The following interactive map shows SFUSD's loss of Black students from 2010-16.
Following it, is a series of interactive maps which show the desegregation and resegregation of schools within the San Francisco United School District over the last five decades. To view the maps' legend and details, click the arrows in the top left corner.SFUSD Loss in Black Students 2012-161965-66 School YearIn the 1965–66 school year, San Francisco’s Black children were racially isolated in schools in historically Black neighborhoods while many other schools in The City had few if any Black students.
1970-71 School Year
1971-72 School YearIn the 1971–72 school year, SFUSD’s “horseshoe plan” of racially-based admissions and forced busing results in the integration of Black children into schools throughout The City.
1993-94 School Year
By the 1993–94 school year, the end of large-scale forced busing in favor of a quota system putting racial caps on school admissions allows for the reemergence of patterns of racial isolation.
2000-01 School Year
2012-11 School YearBy the 2010–11 school year, the end of the racial quota system in favor of the non-racial “diversity index” results in a map that is in some ways similar to the map of 1965-66, with Black students overrepresented in schools in some neighborhoods and not represented in many other schools in The City.
2016-17 School Year
Maps by Flora Wang and Marisa Weinstock
Text by Alexandra Lacey and Wynn Newberry