{"id":426439,"date":"2026-08-07T13:44:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T13:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/426439\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T13:44:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T13:44:21","slug":"sf-plans-to-close-schools-but-mission-bay-just-got-a-new-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/426439\/","title":{"rendered":"SF plans to close schools \u2014 but Mission Bay just got a new one"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Published Aug. 6, 2026at6:16pm<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-block break-words article-body text-left\">There are roughly 14,000 empty seats across San Francisco Unified\u2019s 125 campuses, and the district\u2019s own projections show enrollment falling by another 4,600 students by 2032.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-block break-words article-body text-left\">So why is SFUSD opening its first new school in a decade?<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-block break-words article-body text-left\">The answer, supporters say, has less to do with the district\u2019s shrinking enrollment than with a promise made decades ago to one of San Francisco\u2019s fastest-growing neighborhoods.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-block break-words article-body text-left\">Over the past 30 years, Mission Bay has been the fastest-growing neighborhood in the city, home to a UCSF campus, the Chase Center arena, and the headquarters of tech and finance companies like OpenAI and Visa. Across the area, thousands of new homes have been built, yet the neighborhood never received the public elementary school it was promised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published Aug. 6, 2026at6:16pm There are roughly 14,000 empty seats across San Francisco Unified\u2019s 125 campuses, and the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":426440,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[15,1103,101,103,102,44339,104,106,105,15254],"class_list":["post-426439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-education","tag-mission-bay","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-school-wars","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-sfusd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}