Top Schools and Affordable Homes: East Bay Dominates ZipRealty's List of Best Places to Live for Families
May 16 2013 - 11:00AM
FOR IMMEDIATE
RELEASE
Media Contact: Stacey
Corso
510.735.2667
scorso@ziprealty.com
San Ramon Valley, Sunol Glen and Piedmont schools
top the list.
EMERYVILLE, Calif.,
May 16, 2013 - ZipRealty, Inc. (http://www.ziprealty.com) (NASDAQ:
ZIPR), the leading online residential real
estate brokerage and technology provider, has released its
first annual ranking of the Best Places for Families to Live: Top
School Districts with Most Affordable Housing in the Bay Area. The
public school rankings were compiled by factoring each school
district's School Score on ZipRealty.com with median price per
square foot in that district. To be considered, at least 10 home
sales must have closed in that school district over the course of
2012.
"We all know lots of factors - not just price per
square foot - go into determining home values," says ZipRealty CEO
and President Lanny Baker. "Among the most important of these
factors for many families today is the quality of local schools in
relation to the price of their local real estate. In our ongoing
effort to help home buyers make important decisions, we are
thrilled to bring these two sets of data together."
ZipRealty's proprietary School Score ratings
measure the performance of each school district, including
elementary, middle and high schools on a scale of 1 to 10, with 10
being the highest. ZipRealty calculates School Score ratings based
on test-score data as well as student/teacher ratios, says Jamie
Wilson, Senior Vice President of Technology.
"When searching for a home on ZipRealty.com,
interested buyers can use the Schools Information section when
viewing any home listing they're interested in to assess the
quality of each school or an entire district, and then access their
School Score," says Mr. Wilson. "The Schools Information section
also features the student/teacher ratio of each school, along with
specific test scores on a variety of subjects, such as math,
science, language arts and others, depending upon the state," he
notes.
In California, home buyers can review each school and school
district's Academic Performance Index (API), a comprehensive set of
metrics used by the state of California to measure school
performance.
The list of the Best Places
for Families to Live: Top School Districts with Most Affordable
Housing in the San Francisco Bay Area are:
-
San Ramon Valley Unified:
School Score 9.1/Median Price per SF $304
-
Sunol Glen Unified:
School Score 9.3/Median Price per SF
$356
-
Piedmont Unified:
School Score 9.5/Median Price per SF
$539
-
Palo Alto Unified:
School
Score 9.2/Median Price per SF $885
-
Castro Valley Unified:
School Score 8/Median Price per SF
$265
-
Dublin Unified:
School Score
8.4/Median Price per SF $265
-
Pleasanton Unified:
School Score 8.6/Median Price per SF
$332
-
Albany Unified:
School Score
8.6/Median Price per SF $419
-
Benicia Unified:
School Score
7.8/Median Price per SF $181
-
Martinez Unified:
School
Score 7.8/Median Price per SF $185
For a complete ranking of the Best Places for Families to Live: Top
School Districts with Most Affordable Housing in the Bay Area,
contact Stacey Corso at scorso@ziprealty.com.
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About ZipRealty,
Inc.
ZipRealty is a leading national real estate brokerage and provider
of proprietary technology and comprehensive online marketing tools
for the residential real estate brokerage industry. For home buyers
and sellers who increasingly want control, choice and a seamless,
customized service, ZipRealty offers Internet-enabled,
state-of-the-art technology and complete access to accurate, timely
information via their website and mobile applications, which real
estate professionals can combine with their own local knowledge and
personal expertise to offer an exceptional start-to-finish client
experience. For real estate professionals who seek more productive
ways to conduct business, ZipRealty provides technology and online
marketing tools to enhance their online sales channel, including
lead generation, conversion and service of their clients.
ZipRealty's technology and online marketing products serve its
full-service, owned-and-operated residential real estate brokerage
business in 19 markets nationwide, as well as its Powered by Zip
network of leading third-party local brokerages in 16 markets.
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