Moving With Kids (Los Angeles, San Francisco, Thousand Oaks: schools, community college, places to live) - California (CA) - Page 2 - City-Data Forum

Vicman · 01-09-2007, 02:59 PM

Okay, if you wish to live in the San Fernando Valley...

Within LAUSD I believe the best high school to be zoned to is El Camino Real High School in Woodland Hills, with Taft High School (also in Woodland Hills) as a close second. A bit of West Hills is in the Las Virgenes School District (the only part of L.A. not in LAUSD) and that is zoned to Calabasas High School in Calabasas.

majoun · 01-11-2007, 10:23 PM

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LAUSD has a lot of bad schools and a few good schools.

If possible, if you will move to West Los Angeles (but not the San Fernando Valley), try to be zoned to Palisades HS. I believe being zoned to University HS comes as a second, even though a lot of people in Brentwood and Bel-Air do NOT send their kids to University HS.

Heck, I live in Houston, but I learned some of this stuff just by surfing on the internet. The internet is amazing, man!

"Pali" is a magnet school which attracts kids from all over the city, you don't have to live in the area to have your kids go there. All you have to do is apply for them to go there. It is one of the better schools in LAUSD (99% of whose schools are godawful)

You'd probably want to move to Santa Monica which has its own district - there are some problems but nowhere near as many as in LAUSD schools.
And not all of Santa Monica is super expensive, there are southern parts of SM which are in line price-wise with other areas of the west side (Sunset Park and most of Ocean Park are relatively safe - I would NOT recommend moving to the Pico Neighborhood though)

jayolm · 01-19-2007, 11:48 PM

Avoid Burbank and Glendale to live in. I would say about 65% of the area of Burbank is unattractive to live in. Also bad public schools. I heard that Glendale recently had a shooting at one of its local public high schools. If you do move to either of those cities, be sure to send your kids to private school, not the public school.

Cami · 01-21-2007, 05:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Vicman

Okay, if you wish to live in the San Fernando Valley...

Within LAUSD I believe the best high school to be zoned to is El Camino Real High School in Woodland Hills, with Taft High School (also in Woodland Hills) as a close second. A bit of West Hills is in the Las Virgenes School District (the only part of L.A. not in LAUSD) and that is zoned to Calabasas High School in Calabasas.

Wasn't Taft High School the one with the Riots that occured about a year or two ago.

Cami · 01-21-2007, 06:06 PM

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Playa Del Rey is a pretty good community. It lacks everything but your basic needs- which is great! Keeps it quiet!

Playa Del Rey has an excellent school; Paseo Del Rey. It has won some awards! However, further up in the ladder the area schools deteriote. Westchester High School is NOT an option unless your kids are black and in gangs. (No joke!-This is where "Tookie" Williams first began recruiting for the crips.) The kids are bused in from lower-income areas around the airport and near Inglewood.
Playa Del Rey teens typically attend El Segundo High(Great school) or attend a private high school(such as St. Bernard, or Loyola). I am not sure what the cost of attending El Segundo High is for Playa Del Rey residents. It is a public school so I would expect it to be rather minimal.

There are a few distinct neighborhoods: The Hill, The Jungle, and East of Pershing. The Jungle is a rather dense section by the beach. It has homes, and some luxury apartments(2BR rents $2000+). "The Hill" is the nicest neighborhood. It is located west of Pershing and east of Culver/Dockweiler. I don't believe anything is on the market for less than $2 million. "The Hill" consists only of single family estates. NBA Laker coach, Phil Jackson, used to own a house there.

"East of Pershing," is divided by Manchester Blvd.
North of Manchester is almost entirely single family homes and movie stars.
South of Manchester is almost entirely apartment complexes. There is a high rental stock in the south, and a two bedroom will fetch about $1600.

Coolio(rapper/actor) just sold his bluff-side mansion in the north side for a measly $4 million.

(attached is the school district -in green. the district extends all the way to Century Blvd. a very rough area, and to the border of Inglewood)

Unfortuntely, ignorance runs rampant these days. First of all it doesn't matter what color you are. Gangs have no respect for color. If you are in the line of fire then the bullet keeps going. Black kids are just as much affected and tramatized by gang violence as those of white, asian hispanic or any other nationality. To pin point one group displays just how well misinformed you are. BTW, Westchester is predominantly a white area.

newportbeachsmostwanted · 01-22-2007, 12:48 AM

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To pin point one group displays just how well misinformed you are. BTW, Westchester is predominantly a white area.

I lived in Westchester for a year. I am very well aware of who lives there. There is a large and growing Black population in Westchester. Blacks are fleeing South Central and many of them are moving to Westchester.

Take a trip to Howard Hughes Promenade. Drive by Westchester High School at 3pm. Take a trip on Arbor Vitae between the 405 and Sepulveda. You will not see ONE white person except at Howard Hughes. This is not a predominantly anything area. It is mixed between black and white.

White kids just DON'T go to Westchester High. Sorry, if I offended you-that's just how it is!

"Ghettochester High" is the slang word for the school and it is called that by kids all over L.A. It is NOT a safe school. Guns being fired at football games. Yes, Crips exist at Westchester High. Yes, crips are a Black gang. This is not stereotyping. I don't care if their white/black/asian whatever- I will state the truth.

I definitly do not understand your negativity.

sevdie · 01-22-2007, 03:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Cami

Unfortuntely, ignorance runs rampant these days. First of all it doesn't matter what color you are. Gangs have no respect for color. If you are in the line of fire then the bullet keeps going. Black kids are just as much affected and tramatized by gang violence as those of white, asian hispanic or any other nationality. To pin point one group displays just how well misinformed you are. BTW, Westchester is predominantly a white area.

Cami,

I appreciate your post and I agree with you.

newportbeachsmostwanted · 01-22-2007, 04:08 PM

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Cami,

I appreciate your post and I agree with you.

Okay, then tell the orig. poster send her white children to the High School, and we shall see how many racist comments they get in one week. (about 599 of the 600 students are black.) How long will they last in school? -We'll see. ...This is 2006, and racism is STILL a reality.

(case closed* This is not a political discussion forum.)

WINNIEK · 01-23-2007, 10:16 AM

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Okay, then tell the orig. poster send her white children to the High School, and we shall see how many racist comments they get in one week. (about 599 of the 600 students are black.) How long will they last in school? -We'll see. ...This is 2006, and racism is STILL a reality.

(case closed* This is not a political discussion forum.)

I have to point out to you the stats you have come up with are incorrect.Yes Westchester High is majority Black.But their is also a large amount of Hispanic kids as well ,and no the first poster's children will not be the only White kids there.If you take a look at great schools.net you will see the break down(based on last years demographics) is about 8% white.I am not recommending this school to anyone,just clearing the incorrect demographics stated.Their is also a magnet portion of this school that I hear is pretty good,but I would not send my children to Westchester High.

newportbeachsmostwanted · 01-23-2007, 10:23 AM

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..I would not send my children to Westchester High.

Thanks for that link.

Read this: (an article written by a student)
http://www.yesmagazine.org/article.asp?ID=1543

...more on the racial anomaly of the school. (She states it as being "diverse." Yet, besides tons of blacks and a few hispanics it's not very diverse at all.)