Thanks for the good explanation. I didn’t know that a school district would bus students from as far away from Scripps as from “south of the 8”. I thought the district would go to nearby areas like Mira Mesa/Sorrento Valley or Tierra Santa. Does anyone know how a school district would go about doing this ? Previously, I like Scripps a lot but this issue concerns me.[/quote]
gn, in a large district such as SDUSD or SUHSD, a parent doesn’t have any control over zone transfers or interdistrict transfers. It depends on if the school has a “magnet” program or there are VEEP openings. In essence, you can’t choose who attends your child’s neighborhood school, anywhere.
In SUHSD, 91910 (west of I-805), 91911 (west of I-805) and 91902 are FULL of older boomers and sr. citizen “holdouts” and sorely lacking in school-aged kids with legitimate addresses to keep the schools filled. Thus, there ARE some openings for zone transfers. There seems to be a never-ending supply of children, however, from newer neighborhoods in 91914 and 91915. The schools in those zips (fairly new and built with MR bonds) have been filled to overflowing for the last three years now and there are probably some of those resident children who have to be bussed to older schools. Many children from MX also manage to “slip through the cracks” and attend school in South County and no doubt SDUSD as well.
The same is true of 92106, 92107 and 92109 (SD beach areas). Mission Bay High, Pt. Loma High and High Tech High are open to zone transfers due to lack of enough resident children. I know of two families in 91914 (SUHSD) whose kids have been attending High Tech High (25 mi. away) on interdistrict transfers for years.
Actually, the older neighborhoods with sr. citizen holdouts of all races are the best real estate investments IMO. The landscaping is generally mature and the residents in these areas have the time and can afford to maintain it because many don’t have mortgage payments anymore or exorbitant taxes and MR. OTOH, I have noticed driving thru newer neighborhoods with high concentrations of young-family homeowners that many can’t afford water and window coverings and there are quadruple the foreclosures sitting empty than in older areas.
infoseeker, do not discount older Scripps Ranch just because the schools there may accept zone transfers. In SDUSD, the DISTRICT buses most the zone transfers and VEEPS. These transfers DO NOT add too much to neighborhood traffic. I’m not an expert in Scripps Ranch but you may find that you can get a much larger lot in older Scripps than in Sabre Springs and also get away from freeway noise and MR.
