Spark Strategic Initiative
An advanced health and life science program for high school students.
Mission Bay Hub is a new 11,149 square-foot learning space and campus set to open in January 2026. The Hub will be home to innovative youth programming for San Francisco’s public school students. The building will include a life sciences laboratory, patient care simulation space, maker's area to support design and engineering practices, and flexible collaboration and project space. Hub programming will serve as a career pathway into Health, Life Sciences, and other STEM-aligned fields for SFUSD students.
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The City and County of San Francisco is home to over 200 life sciences companies that employ a workforce of over 13,000. UCSF’s newest medical campus is in Mission Bay and features UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital San Francisco, UCSF Betty Irene Moore Women's Hospital, UCSF Bakar Cancer Hospital and the UCSF Bakar Precision Cancer Medicine Building. In addition, Kaiser Permanente’s Mission Bay Campus provides numerous outpatient services for children and adults in the neighborhood and city-wide. It is also anchored by a number of leading research institutions including UCSF, the California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3), the Gladstone Institutes and the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM).
This presents a truly unique opportunity to integrate SFUSD students into this community as our future scientists, health professionals, and agents of change. As part of SFUSD’s development of the SFUSD Mission Bay Elementary School located at 6th Street, between Nelson Rising Lane and Mission Bay Boulevard South, the Mission Bay Hub will occupy the fourth floor of the new school. Designed as a state-of-the-art life sciences facility and program, it will prepare SFUSD High School students in STEM life science careers.
Learn about Mission Bay Hub
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Mission Bay Hub will be a space that supports and inspires deep research, collaboration, and real solutions in health, biotechnology, and other STEM-aligned fields. The location will enable students to learn with and from Mission Bay professionals and community resources on a daily basis
The Hub will serve 280 high school students each year during the school day and at least 500 students each year during extended day, summer, and short-term school day opportunities.
The vision for the campus includes:
Updated equipment and technology to prepare students for careers in Health, Bioscience, and other STEM-aligned sectors.
Flexibility to adapt to different areas of study and student-centered projects
A learning environment that supports both collaboration and individual learning needs
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The Hub will serve the entire SFUSD High School population as an extension of their SFUSD high school experience.
The SFUSD Mission Bay Hub will serve as the ultimate opportunity to deeply immerse SFUSD students in areas such as pediatrics, sports medicine, neuroscience, biomedical engineering, epidemiology, genetics, food science, and countless others. The Hub Programs include:
Post-Secondary Preparation: Professional training, Internships, certifications, bridge to post-secondary study and employment.
Mentorship and Intensive Coaching: Personalized supports and coaching with Mission Bay professionals.
Diversity and Inclusion: Intentionally designed to attract and support students who identify as BIPOC and other populations underrepresented in health and life sciences.
Deeper Learning: Student inquiry, advanced research, and real-world application.
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While the new facility with state-of-the art equipment and learning spaces is certainly a core part of our vision, the “secret sauce” of the student experience is being able to work with and learn from professionals and graduate students in the fields of health and life sciences. This includes:
Planning & Design Partners: During this continuing iterative process, our teachers and students work collaboratively with professional and post-secondary partners to create industry-aligned curriculum and experiences that prepare students for post-secondary success.
Work-Based Learning: The Hub model centers on students partnering with, and learning from, local health and life science researchers and practitioners in Mission Bay and beyond.
Pathways to Employment: Hub partners will provide explicit pathways to entry level employment in health and life sciences.
In partnership with the Mission Bay’s employment ecosystem, the Hub will offer students a wide range of resources and experiences to prepare them for post-secondary life while building a home-grown, diverse pipeline of talent to pursue life sciences careers in San Francisco.
The Mission Bay Hub is an advanced bridge into Health, Life Sciences, and other STEM-aligned fields, with Mission Bay serving as the ultimate classroom. Students are supported as agents of change, taking on real world challenges.
A rendering of the future Allied Health Laboratory to be located on the Mission Bay Hub campus.
“The Hub will provide opportunities for students to work in real job settings, gaining knowledge that can only be learned through experience. ”
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