Editing San Francisco (section)

==Education==

===Colleges and universities===
{{See also|List of colleges and universities in San Francisco}}
[[File:Lone Mountain Campus (cropped).jpg|thumb|upright|[[University of San Francisco]]]]
The [[University of California, San Francisco]] is the sole campus of the [[University of California|University of California system]] entirely dedicated to graduate education in health and biomedical sciences. It is ranked among the top five medical schools in the United States<ref>{{cite magazine
|url=http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-medical-schools/primary-care-rankings
|title=America's Best Graduate Schools: Best Medical Schools
|access-date=July 25, 2010
|year=2010
|magazine=[[U.S. News & World Report]]
|url-status=dead
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100421213522/http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-medical-schools/primary-care-rankings
|archive-date=April 21, 2010
}}</ref> and operates the [[UCSF Medical Center]], which ranks as the number one hospital in California and the number 5 in the country.<ref>{{cite magazine
|url = http://health.usnews.com/health-news/best-hospitals/articles/2011/07/18/best-hospitals-2011-12-the-honor-roll
|title = Best Hospitals 2011–12: the Honor Roll
|magazine=U.S. News & World Report
|author=Comarow, Avery
|date = July 14, 2010
|access-date =July 25, 2010
}}</ref> UCSF is a major local employer, second in size only to the city and county government.<ref>{{cite web
|url = http://www.sfced.org/docs/Largest_Employers_in_SF_2007.doc
|title = San Francisco Business Information: Largest Employers in San Francisco
|access-date =June 9, 2008
|work=San Francisco Business Times Book of Lists, 2007
|format = Microsoft Word
|publisher=San Francisco Center for Economic Development
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070817111006/http://www.sfced.org/docs/Largest_Employers_in_SF_2007.doc|archive-date = August 17, 2007}}</ref><ref>{{cite news
|title = UCSF packs a $6B punch for economy
|work=[[San Francisco Business Times]]
|last1=Leuty
|first1=Ron
|date = June 11, 2010
|url = http://sanfrancisco.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2010/06/14/story1.html
|access-date =July 26, 2010
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100616084742/http://sanfrancisco.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2010/06/14/story1.html |archive-date = June 16, 2010|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web
|url = http://www.ucsf.edu/eir/employment-economic-stimulus
|title = Employment & Economic Stimulus
|access-date =July 26, 2010
|work=2010 Economic Impact Report
|publisher=[[University of California, San Francisco]]
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100701173949/http://www.ucsf.edu/eir/employment-economic-stimulus |archive-date = July 1, 2010|url-status=live}}</ref> A {{convert|43|acre|ha|adj=on}} [[Mission Bay, San Francisco|Mission Bay]] campus was opened in 2003, complementing its original facility in [[List of hills in San Francisco|Parnassus Heights]]. It contains research space and facilities to foster biotechnology and life sciences entrepreneurship and will double the size of UCSF's research enterprise.<ref>{{cite web
|url = http://www.ucsf.edu/news/2003/07/4846/new-ucsf-mission-bay-campus-countrys-largest-biomedical-university-expansio
|title = New UCSF Mission Bay campus: country's largest biomedical university expansion
|first1=Wallace 
|last1=Ravven
|access-date =June 9, 2008
|publisher=University of California, San Francisco
|date = July 22, 2003
}}</ref> All in all, UCSF operates more than 20 facilities across San Francisco.<ref>{{cite web
|url = http://www.ucsf.edu/locations
|title = Locations
|author= UCSF
|access-date =February 21, 2015
|year = 2015
}}</ref>

