The Free Press · October 12, 2026

At Least 10 Jewish Families Withdrew Children from San Francisco School

• Since October 2024, at least 10 Jewish families have withdrawn their children from San Francisco University High School (UHS), according to the report; UHS current enrollment is 543 students.
• At least one family left the state, according to the report.
• In spring 2024, a teacher was suspended for the rest of the spring after parents said he denounced Israel, Zionists, and what he called “colonizers” in a ninth-grade class, according to parents; some students staged a sit-in in his support.
• The following fall, the teacher was reintroduced at the first all-school assembly with full privileges and faculty rose in a standing ovation, according to a parent whose child was in the room.
• The report cites interviews, the school’s own emails and letters, a police report filed with the San Francisco Police Department, and formal inquiries conducted by Jewish civil-rights groups; families allege UHS allowed classrooms and hallways to become hostile to Jewish students.
• UHS tuition and fees total $68,895; the matriculation list published by UHS includes Stanford, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Yale, Princeton, Brown, and the University of California, Berkeley.

Withdrawal count, enrollment, and tuition figures as reported in the original report; classroom and assembly accounts are attributed to parents in that report. The piece is paywalled; facts are from its accessible portion. Original headline: "Why Jewish Families Fled This Elite Prep School".