Highwood

Three schools within a few blocks of each other give Highwood a particular weekday texture — Highwood School, Colonel Irvine School, and Northwest Elementary Campus all pull morning traffic through the same streets, lending the area a well-established, unhurried feel. Come summer, Highwood Outdoor Pool becomes the obvious gathering point; it's the kind of seasonal anchor that ends up in the mental map of anyone who spends a few years here.