Focus Area 5 - Create a New Portfolio of Schools

Resource Alignment Initiative goal: Recommend changes to SFUSD’s portfolio of schools to concentrate and equitably distribute resources for strong and supportive learning environments.

The goal of this focus area is for the district to recommend changes to SFUSD’s portfolio of schools to concentrate and equitably distribute resources for strong and supportive learning environments. SFUSD began the effort to create a new portfolio of schools including school closures, mergers, and co-locations in school year 2025-26 at a Board of Education meeting on August 29, 2023.

The 12-month plan includes two phases of community engagement over eight months. SFUSD implemented the first phase from March to May 2024. It focused on gathering input on which criteria should be used to determine which schools should be considered for closure, merger, and co-location. The District’s community engagement on this topic surpassed all past District community engagement, including those gathering input for the 2022 superintendent search and developing the Vision, Values, Goals, and Guardrails. Notably, this effort also surpassed all the school districts researched for best practices.

At the SF Board of Education regular meeting on Tuesday, June 25, 2024, Superintendent Wayne shared SFUSD’s final composite score criteria, metrics, and category weights to help decide which schools will be considered for closure, merger, and co-location. Dr. Wayne also presented highlights of the first community engagement phase from March through May 2024 and reviewed the school portfolio design process and timeline. You can access the agenda of the meeting, which includes the presentation slides translated into Spanish, Chinese, Arabic, Samoan, Tagalog, and Vietnamese), a longer reading slide deck (English only), and a video of the discussion.

SFUSD plans to announce which schools are affected in Fall 2024. Find the high-level timeline below and a more detailed description of the plan.

Upcoming community engagement will focus on deep engagement with school communities that will be directly affected by closures, mergers, and co-locations to ensure a transition that supports the unique needs of each school community.