Gatewood Hills is home to one of the prime schools in North County: Chaparral Elementary in PUSD. Chaparral and my son’s school tie between the highest test scores in Poway, and it has a great reputation; we attended there one year, and I looked at Gatewood Hills when homes were in the mid 300s in early 2000.

The better areas in the PUSD are holding up well. Have seen lots of Sold signs in Poway and saw many new families yesterday at the first day of school.

Poway will be one of the last to go down, except for the lower income (and high NOD) areas in south Poway and off Pomerado, which have probably taken a hit already. (Townhomes and condos in Poway are down as well.)