When the freshman class walked into San Francisco’s elite Lowell High School for the first time in the fall of 2021, the students were slapped with a label that stuck for the next four years: lottery ...

High school students take AP® exams and IB exams to earn college credit and demonstrate success at college-level coursework. U.S. News calculated a College Readiness Index based on AP/IB exam ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- The San Francisco School Board will introduce a resolution Tuesday to end the selective admission process at Lowell High School. Lowell has been ranked among the top high ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX) -- San Francisco's Lowell High School is one of few public schools in the country where admission is merit based, similar to how universities select students, but that could ...

SAN FRANCISCO – Lowell High School will return to academic-based admissions, the San Francisco Board of Education decided Wednesday evening in a 4-3 vote. The board's decision restores merit ...

RELATED: SF school board member Alison Collins seeks $87M in lawsuit against district, colleagues "Those messages were not racist," said Lowell High School alum Vivian Tong, "I think they could ...

The documentary follows five high school students as they navigate the notoriously stressful college admissions process at Lowell, a top-tier San Francisco public high school. The film begins with ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A proposal to change the admission policy at Lowell High School, an elite San Francisco school, is being criticized by some in the community. School officials are considering an ...

SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco education officials have proposed a one-year extension of the lottery based admissions system at Lowell High School. Superintendent Vince Matthews said there is no ...

Fewer private school students are sitting in the coveted seats at San Francisco’s Lowell High School than in years past, with district students taking 8 out of every 10 spots in the freshman ...

One of San Francisco's elite high schools ... in the city are subject to the lottery system, Lowell traditionally was not. The high school used a combination of middle school GPA and state testing ...

San Francisco’s Lowell High School will return to a merit-based admission system after a 4-3 vote by San Francisco’s school board Wednesday night. Starting in 2023, freshmen will once again be ...