Lowell High School (San Francisco)
Lowell High School is a public magnet school in San Francisco, California. The school opened in 1856 as the Union Grammar School and attained its current name in 1896. Lowell moved to its current location in the Merced Manor neighborhood in 1962.
Run by the San Francisco Unified School District, Lowell is open to all San Francisco residents and charges no tuition. Admission is contingent on submission of an application and based primarily on evaluation of test scores and prior academic record.
Lowell contains a wide-ranging and rigorous curriculum and is noted for its academic excellence and prominent alumni. The school has been named a California Distinguished School seven times and a National Blue Ribbon School four times. Lowell is currently ranked 51st by U.S. News & World Report in its "Best High Schools in America" for 2012, making it the 3rd highest ranking school in the nation with over 2000 students (outscoring New York City's famous Stuyvesant High School and Bronx High School of Science). Lowell was also ranked 49th by Newsweek's America's Best High Schools 2012 list.
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