Public High Schools

[MamaToThree]

You can find the school boundary map on the SJUSD page under the school that you are looking at. For example, here is the boundary for Rio Americano:

Rio Americano

[MapleLeaf]

Originally Posted by MamaToThree

You can find the school boundary map on the SJUSD page under the school that you are looking at. For example, here is the boundary for Rio Americano:

Rio Americano

and if we live out of boundaries, can we still sign our kid into specific High school?

[Damnitjanet]

It depends upon the school and the school district.

In general, children in public schools are assigned to the local schools in the local schools attendence boundaries. But their are variations in policy.

In the San Juan Unified School district (which contains Rio Americano HS) has an open enrollment policy. If you live in the attendence zone for a school, your children get first priority, if the school is not filled to capacity, then kids who live outside the school's attendence zone are permitted to enroll in that school.

http://www.sanjuan.edu/images/OpenEnrllmnt_Parent_Info.pdf (broken link)

The Sacramento City Unified School District has a different policy. There the better scoring schools are treated as magnet programs and you get in based upon a lottery.

Lastly, there are something called charter schools.

Normally, a part of your property taxes are set aside to pay for public schools, that is combined with additional funding from the state of California to intended to equalize funding for schools within the state of California. With this money, school districts are paid a certain amount of money called ADA money (or money for the average daily attendance) of schools.

An alternative is a charter school. There parents and other groups can organise their own school and collect the ADA money to fund the charter school. The charter schools generally have no attendance districts, but they also generally don't provide things like school buses to take kids to schools. Charter programs vary, there are performing arts charters programs, montessori charter programs and others.

[MapleLeaf]

Is there any website , where I can type zip code and get in boundaries of which school this place is?

I tried search on the web for 95678, 95675, 95661 , but coundn't find out

[Damnitjanet]

A couple of things.

You can see schools mapped by test scores here. When you put your cursor over a school it will tell you the name of the school and the schools test scores. You can also google the name of the school you are interested in to pull up the school website often the school website will have links back to the district office. This site is probably the best regional map of schools and test scores.

California School Performance Maps

The districts themselves decide school district attendence boundaries. But the school districts don't have a consistent policies of where they put their attendence maps. Sometimes you find them on the website for the school district and sometimes you find them on website for the school itself.

Alternatively, you can look at schools and test scores here by county and then by district. Then you can google the name of the school you are interested in to find out where its located.

Originally Posted by edwardius

see here

[Damnitjanet]

For whatever reason it won't let me link to the post on pg 1 of this thread by edwardius where he has all of the information by county and school district. But that was the link I was trying to connect to.