Parks (Rosa) Elementary

Located at 1501 O'Farrell St., in San Francisco, California, Parks (Rosa) Elementary is a small K-5 school that instructs 326 students (grades K through 5), run under San Francisco Unified. That puts it 30% leaner than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

San Francisco Unified runs 106 schools in total, collectively educating 48,706 students. Parks (Rosa) Elementary is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Parks (Rosa) Elementary lists that the largest single group is Hispanic at 27%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder looks like 24% multiracial, 20% Black, 19% Asian, 9% White. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 16%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 21.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Parks (Rosa) Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. About 63% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is higher than San Francisco County's rate of about 54%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Parks (Rosa) Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 42.2%, the actual is 28.8%, a residual of -13.4 points.

In the area at large, San Francisco County reports that median household earnings sit near $140,970, about 60% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across San Francisco County's 132 public schools (combined enrollment of about 56,505 students), Parks (Rosa) Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is S.F. County Civic Center Secondary, roughly 0.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Parks (Rosa) Elementary operates from a high-density location.

Five-year trend. Parks (Rosa) Elementary's enrollment has contracted 33% since 2018, when it stood at 487 (now 326). White enrollment moved from 17% to 9% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 25.6:1 in 2018 to 21.0:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.