Millbrae Apartments
Millbrae is a city in San Mateo County, California, United States. The population was 20,718 at the 2000 census.
Darius Ogden Mills purchased land in the 1860s from the Sanchez family to build a country estate. The former Mills estate was bordered by what is now: Skyline Boulevard, Bayshore Highway U.S. Route 101, Millbrae Avenue and Trousdale Drive. The mansion burned down in 1954.
A wetland area in the eastern part of the city adjacent to U.S. highway 101 is habitat to the endangered species San Francisco garter snake, a species endemic to San Mateo County. To the west is Crystal Springs Reservoir, and the San Andreas Fault. Millbrae’s economy is driven mainly by its long strips of hotels. Because of it close proximity to San Francisco International Airport and to San Francisco, California many tourists opt to stay in Millbrae.
Millbrae has a well-known reputation for having one of the best schools in the San Francisco Bay Area. Parents are actively involved in their children’s scores, school functions, and the like.
Millbrae’s school district oversees four elementary schools: Meadows, Green Hills, Spring Valley, and Lomita Park, and one middle school: Taylor.
Millbrae has one public high school, Mills High School, which is part of the San Mateo Union High School District. Mills High School is considered to be one of the top high schools in all of San Mateo County (see Mills High School). (Although surrounded by land that is the city of Millbrae on most of its school boundaries (which is also the San Bruno-Millbrae city border), Capuchino High School belongs to San Bruno; this leads to the incorrect assumption of Millbrae having two high schools. The southern boundary of Mills High School also lie on another border, the Burlingame-Millbrae city border; this could also make some people think Mills is in the city of Burlingame.)
