Slightly west of your parameters – but I can recommend Roosevelt Middle…. Right by the zoo.
My son is attending there. My younger son will start next year.
It’s an International Baccalaureate school. With your family’s spanish language abilities – they should be able to be in the native speakers classes.
It’s ethnically and economically diverse… that is good and bad. There are definitely some less than savory students there… but most of the kids are good.
It has a very strong GATE and Seminar program. I’m very pleased with the science and Gateways to Technology classes that my son is in.
I liked the program well enough that I’m dealing with the hassle of driving him to/from – despite the hellish I-805 traffic.
Feel free to PM me and I can give you more details.
As you probably know – the choice deadlines are coming up – so you’ll need to apply before the deadline. (Feb 15th?) It’s a magnet school – so that helps with the choice program… (SDUSD is cutting funding to choice in the interests of keeping kids at their neighborhood schools. Stated ideal is that every neighborhood school becomes excellent. But that’s not always possible.)
