Originally Posted by
himespau
When I lived in Boston a few years back people told me that living near good schools was meaningless because they still did random lottery and busing, so no matter if you lived next to a school, your kids might not go there. Is that no longer the case? Of course, suburbs might be a different story, but the people telling me this lived in Back Ban and on Beacon Hill and places like that downtown.
I think that's just in Boston city schools, but in suburbs you go to the closest school. So that's why certain suburbs tend to be really desirable. I think in a lot of instances, certain school districts are seen as high performing because of the socioeconomic factor, and the kids are already at an advantage due to their upbringing. What the state is doing now, if I read correctly, is actually downgrade some high performing districts because they're not getting growth out of the lowest performing students. So pretty interesting