Bay area Top 100 US STEM High Schools

TLDR

Dougherty High(San Ramon), Mission San Jose High(Fremont), Irvington High(Fremont), Lynbrook(Cupertino), Monta Vista(Cupertino) send ~50 kids to Berkeley every year on average over the last 5 years and also rank in the Top 100 US STEM High Schools. This makes homes feeding to any of these high schools attractive investment. 

Context

Bay area is a great place with amazing public high schools. Among the top 100 US STEM high schools, 13 are from bay area making the region a centre for amazing education. Cherry on top, some of the best school districts in the bay area boast of multiple high schools in the top 100. Being in california, bay area schools feed directly into UC Berkeley. 

Goal

• Review bay area high schools in the top 100 US News STEM Rankings
• Review historical 14 year, 10 year and 5 year admission rates to Berkeley
• Review school districts with multiple presence at the top

Here is the list of the 13 bay area schools making it into top 13 US STEM Rankings. Also included is the 14, 10, 5 year berkeley admission rates from these schools.

As you can see, some of the well known school districts Cupertino, Fremont, Pleasant contribute multiple entries to this list. Cupertino leads with 4 entries : Cupertino high, Homestead, Lynbrook and Monta Vista. Fremont follows with Mission, Irvington and American high - all well known schools. 

There is a surprise winner if we look at the 5 year average Berkeley admits

We are using averages to remove yearly variance and to get a better measure of consistency. Dougherty valley from San Ramon leads the Berkeley admits race with 76.2 kids being admitted to Berkeley every year. Mission and Monta vista both sent >50 kids per year over the last 5 years and Lynbrook and Irvington came in a close to the 50 mark too. 

Hopefully this post helps readers look deeper than the superficial great schools ratings available on zillow as they pay for their homes.