Beating the deadline to apply for SF schools

Lea Suzuki / The Chronicle

Counselors and parents handing in applications for school
are silhouetted against a screen in the San Francisco
Unified School District Board Room, where a temporary office
was set up Thursday to deal with the rush of applications.
Kindergarten applications have spiked. The deadline: Today.

Counselors and parents hand in their applications for public school in the Board Room, where a temporary office was set up to deal with the rush of applications coming in close to deadline, at the San Francisco Unified School District Administrative Office on Thursday, January 26, 2012 in San Francisco, Calif.

Interest in SF public schools has been on the rise, with 22% more kindergarten applications in 2011 than in 2005 (5% more in 2011 than in 2010).

The application deadline is January 27 and students entering the public schools for the first time must submit original proofs of residency in order for their applications to be processed.

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