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Union Grammar School and attained its current name in 1. Lowell moved to its current location in the Merced Manor neighborhood in 1. 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 5. U. S. News World Report in its Best High Schools in America for 2. Lowell was also ranked 4. Newsweeks Americas Best High Schools 2. Newsweeks 2. 01. 3 list. Historyedit. Lowell High School in 1. Hayes Masonic Streets. Lowell High School began in 1. Union Grammar School. In 1. 89. 4, the school was renamed to honor the distinguished poet James Russell Lowell, chiefly by Pelham W. Ames, a member of the school board and ardent admirer of James Russell Lowell. The school relocated in January 1. Hayes Street between Ashbury and Masonic. Lowell remained there for 5. In 1. 95. 2, the school sought a new location near Lake Merced and moved there its present address in 1. Historical milestonesedit1. Union Grammar School Founded. Name changed to San Francisco High School. Genders separated, name changed to Boys High School. Moved to Sutter Street between Gough and Octavia. Girls slowly reintegrated into college prep program thus, female graduates of Boys High1. Name changed to Lowell High School in honor of poet James Russell Lowell. First issue of the school newspaper The Lowell published spring1. Funds secured by bonds for new building. School moved to new, larger campus on Hayes Street between Masonic Avenue and Ashbury Street. School moved to current campus to make room for future expansion and add a library, gymnasium and larger auditorium. Enrollment limited, school switched from neighborhood to GPAtest based admission. San Francisco Hilton. Lowell ranked 6th nationally in AP exam scores. New academicscience wing opened on campus. Unit 6 building section renovation completed roof replaced temporary bungalows 1. U. S. Supreme Court Justice. Stephen Breyer class of 1. Lowell ranked 3rd internationally in AP exam scores. Because of state class time requirements, modular schedule abandoned in favor of modblock schedule. School day lengthened to eight hours and twenty three minutes. Lowell ranked 2nd internationally in AP exam scores. San Francisco NAACP v. San Francisco Unified School District 1. In 1. 98. 3, the San Francisco Unified School District SFUSD attempted to ensure racial desegregation at Lowell and other schools by implementing a race based admissions policy as a result of San Francisco NAACP v. San Francisco Unified School District and the 1. Consent Decree settlement. Because of the Consent Decree, SFUSD strived to create a more equal distribution of race at Lowell, which was predominantly Chinese American, particularly trying to introduce more African American and Hispanic students into the schools population. As a result of this policy, effective in 1. Chinese American freshman applicants needed to score 6. Caucasian and other East Asian candidates needed only 6. Ho v. San Francisco Unified School District 1. In 1. 99. 4, a group of Chinese American community activists organized a lawsuit to challenge the 1. Consent Decree race based admissions policies used by SFUSD for its public schools. In 1. 99. 9, both parties agreed to a settlement which modified the 1. Consent Decree to create a new diversity index system which substituted race as a factor for admissions with a variety of factors such as socioeconomic background, mothers educational level, academic achievement, language spoken at home, and English Learner Status. Expiration of the Consent DecreeeditCritics of the diversity index created by Ho v. San Francisco Unified School District point out that many schools, including Lowell, have become even less racially diverse since it was enacted. On November 1. 5, 2. United States District Court for the Northern District of California denied a request to extend the Consent Decree, which was set to expire on December 3. December 3. 1, 2. The ruling claimed since the settlement of the Ho litigation resulting in the institution of the diversity index, the consent decree has proven to be ineffective, if not counterproductive, in achieving diversity in San Francisco public schools by making schools more racially segregated. The expiration of the Consent Decree means that SFUSDs admissions policies, including the diversity index and the special admissions policies granted to Lowell, and many of its Dream School initiatives are no longer codified and mandated by the Consent Decree. As a result, these policies may be challenged at the community and local levels as well instead of just at the judicial level by filing a lawsuit. Lowell High Schools Main Entrance. Lowell is located north of Lake Merced, south of San Franciscos Parkside District. The school spans several blocks between Sylvan Ave. Ave. in the east, and Eucalyptus Drive in the north to Winston Drive in the south. The school is accessible via the San Francisco Municipal Railway Muni K, M, 5. R, and 2. 9 lines. The campus is located next to Lakeshore Elementary School, a public school, and St. Stephen School, a private K 8 school. Location of Lowell High School in San Francisco. The campus itself consists of a main three story academic building with two extensions, a two story science building finished on September 2. Carol Channing auditorium, 1. Can You Hack A New Psp Game. Bungalows, a library, extensive arts and science laboratories, six computer labs, a foreign language lab, an indoor gymnasium, a dance studio, a weight room, an American football field, a soccermultipurpose field and baseball batting cage, ten tennis courts, eight basketball courts, four volleyball courts, and a 14 mile 4. Academics, admissions, and demographicseditLowell is one of the two public schools in the San Francisco Unified School District the other being School of the Arts that is permitted to admit only students who meet special admission requirements. The Lowell admission process is based on a combination of standardized test scores, GPA, a writing sample, and extracurricular activities. Lowell High School is ranked 3rd in terms of test scores among the Top 1. Public Schools in California, behind Gretchen Whitney High School and Oxford Academy. Lowell was also named a California Distinguished School in 1. National Blue Ribbon School in 1. The schools modular scheduling system and self scheduling arena program allow students freedom in course choice, unlike the rest of the high schools in the SFUSD. Students also have the opportunity to choose from a large number of Advanced Placement courses. Lowell has a graduation rate of nearly 1. University of California system, particularly to the Berkeley and Davis campuses. Many students also matriculate at other prestigious universities nationwide. Arena scheduling systemeditLowell uses a class scheduling system historically popular in most high schools and colleges, an arena in which students move from table to table signing up for classes, allowing students a degree of programming freedom almost unheard of in other high schools today. While scheduling classes for the 2. This abuse proved to be a catalyst for anti arena faculty in the school. Five of six department chairs and dozens of teachers at Lowell filed a union grievance demanding an end to class imbalances. Citing these imbalances, they called to eliminate arena scheduling and to replace it with computerized scheduling used in all other SFUSD schools.