In general, Poway schools are good. When we bought in 2001, we were promised that the new elementary school was coming very soon – the one BobS says is now supposed to open in 2009, but with recent budget cuts I am not holding my breath. Have they broken ground? I haven’t driven by in quite awhile. It took a neighborhood petition drive to get the school board to agree to consider building the school that we have been paying for in taxes for years. In my neighborhood, almost all of the kids go to private school because the Poway schools used as “overflow” for this area are not really that great. I took a different tack and bought a beach house in La Jolla so I send my kids to La Jolla schools. This has worked great for us, although the school commute is getting old and I am looking at moving to La Jolla – which is why I starting lurking here several months ago.
I think the elementary school for FBR is Solana Sante Fe (or something like that) that is right outside FBR on El Apajo. I have heard that it is a wonderful school. Very well funded (by parents) with a lot of parental involvement. I don’t know anything about the middle/high schools for that area.
My friends who live in the Crosby and the Bridges don’t have kids, so I don’t know about those schools.
Another friend who lived in the Covenant a several years ago had kids in the public schools. He said they were fine. His kids (middle/high schoolers) complained that they were too far away from all of their friends who lived “in town”. His general comments about kids being a bit isolated in the Covenant is one of the reasons I never seriously looked there when I was moving from Del Mar.
