I like the area North of CMB, east of Gennesee, west of 805 – especially the homes on San Clemente Canyon. These home are in the Hawthorne Elementary school area. I have a friend who sends her son to Hawthorne because she liked their Seminar program better than the one at Spreckels (in UC). She LOVES the school. Not sure how much of that is stictly love of this school’s seminar program.
I have friends who live off of Mt. Herbert – west of Genesee, north of Balboa. There are some really cool houses along finger canyons that run through there.
One of the schools over there is Muir – it’s a charter school that is K-12. Friends who send their kids there are really impressed with the school. I’m impressed with the parent volunteers that did all the new landscaping last year. (My children’s piano teacher is in the neighborhood so I watched them work on weekends.)
I have a friend who taught at Field (near the Clairemont Square) for several years. It’s student population has a lot of english learners – so that’s a data point for you.
As far as middle schools and high schools… I went to Marston and Clairemont HS… I turned out ok. But I just had my 30th HS reunion… so my data is a bit out of date. LOL.
