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San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD)

San Francisco Unified was selected as a 2016 U.S. Department of Education Green Ribbon District.

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San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) utilizes a Shared Savings Program that rewards schools for reducing their use by giving them 50 percent of the savings generated through conservation as discretionary funding. Every school in SFUSD has an Environmental Liaison, and SFUSD's Environmental Science Center has been providing standards-based environmental education in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area since 1976. SFUSD has installed nearly 60 green schoolyards since 2005 and will expand schoolyard "greening" to every site using a local modernization bond authorized in 2011. SFUSD earned a California Green Ribbon Schools (CA-GRS) Silver Level Award in 2015.

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Questions:   California Green Ribbon Schools | GREENRIBBONSCHOOLS@cde.ca.gov | 916-322-2470
Last Reviewed: Wednesday, May 28, 2025
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