Looking for a great area in Saratoga to call home? Consider the Argonaut neighborhood, part of the larger Golden Triangle area in Saratoga, which enjoys highly regarded schools, plenty of convenience, and a pretty setting to boot.

Where is the Argonaut neighborhood?

While there are no firm boundaries for this pocket of the city, there are a number of landmarks that make it easy to identify. Argonaut Elementary School is at the heart of the Argonaut neighborhood. Another landmark that locals will remember is the Argonaut Shopping Center. And there are two subdivisions also bearing the name: Argonaut Place (home of Argonaut Drive) and Argonaut Glen.

You can see in the image below that there are also a number of unnamed tracts in the area as well, and those often get included when defining the Argonaut neighborhood.

So generally speaking, the Argonaut neighborhood includes the shopping center, subdivisions, and homes within just a few blocks of Argonaut Elementary School.

Map data by ©Google via Google My Maps 2025, neighborhood boundaries and overlay by Mary Pope-Handy and Clair Handy using county data from Realist.

Map data by ©Google via Google My Maps 2025, neighborhood boundaries and overlay by Mary Pope-Handy and Clair Handy using county data from Realist.

What’s the neighborhood like?

The Argonaut neighborhood, like most of Saratoga, has a semi-rural feel. Here you won’t find sidewalks, curbs, gutters, streetlights, or similar features found in more urban residential settings. It’s by design to keep a more rustic feel. Being in Saratoga on a cloudless night means being able to see stars far more brightly than would be possible in most of Silicon Valley. Streets adjoining the school do have crosswalk demarcations for safety.

The streets are comfortably wide, and often gently curving – very few “grid patterns” here.

The area was developed over several decades, mostly between the 1950s and 1970s, so residences tend to be older, ranch-style homes with mature landscaping. Due to its age, most homes are served by overhead power lines running along the properties’ back fence.

Like much of the Golden Triangle, residents tend to move in and stay for decades. For that reason, there are people of all ages and walks of life – those with young families attending the nearby schools, people well into their golden years, and everywhere in between.

What are homes like in the Argonaut neighborhood of Saratoga?

The majority of housing there consists of single story, ranch style houses built between 1955 and 1990, though some homes are older or newer. We did a quick check on the county records of houses within about 1/3 of a mile from the school, and of those 90% were one story houses. Most are more than 1500 square feet (the cutoff for a “starter home”), but a few are smaller. Typical might be a 3-4 bedroom house with 2 bathrooms, but some are quite large.

Pools are a popular feature of homes in the area, though probably less than half of the homes have one of their own. Sometimes a home had a pool, but a homeowner may have decided to fill it in, so we do run into that here as well.

Because of the curving streets and cul de sacs, lot sizes vary quite a bit and there are a number with pie-shaped or oddly angled large lots.

A number of builders were active in the neighborhood during development. Some tracts were as small as just four homes, and others include hundreds. The best known local construction company was the George Day Company.

The Builders

George Day homes tended to have a few hallmark features, such as open cathedral beamed ceilings in the living room (sometimes in the family room instead, or both), galley or U-shaped kitchens with a good sized peninsula adjacent to the breakfast nook, closets between bedrooms (not as common as you might think, but a great buffer for privacy), laundry rooms, formal dining area (usually attached to the living room, but not always), sometimes very long hallways in the bedroom wing, and an abundance of sliding glass doors and large windows. Day homes also gained a reputation for quality and thoughtful design, and most still have good bones today.

Some of these design features were simply popular home building traits of that era. If you’re wondering how to know for sure if a house was built by George Day (his brothers, Jim and Marion Day, were also active in the area), or Kaufman and Broad, or any other particular builder, the best place to look is in the CC&Rs (Covenants, Codes, and Restrictions). Here’s an example that tells us that George Day built a particular tract.

Also, you’ll notice that some areas have names, like Saratoga Glen. Residents like having a name! But for some reason, George Day didn’t always do that – sometimes areas were only given tract numbers. I couldn’t tell you why! Perhaps it was thought that the Golden Triangle name was enough? Larger subdivisions often have several tract numbers within them. Think of them as phases of a project.

What are the schools for the Argonaut area of Saratoga?

This area is part of the Saratoga Union School District and the Los Gatos-Saratoga Union High School District.

The public schools are Argonaut Elementary (transfers within the district are permitted if there’s room), Redwood Middle, and Saratoga High. These are all very highly regarded schools, and one of the major draws to the area.

Argonaut neighborhood real estate activity and prices

Homes tend to stay with owners for a long time before coming back on the market, and this popular area tends to hold value well. Rather than quote a value range and have it be obsolete tomorrow, please check out the most recent real estate listings in the Argonaut neighborhood below.

See all Argonaut neighborhood.
(all data current as of 9/12/2026)

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