Check this out. http://www.greatschools.org/california/san-francisco/ http://www.greatschools.org/california/san-francisco/ SFUSD has a large number of very h

Check this out. http://www.greatschools.org/california/san-francisco/ http://www.greatschools.org/california/san-francisco/ SFUSD has a large number of very high performing public schools, though there are also still a lot of middling and severely underperforming schools. Test scores aren't everything, but I don't think it's accurate to say SF has bad schools. I'd say it's more of a a mixed bag. That's the case for the suburbs as well, the difference is that you can convert a high mortgage payment into priority access to a 9 or 10 in the burbs, whereas in SF, there's a much greater element of randomness to it.