Tenderloin Community

Tenderloin Community, an intimate elementary school in San Francisco, California, part of San Francisco Unified, serves 282 students, covering grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 39% leaner than the state mean of about 465.

San Francisco Unified comprises 106 schools with combined enrollment of 48,706 students; Tenderloin Community is among them.

On the student-mix side, Tenderloin Community logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (51%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school reports 17% Asian, 14% White, 9% Black, 7% multiracial. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 16%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Tenderloin Community has 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 25.6:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. About 74% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against San Francisco County (around 54%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Tenderloin Community is in the bottom 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 35.3%; Tenderloin Community posts 20.4%, -14.9 points below that line.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (San Francisco County) shows 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%. In all, San Francisco County runs 132 public schools (combined enrollment of about 56,505 students), of which Tenderloin Community is one.

Nearest neighbor: S.F. County Civic Center Secondary, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Tenderloin Community. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Tenderloin Community ranks 5th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 31.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Tenderloin Community's enrollment has edged down 14% since 2018, when it stood at 327 (now 282). The Hispanic share of enrollment edged up from 37% to 51% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 19.2:1 in 2018 to 25.6:1 today.

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