Huerta (Dolores) Elementary

As a middle-of-the-pack elementary school in San Francisco, California, Huerta (Dolores) Elementary hosts 418 students from grades K through 5, run under San Francisco Unified.

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

Looking at the student body, Huerta (Dolores) Elementary logs that Hispanic students make up the majority at 69%. The remainder is composed of 20% White, 8% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 16% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Huerta (Dolores) Elementary lists 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 23.2:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 52% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, Huerta (Dolores) Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 48.6%; this one delivers 36.1%.

Zooming out to the county, San Francisco County reports that median household income runs about $140,970, about 60% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Huerta (Dolores) Elementary is one of 132 public schools in San Francisco County (combined enrollment of about 56,505 students).

Nearest neighbor: Serra (Junipero) Elementary, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Huerta (Dolores) Elementary comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 20.1%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Five-year trend. Huerta (Dolores) Elementary's enrollment has climbed 12% since 2018, when it stood at 374 (now 418). Over the same period, the White share grew from 11% to 20%. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 20.8:1 in 2018 to 23.2:1 today.

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