Top 10 CA High School rankings
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irvinehomeowner
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eyephone said:
Really? Your opinions flip from obvious to obtuse.
Then move out. Not sure if you can find a city in California selling new homes where all of their schools are in the top 100... maybe in NorCal.
irvinehomeowner said:
I used to think "resort-style amenities" was a marketing ploy too. But I've stayed at multiple resort hotels around So Cal recently and came away thinking that our HOA pools are actually nicer than the hotels I've been staying at. It's no wonder why all these Air BnB's have been exploding in Irvine... resort-style amenities without the resort fee.
StarmanMBA
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irvinehomeowner said:
It isn't the schools that are great. It's the students and their parents.
Same thing with crime. Police don't have much impact on preventing crime.
It's not that the police in Chicago are bad. The many criminals there are.
Switch all the teachers from Santa Ana to Irvine and vice versa and little would change, except the Santa Ana teachers would be much happier, and the Irvine teachers miserable.
irvinehomeowner
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eyephone said:
I'm not blaming anyone, you are.
And I'm not attacking anyone either, just stating the eyephone obvious.
irvinehomeowner
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eyephone said:
So sensitive. If you can't stand the heat, stay out of the discussion.
So right now, the 2 NBA teams playing for the "top" title were not the highest ranked teams in the league. But, regardless of their "numbers", they were top-rated.
It's all relative... which is why it's better to say "rated" rather than "scored".
Why you have a hard time understanding that should be not a surprise to me as you couldn't connect free speech and honoring veterans either.
#ThrowbackThursday
irvinehomeowner
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eyephone said:
Wah.
Irvinecommuter
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Most of those schools are basically magnet schools for the district so they concentrate all of the best students into one HS.
IUSD is about having good schools throughout the district.
IUSD is about having good schools throughout the district.
Irvinecommuter said:
That's not accurate. Strip out the charter schools and the only SoCal schools in the top 40 are Whitney, PV, La Canada. None from OC. Bay area has 13 regular public high schools on that list, and they closely correlate with the National Merit Scholar list of CA students recently published.
Irvinecommuter
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OCtoSV said:
I am not sure what that has to do with what I said. I didn't say anything about charter schools.
IUSD has two HS in the top 100 (Uni and Northwood), Woodbridge is 123, Irvine is 245. Portola should get a good ranking once it qualifies.
Tustin has Beckham at 49...and then Foothill at 249.
Anaheim Union (which is basically a made-up school district) has Oxford at 2 and Cypress at 241
Fremont Unified for example has MSJ at no. 8...and Irvington at 147 and American at 153.
ABC is quite good with Whitney and Cypress but the rest of the HS are bad.
irvinehomeowner
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I take all these rankings with a grain of salt... I just know that IUSD is usually closer to the top than the bottom.
That's the definition of "top-rated"... at least to some of us.
That's the definition of "top-rated"... at least to some of us.
momopi
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The difference between Whitney/Oxford vs Irvine schools is that you have to take a competitive exam to get into Whitney/Oxford, versus Irvine (or Diamond Bar) high schools take most students within its district zone.
I went to school in both Placentia-Yorba Linda and ABC districts. I attended Kramer Jr High in Placentia (next to Valencia HS) and graduated from Artesia High. In HS I was a TA and the teachers complained continuously about Whitney taking all the top performing students from the district, resulting in other schools having lower rankings.
In Irvine there is no Whitney or Oxford. In Cerritos area parents send their kids to take the exam to get into Whitney. Those who didn't make the cut for Whitney has option to attend lesser-known Valley Christian private school ($14K/year) or Cerritos HS. Artesia HS and Gahr HS are considered less desirable.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valley_Christian_High_School_(Cerritos,_California)
I went to school in both Placentia-Yorba Linda and ABC districts. I attended Kramer Jr High in Placentia (next to Valencia HS) and graduated from Artesia High. In HS I was a TA and the teachers complained continuously about Whitney taking all the top performing students from the district, resulting in other schools having lower rankings.
In Irvine there is no Whitney or Oxford. In Cerritos area parents send their kids to take the exam to get into Whitney. Those who didn't make the cut for Whitney has option to attend lesser-known Valley Christian private school ($14K/year) or Cerritos HS. Artesia HS and Gahr HS are considered less desirable.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valley_Christian_High_School_(Cerritos,_California)