Primary and secondary schools
Public schools are run by the San Francisco Unified School District. Lowell High School, the oldest public high school in the U.S. west of the Mississippi, and the smaller School of the Arts High School are San Francisco's two magnet schools. Just under 30 percent of the city's school-age population attends one of San Francisco's more than 100 private or parochial schools, compared to a 10 percent rate nationwide. The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Francisco manages nearly 40 of those schools.
(Source: Wikipedia.org)
