Schools

Aragon offers location, natural beauty, fine homes, a familial sense of community – and access to San Mateo’s most highly-regarded public schools. Aragon residents send their children to Baywood Elementary School, Borel High School and Aragon High School, completed in 1961 after a 20-year surge in San Mateo’s overall population. The Aragon and Baywood neighborhoods are the only two in the whole area that are within walking distance of schools K-12, a strong selling point. Often considered the most desirable of San Mateo’s high schools, Cold War-era Aragon High is rumored to have been designed for multiple uses: in times of war, it is said, the school could double as a munitions factory.

History

Like so much of San Mateo, Aragon was once the property of one person, in this case Tobin Clark. The Clark Estate began in Hillsborough and continued past what is now Aragon High School into land that was then unincorporated county land. Aragon – the subdivision laid out between Hobart Avenue (south), Notre Dame Avenue (north), Alameda de las Pulgas (west) and El Camino Real (east) — was annexed by San Mateo in 1929, right about the same time builders began constructing one- and two-story Spanish-style, Tudor and English-style homes on what would become a series of storybook, tree-lined residential streets.

Development would continue past World War II, but the bulk of Aragon real estate was completed between 1930 and 1940. The neighborhood quickly became a San Mateo favorite. Today, Aragon homes for sale command prices well over $1 million, with homes on Avila Road, Aragon Boulevard and Seville Way selling for between $1.1 and $1.6 million. A few outliers can fetch as much as $2 million, but this is not the rule. A basic three bedroom home will start around $1.1m and a three or four bedroom home that is fully renovated and move-in ready will sell in the $1.3m – $1.5m range. Lots in Aragon are usually about 6,000 square feet.