SFUSD Celebrates Milestone in Construction of Long-Awaited New School in Mission Bay Neighborhood

San Francisco (July 24, 2024) - The San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) remains committed to delivering a new school in Mission Bay – a vision over two decades in the making, on a lot that was designated for a public school in the 1998 Mission Bay Redevelopment Plan. SFUSD celebrated a milestone in the campus’ construction on July 1, with a topping out event to commemorate the placement of the final steel beam on the building structure. 

The Mission Bay school is being delivered by the voter-approved 2016 Bond Program. The school addresses a gap in elementary school options in the high-growth neighborhood of Mission Bay and surrounding communities in the eastern side of the city, which  do not have sufficient access to public elementary schools. The school design has been a rare opportunity for SFUSD to build a campus suited for 21st century learning, tailored to support the SFUSD Graduate Profile and in service of innovative and collaborative instructional programming. It will be a 550-student elementary school serving Pre-K through 5th grade. The building also includes space for the Mission Bay Hub, a linked learning program for high school students across the district to prepare for careers in health and bioscience and engage with local partners in these fields.

“The Mission Bay school is the result of more than two decades of planning, community input, and collaboration across different agencies in service of bringing more opportunities to SFUSD students,” SFUSD Superintendent Dr. Matt Wayne said. “The new school allows the district to deliver on its commitment to ensuring that every neighborhood in the city has a public elementary school.”

The Mission Bay school will open in August 2026 for the 2026-27 academic year. The school opening had initially been planned for August 2025. As part of its Resource Alignment Initiative, SFUSD is engaged in a process to determine a new school portfolio for the 2025-26 school year, which will include school closures, mergers, or co-locations. Opening the Mission Bay School in August 2026 allows SFUSD to focus on supporting students, families, and staff through changes in the 2025-26 school year, and gives SFUSD adequate time to plan the Mission Bay attendance area, engage in targeted community outreach, hire the school’s leadership team, and build its programs.  

“We look forward to working with Mission Bay to open this long-awaited school in 2026 in one of the city’s fastest growing neighborhoods,” Board of Education President Lainie Motamedi said. “Mission Bay elementary school and Mission Bay Hub deliver on SFUSD’s vision for excellent schools and opportunities for all San Francisco students.”

• Learn more about the new school in Mission Bay here.
• Learn more about the SFUSD Bond Program here.
• Learn more about the Resource Alignment Initiative here.

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