“And in terms of “impressive” school districts, it’s those high schools that churn out 5+ National Merit Scholars every year and send a slew of students off to Stanford and the Ivy Leagues. Santee isn’t in that league, and being 70% (as someone said earlier) isn’t going to attract people (and probably won’t scare them away either).”

You know to tell you the truth I personally don’t really care.(Though my realestate agent claims people try to move close to Westhills.) I know I went to school out here, it was a great it experience for me. I felt safe. It was something I wanted my kids to know. I never looked at scores, except to see what everyone else was talking about. So I have gotten to understand what it is everyone else is looking for. I come on here and people keep making statements that I know they they don’t know what they are talking about. So I tried to enlighten. Don’t think it worked though, oh well.

As for National Merit Scholars, I it is not as impressive, but that was not what I was saying anyway.

My niece graduated with honors and a 4.5 g.p.a. from Santana (also gifted). I think she’s gonna do alright…..
(I am always telling her how smart she is and she keeps telling me how many kids are smarter than her, she’s very humble, and gorgeous)

p.s. before anyone starts freaking out, you get an extra point for passing with a “C” or better in honors classes.
5=A, 4=B, 3=c, and a D is a D and so forth..