African American single parent working in Cupertino (Sunnyvale, Daly City: employment, school district)

[dameonb]

Currently residing in Ann Arbor, MI. I just got a great job in Cupertino but I'm concerned about the environment for my daughters.

I'm a single African American father of two junior high school kids. I'd like advice on where to live and the best junior high school in the Cupertino area.

Any advice is appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

[sonarrat]

What concerns you about Cupertino? I think that town has excellent schools.

[dameonb]

My only concern is the quality/safety of the schools. Currently my kids attend Ann Arbor, MI schools and I've been very pleased.

[hsw]

Academically "good" public schools exist in Cupertino, Saratoga, PaloAlto

Much varies based upon one's budget and cultural preferences

Cupertino's glaring negative is that it is a heavily Chinese suburb w/many parents with lower education and career achievement levels; e.g., many Stanford/Berkeley/IL/MI/Carnegie-Mellon-educated engineers who work in Cupertino at Apple or Symantec, etc opt to reside in suburbs like PA, Saratoga, etc as residential Cupertino itself has demographics which don't reflect what one's kids will find at any leading college or in the senior executive suites of any major tech or financial company in Silicon Valley or NYC

PA has more of an AA intellectual culture w/residents including many top SiliconValley engineers and execs (incl senior execs of Cupertino's most famous co.) and many Stanford faculty and grad students....a motley but smart crew of white guys from Midwest, Indians, Jews, Chinese, African-Americans, etc

[bigdumbgod]

Originally Posted by hsw

Cupertino's glaring negative is that it is a heavily Chinese suburb w/many parents with lower education and career achievement levels;

"Glaring"?

Wow, we really want to avoid those Chinese now, don't we?
And if those in Cupertino are of the "lower education and career achievement levels" (dude, you're quite obsessed with this mindset, no?), how in the F could they possible live there? Seen property prices much?

[sonarrat]

HSW thinks that only those who make a seven-figure salary can live a good lifestyle. I think his name refers to Harvard-Stanford-Wharton.. the top business schools. For sure, he has the kind of warped perception of people and places that can only come from being unbearably pretentious.

[LexusNexus]

Originally Posted by dameonb

Currently residing in Ann Arbor, MI. I just got a great job in Cupertino but I'm concerned about the environment for my daughters.

I'm a single African American father of two junior high school kids. I'd like advice on where to live and the best junior high school in the Cupertino area.

Any advice is appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

My son attended Cupertino Middle School in Sunnyvale on Bernardo and loved it. There was a more balanced racial mixture there. Part of Sunnyvale is in the Cupertino school district and is a pretty good place to live too and own property.

[dameonb]

Everyone's advice has really helped.

[BayAreaHillbilly]

Cupertino Union School District - Middle Schools (http://cupertino.ca.campusgrid.net/home/Links+to+our+Schools/Middle+Schools - broken link)

So, among these, Cupertino as noted above, and, Hyde, are probably the most diverse in the sense of true multiracial diversity.

As much as there were aspersions cast previously for mentioning it, fair disclosure - yes, Cupertino is an Asian majority (with the Chinese community being a stand alone majority even without other Asian groups being considered) community. Unless you are mandated as a condition of employment to live in Cupertino, you have the 7M person thousands of square miles megacity of the Greater Bay Area at your disposal, so you don't have to limit yourself to Cupertino. But, as also noted, the schools are very, very good there.

[sonarrat]

Originally Posted by BayAreaHillbilly

Cupertino Union School District - Middle Schools (http://cupertino.ca.campusgrid.net/home/Links+to+our+Schools/Middle+Schools - broken link)

So, among these, Cupertino as noted above, and, Hyde, are probably the most diverse in the sense of true multiracial diversity.

As much as there were aspersions cast previously for mentioning it, fair disclosure - yes, Cupertino is an Asian majority (with the Chinese community being a stand alone majority even without other Asian groups being considered) community. Unless you are mandated as a condition of employment to live in Cupertino, you have the 7M person thousands of square miles megacity of the Greater Bay Area at your disposal, so you don't have to limit yourself to Cupertino. But, as also noted, the schools are very, very good there.

They're not a majority yet. Milpitas and Daly City are actually Asian majority with a little over 50% Asian. Cupertino is 43% Asian and 48% Caucasian.