Why is the school rating for Columbia Middle School in Sunnyvale so bad?

Feb 19, 2021 5 Comments

Looking to buy a home in Sunnyvale. Curious why the schools above El Camino all have such bad ratings, especially the middle school, Columbia Middle School, and several elementary schools.

Anyone have kids who go to these schools? Are they really that bad? Do most people who buy these $1.5m+ house send their kids to private schools?

Thanks in advance!

#housing #sunnyvale #school

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  • Twitter
    Stripe •

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    Stripe •
    Doesn’t matter what school your kids goto. As long as they can leetcode.
    Plenty of my colleagues at google went to shitty high schools and no name colleges and didn’t even major in CS.

    Imagine going to Stanford and paying 200k+ only to end up beside some state school kid making the same 350k/year as you.
    Feb 20, 2021 0
  • Western Digital / Eng
    Troll Food

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    Troll Food
    That said, Sunnyvale school district are unified in resources and curriculum so if you don't mind the rating they are actually about the same. The only concern is if you will get bad influence from friends with bad parenting.

    Great School rating for ethic specific scores show the same ethnic group perform very close between these schools, it is the ethnic distributions that skew the rating.
    Feb 19, 2021 0
  • Google
    gigle

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    gigle
    Might be due to all the mobile/manufactured homes above El Camino. There were very few good (nicely maintained) homes in those areas until recently. And even the folks who do buy the homes there mighr be ssnding their kids to private schools.
    Feb 19, 2021 0
  • Apple
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    EartHboNd
    My friend just bought a place in Cupertino a little bit more than 1.8, it’s JFK middle school, do you have an agent to work with yet?
    Feb 19, 2021 0
  • Western Digital / Eng
    Troll Food

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    It is not just middle school. If you look at the elementary they are bad too, like Vargas for example.

    The reason is the student population being more in low income and parents in blue collar working class and low education, often times non English speaking.

    The reason? Those area are apartment complex dense and low in 4 bedroom low density housing.

    So for the idiots who think we can solve bay area housing problem with high density housing, knows nothing about the American housing market.
    Feb 19, 2021 0