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Coordinates: 37°44′41″N 122°26′54″W 37.74458925033802, -122.44842052459717

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Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts

  • Location & Contact Information
    • Address: 555 Portola Drive, San Francisco, California, United States of America 94131
    • Telephone Number:
      • (415) 695-5700
      • (415) 695-5326 (fax)
    • Website: [1]
  • History & Memorable Moments
  • Overview, Photographs, & Video Links

For many years, Ruth Asawa and others campaigned to start a public high school in San Francisco devoted to the arts. At its inception in 1982, S.O.T.A. was a part of J. Eugene McAteer High School and located at its present site on Portola Drive. In 1992, the school moved to a former elementary school at 700 Font Boulevard near San Francisco State University. In 2002, McAteer High School was dissolved, and S.O.T.A. was offered the site. The S.O.T.A. community elected to make this an interim move, and in 2005 a new school, the Academy of Arts and Sciences, was founded on the S.O.T.A. campus. [1]

S.O.T.A. has been a subject of discontent with the San Francisco Green Party, particularly with the Green members of the San Francisco Board of Education. Matt Gonzalez, a San Francisco Green Party leader, stated in his mayoral campaign platform that "passing an audition is a hurdle that many students can’t surmount[..]the school district must ensure a 'pipeline' through the elementary and middle schools that will guarantee much higher rates of low income minority representation at S.O.T.A." [1]

At a School Board meeting in December 2005, Green board member Mark Sanchez, asserting that S.O.T.A. did not make adequate use of the McAteer campus, proposed moving S.O.T.A. to "empty classrooms in a middle school in the Mission or Excelsior district" in order to lease the campus and thus tighten the district's budget gap. Proponents of S.O.T.A. counter that Sanchez's proposal amounts to the District "becom(ing) landlords at the expense of our students," and that with the Academy of Arts and Sciences bringing the number of students on the campus to 1,000 once it has reached peak capacity, along with the many SFUSD offices located on S.O.T.A.'s campus, it is completely inaccurate to say that this is an underutilized campus." [1]

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