paramount, It’s just a different definition, I consider Rancho Cal as the dividing line or everything in 92592 it as being “south.” I guess I never broke out a “central” region, that’s why I refer to it as the temecula parway corridor, two miles either way from the parkway. I agree that wolf and rainbow deal with some added casino traffic but not so much as you move further out, it never bothered me when i lived in redhawk, however it kept me from ever looking seriously at wolf because it would require using pechanga parkway a lot. When I lived in redhawk i just didn’t go that way very much and never on a friday night.
You are right, the schools you cited did very well, but the elems all do pretty well. All but one of the twenty elems are over 850, this year’s leader is actually in the far north, towards french valley, go figure. Those four schools you cited got between 900 and 910 (which is fantastic) but in the same area is sparkman 855 and vail 864 (I know it makes no sense but the elem on pauba road is called vail, while the elem in vail ranch is called pauba valley, I have no answer for this, they failed to consult me in advance, despite my self appointed title as the V.P. of common sense), morgan’s elem dropped from a 900 to 896, the vail ranch/redhwak elems got 875, 882 and 897.I’m not so sure if we aren’t splitting hairs here, but I don’t have kids in elem right now so I can’t say either way.
What is significant and confusing is the 40 point difference between high schools and the highest scoring elems are in the boundary for the lowest scoring high school, which defies logic (great oak’s 812 to tem valley’s 772, once again I’m not sure if that makes one all that much better than the other, is 39 pts on a 1000 scale a big deal?, probably not). I do know that most of the schools allow intra district transfers, there are usually 5 elems within 3 miles of anyone’s house, the high schools are only a couple miles apart so there may be some picking and choosing going on. Purely anecdotal, but my kids play various school sports and often i am asked to drive their friends home from practice or take them to or from a team party and very often the kids dont live within the h.s. boundary, I don’t ask questions as to why, so once again, I got nothing.
