Milk (Harvey) Civil Rights Elementary vs Sutro Elementary

Sutro Elementary ranks #50 of 9,533 schools in California, placing it in the top 1% statewide. Milk (Harvey) Civil Rights Elementary ranks #90 of 9,533 — still an exceptional standing in the top 1%, but 40 positions behind Sutro. On the 10-point composite scale, Sutro Elementary scores 9.4 to Milk (Harvey) Civil Rights Elementary's 9.3, a narrow 0.1-point gap that masks sharper divergences in the underlying subscores.

Academically, Sutro Elementary leads by a significant margin: a 9.7/10 versus 8.1/10 for Milk (Harvey) Civil Rights Elementary — a 1.6-point gap that reflects meaningfully higher tested proficiency. Growth tells the opposite story. Milk (Harvey) Civil Rights Elementary earns a perfect 10.0/10 growth score against Sutro Elementary's 9.7/10, signaling that students at Milk are gaining ground faster relative to academic starting points. Families weighing current achievement against academic momentum will find these two schools pulling in different directions.

Sutro Elementary enrolls 248 students compared to 154 at Milk (Harvey) Civil Rights Elementary, making Sutro a noticeably larger campus. The student-teacher ratio at Milk is 19.2:1 versus 22.5:1 at Sutro, meaning Milk students get more individual adult attention on average. The schools diverge sharply on economic demographics: 64% of Sutro Elementary students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, more than double Milk's 31%. That gap matters when interpreting raw test scores — Sutro's 9.7 academic rating is produced from a student body with significantly higher economic need, which makes it the more demographically impressive academic result of the two.

Both schools serve kindergarten through fifth grade on the same grade span, so families with children in any elementary year have equivalent access to the full program at either campus. Separated by 2.6 miles within San Francisco, the choice comes down to priorities rather than program structure — the two schools are closely matched at the composite level but differ substantially in growth trajectory, class size, and the demographics of the community each school serves.