Lick (James) Middle

Lick (James) Middle operates as a low-enrollment middle-grades school in San Francisco, California, part of San Francisco Unified. Current enrollment sits at 479 students spanning grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 27% smaller than the state mean of about 659.

San Francisco Unified runs 106 schools in total, collectively educating 48,706 students. Lick (James) Middle is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Lick (James) Middle reports that 74% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 10% White, 7% multiracial, 7% Black, 3% Asian. By comparison, San Francisco County as a whole is about 16% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Lick (James) Middle lists 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.4:1. The state averages around 20.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 62% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Lick (James) Middle falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 42.7%; this one comes in at 16.0%, -26.7 points off the demographic line.

Around the school, census data for San Francisco County shows the typical household earns roughly $140,970 per year, 60% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Lick (James) Middle is one of 132 public schools in San Francisco County (combined enrollment of about 56,505 students).

Alvarado Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Lick (James) Middle ranks 6th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 34.9%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Lick (James) Middle has declined 23%, going from 621 students in 2018 to 479 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 19.1:1 in 2018 to 16.4:1 today.

On this page, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.