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There are less high school students in SF, period. There are less children in general. This is due to a large number of variables I don't see being controlled, and a severe lack of source information.

I'm much more worried about the 10%+ dropout rates.

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Interestingly, there are a ton more kids (especially pre-school age kids) in my neighborhood than there were when I moved here 8 years ago.

The combination of high housing prices in Bay Area suburbs and more yuppies willing to stay in the city has noticeably altered the demographics. There are now fewer groups of single 20-somethings walking about, and more families.

I will be curious to see the numbers at the next census.

Our pre-school age kid (mission/noe area), my brother's kid, and a number of his friends all moved out of the city before they reached school age. (Some to the bay area and other's further out.)

Most of the kids pre-school are waiting on their school lottery, though right?

Do you think they'll stick around if they don't get into a well regarded school?

Exactly. The comparison is useless except as clickbait

I think it's useful as far as making the amount stick in the brain. For like 90% of America a stat like that is a hugely disturbing figure.

The stat (more drug addicts than students) is actually true for all of America's population as well, so I'd imagine the same is true in just about any major US population center.

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