Learn More About School Closures, Mergers, and Co-Locations
Focus Area 5 of the Resource Alignment Initiative will establish a new portfolio of schools. This includes necessary but challenging steps such as school closures, mergers, and co-locations, all aimed at creating strong and supportive learning environments for every student, every day.
What is the Resource Alignment Initiative?
SFUSD began the Resource Alignment Initiative in August 2023 in response to declining student enrollment, declining revenue, staffing challenges, and deteriorating buildings.
The District’s resources are simply stretched too thin, and this is impacting the ability to achieve SFUSD’s ambitious five-year student outcome goals.
The Resource Alignment Initiative is our roadmap for the critical work we must do as a school district to move us toward a future where every student attends a strong school, our educators have the resources and support to excel, and our community grows stronger.
The initiative has five focus areas to address our challenges in multiple ways. None of them alone will help us achieve our goals. Learn more about each focus area below. Under the direction of Superintendent Wayne, the Resource Alignment Initiative is underway and will continue through school year 2025-26. Each of the five focus area
The District’s resources are simply stretched too thin, and this is impacting the ability to achieve SFUSD’s ambitious five-year student outcome goals.
The Resource Alignment Initiative is our roadmap for the critical work we must do as a school district to move us toward a future where every student attends a strong school, our educators have the resources and support to excel, and our community grows stronger.
The initiative has five focus areas to address our challenges in multiple ways. None of them alone will help us achieve our goals. Learn more about each focus area below. Under the direction of Superintendent Wayne, the Resource Alignment Initiative is underway and will continue through school year 2025-26. Each of the five focus area
Watch this short video to learn more about the Resource Alignment Initiative.
Learn more about the five focus areas
Go to Focus Area 5
to learn more information about school closures, mergers, and co-locations
Guiding Principles
Guiding Principles
Superintendent Wayne has laid out four guiding principles for the RAI recommendations that will be developed this year.:
- Money will follow students. Schools should have predictable services that all students receive based on student enrollment.
- SFUSD will plan to operate at scale based on student enrollment. Schools and classrooms will operate at full capacity to provide the best instruction and learning experience.
- SFUSD will allocate resources to programs aligned with positive student outcomes. Improving student outcomes requires strategic abandonment.
- SFUSD will approach the development of any proposed school portfolio changes with an equity lens to explicitly evaluate disproportionate racial equity impacts. This approach will be consistent with state statutes, best practices, and with an understanding of San Francisco’s history of racial segregation.
(See here for Dr. Wayne’s August 2023 letter to the community, District staff’s RAI presentation, and a video recording of the discussion)
This page was last updated on June 27, 2024