[sharkjacobs]

I'm not from San Francisco, I don't have a horse in this race, I was just looking over the link that you posted and it doesn't seem to support what you're saying at all

- The link you posted doesn't talk about public schools at all, only private school tuition.

- This 2024 census.gov report[1] says that San Francisco public schools cost $23,654 per student

- According to graph on the link that you posted only 12% of private schools in San Francisco charge < $25000 annual tuition

- According to the article from the link you posted religious schools make up 48% of private schools in California, so mathematically, at least 3/4 religious schools charge more in annual tuition than a year of public school costs (according to census.gov)

- According to the article from the link you posted, religious schools offer special lower rates for families who belong to the parish, meaning the "cost per student" is even higher than tuition

[1] https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2024/public-s...

[rahimnathwani]

  > The link you posted doesn't talk about public schools at all, only private school tuition.

Yes, that was to show the cost of religious schools which is the type GP was talking about. I did not provide a source for the $26k cost of public schools.

  > According to graph on the link that you posted only 12%
  > of private schools in San Francisco charge < $25000
  > annual tuition

Yes, the charts on the bottom half of that graph show tuition for parochial (religious) schools, which was GP's topic. Ignore the top half (non-religious) as it's not relevant to this discussion.

The median sticker price for parochial schools in San Francisco is:

Grades K-12: $10.9k

Grade 3: $10.4k

Grade 8: $10.9k

Grade 12: $27.0k

All of the above are calculated by weighting each school equally, as I don't have access to per-school per-grade student counts. Feel free to recalculate these. They're based solely on the data the SF Chronicle intern collected.

  > This 2024 census.gov report[1] says that San Francisco
  > public schools cost $23,654 per student

Well, that 2024 report is based on old data from 2022. That's two years old! Let's look at more recent data.

SFUSD's operating budget for 2024-2025 is $1.3 billion (https://www.sfusd.edu/about-sfusd/sfusd-news/press-releases/...).

It has 48,000 students (https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/sfusd-closures-b...).

That's $27k per student per year, which is more than it was the last time I looked!

  > According to the article from the link you posted,
  > religious schools offer special lower rates for families
  > who belong to the parish, meaning the "cost per student"
  > is even higher than tuition

I don't have extensive data to back this up, but from anecdotes I've heard it's swings and roundabouts. Some families pay more than sticker price, and others pay less.

[sharkjacobs]

Yeah you're right, sorry for making you write that all out, I should have stopped after "I'm not from San Francisco and don't have a horse in this race"

[rahimnathwani]

No worries. You took the time to think and dig a little, so I don't mind being more specific. Anyway, whatever questions/doubts you had/have, I'm sure you aren't/weren't alone :)