Showing posts with label Lawson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lawson. Show all posts
Friday, April 28, 2017
Valley (Junior High School) Athletic League serves Cupertino, Los Altos, Mountain View-Whisman, and Sunnyvale School Districts.
The Valley Athletic League is proud to serve the Cupertino, Los Altos, Mountain View-Whisman, and Sunnyvale School Districts. Each district has their own registration/enrollment process for After School Sports. Please contact your school's Athletic Director if you are unsure about your school's process.
This after school sports league provides opportunity for our community athletes to experience a variety of sports, interscholastic competition, team play and sportsmanship.
Overview
The VAL After-School Sports League allows the participants to experience inter-school competition, team play and sportsmanship.
It is the goal of this league to provide an inter-school athletic program to as many students as possible. The program offers sport-specific instruction and reinforces the principles of self-esteem building, self-discipline and conscientious sportsmanship by student-athletes, coaches, referees, parents and administrators.
During the 2016-2017 school year, there will be 11 schools participating in the VAL. This includes schools in Los Altos, Mountain View, Cupertino, Sunnyvale and San Jose. We are pleased with our continuing relationship with these schools, as it has provided us with a wide base of competition for our after school sports league.
Click the name of the school below if you would like to go to that school's homepage. Click the Athletic Director's name if you would like to send him/her an email.
School Athletic Director(s)
Blach Intermediate School Pat Koren and Steve Kane
Columbia Middle School Miali Reynoso
Crittenden Middle School Marco Arce
Cupertino Middle School Jina Button
Egan Junior High School Christy Eustice and Can Huynh
Graham Middle School Jeff Harter and Merlene Saunders
Hyde Middle School Sue Smith
Kennedy Middle School Larry Blair and Wade Nakamura
Lawson Middle School Gil Vasquez and Todd Butler
Miller Middle School Brian Yoshikawa
Sunnyvale Middle School TBD
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Awards Coordinator: Steve Kane
League Chairman: Jeff Bernstein
Friday, May 11, 2012
Case Study Cupertino Castlewood Neighborhood up 20% over mid 2005 prices
Many people say that during a real estate downturn, houses in good school districts keep their values better. Rather than simply trust this logic, I performed a Case Study.
People say that sometimes statistics are manipulated by cherry-picking statistics that show their intended viewpoint. For instance, data might show housing prices in Sunnyvale increasing by 35%, but maybe that upward shift in prices is simply because more homes are being sold in the more expensive southern part of Sunnyvale rather than the less expensive northern part of Sunnyvale.
To avoid the scenario above, I had to concentrate on one specific neighborhood. I chose the Cupertino Castlewood Neighborhood. This is the quiet neighborhood northwest of the intersection of Miller and Bollinger. The schools in this neighborhood are Eaton Elementary, Lawson Middle, and Cupertino High.
However, even if I restrict to the same neighborhood, the increase in prices might still be due to the change in mix of which particular houses sold. To eliminate even this argument, I looked at two specific houses in the Castlewood neighborhood -- 10791 Brookwell Drive and 6397 Myrtlewood Drive.
Looking at their historical sales price trend, I extracted the data and entered them into an Excel spreadsheet. You can see that 10791 Brookwell Drive sold for $806,000 on 12/1/2005 and actually rose 16% during this downturn to actually RISE in price to $938,000 on 4/12/2012. These are not Zillow predictive prices. These are ACTUAL sales prices. A buyer was actually able and willing to pay $938,000 last month for a house that they knew sold for just $806,000 on 12/1/2005, back in one of the peak years. Based on 10791 Brookwell Drives prices, the asking price of 6397 Myrtlewood Drive of $970,000 is a very close estimate of what 6397 Myrtlewood Drive SHOULD sell for. The $970,000 asking price is a reasonable 21% over the same property's late 2005 price.
To show this continued rise in home values in Cupertino, I plotted the actual sales data in a 10791 Brookwell Drive Chart and a 6397 Myrtlewood Drive Chart. Even during this downturn in real estate, Cupertino Castlewood Neighborhood values are up 20% over mid 2005 prices.
People say that sometimes statistics are manipulated by cherry-picking statistics that show their intended viewpoint. For instance, data might show housing prices in Sunnyvale increasing by 35%, but maybe that upward shift in prices is simply because more homes are being sold in the more expensive southern part of Sunnyvale rather than the less expensive northern part of Sunnyvale.
To avoid the scenario above, I had to concentrate on one specific neighborhood. I chose the Cupertino Castlewood Neighborhood. This is the quiet neighborhood northwest of the intersection of Miller and Bollinger. The schools in this neighborhood are Eaton Elementary, Lawson Middle, and Cupertino High.
However, even if I restrict to the same neighborhood, the increase in prices might still be due to the change in mix of which particular houses sold. To eliminate even this argument, I looked at two specific houses in the Castlewood neighborhood -- 10791 Brookwell Drive and 6397 Myrtlewood Drive.
Looking at their historical sales price trend, I extracted the data and entered them into an Excel spreadsheet. You can see that 10791 Brookwell Drive sold for $806,000 on 12/1/2005 and actually rose 16% during this downturn to actually RISE in price to $938,000 on 4/12/2012. These are not Zillow predictive prices. These are ACTUAL sales prices. A buyer was actually able and willing to pay $938,000 last month for a house that they knew sold for just $806,000 on 12/1/2005, back in one of the peak years. Based on 10791 Brookwell Drives prices, the asking price of 6397 Myrtlewood Drive of $970,000 is a very close estimate of what 6397 Myrtlewood Drive SHOULD sell for. The $970,000 asking price is a reasonable 21% over the same property's late 2005 price.
To show this continued rise in home values in Cupertino, I plotted the actual sales data in a 10791 Brookwell Drive Chart and a 6397 Myrtlewood Drive Chart. Even during this downturn in real estate, Cupertino Castlewood Neighborhood values are up 20% over mid 2005 prices.
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