Five Keys Independence HS (SF Sheriff's)

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At a glance

Programs & features

Dual-enrollment program (college credit while in HS)

Academic signals

AP rigor: Bottom 40% of US high schools
4-yr grad rate: 9% in 2019 (Bottom 1% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate)

Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts graduation data, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.

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How Five Keys Independence HS (SF Sheriff's) compares for families

Solid mid-tier academic profile.

▸ LocallyCA trails the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math (−4 points). Stronger local schools matter even more.
▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Berkeley High, Lowell High, Lincoln (Abraham) High and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.

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SAT / ACT participation

CRDC federal data · 2020-21

SAT/ACT test-takers

11th-12th graders who took 1+ college admissions test

Test-taking intensity

0.0

takers per 100 students in grades 9-12

Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). Volume — not score — is what's reported here. A higher count means more students at this school are entering the college admissions pipeline. Note: 2020-21 was COVID-disrupted; some districts (especially those that stayed remote longer) report unusually low or zero takers.

4-year graduation rate · federal EDFacts

What % of students graduate on time?

Bottom 1% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate

4-year graduation rate

Single-point estimate

4-year cohort size

434

Students in the 9th-grade entry class tracked over 4 years

Compared against

17,988

US high schools reporting 4-year ACGR

Source: federal EDFacts ACGR (Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate), 2019 vintage via Urban Institute. EDFacts publishes a range (low-high) to preserve privacy on small cohorts; we display the midpoint.

Federal Title I context

Title I Schoolwide eligible

≥40% FRPL — qualifies for Title I Schoolwide program

44.0%

FRPL rate — % of students who qualify for the federal Free or Reduced-Price Lunch program. This is the underlying federal income-eligibility signal Title I designations are computed from (ESEA Sec. 1113).

0% (no FRPL) 35% TA · 40% Schoolwide 100% (universal FRPL)

40-74% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. The district can use Title I funds across the whole school under federal Schoolwide Program rules.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, free/reduced-price lunch eligibility. The actual Title I designation is a district decision and may differ from eligibility — but the federal eligibility math is what we show here. We don't claim to assert whether the district formally chose to enroll this school in Title I.

Counselor capacity

Student : Counselor

10445:1

Well above the US median — a real constraint on individualized college and course planning.

Counselor FTE

0.3

Full-time-equivalent school counselors on staff.

Teacher FTE

134

Full-time-equivalent classroom teachers.

Source: U.S. Department of Education, Civil Rights Data Collection 2020-2021. Counselor ratio = the school's most recent total enrollment ÷ counselor FTE. The American School Counselor Association (ASCA) recommends a 250:1 maximum; the US national median across schools with on-staff counselors is roughly 430:1.

Enrollment trend & projection

Grade 12 went from 233 in 2021 to 191 in 2024 — over 3 years.

-18.0%

Total enrollment + grade 12, NCES Common Core of Data (2021–2024).

If the recent trend holds…

At its recent rate of +12.7%/year, projecting from 2024's 3,447 students:

2025

3,885

2027

4,935

2029

6,269

An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.

Revenue upside

At $14,637 per student in district revenue, the 2,822 students projected to be gained by 2029 represent ≈ $41,305,614/year in additional funding.

District total revenue ÷ enrollment, NCES F-33. Public funding largely follows enrollment, so a shrinking class is a recurring budget hit.

Most similar nearby high schools

The schools most like this one — same type, blended on distance and size — and where their enrollment is heading. These are the schools families here weigh against each other.

School	Type	Miles	HS enrollment	Trend
Berkeley High Berkeley	Public	9.5	3,218	-0.1%
Lowell High San Francisco	Public	5.5	2,571	-3.1%
Lincoln (Abraham) High San Francisco	Public	4.8	2,074	+8.0%
Washington (George) High San Francisco	Public	4.9	2,068	+0.0%
Galileo High San Francisco	Public	2.2	1,750	-6.8%
Alameda High Alameda	Public	8.6	1,868	+3.3%
San Francisco County ROP San Francisco	Public	4.5	—	—
Oakland Technical High Oakland	Public	8.9	1,812	-3.6%

At a glance

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Five Keys Independence HS (SF Sheriff's) is a public high school in San Francisco, CA, enrolling 3,447 students in grades 9-12 in 2024.

Enrollment is down 18% from 2021 to 2024.

Its federal four-year graduation rate was about 9% in the latest EDFacts release.

It has about 10,445 students per school counselor.

Sources: National Center for Education Statistics (enrollment), the federal Civil Rights Data Collection and EDFacts, state education agencies where named, and the school's own published documents where named.

Questions families ask

What is Five Keys Independence HS (SF Sheriff's)'s graduation rate? Five Keys Independence HS (SF Sheriff's)'s federal four-year graduation rate was about 9% in the latest EDFacts release.

How many students attend Five Keys Independence HS (SF Sheriff's)? Five Keys Independence HS (SF Sheriff's) is a public high school in San Francisco, CA, enrolling 3,447 students in grades 9-12 in 2024.

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