Balboa High School (San Francisco) 
Balboa High School is an American public high school located in the Excelsior District of San Francisco, California. Balboa serves grades 9-12 as part of the San Francisco Unified School District. It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with State school. ...
Nickname: The City by the Bay; Fog City Location of the City and County of San Francisco, California Coordinates: City-County San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom Area - City 600. ...
Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Area Ranked 3rd - Total 158,302 sq mi (410,000 km²) - Width 250 miles (400 km) - Length 770 miles (1,240 km) - % water 4. ...
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The Excelsior District in San Francisco is the area along Mission Street, south of Interstate 280 and north of Geneva Avenue. ...
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Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Area Ranked 3rd - Total 158,302 sq mi (410,000 km²) - Width 250 miles (400 km) - Length 770 miles (1,240 km) - % water 4. ...
San Francisco Unified School District, was Californias first public school district when it was established in 1851. ...
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History Balboa High School was the site of the first California school based clinic from the State Office of Family Planning created by then state governor Jerry Brown in 1976. It was run by Ira Oakun, Director of the S.F. Family Services Agency. Edmund Gerald Jerry Brown, Jr. ...
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Campus San Francisco architect John Reid Jr. designed the first campus buildings in the Spanish Colonial Revival Style. Other architectural firms built two other parts of the campus. The Spanish Colonial Revival Style was an architectural movement that came about in the early 20th century after the opening of the Panama Canal and the overwhelming success of the novel Ramona. ...
A campus modernization project was completed in 1998 by architectural firm Deems Lewis McKinley [1], which included the removal of the red-tile roof for seismic safety. [2] 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ...
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Demographics [edit]
2005-2006 | Asian | Hispanic | Filipino | African American | White | Pacific Islander | no response | American Indian | | 38.3% | 19.7% | 18.2% | 14.2% | 4.6% | 3.2% | 1.1% | 0.8% | - 63 certified staff; M/F (52.4/47.6):
| White | no response | Asian | Hispanic | Filipino | African American | American Indian | | 39.7% | 17.5% | 12.7% | 11.1% | 9.5% | 7.9% | 1.6% | (source: California Department of Education) [edit]
Curriculum  Balboa High School, San Francisco Academic instruction at Balboa High School is centered around the concept of "Small Learning Communities". Students participate in communities which each have a unique curriculum designed to encourage individualized learning. Each community forms a "pathway" or "academy" within the school. - 9th Grade C
- 10th Grade E/F
- Action
- Communication Arts
- Freshman B
- Health and Science
- International
- Information Technology
- JROTC
- Law
- Resource Specialist
- ROP
- SDC Learning Center
- Visual and Performing Arts
- WALC
- World Languages
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Athletics The following athletic programs are provided at Balboa: - Female: Badminton, Basketball, Cross Country, Golf, Soccer, Tennis, Volleyball, Softball.
- Male: Baseball, Basketball, Cross Country, Football, Golf, Track, Volleyball, Wrestling.
[edit] The Danish Olympic badminton player Peter Gade Badminton is a racquet sport played by either two opposing players (singles) or two opposing pairs (doubles). ...
Sara Giauro shoots a three-point shot, FIBA Europe Cup for Women Finals 2005. ...
Golfer after swing. ...
Football is a ball game played between two teams of eleven players, each attempting to win by scoring more goals than their opponent. ...
A tennis net Tennis is a game played between either two players (Singles) or two teams of two players (Doubles). Players use a stringed racquet to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponents court. ...
Volleyball game Volleyball is an Olympic sport in which two teams separated by a high net use their hands, arms, or (rarely) other parts of their bodies to hit a ball back and forth over the net. ...
Softball is a team sport in which a ball, ten to eleven inches (28 to 30. ...
A view of the playing field at Busch Stadium II St. ...
Sara Giauro shoots a three-point shot, FIBA Europe Cup for Women Finals 2005. ...
United States simply as football, is a competitive team sport that is both fast-paced and strategic. ...
Golfer after swing. ...
Volleyball game Volleyball is an Olympic sport in which two teams separated by a high net use their hands, arms, or (rarely) other parts of their bodies to hit a ball back and forth over the net. ...
Notable people [edit]
Alumni [edit] Jerome John Jerry Garcia (August 1, 1942 – August 9, 1995) was famous as the lead guitarist and vocalist of the psychedelic rock band the Grateful Dead, though his extensive career involved many other projects. ...
The Grateful Dead was an American psychedelia-influenced rock band formed in 1965 in San Francisco. ...
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See also San Francisco County high schools A request has been made on Wikipedia for this article to be deleted in accordance with the deletion policy. ...
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External links - Maps and aerial photos Coordinates: 37.721828° -122.441071°
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