San Diego Housing Market News and Analysis

Miramar Ranch and Jerabeck are both in the low 900 range while EBS and Dingeman are in the high 900 range.

Has more to do with location. EBS and Dingeman are drawing from newer homes with average price of 800k and up. Whereas MR and Jerabeck draw from mostly older homes starting in 600k and up, along with mix of condos. Prob more renters in that mix as well, since older homes are more likely to be rented vs newer homes.

Is there really that much hair to split comparing elementary API of 990 vs 920?

But then again, CV parents have sleepless nights because they can't get into Ocean Air and have to suffer the wreth of Sage Canyon.

No you got it wrong....Underprivileged kids with parents that can't afford to live in a home with access to sage canyon OR ocean air end up having to live in the slums of Carmel Valley and are forced to send their kids to ghetto schools like Torrey Hills or Ashley Falls or Sycamore Ridge or Del Mar Heights School or Carmel Del Mar School with the low low low test scores of nine forty-osh plus or minus twenty and live off of food stamps.

Be very careful when comparing API scores. Though there might be a lot of validity in the reasons already given for the differing API scores - number of English learners, students with disabilities, etc. (though in the case of Scripps Ranch, the school with the highest test score had the most reported English learners - hmmm...).

Related to this, the 2011 API scores just came out.

http://dq.cde.ca.gov/dataquest/Acnt2012/...

API only tell you what the demographic of the student body is. One shouldn't read too much into it to determine how well your kid(s) will perform. That's up to your kid(s), you, and their teachers.

The answer is the demographics. EBS has a higher Asian population than the other two schools. Asian parents, particularly Chinese, Koreans and Indians are pushing their kids extremely hard - some say too hard - to get good grades. Incidentally, a school's API score, especially in this range has very little to do with how well any one particular individual will do in school. Academics is not a team sport.

Ah yes, it's always the asians that are screwing everyone else up...Now I understand why a lot of younger generations these days have the victim/entitlement mentality...kids are screwed up, obviously from retarded parents..

Damn FLU you figured it out.

Quit pushing your child to do well. You are screwing it up for the rest of us!!!

Soon you will be asked to distribute the intelligence.

Shhhh--Don't tell people API scores will ultimately have very little to do with how successful one's children become--that's one way we're keeping property values and rents inflated in said areas.

But, seriously, my kids, and most of their friends, were raised in RSF, and went to great schools, yet the LIFE success rate of these kids--from what we've seen now that they are grown--still seems to be about 50/50--if that.

Probably evidence that achieving one's "dream life" has many elements--many of which are out of our control.

So, my point to the OP--If the API scores of the two schools you are comparing are fairly close, I wouldn't worry about it too much.

Don't forget the renters, you left out the renters......the lowlife renters...........

already done, it's called affirmative action

waht does determine life success????

some balanced combination of empathy and ego....with a spark of wanting something...