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What's the most underrated thing about Yu (Alice Fong) Elementary that outsiders don't know?
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Enrollment
594
Elementary
DISTRICT 328 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SAN FRANCISCO UNIFIED·NCES 063441005360
Yu (Alice Fong) Elementary
1541 12th Ave., San Francisco, CA 94122 · (415) 759-2764 · San Francisco County
GRADES KG–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL594 STUDENTS
A+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 99% of California public elementary schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- AThree-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded California public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
25.6:1
23 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 22.8:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
37%
217 students
DISTRICT 57% · STATE 65%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 66 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 67 | 11% |
| Grade 2 | 66 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 66 | 11% |
| Grade 4 | 66 | 11% |
| Grade 5 | 65 | 11% |
| Grade 6 | 66 | 11% |
| Grade 7 | 66 | 11% |
| Grade 8 | 66 | 11% |
This year's kindergarten class (66) is about the same size as its 8th grade class (66).
Student demographics
55%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 73% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
83.8%
CA avg 49.1% . +3.8pp since 2014
Math
81.5%
CA avg 37.7% . -5.5pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 84 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 82 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 4 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 5 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 54.4% | 29.4% | 12.2% | 4.0% |
| Math | 58.2% | 23.3% | 12.4% | 6.1% |
Share of tested students at each CAASPP level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
CAASPP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 83.8% | 81.5% |
| 2023-24 | 82.0% | 76.9% |
| 2022-23 | 82.3% | 75.5% |
| 2021-22 | 75.9% | 69.7% |
| 2018-19 | 75.4% | 69.7% |
| 2017-18 | 80.0% | 74.2% |
| 2016-17 | 79.7% | 78.6% |
| 2015-16 | 81.0% | 82.0% |
| 2014-15 | 80.0% | 87.0% |
% met or exceeded standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CAASPP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of CA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
81.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
58.1%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+22.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 81% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 58% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 23 points, placing it in California's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Yu (Alice Fong) Elementary
Yu (Alice Fong) Elementary's state test result (81.1% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yu (Alice Fong) Elementary this school | 594 | 36.5% | 81.1% |
| Cerritos Elementary Cerritos | 612 | 35.6% | 82.5% |
| Pearl Zanker Elementary Milpitas | 563 | 35.9% | 58.8% |
| Gonsalves (Joe A.) Elementary Cerritos | 516 | 35.5% | 80.3% |
| Anthony Spangler Elementary Milpitas | 610 | 35.2% | 64.1% |
| Wittmann (Helen) Elementary Cerritos | 561 | 37.3% | 82.9% |
Matched among California elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Yu (Alice Fong) Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In San Francisco County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 81.1% | #183 of 5,151 | #5 of 69 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 81.5% | #186 of 5,172 ▲ 161 | #3 of 69 ▲ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 83.8% | #141 of 5,172 ▲ 34 | #3 of 69 ▲ 3 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +9.8pp | #644 of 5,116 | #4 of 67 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 594 | #1,458 of 5,915 | #4 of 81 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 25.6:1 | #4,687 of 5,352 | #55 of 65 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 55.3% | #2,305 of 5,354 | #41 of 65 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 36.5% | #4,485 of 5,625 | #53 of 74 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +2.1% | #957 of 1,139 | #16 of 23 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
594
+7 (+1%) vs 2020
+48% since 2000-01, when it was 401
Student : Teacher
25.6:1
was 27.9:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 594 | 23.3 | 25.6:1 | 37% (217) |
| 2023-24 | 589 | 22.4 | 26.3:1 | 36% (213) |
| 2022-23 | 586 | 20.4 | 28.7:1 | 33% (194) |
| 2020-21 | 587 | 21 | 27.9:1 | 32% (189) |
| 2017-18 | 582 | 24 | 24.3:1 | 35% (205) |
| 2015-16 | 587 | 22 | 26.7:1 | 39% (228) |
| 2010-11 | 554 | N/A | N/A | 34% (187) |
| 2000-01 | 401 | 21 | 19.1:1 | 20% (81) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Yu (Alice Fong) Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students up 2% (582 to 594); teachers down 3% (24 to 23.3).
About Yu (Alice Fong) Elementary
Yu (Alice Fong) Elementary runs as a mid-sized elementary school in San Francisco, California. It offers kindergarten through 8 and has 594 students enrolled. That is 28% larger than the average of about 465 students for elementary schools in California.
The district, San Francisco Unified, has 48,706 students enrolled across 106 schools.
Federal enrollment data show Yu (Alice Fong) Elementary is 62% Asian. Enrollment also includes 22% multiracial, 5% Black, 5% White, and 5% Hispanic. The school's Asian share is 27 points above the 35% share among San Francisco County residents. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 55%.
Yu (Alice Fong) Elementary has 23.3 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff and a student-to-teacher ratio of 25.6:1. The school's 25.6:1 compares with an average of 22.3:1 for elementary schools in California. The school has 37% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The gap from the 54% average for public schools in San Francisco County is 17 points.
Among California public elementary schools, Yu (Alice Fong) Elementary outscored 99%, which works out to an A+ on the allk12 Grade.
Yu (Alice Fong) Elementary posts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 81.1%. Schools with its free or reduced-price lunch share in California are predicted to post 58.1%, so the school is 22.9 points ahead and in the state's top 10%.
San Francisco County is the school's county. There, the median household earns about $140,970 a year, roughly 60% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Public schools in San Francisco County number 132, with about 56,505 students.
The closest school to Yu (Alice Fong) Elementary is Independence High, located about 0.4 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. Of 8 schools in the immediate area with test results, Yu (Alice Fong) Elementary ranks 1st on average proficiency.
Yu (Alice Fong) Elementary falls in the City: Large locale category, used for schools inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
There was little change in enrollment from 2020-21 (587) to 2024-25 (594). By 2024-25, the school had 25.6 students per teacher, compared with 27.9 in 2020-21.
The discussion board for Yu (Alice Fong) Elementary is open to topics like athletics, class schedules, and weather closures. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to post.
San Francisco County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
830,235
Census ACS
Median income
$140,970
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
60%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
132
56,505 students
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Frequently asked questions
About Yu (Alice Fong) ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Yu (Alice Fong) Elementary?
Yu (Alice Fong) Elementary enrolls approximately 594 students in grades KG-08.
What grades does Yu (Alice Fong) Elementary serve?
Yu (Alice Fong) Elementary serves grades KG-08.
How many teachers does Yu (Alice Fong) Elementary have?
Yu (Alice Fong) Elementary employs 23 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 25.6:1.
What is the student diversity at Yu (Alice Fong) Elementary?
Student demographics at Yu (Alice Fong) Elementary are roughly 5% White, 5% Hispanic, 5% Black, 62% Asian, 22% Two or more.
Who oversees Yu (Alice Fong) Elementary?
Yu (Alice Fong) Elementary is overseen by San Francisco Unified in San Francisco County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.