School Names Advisory Committee Minutes

SFUSD

Conducted Via Zoom

Wednesday, August 12, 2020 - 5:30 pm to 7 pm

Wednesday, August 26, 2020 - 5:30 pm to 7 pm

Wednesday, September 9, 2020 - 5:30 to 7 pm

  1. Attendance (8/12/2020 and 8/26/2020)

Committee members:

  • Adam Mehis
  • Amelia Martínez-Bankhead
  • Ameyalli Ordonez
  • Doug Hamaker
  • Gregg Castro
  • Jeremiah Jeffries
  • Noah Frigault
  • Maria Anjum
  • Mariposa Villaluna
  • Mary Travis Allen
  • Tomasita Medál

Staff:

  • Myong Leigh
  • Chris Armentrout

  1. Attendance (9/9/2020)

Committee members:

  • Adam Mehis
  • Amelia Martínez-Bankhead
  • Ameyalli Ordonez
  • Doug Hamaker
  • Gaynor Siataga
  • Gregg Castro
  • Noah Frigault
  • Maria Anjum
  • Mariposa Villaluna
  • Mary Travis Allen
  • Tomasita Medál

Staff:

  • Myong Leigh
  • Chris Armentrout

  1. Welcome and public comment
  • Acknowledgement of the land led by Gregg Castro

  1. Approval of Minutes from July 29th  meeting
  • Minutes approved by consensus with no blocking concerns

  1. Review and selection of school names to be recommended for renaming
    based on research and
    Guiding Principles

Following schools were reviewed and assessed for whether the school’s name meets Guiding Principles criteria to be renamed:

Meets Criteria to be renamed?

Current School Name

Comprehensive HIGH schools

Yes

Balboa High School

No

Phillip & Sala Burton High School

No

Galileo Academy of Science and Technology

Yes

Abraham Lincoln High School

No

Thurgood Marshall Academic High School

Yes

Mission High School

No

Raoul Wallenberg Traditional High School

Yes

George Washington High School

Alternative HIGH schools

No

The Academy - San Francisco @ McAteer

No

The Ruth Asawa SF School of the Arts (SOTA) (Visual and Performing Arts)

No

Civic Center Secondary School

No

City Arts & Technology (Charter)

No

Downtown High School

No

Gateway High School (Charter)

No

Hilltop High School (County)

No

Independence High School

No

June Jordan School for Equity (Small School by Design)

No

Leadership High School (Charter)

Yes

Lowell High School (Academic Magnet) - For: James Russell Lowell

No

John O'Connell High School of Technology

No

San Francisco Flex Academy

No

San Francisco International High School

No

Ida B. Wells Continuation High School

Middle schools

No

Aptos Middle School

Yes

James Denman Middle School

Yes

Everett Middle School

No

Francisco Middle School

No

Gateway Middle School (Charter)

No

A.P. Giannini Middle School

Yes

Herbert Hoover Middle School

No

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Academic Middle School

Yes

James Lick Middle School

No

Marina Middle School

Yes

Presidio Middle School

Yes

Roosevelt Middle School

No

Visitacion Valley Middle School

No

Willie L. Brown Jr. Middle School

K-8 schools

No

Buena Vista/Horace Mann Alternative K-8

No

Bessie Carmichael/FEC K-8

No

Creative Arts Charter

Yes

Lawton Alternative K-8

No

Claire Lilienthal Alternative K-8

Yes

      CL:Madison Campus (Grades K-2) 3950 Sacramento Street

Yes

      CL: Winfield Scott Campus (Grades 3-8) 3630 Divisadero Street

Yes

Paul Revere K-8

No

Rooftop Alternative Elementary K-8

No

      RT: Twin Peaks Campus (Grades K-4)

Further review needed

      RT: Mayeda Campus (Grades 5-8)

No

San Francisco Community K-8

Further review needed

Thomas Edison Charter Academy

No

Alice Fong Yu Alternative K-8

K-5 Elementary schools

Yes

Alamo Elementary

Yes

Alvarado Elementary

No

Argonne Elementary

Yes

Bryant Elementary

No

Dr. George Washington Carver Elementary

No

César Chávez Elementary (formerly Hawthorne Elementary)

No

John Yehall Chin Elementary

No

Chinese Immersion School at De Avila

Yes

Clarendon Elementary Second Community

Yes

JBBP (Japanese Bilingual Bicultural Program) at Clarendon

No

Cleveland Elementary

No

Dr. William L. Cobb Elementary

No

Dr. Charles R. Drew College Preparatory Academy

Further review needed

El Dorado Elementary

Further review needed

Dianne Feinstein Elementary

No

Leonard R. Flynn Elementary

Yes

Garfield Elementary

No

Glen Park Elementary

Yes

Grattan Elementary

No

Guadalupe Elementary

No

Bret Harte Elementary

No

Hillcrest Elementary

No

Dolores Huerta Elementary

Yes

Jefferson Elementary

Yes

Francis Scott Key Elementary

Further review needed

Thomas Starr King Elementary

Further review needed

Lafayette Elementary

Further review needed

Lakeshore Elementary

No

Gordon J. Lau Elementary

No

Edwin and Anita Lee Newcomer School

No

Longfellow Elementary

Yes

Frank McCoppin Elementary

Yes

McKinley Elementary

No

Malcolm X Academy

Further review needed

Marshall Elementary

No

Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy

No

Miraloma Elementary

Yes

Monroe Elementary

No

George R. Moscone Elementary

Yes

John Muir Elementary

No

New Traditions Elementary

Yes

Jose Ortega Elementary

No

Jean Parker Elementary

No

Rosa Parks Elementary

No

Rosa Parks JBBP (Japanese Bilingual Bicultural Program)

No

George Peabody Elementary

Further review needed

Redding Elementary

Yes

Sanchez Elementary

No

San Francisco Public Montessori

Yes

Junipero Serra Elementary

Yes

Sheridan Elementary

Yes

Sherman Elementary

Yes

Commodore Sloat Elementary

No

Spring Valley Elementary

Yes

Robert Louis Stevenson Elementary

No

Sunnyside Elementary

No

Sunset Elementary

Yes

Sutro Elementary

Further  review needed

Edward Robeson "E.R." Taylor Elementary

No

Tenderloin Community School

Yes

Ulloa Elementary

No

Visitacion Valley Elementary

Yes

Daniel Webster Elementary

No

West Portal Elementary

No

Yick Wo

EES (Early Education Schools)

No

Leola Havard EES

No

Mahler EES

No

McLaren EES

Yes

Noriega EES

Yes

Presidio EES

No

Rodriguez EES

Further review needed

San Miguel EES

Yes

Stockton EES

No

Tule Elk Park EES

  1. Next Steps and Future Meetings
  • Committee shall include the following items in their next meeting agenda:
  • Revisit guiding principles and add items as needed. (Committee members are asked to review the approved guiding principles prior to next meeting to consider additions)
  • Revisit the highlighted names above which were listed with either “YES - meeting criteria to be renamed” or labeled with “Further Review Needed”
  • Determine how to meet school community needs and set deadline for schools to follow up with committee
  • Determine meeting scheduling going forward(2nd/4th Wednesday or every 2 weeks?)
  • Prior to next meeting, staff to resend guiding principles and most current school name review list

  • Next meeting scheduled for September 23, 2020 from 5:30 to 7 pm

  1. Appreciations and Adjournment