That is pretty much the conclusion I came up with. Hawthorne is the perfect price point for the area and the design reminds me of Marston. I do agree that right now there is no concern about kids getting into the Del Sur schools or even the new D39.
Perhaps, I am just factoring too much in but with a newborn and most likely soon to be second our kids won’t start school for another 5-6 years. Therefore the advantage of Del Sur residents having priority or a higher allocated spot may be moot. My concern is that by that time, the Del Sur area will be built out plus all the townhomes/condos that are plan means that even with the higher allocated seats the competition or the ratio of seats/kids would be just as much percentage wise as say the Lakes. But at least there even with the lower number of seats if you take that into account the few kids vying for them made me come to the conclusion that we might have the same “chances” come 5-6years when our kids enter the school system.[/quote]
Not sure what it will be like in 5 years, but having purchased in 2009 (5 years ago you could say), we didn’t get into Design 39 and of all the families we knew, only 1 person got in and the kid was starting 6th grade…A friend said no one she knew got in and that was 15+ people from her kid’s classroom.
I don’t know the breakout allocations for the different CFD areas and which had more or less, but I have doubts that it’d be that easy to get into whatever school you choose. Many of the schools in Poway Unified are still too crowded and there is a lottery for all the newer schools EVERY year.
I suppose it’s better to be prepared than disappointed, but I don’t know where you are getting the info that it’s such a slam dunk. Best bet, call the school district and ask them how likely you will get into any of the schools since I think your estimates might be off from my own personal and first hand experience.
Sorta like with the UC system now, I’d honestly prefer my kids go to a private school (or avoid PUSD if I could) if they are able to (preferably Stanford) 🙂 and go to a school in LJ, Solana Beach, RSF, etc…
