Yick Wo Elementary

As a cozy elementary campus in San Francisco, California, Yick Wo Elementary educates 205 students from grades K through 5, overseen by San Francisco Unified. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Yick Wo Elementary sits 56% leaner than that benchmark.

San Francisco Unified runs 106 schools in total, collectively educating 48,706 students. Yick Wo Elementary is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Yick Wo Elementary logs that the largest single group is Asian at 32%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder comes out to 27% White, 24% multiracial, 14% Hispanic, 3% Black. That composition is broadly in line with San Francisco County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, Yick Wo Elementary shows 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 20.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. An estimated 45% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, San Francisco County runs at roughly 54%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Yick Wo Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 53.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 66.8%.

In the surrounding community, census data for San Francisco County shows median household earnings sit near $140,970, roughly 60% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across San Francisco County's 132 public schools (combined enrollment of about 56,505 students), Yick Wo Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is The New School of San Francisco, roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Yick Wo Elementary at 1st of 7; the average score across the group is 48.6%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Over the past 7-year window. Yick Wo Elementary's enrollment has fell 15% since 2018, when it stood at 240 (now 205). Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 35% to 27%. Class-load math has widened: from 18.5:1 in 2018 to 20.5:1 in 2025.

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