Location

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 NEW INFORMATION/FACTOIDS ABOUT CARMEL VALLEY & MONTEREY PENINSULA, CALIF.:
 * in case you want to check it out: [|__http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&tab=wl__]
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">According to NAIS Demographic Stats Online, the Monterey Peninsula currently receives the highest rating (“A” rating) for Education Tuition Potential (meaning local families’ willingness to pay independent tuition! This is very, very good news for our location choice!
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Total pop = 413,103 and forecasted to grow by 5.74% in next 5 yrs
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">total school age population = 118,915 and forecast to grow 5.69%
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Hispanic school age pop = 87,023 and forecast to grow 10.86%
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">keep in mind there is a HUGE immigrant population in Salinas due to agriculture
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Families with children ages 0-17 = 54,256 and forecast to grow 9.23%
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Families with 0-17 age kids and income above $150,000 = 6,206 and forecast to grow an amazing 30.48%!!! (that’s why this area gets an A!!!
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">While there are plenty of families with kids to fill our school, NAIS does note that the “dominant profile” of this area is “Rich and Old” (seriously, that’s a category!). But this plays into Stacey’s idea of building a connected nursing/elderly care facility adjacent, to take advantage of the affluent, retired, old population. Great income source!
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Nearby industry or points of interest (possible field trips, etc.):
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">major agriculture in Salinas Valley (“over the hill” from our school, 20 min drive): lettuce, artichoke, brocholli, califlower... you name it, it grows!
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Spreckles Sugar Factory: one of the few remaining sugar beet processing plants.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Monterey Fisherman’s Wharf: major fishing/boat (both commercial and tourist)
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Hospitality/Tourism industry: this area is a major travel/vacation destination, so tons of “5 star” luxury (and other) resorts, golf courses, etc.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Monterey Bay Aquarium <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.6667px; vertical-align: baseline;">__-(http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/)__
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">could be interesting to incorporate marine biology focus?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Cannery Row, John Steinbeck Public Library, National Steinbeck Center (this is the area which Steinbeck wrote about, was born, etc., so we could incorporate him into early literature/lang arts?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">lots of hiking, horseback riding, outdoor recreation
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">music: annual (major!) Monterey Jazz Fesitival (field trip!) and Carmel Bach Festival
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Point Lobos State Nature Reserve: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.6667px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=571__]
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">just south of Carmel is Big Sur
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">cultural/historic: famous Carmel Mission is here, and there is interesting history linking the missionaries with the original indigineous peoples of Monterey area:
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://www.missionscalifornia.com/content/native-americans-san-carlos-borromeo-de-carmelo.html__]
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">apparently, the steelhead trout is endangered in Carmel River (which our nice little creek with flow into!): <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.6667px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://www.carmelriverwatershed.org/history.html__]

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Near enough to relatively affluent suburban area so as to have the demand for our school. Do you think we need to describe the state of local public schools? That could dictate how “different/unique/better” we need to be? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #38761d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“Contextualized learning” -- field trips!