“To make a long story short, being an active and involved parent and loving partner to your spouse are more important than what school district you choose to purchase a home in.”
That sums it up for me, too. Parental involvement and commitment to success is the defining factor in performance. I live in Carlsbad and although it’s a pretty good school district it has its share of lazy and apathetic teachers.
However, regardless of my personal opinion on the matter there remains the main question of this thread about how the market reacts to Poway’s schools. Even if I am right about family involvement being the key to success, if the average homebuyer thinks the schools are the attraction then the schools are the attraction. There are lots of people who don’t like living near the beach because of the gray and gloom of the marine layer, but that doesn’t mean that the market doesn’t value coastal proximity.
That said, there remains the data that demonstrates that the prices are slightly higher in RPQ/RB and much higher in Scripps, both of which are adjacent to Poway and both of which have lower rated and less popular schools. As far as I can see that pretty much shoots down the price-relates-to-school-quality theory.
There’s obviously another reason for why Poway’s June volumes are higher than they were in May. I have a couple ideas about that, but I’m going to have to break the data down by price ranges and physical attributes to see if those ideas pan out. The conclusions have to follow the data, not my personal opinions.
BTW, SDRealtor’s comments about the MLS Sold numbers increasing after the 1st of the month are absolutely correct. Most of the zip areas show a couple more sales now than they did when I first looked them up. Not enough to change the trend of a declining June vs. May, but it did reduce the percentages. It seems some of the realty agents really are a bit slow to update their listings after they close.