Potrero Hill, San Francisco

The SF Chronicle recently featured the Mandarin immersion program at Potrero Hill’s Starr King Elementary school, which is the first of it’s kind in San Francisco’s public schools.
Much is riding on the experiment. Success could mean more Mandarin and other immersion programs across the city, luring families to underenrolled schools they might have otherwise ignored. […]

The Potrero Hill Parents Association members who worked so hard to keep Daniel Webster open and who are continuing to work with the school and the SFUSD to improve our neighborhood schools have invited six of the Board of Education candidates to meet parents and community members on Potrero Hill. Each of the six […]

Update: We’ve gotten the official schedule of events for the Potrero Hill Festival. Be sure to make it early for the $7 All you can eat breakfast (kids 5 and under eat free!). Check out the schedule.
There’s a lot happening in Potrero Hill this month, so be sure to check out the Potrero Hill events […]

From Sharon Virtue
Funded with a grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission, the Spirit Garden project is being conducted at Potrero Hill Neighbourhood House garden at 827 De Haro St in San Francisco.
A proposal was made to renovate and replant the gardens and to build a mosaic bench. There have been several renovations to the […]

Michael P points us to footage he shot of the destruction of a house at 19th & Mississippi. Rumor has it that a two story house is going up in that space.
According to Michael, the house had been condemned and without inhabitants for about 2 years, and was transplanted to the hill after the 1906 […]