Can anyone share websites/links to check latest school ratings
does greatschools.org have accurate info or reliable??
The top 10% of schools get a 10. I think itâs every 10% from there on down. There can be a big gap between 90th and 99th percentile, but they both get a 10.
API was more differentiated, since it was a number out of 1000.
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And that makes sense, Terri. I am just one who doesnât buy (no pun intended) into the school criteria too much. I have known too many people who have done very well in life coming from regular schools. I recently heard a buddyâs kid made it to a well known med school after going to SF public schools all her life and then going to a regular non Ivy League college. It is all about hard work in the real world. Sometimes, kids coming from richer communities where the schools are really good, turn out to be real slackers in life. I will take someone from the mean streets who is hungry than someone born with a âsilver spoonâ every time.
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California Dept of Education has suspended itâs school ratings since 2014. I think they will come out with a new rating system in 2017.
Following are the older ratings from California Dept of Education:
http://api.cde.ca.gov/Acnt2014/apiavgCty.aspx?allcds=01&c=R
http://api.cde.ca.gov/reports/Page2.asp?subject=API&level=School
If you want to look up school API by address try the following link:
http://www.schoolandhousing.com
Some people look at www.Greatschools.org⌠but I have ignored their ratings, except read comments by parents on specific schools.
Finally found the definition of âstarter homesâ:
We define the price cutoffs of each segment based on home value estimates of the entire housing stock, not listing price. For example, we estimate the value of each single-family home and condo and divide these estimates into three groups: the lower third we classify and starter homes, the middle third as trade-up homes, and the upper third as premium homes. We then classify a listing as a starter home on the market if its listing price falls below the price cutoff between starter and trade-up homes. This is a subtle but important difference between our inventory report and others. This is because the mix of homes on the market can change over time, and can cause large swings in the price points used to define each segment. For example, if premium homes comprise a relatively large share of homes for sale, it can make the lower third of listings look theyâve become more expensive when in fact prices in the lower third of the housing stock are unchanged.
Here is the original article
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388 homes in Fremont today available for sale. That seems like a excessively high number?
Yesterday, I visited four open homes, three san jose one mission san jose, and most of the places very few visitors. Except mission others are tough to sell with the price listed even though they are lower than last year prices. MSJ will sell for school district benefit.
If WSJ, we may have cross path yet donât know each other. Visitors are mostly Indians and Chinese.
@hanera are you indian?
Also, a very popular realtor in milpitas called me yesterday about my offer that he said has no chance a few days ago. Listed at 749k, he said going over 800k, two days later said few bumps in the road, then yesterday, called me to check if Im still interested, I didnt return his call. the house went under contract. will be interesting to see how much it went for.
I thought this was unusual a few months ago, realtor calling back to check.
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this should be peak season right?
And given what we are hearing just in last 30 days, can we go by comps before making an offer, they are a few months old.
You are an indian for sure 
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For sure, we have not crossed each other as I did not come to WSJ. I visit WSJ or near by areas when I am serious on buying any home.
Yesterday visit was just to know about how responses are! MSJ is my first ever visit to that side. MSJ visitors are purely Indians, have not seen any Chinese in 30 minutes stay.
Here are the homes visited
https://www.redfin.com/CA/San-Jose/1667-Topeka-Ave-95126/home/716076
https://www.redfin.com/CA/San-Jose/1436-Rosecrest-Ter-95126/home/595878
https://www.redfin.com/CA/Santa-Clara/4719-Snead-Dr-95054/home/1391213
https://www.redfin.com/CA/Fremont/520-Mill-Creek-Rd-94539/home/1214573
Peak season to whom? sellers, not buyersâŚIt is again premature to say anything, better to stay looking, but not ready further.
PEak season for transactions.
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Ofcourse I am. I heard you bringing up indians in few places :). Im not a racist like Donald Drumpf! So we are good.
Yes,this is supposed to be peak season, but see repeated price reductions and slowness.
I was thinking âgreat dealâ in 2008 when I bought my first rental from REO, but later in 2011, the home went down anther 20%. Since that was cash flow zero, I was holding it at that time, now it is perfect positive cash flow.
Even during 2011, I was having money, did not have confidence to buy another rental at the same area. Never even imagined this kind of recovery.
Good or Bad, we will come to know hindsight.
Do you have a link for this? Any idea who/what is in charge of creating such a system? It seems like whomever is in charge has immense power, essentially shaping the state of real estate in the bay area. Maybe manch can find out who it is, buy them some beers, and get some insider info? Trading stocks on insider info is illegal, but real estate�??
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Now thatâs an AWESOME idea!!
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You know, Bureaucrats who need to justify their jobs.
When my mom wanted to figure out where to send me to school, she figured out which High school had the best college admissions, including to Harvard and MIT, and then called that high school to find out where their kids went for elementary.
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Have you done this exercise for Bay Area schools?