St. Francis Acres Neighborhood —An enjoyable Mountain View neighborhood in the Los Altos School District
Formerly covered by prune trees before World War II, St. Francis Acres is a close-knit community with a family-friendly atmosphere. With an excellent school district, relatively quiet streets and proximity to downtown Mountain View, St. Francis Acres proves to be a highly desirable neighborhood for families to enter the Los Altos School district, yet reap the benefits of Mountain View’s outstanding city services and infrastructure.
St. Francis Acres Neighborhood Real Estate Insider
Home prices in within the Mountain View neighborhood range from $915,000 to $1.2 million with the median home selling for about $1 million in 2006. The property value in St. Francis Acres is affected partially by the high-ranking school district that it falls in. Though technically located in Mountain View, St. Francis Acres is served by Los Altos Schools, which are geographically closer than Mountain View-Whisman Schools.
The demographic makeup of St. Francis Acres is typical of suburbs: mostly families and empty-nesters. However, because residents tend to stay in the area for many years, healthy and friendly relationships are built, which contribute to the neighborhoods strong sense of community.
Though St. Francis Acres is bounded by El Camino Real, along with Permanente Creek and El Monte Avenue, there is relatively little traffic noise. However, some motorists tend to cut through the neighborhood during rush hour, creating some safety concerns for children and pedestrians. In response, some speed-bumps have been put in place, though many residents would like to see more.
There is a 4th of July block party every year, in which Gilmore Street is blocked off for a potluck, a piñata and a children’s bike parade.
St. Francis Acres Neighborhood School Information
St. Francis Acres is served by Almond Elementary School and Egan Junior High School. As part of the Los Altos School District, these schools perform very well on the API, upwards of mid- to upper-900s. However, the high school—Los Altos High School—scores around 820.. As part of the Mountain View-Los Altos Union High School District, which draws from many neighborhoods with lower scoring elementary schools, Los Altos High School’s API scores suffer on average. Nonetheless, top-performing students often go on to prestigious colleges, including the nearby Stanford University and University of California Schools.
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St. Francis Acres Neighborhood –Mountain View, California
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