A school on the rise!
Starr King is a student-centered school in the southeast corner of San Francisco dedicated to helping children develop themselves academically, socially and emotionally. Our API has risen for seven straight years due to excellent teaching, a rigorous academic program and successful partnerships between the school and the community.
Communication is the theme that binds all our programs, which include English, Spanish bilingual, Mandarin immersion and an autism-specific special day program. 
We are host to one of the few Mandarin two-way immersion programs in the country, and the first in San Francisco. The program will be adding additional classes each year until this strand is full.
All our teachers have gone through extensive training and professional development and believe that meeting children where they are is the key to success.
We offer a visual arts program to all children, instrumental music classes, and gardening, as well as partnerships with local muralists and the SF Conservatory of Music. All classrooms have new computers.
Our free after-school program is run by the YMCA and runs daily until 5:40pm. Families participate actively through the PTA and School Site Council and come together for many enjoyable family nights and school functions.
Our efforts to support students socially and emotionally include several on site therapists, a partnership with the Omega Boys club, and an on-site mentoring program.
“I came to the tour of Starr King assuming that I was only interested in the Mandarin immersion program. By the time the tour was over, I knew that I would send my child here, in either the immersion or the general program. I was impressed with the leadership and vision, the children in the classes and play yard, and the fact that something was going very right in terms of the fundamentals of education.”
- Marie Ciepiela, kindergarten parent