Yu Ming Charter School in Oakland.

Three Bay Area schools were among 30 schools statewide chosen as 2019 National Blue Ribbon Schools, the U.S. Department of Education announced Sept. 26.

The honors, based on a school’s overall academic performance or progress in closing achievement gaps among subgroups of students, went to Yu Ming Charter School in Oakland, Lowell Alternative High School in San Francisco and Forest Hill Elementary School in San Jose.

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Dan McMenamin is the managing editor at Bay City News, directing daily news coverage of the 12-county greater Bay Area. He has worked for BCN since 2008 and has been managing editor since 2014 after previously serving as BCN’s San Francisco bureau reporter. A UC Davis graduate, he came to BCN after working for a newspaper and nonprofit in the Davis area. He handles staffing, including coaching of our interns, day-to-day coverage decisions and management of the newswire.