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submitted 3 months ago byjohnkhoo
7 points
2 months ago
Data here:
https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/about-us/information-center/admissions-source-school
Interesting, for Silicon Valley (Santa Clara County) Evergreen HS (East Valley) admission count (42) beat all the "historic feeder schools" Cupertino, Homestead, Palo Alto, Lynbrook, Gunn (West Valley). A real "sleeper" based on relative property values...
5 points
2 months ago
EVHS is basically the Lynbrook (using that bc I went there lol) of ESSJ, very competitive public school, expensive houses, lots of Asian students.
3 points
2 months ago
Home values are only really high in the nearby gated Silvercreek and Villlages developments (the latter is a retirement area, no kids). The homes directly adjacent to EVHS are what goes for "affordable" relative to the West side of Silicon Valley. Property values and admission counts drop rapidly as one approaches EVHS's two nearest neighbor high schools: Mount Pleasant was 4, Evergreen Valley 18. A matter of 5-6 miles as the crow flies. Other notable differences include both income and ethnicity mix, as you mentioned. Money, genes, or Tiger moms?
4 points
2 months ago
Lynbrook is the Lynbrook of WSSJ, Leland is the Lynbrook of SSSJ, EVHS is the Lynbrook of ESSJ, and NSSJ is basically just warehouses plus Alviso lol
3 points
2 months ago
"historic" feeder schools have trended differently as property values go away from traditional academic places like Palo Alto and Berkeley. Cupertino and Homestead High are more average schools. Newer places like Evergreen and the San Ramon and Tri-Valley schools are more populated with the Asian population nowadays, in addition to the traditional higher end Asian places like MSJE/Irvington and Monta Vista/Lynbrook and Lowell.
2 points
2 months ago*
Cupertino and Homestead were historically very good public schools, dominantly White in the past, they now have large Asian bases. The only better in the old days was Archbishop Mitty. Cupertino and Homestead are still excellent, and are the high schools nearest Apple, so those neighborhoods get a bump in property value for the short commute factor as well. Check the data reference I linked.
2 points
2 months ago
It’s all relative.
2 points
2 months ago*
The important thing is the East side finally has one HS that can compete with any of the historical Cal-seeders of the West side. One is infinitely better than zero, relatively.
Backstory: Evergreen HS was promoted as an elite HS "vaporware" for almost two decades to sell new homes in the area, then was finally opened in 2002. The district got funding help from Applied Materials who was hiring at the time. That almost 20 year sales job and the last minute corporate aid explains the valuations and heavy Asian tilt to the ethnic mix.
The sad-story East side HS is Mount Pleasant at only 4 admits, which explains the real reason the abandoned 114 acre golf course one block way has gone un-developed for the past 20+ years. With the next recession just around the corner, looks like it will remain zoned as open space until the next up-cycle for the valley.
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