Grantville is a middle-class neighborhood in the city of San Diego

San Diego, California

San Diego is the eighth-largest city in the United States and second-largest city in California. The city is located on the coast of the Pacific Ocean in Southern California, immediately adjacent to the Mexican border. The birthplace of California, San Diego is known for its mild year-round...

, in California

California

California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...

. It borders the communities of Allied Gardens, San Carlos

San Carlos, San Diego, California

San Carlos is an upper middle-class neighborhood in the eastern area of San Diego, California. It borders the neighborhoods of Del Cerro, Tierrasanta, and Allied Gardens, the city of La Mesa, and Mission Trails Regional Park...

, Serra Mesa

Serra Mesa, San Diego, California

Serra Mesa is a community in San Diego, California. It is located between Interstate 805 and Interstate 15, north of Friars Road and south of Aero Drive. Serra Mesa is named for Father Junípero Serra, a Majorcan Franciscan friar who founded the Mission San Diego de Alcalá...

 and Mission Valley East

Mission Valley, California

Mission Valley is a wide river valley trending east-west in San Diego, California, through which the San Diego River flows to the Pacific Ocean...

.

Its main roads are Friars Road (which also serves Mission Valley) and Mission Gorge Road which leads into Mission Trails Regional Park

Mission Trails Regional Park

Mission Trails Regional Park is a 5,800 acre open space preserve within the city of San Diego, California, established in 1974. It is the sixth largest municipally-owned park in the United States, and the largest in California.-Description:...

 to the north and continues south of Interstate 8 as Fairmount Road. Grantville is also served by public transit including San Diego Transit

San Diego Transit

San Diego Transit is a public bus service operated by the San Diego Metropolitan Transit System for the San Diego area.MTS is one of the oldest transit systems in Southern California Dating Back as early as the 1880s, although the d/b/a names have changed over the years the two modes of...

 buses along major arteries and the San Diego Trolley

San Diego Trolley

The San Diego Trolley is a light rail system operating in the metropolitan area of San Diego. The operator, San Diego Trolley, Inc. , is a subsidiary of the San Diego Metropolitan Transit System ...

's Green Line

Green Line (MTS)

The Green Line is one of three primary and five overall light rail lines operated by the San Diego Trolley, an operating division of the San Diego Metropolitan Transit System...

, whose Grantville station

Grantville (San Diego Trolley station)

Grantville is a station on San Diego Trolley's Green Line in the middle class residential Grantville neighborhood of San Diego, California. The station is elevated and has side platforms with two railroad tracks passing between them. The station is located in the middle of a long, tall viaduct...

 is situated on Alvarado Canyon Road near Fairmount Avenue adjacent to Interstate 8.

Local newspaper

• Mission Times Courier, community newspaper covering Grantville news.

Schools

Several public schools, part of the San Diego Unified School District

San Diego City Schools

San Diego Unified School District is the school district of San Diego, California. It was founded in 1854...

, exist in and around Grantville:

• Daillard Elementary School
• Lewis Middle School
• Patrick Henry High School
  Patrick Henry High School (San Diego, California)
  Patrick Henry High School is a public high school in San Diego, California. It is part of the San Diego Unified School District. It is attended by students in grades 9-12 residing in Del Cerro, San Carlos, Allied Gardens, Mission Valley and the College Area....
  
  

Businesses

Grantville is primarily an industrial/consumer neighborhood, containing businesses ranging from recording studios to a Home Depot, as well as dozens of small retail business, service firms, and factories.