SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – San Francisco officials are mulling whether to bar enrollment of non-city residents in an elite creative arts high school.
A proposal to limit enrollment to the Ruth Asawa School of the Arts is pending before the San Francisco School Board, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Saturday.
The proposal was made after out-of-city enrollment rose to 14 percent this year at the San Francisco public school.
That exceeds a 10 percent cap the school board set several years ago.
Students are admitted only after passing a rigorous auditioning process.
Students from all over Northern California, including Eureka 300 miles to the north, attend the school.
The art school is the only elite public school in San Francisco that allows nonresidents to attend.