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Old 08-21-2015, 05:03 PM
 
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I've been in te area around where Jefferson High School is, and houses are rather big, and from what I've seen online, are worth 120k+ average. Yet, the school's rating is rather low. I would expect it to be like Alamo Heights or Reagan, but no.

Why is that? And do kids that are zoned there go there?
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Old 08-21-2015, 05:08 PM
 
Location: Mid South Central TX
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I've been in te area around where Jefferson High School is, and houses are rather big, and from what I've seen online, are worth 120k+ average. Yet, the school's rating is rather low. I would expect it to be like Alamo Heights or Reagan, but no.

Why is that? And do kids that are zoned there go there?
120+ is not high priced...the median home price for San Antonio is around 185K.
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Old 08-21-2015, 05:15 PM
 
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120+ is not high priced...the median home price for San Antonio is around 185K.
Well what I meant was they're bigger than the area surrounding it. The schools rating is like Edison's, yet the houses are way bigger and more expensive than the houses near Edison. You'd expect an area like that to have a high school with a rating of at least 8, like Reagan or Alamo heights.
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Old 08-21-2015, 05:44 PM
 
Location: New Braunfels, TX
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At 120k, a large home in SA is sending you a warning:

Don't live here.
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Old 08-21-2015, 06:03 PM
 
Location: Austin, TX via San Antonio, TX
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It's a historical area. It hasn't quite gentrified in the same way King William or other areas south of downtown have (even though Brackenridge isn't so highly rated either). The Jeff area also has lots of pockets of underserved and working class families that cause parent involvement to go down and thus the rating/test scores etc.
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Old 08-21-2015, 06:28 PM
 
Location: New Braunfels, TX
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Really? "Working class family" = lower test scores?

NOT

"Uninvolved parents" cause lower test scores, regardless of income.
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Old 08-21-2015, 07:57 PM
 
Location: Austin, TX via San Antonio, TX
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Really? "Working class family" = lower test scores?

NOT

"Uninvolved parents" cause lower test scores, regardless of income.
Working class families that, because they are working are unable to participate in school. I know that there is not a coreelation to working class families themselves. I'm one of the first people to jump in and defead less desirable areas of SA.
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Old 08-21-2015, 08:49 PM
 
Location: New Braunfels, TX
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Working class families that, because they are working are unable to participate in school. I know that there is not a coreelation to working class families themselves. I'm one of the first people to jump in and defead less desirable areas of SA.
If there's no "coreelation", then why bring it into the discussion? Maybe rather than defend them, you should help them correct the problem.
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Old 08-21-2015, 09:54 PM
 
Location: Austin, TX via San Antonio, TX
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If there's no "coreelation", then why bring it into the discussion? Maybe rather than defend them, you should help them correct the problem.
Okay. I'm not going to argue.
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Old 08-21-2015, 10:04 PM
 
Location: San Antonio
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If there's no "coreelation", then why bring it into the discussion? Maybe rather than defend them, you should help them correct the problem.
Sigh....really?
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