SeaCliff District and Marina District Questions (San Francisco: rentals, houses, neighborhoods)

[CityOnDown5250]

Quick question about the Sea Cliff part of SF. (not even sure if its a district) I was passing through there briefly, and it really seemed to be its own neighborhood. For people living there, what school district do people usually choose? Do people attened public schools there or private schools? Do they attened schools with people just in SeaCliff? What about the Marina district. Do they have their own high schools? Where do families send their children to school?

[uptown_urbanist]

Seacliff is part of San Francisco, so technically the residents would be part of the SF public school system. That's a really pricey area, though, so I'm assuming that a large percentage of the kids there probably go the private route.

We don't have school-age children in SF, but it's my understanding that the public school system is still set up as a lottery (with some current discussions of change), with extensive movement of kids across the city. In other words, there is no one school that the kids in the Marina or Seacliff would attend, even if there are schools nearby. In any case, the kids in the Marina or in Seacliff would not just attend school with only other students from their own neighborhoods.

[hsw]

SeaCliff is largely >$5MM houses (>$10MM on water), so any families use private schools in City

Marina is land of <25yo post-college kids living in dumpy rentals, so not sure schools matter

PacHts and PresidioHts have many young families, but houses are >>$5MM, so again, private schools are only choice

Like Manhattan, City of SF is land of yuppies w/o kids and wealthy young families who can afford to raise kids in City, as opposed to far cheaper SiliconValley suburbs where most middle-income (and many wealthy) families tend to live (and many opt for private schools in suburbs as well, as suburban public schools are either academically weak and/or physically unsafe)

Public schools are about as worthless to most taxpayers as public transit or homeless shelters

[uptown_urbanist]

Not everyone raising kids in the city is wealthy (although everyone in Seacliff is, and rentals in the Marina are expensive and I'd guess many of those parents, are, too, although nowhere near SeaCliff rich), and besides, some parents believe in the public schools and choose to send their kids their, despite their ability to pay for private. The lottery system is a big negative, though.

My kids will be going to public schools. I use public transit, too.