Renderings show St. Ignatius College Preparatory High School’s proposed campus expansion in San Francisco’s Sunset District.
Mark Cavagnero AssociatesA private school construction boom is under way in San Francisco, with at least nine schools planning, undergoing or recently completing expansions.
While some of the projects are intended to increase the number of students enrolled in the schools, others are renovations or modernizations and some involve the addition of facilities like gymnasiums or auditoriums that could make the schools more attractive to prospective students and their parents.
It’s unclear whether interest in private schools in San Francisco is increasing. The state Department of Education reported that the city’s 103 private schools had 23,919 students enrolled in the 2022-23 school year, numbers that have remained largely unchanged over the previous three…
