Fun Facts about the Santa Clara Unified School District Attendance Boundaries

Posted under: General Area in Santa Clara, Schools in Santa Clara, In My Neighborhood in Santa Clara  |  September 29, 2014 8:57 PM 

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Here are some fun facts about the attendance boundaries in the Santa Clara Unified School District.

As expected, the major street El Camino Real is a hard boundary between the school attendance boundaries. 

Students on the North side of El Camino Real are assigned to Wilcox High School. 
Students on the South side of El Camino Real are assigned to Santa Clara High School. 


Students who start at the northern tip of Santa Clara at Mayne Elementary will have to travel far to Don Callejon School for Middle School.


Students who start off in Montague Elementary will have to travel far to Buchser Middle School when they reach middle school age.

Students who go to Cabrillo Middle School will get assigned to either Wilcox High or Santa Clara High depending on which elementary school they went to.

Briarwood Elementary and Bower Elementary will go to Cabrillo Middle then Wilcox High.
Pomeroy Elementary will go to Cabrillo Middle then Santa Clara High.

Millikin Basics+ Elementary School moved from Central Park Elementary to Mariposa School

Posted under: General Area in Santa Clara, Schools in Santa Clara, In My Neighborhood in Santa Clara  |  September 29, 2014 7:37 PM

The rising number of parents who wished to enroll their children in the Santa Clara Unified School District's Millikin Basics+ Elementary School prompted the school’s move away from its former site at Central Park Elementary on Sonoma Place (just north of Central Park) to a bigger campus at the former site of Mariposa School on Hobart Terrace on the West side of Mariposa Gardens in 2013.

Due to an unexpected population drop and unused capacity in neighboring schools, Central Park Elementary was closed in 2012.

After updating the former Mariposa school site, the Millikin Basics + program re-opened at the former Mariposa site in 2012-2013.

The new Millikin Basics+ Elementary School was formerly Mariposa School, established in 1956.
Mariposa School later closed due to declining enrollment, and then was rented out to another educational institution before the school district reclaimed it for the site of the new Millikin campus.

While the old Millikin campus held 402 students, the new campus holds 432 students.

City of Los Altos Single-Family Residential DESIGN GUIDELINES for New Homes & Remodels

The City of Los Altos provides a 26 page booklet on Single-Family Residential DESIGN GUIDELINES for New Homes & Remodels on their website.

Los Altos requires a design review for all residential construction.  Most design reviews are performed by Planning Department staff.  However, applications for 2-story construction or unusual architectural designs are heard by the Architectural and Site Control Committee (A&S), a subcommittee of the Planning Commission.

New iPhone App helps attract Customers to your Open House

Tunedra recently unveiled a new iPhone app that helps Agents and Sellers attract Home Buyers to their Open Houses.  The usual real estate text description doesn't really stand out.  To make your home descriptions more memorable, the Tunedra iPhone App allows you to SING the description.  The result is a catchy tune that potential home buyers cannot get out of their mind.

For an example, click this link to musical description of Bertha Taylor Elementary listing.
then click the triangle play button at the lower left corner to play.

To help understand the song:
49ers = The San Francisco 49ers.  On Sundays when the 49ers play, the traffic to open houses drops precipitously.  On Saturdays you have no excuse not to come visit my open house

API = Academic Performance Index (Bertha Taylor is the highest performing elementary school in the Oak Grove School District.  Of course, after listening to this song, that point should be drilled into your head.)