The [[University of California College of the Law, San Francisco]], founded in [[Civic Center, San Francisco|Civic Center]] in 1878, is the oldest law school in California and claims more judges on the state bench than any other institution.<ref>{{cite web
|url = http://www.uchastings.edu/?pid=37
|title = Hastings Quick Facts
|access-date =August 30, 2006
|publisher=University of California, Hastings College of the Law}}</ref>
San Francisco's two University of California institutions have recently formed an official affiliation in the UCSF/UC Law SF Consortium on Law, Science & Health Policy.<ref>{{cite web
|url = http://ucsfconsortium.uchastings.edu/
|title = UCSF/UC Hastings Consortium
|access-date = June 2, 2013
|publisher = University of California, Hastings College of the Law
|archive-date = April 26, 2013
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130426222524/http://ucsfconsortium.uchastings.edu/
|url-status = dead
}}</ref>
[[File:SFSU Campus Overview Nov2012.JPG|thumb|left|[[San Francisco State University]] library building]]
[[San Francisco State University]] is part of the [[California State University]] system and is located near [[Lake Merced]].<ref name=sfsu>{{cite web
|url = http://www.sfsu.edu/~puboff/sfsufact/archive/0809/files/SFSU_Facts_0809.pdf
|title = SF State Facts 2008–2009
|access-date = March 7, 2009
|publisher = SFSU
|archive-date = March 3, 2016
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160303214251/http://www.sfsu.edu/~puboff/sfsufact/archive/0809/files/SFSU_Facts_0809.pdf
|url-status = dead
}}</ref> The school has approximately 30,000 students and awards undergraduate, master's and doctoral degrees in more than 100 disciplines.<ref name=sfsu/> The [[City College of San Francisco]], with its main facility in the Ingleside district, is one of the largest two-year [[community college]]s in the country. It has an enrollment of about 100,000 students and offers an extensive continuing education program.<ref>{{cite web
|url = http://www.ccsf.edu/Offices/Public_Information/factsheet.html
|title = City College of San Francisco Fact Sheet
|access-date = June 16, 2008
|date = April 2008
|format = PDF
|publisher = City College of San Francisco
|archive-date = December 2, 2008
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20081202165806/http://www.ccsf.edu/Offices/Public_Information/factsheet.html
|url-status = dead
}}</ref>
[[File:McAllister Tower in San Francisco (TK2).JPG|thumb|upright|[[University of California College of the Law, San Francisco|University of California College of the Law]]]]
Founded in 1855, the [[University of San Francisco]], a private [[Society of Jesus|Jesuit]] university located on [[Lone Mountain (California)|Lone Mountain]], is the oldest institution of higher education in San Francisco and one of the oldest universities established west of the Mississippi River.<ref>{{cite web
|url = http://www.usfca.edu/online/about_USF/USFAlmanac2007.pdf
|title = University of San Francisco Fact Book and Almanac 2007
|date = December 31, 2007
|publisher=University of San Francisco
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080624193135/http://www.usfca.edu/online/about_USF/USFAlmanac2007.pdf
|archive-date = June 24, 2008
|access-date =July 25, 2010
}}</ref> [[Golden Gate University]] is a private, nonsectarian university formed in 1901 and located in the [[Financial District, San Francisco|Financial District]].

[[California Institute of Integral Studies]], founded in 1968, offers graduate programs in its Schools of Professional Psychology & Health, and Consciousness and Transformation.

With an enrollment of 13,000 students, the [[Academy of Art University]] is the largest institute of art and design in the nation.<ref>{{cite web
|url = http://www.academyart.edu/whoweare.html
|title = Who We Are
|access-date =February 18, 2009
|publisher=Academy of Art University
|year = 2008
}}</ref> The [[California College of the Arts]], located north of [[Potrero Hill]], has programs in architecture, fine arts, design, and writing.<ref>{{cite web
|url = http://www.cca.edu/admissions/undergrad/campuses
|title = Oakland & San Francisco Campuses
|access-date =May 23, 2012
|publisher=California College of the Arts
|year = 2012
}}</ref> The [[San Francisco Conservatory of Music]], the only independent [[music school]] on the West Coast, grants degrees in orchestral instruments, chamber music, composition, and conducting. The [[San Francisco Art Institute]], founded in 1871 and the oldest [[art school]] west of the Mississippi,<ref>{{cite book
|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=2kz2R2rPFXgC&q=Roadtripping+USA
|title = Let's Go: Roadtripping USA
|access-date =February 18, 2009
|page = 489
|publisher=MacMillan
|year = 2007
|isbn = 9780312361822
}}</ref> closed in 2022.

