Fremont Real Estate Blog

Let's Just Try Drilling Down to see what we'd expect to do to improve a school's scores Our Goal is to increase the school's API score to the range of 930+ So in order to do well on a test, the students, teachers, and parents need to know what's on the test. Let’s first focus on what we as parents have control over - our kids. Ideally, we'd like to be able to administer the test to our kids periodically, assess weak areas, build skills in those areas, such that by the time the exam approaches, they are comfortable taking the exam, and know the material well enough to achieve the desired results. The 1st problem is I can't find a sample of the test online. (some help here please) I’m hoping our teachers get feedback on individual student progress from the state, based on the results of last year’s exams which were used to derive the API scores. So they should be able to tell us our kids’ weaknesses and the additional skills they'll need for this years exa...

What can you do to increase your homes equity by 50%? The biggest factor in valuing a home is its neighborhood or more precisely its school. The biggest driver for a buyer is generally the quality of the school. And the way most buyers judge the quality of a school in California is its API score. In Fremont , we have some of the best schools in the state based on API scores. However, the homes associated with Fremont ’s Mission San Jose High School command a 50% premium over the other schools in Fremont , simply because the elementary, middle and high schools associated with this high school all score over 900 on the API scores. Here are the 2006 API scores for this Mission High School District: Four elementary schools are: Chadbourne 975, Gomes 989, Mission San Jose 991, Mission Valley 944), for the middle school: Hopkins 972), and for the high school ( Mission San Jose 932). FYI 1000 is a perfect score. Homes in the Mission Schools neighborhood sell between $500 to $750/sqft. The...