So, although stereotypically speaking, higher API score is tied to socioeconomics. I’m sure there are many many exceptions to that stereotype. Another comparison that would challenge this stereo type is, why Point Loma HS and UCHS score below MMHS, yet, they’re both in much more expensive areas.[/quote]
certainly there’s going to be individual differences school to school. but I do think the Asian exception is a pretty set item.
as for Point Loma. in comparison to other areas with similar income level, homeownership rate is lower. which does allow more lower income families into the area, diluting the school API figure. Again, MM doesn’t fit because of the Asian exception.[/quote]
I have another take on Pt Loma HS and its “feeder schools.” I agree that there are a LOT of rentals in (the northern area of) Pt Loma, Navy housing in the southeastern area as well as rentals nearly all over OB. Although “anecdotal,” I believe a good portion of the parents (of school-age children) living in private SFR’s in that attendance area are also low income as they (and their child[ren]) are living with parents. The reason I believe this is because nearly every homeowner (one or both) I know over there (except for one family) is over the age of 55 and several are over the age of 65. A homeowner’s “educational level and income” really has nothing to do with their net worth or anything else over there because most of these seniors didn’t pay more than $45K for their Pt Loma properties and many own them free and clear. The truth is that their “youngish Gen X” and “Gen Y” children have moved back home with their children (the homeowner[s] grandchildren) and are using their parent’s address for their children’s school attendance purposes. Neither the parents or their parents (the homeowner[s]) are necessarily college-educated or employed FT (or at all), thus the parents “boomeranging” back to their parent’s house … with kids. And many young parents living on their own in other parts of town are STILL using their parent’s address in Pt Loma (or other similarly-situated “home-turf” community) for school attendance purposes.
These practices have been very commonplace for many years, especially among young parents who can’t possibly provide for their children in the manner that they themselves were provided for while growing up.
It’s always been psychologically hard for many “native San Diegan parents” to leave a community like Pt Loma after HS and then try to rent and raise their own families in areas they can actually afford such as College area, Normal Heights or Oak Park.
The same could be said for many students in the LJHS attendance area.
The long-established areas of SD are VERY diverse and not “homogenous” as to education and income levels of resident owners. In other words, there are many thousands of homeowners of properties which are worth $1M+ (in coastal CA counties) who don’t even have a HS Diploma or GED. The majority of them are surviving spouses and children of the deceased homeowner who actually qualified to purchase the property at one time.
As a parent today, I wouldn’t get too wrapped up in the “educational levels” of adults within the households of my child’s classmates. Some of them can’t even speak English well or at all, but that doesn’t mean they can’t afford to live where they’re living or aren’t raising their children/grandchildren to be good students.
