A curated guide to data on children and youth with special health care needs (CYSHCN) in San Francisco. Find trusted sources across healthcare, education, and developmental services, with direct links to the reports that matter most.
Each source includes a short description, the most recent year of data available, and tips for finding what you need. Some sources are updated more often than others, so check the date on each.
Review overall data about the health and well being of children in San Francisco County, including general demographic data, to understand broad context.
Most recent data: 2025
Review population trend data for San Francisco’s under-25 population, which is essential for public health program planning and evaluation.
Most recent data: 2020
Explore an extensive data set covering multiple, intersecting aspects of children’s lives — including physical and mental health, access to and quality of health care, and the child’s family, neighborhood, school, and social context (data available at the state level, not by county).
Most recent data: 2024
Notice that NSCH lists content maps in the data portal so you can see what indicators are available.
View state level data provided by the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) on children and youth with special health care needs (CYSHCN).
Most recent data: 2021
Explore a wide variety of reports from the California Department of Education (CDE) that shows data specifically for SFUSD and their Special Education program.
Most recent data: 2025
These links skip Data Quest’s report builder and open reports already set to SFUSD.
View public data drawn directly from SFUSD’s internal systems with the ability to compare results for Special Education students to students overall.
Most recent data: 2025
View SFUSD’s performance on the state’s school accountability indicators, including test scores, graduation, chronic absenteeism, and suspension rates, with results broken out by student group, including Students with Disabilities.
Most recent data: 2025
Review the data relating to GGRC expenditure, authorization, and utilization compared across different population groups.
Most recent data: 2025
GGRC’s transparency page lists POS reports going back to 2012, all as PDFs. This link opens the most recent one directly, or use the button above to browse past years.
View survey data showing feedback from individuals and families served by the regional center about the type and quality of services they are receiving.
Most recent data: 2022
This index is a starting point. We want to hear which data sources you rely on, what’s missing, and what questions you’re trying to answer, so we can make this more useful for supporting children with special health care needs in San Francisco.
