Kids have better opportunities at high API schools. Poway High has the best band program in the County, Twin Peaks Middle School in Poway has the 2nd best PE program in CA for a middle school. Your kids will be surrounded by other high achieving kids, and the school will have donations for equipment and programs that the poor parents cannot provide. I stand by my assertion that kids are better off in high API scores.
If you send your kids to a low API school, you are busy justifying the decision. You didn’t want to pay the school premium, but put the money into a bigger house. I gave up square footage for a higher API.
