AcroSports Youth & Junior Gymnastics and Circus Arts Programs
639 Frederick Street, San Francisco, CA 94117
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AcroSports Youth & Junior Gymnastics and Circus Arts Programs offers activities such as tumbling, artistic gymnastics, acrobatics, parkour, breakdancing, dance, and explorative partner-acro. Participants can also try circus arts including aerial arts, contortion, juggling, clowning around, and other urban arts, along with jumping, bouncing, climbing, swinging, and general gymnastics.
• Ages: 1–18 years old
The program takes place in a 10,000 square foot, multi-level gymnasium that is filled with one-of-a-kind equipment. All coaches are CPR and First Aid certified. AcroSports is a Bay Area non-profit institution and a non-profit organization dedicated to creating community through movement, performance and circus arts, with the mission statement “Creating Community through Movement, Circus and Performance Arts.” It is governed by a volunteer Board of Directors, staffed by professionals, and supported by parents, students, and friends, with leadership that includes Executive Director Dorrie Huntington and Board members Jake McGoldrick, Peter Van der Sterre (Treasurer), Dan Fitting (Board President), Mark St. Peter, Jennifer Niles (Secretary), and Larry Rosenberg.
Founded in 1993 by a local resident and community activist along with two acrobats from the Moscow Circus and a gymnast from Ukraine, AcroSports has served the community for over 25 years. It serves over 2,500 youth and adult students per week in its facility and offsite and community outreach programs, and reaches over 12,000 youth and adult students at all levels of experience every year. Junior classes are offered for children ages 10 months to 5 years, and youth and teen classes are offered for active children ages 6 and up. AcroSports Camps offer weeks that include jumping, bouncing, climbing, and clowning around, and the organization also offers kids parties and special occasion parties. The organization offers a variety of fitness classes for adults of all experience levels, and offers scholarships and tuition assistance to those who qualify.
AcroSports has served as a breeding ground for professional circus performers, with past students accepted to Ecole Nationale de Cirque and going on to Cirque du Soleil and other American and European circus troupes, and some students have founded their own performance companies and training schools. The organization is determined to offer the best coaching staff by attracting and training talented individuals in acrobatics, gymnastics, dance, and circus arts. AcroSports has been formally recognized and honored for engaging and empowering youth by both the San Francisco Board of Supervisors and the California State Legislature, including a Certificate of Recognition from the California Legislature Assembly and a Board of Supervisors’ Proclamation declaring May 18, 2003 “AcroSports Day,” and it received a Best of the Best 2025 award from Bay Area Parent (gold and silver).
AcroSports reaches out to the community by working with schools, various city programs, and other non-profit organizations. Many of its public school outreach programs are significantly subsidized by AcroSports and provided at low cost, and it supports outreach activity that includes offering free on- and off-site physical recreation programs to children in need. Parent testimonials describe the gym as having coaches who are dedicated to their jobs and to their students, note that the facility has a lot of room and variety including tumbling, conditioning, parkour, and circus arts, and mention children enjoying both classes and birthday parties at the gym.
Last updated May 13, 2026.
• Ages: 1–18 years old
The program takes place in a 10,000 square foot, multi-level gymnasium that is filled with one-of-a-kind equipment. All coaches are CPR and First Aid certified. AcroSports is a Bay Area non-profit institution and a non-profit organization dedicated to creating community through movement, performance and circus arts, with the mission statement “Creating Community through Movement, Circus and Performance Arts.” It is governed by a volunteer Board of Directors, staffed by professionals, and supported by parents, students, and friends, with leadership that includes Executive Director Dorrie Huntington and Board members Jake McGoldrick, Peter Van der Sterre (Treasurer), Dan Fitting (Board President), Mark St. Peter, Jennifer Niles (Secretary), and Larry Rosenberg.
Founded in 1993 by a local resident and community activist along with two acrobats from the Moscow Circus and a gymnast from Ukraine, AcroSports has served the community for over 25 years. It serves over 2,500 youth and adult students per week in its facility and offsite and community outreach programs, and reaches over 12,000 youth and adult students at all levels of experience every year. Junior classes are offered for children ages 10 months to 5 years, and youth and teen classes are offered for active children ages 6 and up. AcroSports Camps offer weeks that include jumping, bouncing, climbing, and clowning around, and the organization also offers kids parties and special occasion parties. The organization offers a variety of fitness classes for adults of all experience levels, and offers scholarships and tuition assistance to those who qualify.
AcroSports has served as a breeding ground for professional circus performers, with past students accepted to Ecole Nationale de Cirque and going on to Cirque du Soleil and other American and European circus troupes, and some students have founded their own performance companies and training schools. The organization is determined to offer the best coaching staff by attracting and training talented individuals in acrobatics, gymnastics, dance, and circus arts. AcroSports has been formally recognized and honored for engaging and empowering youth by both the San Francisco Board of Supervisors and the California State Legislature, including a Certificate of Recognition from the California Legislature Assembly and a Board of Supervisors’ Proclamation declaring May 18, 2003 “AcroSports Day,” and it received a Best of the Best 2025 award from Bay Area Parent (gold and silver).
AcroSports reaches out to the community by working with schools, various city programs, and other non-profit organizations. Many of its public school outreach programs are significantly subsidized by AcroSports and provided at low cost, and it supports outreach activity that includes offering free on- and off-site physical recreation programs to children in need. Parent testimonials describe the gym as having coaches who are dedicated to their jobs and to their students, note that the facility has a lot of room and variety including tumbling, conditioning, parkour, and circus arts, and mention children enjoying both classes and birthday parties at the gym.
Last updated May 13, 2026.
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