Blog · San Francisco · League table · September 15, 2026
San Francisco's UC board is the only one where geography drops out
I pulled San Francisco's UC Reach board this morning, and it does something none of our other county boards do.
Geography drops out of the comparison.
Seventeen high schools in the city cleared our floor of 100 seniors, and every one of them sits inside San Francisco. Every other county board we have built spreads across at least seven cities, and one of them touches seventeen.
That matters more than it sounds. In those other counties, a parent weighing two schools from the same list is usually also weighing two housing markets, two commutes and two versions of their morning. Here that part is off the table. What is left is the schools.
Lowell High School is first at 71, and it carries the largest raw count in the city too — 453 admits from 642 seniors. Leading on both at once is less common than it sounds, because a per-100 figure tends to favor a small class while the raw column rewards a big one.
A single point behind, at 70, is the public arts high school named for Ruth Asawa, with 127 admits against a class of 181. Galileo Academy takes third at 61.
The top three are public. The top ten lands at an even five and five.
For anyone new to the measure: these are admission offers from the six most selective UC campuses, counted at each campus, per 100 seniors. A student admitted to three shows up three times.
And they are admits, not enrollees. The family still chooses.
Every San Francisco school is on the board at highschoolreach.com/rankings.