The [[California Culinary Academy]] had programs in the culinary arts, baking and pastry arts, and hospitality and restaurant management, and is now closed.

===Primary and secondary schools===
{{see also|San Francisco public grammar schools|List of high schools in California#San Francisco County}}
<!--Note: All PUBLIC schools are listed in San Francisco Unified School District-->
[[File:Mission High School.jpg|thumb|left|The [[San Francisco Unified School District]] operates 114 schools and is the oldest school district in California.]]
[[Public school (government funded)|Public schools]] are run by the [[San Francisco Unified School District]], which covers the entire city and county,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/PL20/st06_ca/schooldistrict_maps/c06075_san_francisco/DC20SD_C06075.pdf|title=2020 CENSUS – SCHOOL DISTRICT REFERENCE MAP: San Francisco County, CA|publisher=[[U.S. Census Bureau]]|access-date=July 22, 2022}} – [https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/PL20/st06_ca/schooldistrict_maps/c06075_san_francisco/DC20SD_C06075_SD2MS.txt Text list]</ref> as well as the [[California State Board of Education]] for some charter schools. [[Lowell High School (San Francisco)|Lowell High School]], the oldest public high school in the U.S. west of the [[Mississippi River|Mississippi]],<ref>{{cite web
|title = The Oldest Public High School West of the Mississippi
|work=About Lowell: Lowell History
|publisher=San Francisco Unified School District
|date = February 22, 2002
|url = http://www.sfusd.edu/schwww/sch697/about/history/
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20020414125943/http://www.sfusd.edu/schwww/sch697/about/history/
|archive-date = April 14, 2002
|access-date =July 25, 2010
}}</ref> and the smaller [[Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts|School of the Arts High School]] are two of San Francisco's [[magnet school]]s at the secondary level. Public school students attend schools based on an assignment system rather than neighborhood proximity.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sfgate.com/education/article/S-F-board-sticks-with-school-assignment-system-6317632.php|title=S.F. board sticks with school-assignment system|first1=Jill|last1=Tucker|date=June 10, 2015|website=SFGATE|publisher=Hearst Communications, Inc}}</ref>

Just under 30% of the city's school-age population attends one of San Francisco's more than 100 [[private school|private]] or [[parochial school]]s, compared to a 10% rate nationwide.<ref name="SFGPrvtSchools">{{cite news
|last = Knight |first = Heather
|title = Many reluctantly chose private schools
|work=San Francisco Chronicle |page = A-1

|date = May 31, 2006
|url = http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/05/31/MNGJIJ50T41.DTL
|access-date =June 16, 2008
}}</ref> Nearly 40 of those schools are [[Catholic school]]s managed by the [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Francisco|Archdiocese of San Francisco]].<ref>{{cite web
|title = School Directory August 2010
|publisher=Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Francisco
|date = August 2010
|url = http://sfdcs.org/dcs/sites/default/files/docs/school_directory/Directory_Regular_10-11.pdf
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20101127114957/http://sfdcs.org/dcs/sites/default/files/docs/school_directory/Directory_Regular_10-11.pdf
|archive-date = November 27, 2010
|access-date =January 23, 2011
}}</ref>

San Francisco has nearly 300 [[preschool]] programs primarily operated by [[Head Start (program)|Head Start]], [[San Francisco Unified School District]], private for-profit, private non-profit and [[Child care#Family child care homes|family child care]] providers.<ref>{{cite web
|title = Preschools in San Francisco
|publisher=Winnie
|access-date = May 18, 2017
|url = https://winnie.com/search?category=childcare&find=preschool&ne=37.829105%2C-122.065999&sw=37.685788%2C-122.817189
}}</ref> All four-year-old children living in San Francisco are offered [[Universal preschool|universal access to preschool]].<ref>{{cite web
|title       = Preschool for All
|publisher   = San Francisco Office of Early Care and Education
|access-date  = May 18, 2017
|url         = http://sfoece.org/preschool-for-all-pfa-first-5-sf-and-oece/
|url-status=dead
|archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20170524225949/http://sfoece.org/preschool-for-all-pfa-first-5-sf-and-oece/
|archive-date = May 24, 2017
}}</ref>