[quote=SD Realtor]I have to agree with Paramount. There are plenty of places in San Diego County that are not that expensive to live in. Yes you may have a longer commute and may not like the school district. . . .[/quote]
SDR, I don’t think a long commute is necessary at all to have a great life in SD County at a reasonable cost, even for a family with kids.
I think some home-shopping parents are too wrapped up in “District” and are not shopping particular school-attendance areas. And when they look at a particular API, they’re not looking at the CST Results by subgroup. Their child’s subgroup(s) needs to be taken into account to determine the proper API within a school to use in determining their child’s potential success in test-taking at that school. In addition, due to available staff and facilities at a particular school location (placed there by a District), many very good schools are mandated by their respective Districts to accept all of a certain kind of foreign refugee that moves into the District and/or developmentally-delayed or physically-handicapped children from a wide attendance area. These categories of students could have the effect of dragging down the overall API score of the school.
In San Diego County, entire swaths of well-located, perfectly decent and affordable homes on larger lots seem to be discounted by many home-shopping parents without even a look or consideration because parents become so wrapped up in “District reputation and cache,” lol! This is often fleeting from year to year, depending on whatever current scandal erupts at a school-board level.
For example, as a parent home-shopper, if your kids are currently 3 and 7 years old, you should not be overly concerned about a particular high school’s API scores if its feeder elementary school’s and perhaps middle school’s API scores in a particular attendance area are more than satisfactory to you. High school is VERY difficult these days and you, as a parent, have no way of predicting today what a particular high school’s API scores will be in 2018 and beyond. Not only do student-demographics change, teachers and principals retire and often transfer routinely at the whim of the District and a school’s API scores rise and fall with the tide.
The success of a child in school should be measured at the micro level. It all boils down to the school offerings, the teachers and most of all, the student. Buildings and their location have nothing to do with it.
