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San Diego is know for bad public schools as well as all of southern california.
More like a mixed bag. The annual Academic Decathlon is dominated by LA area high schools. There are great, highly competitive schools peppered in and about the basin, like in Cerritos. Long Beach USD is a five-time finalist for America's Top Urban School District. (Freedom Writers was based on a Wilson High teacher; my nephew was a student of hers.) But the poorly performing districts perform really poorly, and are to be avoided.
That is pretty much irrelevant. Simple math can be used to find averages, just like crime rates. .
How is it irrelevant, if one city total is based on 325 square miles and the other on 45 square miles... wouldn't it be more comparable to use the same area? This is not an argument as to which city is better, I have no clue and have not done the research, but I know when statistics are going to be unreliable. This is always going to be the case, given arbitrary city limits. At the very least you can use a data set of 500 schools compared to 500 other schools
SF by a hair. San Diego easily has better weather, and has two of the most beautiful developments that are perfect for my tastes in 4S Ranch and Eastlake/Otay Ranch (chula vista), but the restaurants are by far much better and more varied in SF, and the downtown is more interesting and fun with more activities. But if I was going to live in the Bay Area, I'd want to live in Alameda, especially the Alameda Point area once they get it developed. I like it a lot better for living, and it still has public transit to SF. It has better weather than SF too, which is really interesting considering it's just right across the bay.
SF by a hair. San Diego easily has better weather, and has two of the most beautiful developments that are perfect for my tastes in 4S Ranch and Eastlake/Otay Ranch (chula vista), but the restaurants are by far much better and more varied in SF, and the downtown is more interesting and fun with more activities. But if I was going to live in the Bay Area, I'd want to live in Alameda, especially the Alameda Point area once they get it developed. I like it a lot better for living, and it still has public transit to SF. It has better weather than SF too, which is really interesting considering it's just right across the bay.
Most of the bay area has better weather than San Francisco itself, given that the majority of people in the bay area do not live in San Francisco proper, it is probably why most people on here that live out here associate it with that good coastal california weather and not some elfin fog land. SF is still pretty freaking sunny nice climate, it is not san diego or honolulu though which are pretty much defacto standards for what I consider "perfect" year round weather. Even the neighborhoods of san francisco themselves seem to have pretty different weather.
How is it irrelevant, if one city total is based on 325 square miles and the other on 45 square miles... wouldn't it be more comparable to use the same area? This is not an argument as to which city is better, I have no clue and have not done the research, but I know when statistics are going to be unreliable. This is always going to be the case, given arbitrary city limits. At the very least you can use a data set of 500 schools compared to 500 other schools
SF and SD are very comparable. Sf has a population of 800k and sd has a population of a million.
All you have to do is take every schools api in the city, add the scores up, and divide it by the number of schools and you get an average api. Which montclair was kind enough to provide for both cities. I don't see how many square feet a city has, as having any type of bearing or relevance what so ever when comparing performance for schools.
And quite frankly no one has ever made such a bizarre assertion before.
San Diego is too Car Dependent and dirty. San Francsco, as close to the Seal Rocks as I can get
Yeah, because San Francisco isn't car dependent at all...nobody drives there!
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SF and SD are very comparable. Sf has a population of 800k and sd has a population of a million.
All you have to do is take every schools api in the city, add the scores up, and divide it by the number of schools and you get an average api. Which montclair was kind enough to provide for both cities. I don't see how many square feet a city has, as having any type of bearing or relevance what so ever when comparing performance for schools.
And quite frankly no one has ever made such a bizarre assertion before.
Because San Diego and San Francisco aren't the only two cities on here that get compared, try comparing a random list of other cities and then it will become more clear why it is often better to compare metro area performance, unless you want to limit yourself to city proper themselves. Chicago has a ton of good schools, but most of them aren't a part of CPS for instance...Should you not go to Chicago now, b/c CPS isn't that good? There are also a lot more good schools in the surrounding areas of San Francisco, which if it had the same city limits as San Diego...(virtual burbs) would be counted. These areas outside city limits proper by and large ARE options for people living there.
Comparing metro areas is bizarre?
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