San Francisco Unified School District Supt. Matt Wayne will soon ask the school board to change how students are admitted to one of the city's top schools.
Wayne will ask the district's board of directors to change how students are accepted into Lowell High School. Wayne is proposing to base Lowell’s admission on a minimum grade point average. It would eliminate the current system, which relies on a qualifying test, special application and essay, and reserves spots for students from underrepresented middle schools.
If there are more interested and qualified students than openings, then the same tie-breaker process used at other high schools would decide who gets in and who doesn’t, the Chronicle reports. That includes whether the student has a sibling at the school or lives in a neighborhood where standardized test scores are low.Board members switched the process to a lottery system during the pandemic.The superintendent told the Chronicle he likes this new idea because he hopes it will get more students to qualify for the school and create a more diverse student body.His ideas will be submitted to the district board members who will discuss it at their next meeting in about two weeks.
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