about 659.
Within San Francisco Unified, which oversees 106 schools and 48,706 students, Giannini (A.P.) Middle is one campus in the system.
In terms of who attends, Giannini (A.P.) Middle reports that the most-represented group is Asian (51%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder looks like 18% White, 16% multiracial, 12% Hispanic, 3% Black. That is visibly more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 35%.
Looking at school resources, On paper, Giannini (A.P.) Middle has 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 23.6:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 20.7:1 average. Around 40% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is below San Francisco County's rate of about 54%.
With demographic context factored in, Giannini (A.P.) Middle ranks in the top 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 55.9%; Giannini (A.P.) Middle posts 70.8%, +14.9 points above that line.
Around the school, the surrounding county (San Francisco County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $140,970 per year, about 60% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across San Francisco County's 132 public schools (combined enrollment of about 56,505 students), Giannini (A.P.) Middle is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is Sunset Elementary, roughly 0.2 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Giannini (A.P.) Middle comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 73.4%.
Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.
Trend over the last 7 years. Giannini (A.P.) Middle's enrollment has showed little movement since 2018, when it stood at 1,177 (now 1,183). Asian enrollment moved from 62% to 51% across the same window.
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