| Balboa High School | |
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1000 Cayuga Avenue , San Francisco , 94112 | |
| Coordinates | 37°43′18.58″N 122°26′27.86″W / 37.7218278°N 122.4410722°W |
| Information | |
| Motto | First on the Pacific |
| Founded | 1928 |
| School district | SFUSD |
| Superintendent | Matt Wayne |
| School code | 439 |
| CEEB code | 052916 |
| NCES School ID | 05587 |
| Dean | Trecia J. Cruz |
| Principal | Catherine A. Arenson |
| Teaching staff | 58.97 (FTE)[1] |
| Enrollment | 1,278 (2022–23)[1]
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| Average class size | 21.1[2] |
| Student to teacher ratio | 21.67[1] |
| Campus type | Urban |
| Color(s) | Orange Blue |
| Nickname | BAL |
| Team name | Buccaneers |
| Yearbook | The Galleon |
| Website | www |
| Designated | 1995[3] |
| Reference no. | 205 |
| Last updated: October 8, 2024 | |
Balboa High School, colloquially known as Bal, is an American public high school located near the Excelsior District in the Mission Terrace neighborhood of San Francisco, California, United States.[4] Balboa serves grades nine through twelve as part of the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD).
Balboa is a comprehensive school located in an urban working class district. It educates a greater proportion of the city's disadvantaged and minority students relative to other city high schools. Mirroring conditions in the areas it serves, the school has a history marked by periods of violence, controversy, and low academic performance.[5]
The school motto is "First on the Pacific". The campus is the only historic landmark school in the district and the only one operating in the city. Following the dismissal of the entire faculty in 1999, it became the first school in northern California to embrace and convert its curriculum to the concept of small learning communities. It was the first in California to start a school-based student health clinic. In response to the AIDS pandemic, it was the first school in California to distribute free condoms to students. In the last decade, Balboa has experienced a turnaround and has improved its reputation and academic performance.[6] The school achieved placement on Newsweek's "America's Top Public High Schools" list in 2007 and 2008.[7]
- ^ a b c "Balboa High". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved June 20, 2024.
- ^ "Average Class Size". California Department of Education. Archived from the original on December 11, 2012. Retrieved May 16, 2009.
- ^ "City of San Francisco Designated Landmarks". City of San Francisco. Archived from the original on March 25, 2014. Retrieved October 21, 2012.
- ^ "San Francisco's SFProspector". City and County of San Francisco. Archived from the original on September 30, 2007. Retrieved March 18, 2007.
- ^ Yeung, Bernice (October 11, 2000). "Hard Lessons". SF Weekly. Retrieved November 19, 2006.
- ^ Knight, Heather (March 12, 2004). "Reluctant Balboa students now are boosters for their school / A less-favored S.F. high school suits them just fine". San Francisco Chronicle. p. B-4. Retrieved November 19, 2006.
- ^ "America's Top Public High Schools (San Francisco)". Newsweek. Retrieved July 25, 2008. [dead link]