[quote=UCGal]…But I’ve got another year before I have to figure it out for middle school. My 5th grader didn’t make it into High Tech Middle (lottery to get in), but should be allowed to continue in the seminar program till 6th… so I’ve got another year before panic sets in.[/quote]
UCGal, there’s no cause for “panic,” you’ve got boys, no? UC is a very highly regarded school in the SDUSD, as is Standley. I think both of them are awesome schools as is the environment around the UC community. Just keep applying to the lottery every year and enroll your kids locally. Keep it simple and easy for yourself. It doesn’t get much better than UC … not even in LJ. CHOICE and VEEP students are likely bussed into EVERY HS in SDUSD, depending on programs offered. As you know, no one but the district brass are in control of this. Perhaps UC (like LJ, PL and Henry) doesn’t have enough HS students in its attendance area to fill the school so HAS to bus-in to keep the school financially viable. This is likely due to most of the homeowners in its attendance area being boomers and beyond. There’s nothing anyone can do about this. Consider yourselves fortunate that your area is stable and nearly devoid of distressed properties (SFRs). For the residents of UC with school-age kids, I would think that keeping schools in older areas open (like UC) would be FAR preferable to closing it and having their children force-bussed elsewhere or dividing them into different schools – a little in each one (like they did when Lincoln Prep was under construction).
For five years, HS students who all lived on the same block in the SD areas of Sherman, Southcrest, Shelltown, Logan Heights and Mtn View had to be bussed to up to seven different high schools! Imagine that!
Keeping a HS open in an older area of town serves a purpose . . . the most important one in keeping its surrounding community cohesive, IMHO.
