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Valleyview is located in the Columbus City School District which is typically not as good as surrounding suburbs. Consider Lincoln Village which is in the SouthWestern City Schools.
Better yet, consider areas nearby that are City of Columbus (near Trabue & Wilson), but Hilliard schools.
Not all schools in columbus school district perform the same.
It is all hardly gloom and doom.
Columbus has had declining enrollement issues and had to make some cuts in the last few years, but there are many positive stories out of the school district, and living and growing up in Worthington and the city of columbus I have met many who attend the city schools.
There are positives in the columbus school district, some of the negatives or perceptions or statistics have been addressed, but for those not from Columbus I would like to add my experiences and knowledge
Positives:
Columbus has many different high schools which specialize in programs.
Example>
Fort Hayes High School
The Arts School near downtown offers great programs, I had a friend who attended even though she was in the Worthington district, and now lives in NY and is a film director, and was excepted to school in Chicago
Columbus schools offers many schools which specalize in programs, such as the art schools, french school, african american history schools, altenative schools
I had a friend who went to Columbus Alternative High School, ranked one of the best US high schools a year or so ago, and she went to college with me and really spoke highly of Columbus Alternative.
Columbus schools is rebuilding or renovating almost all schools and restructuring enrollement.
Some of the newer schools offer state of the art buildings.
Columbus schools has certain neighborhoods which are known for having better neighborhood schools. Clintonville and Beechwold and the Northwest sections of Columbus would be the higher performers.
Hope that helps to even out the view of the city school district.
streetcreed, I agree not all Columbus Public schools are performing poorly. I didn't say that they were. CAHS is a very good school and the some of the schools in the Clintonville/Northwest Side are decent-to-good. However, in general, the Columbus Public schools that are in the Valley View area aren't of the same caliber as CAHS, Centennial HS, Winterset Elementary.
The poster (macsports2) had specifically inquired about the Valley View area. Both South-Western and Hilliard have portions of their respective districts nearby. Hence, the responses from Gee and myself.
I am adding another side to the story for other readers, as this topic was not orginally started just for the valleyview poster.
There is not need to take my post as a response to yours personally.
It was not, I was giving all readers a more complete picture on different opinions and facts on the columbus schools.
I like to do this on any topic, I find it helps to keep a balanced perspective for readers of the forum, and for those who are not from Ohio or Columbus.
I am adding another side to the story for other readers, as this topic was not orginally started just for the valleyview poster.
There is not need to take my post as a response to yours personally.
It was not, I was giving all readers a more complete picture on different opinions and facts on the columbus schools.
I like to do this on any topic, I find it helps to keep a balanced perspective for readers of the forum, and for those who are not from Ohio or Columbus.
I understand where you're coming from. I just happened to notice that the poster interested in Valley View was the only one to post on this particular thread in several months, so I thought the most recent responses pertained to him. Sorry about that.
I went to elementary school in columbus 35 years ago when they were nice.
We moved to Hilliard in 1972 for the small town feel. it was such a nice place to live. I remember that we actually received a fruit basket from the Welcome Wagon people. I moved away from Ohio in 1984 to Texas. I could not believe how much Hilliard had grown each time I visited. It looks so different now.
It's so true that you can never go home again, it's just not there anymore.
My brother and his wife live in the village of Groveport. They like the town, but not necessarily the schools. Their daughter is only 3 so I'm not sure what they will decide.
for what it's worth Hilliard still looked like a very nice place to live, so much more to do now. I can't imagine moving away from Texas, but if I did I would consider Hilliard for sure.
what about olentangy school district any comments? Im moving to Ohio from New York this summer and have a son that will be in 2nd grade and i want a great school district but private is not an option at the moment.
... Within the HWY 270 loop is many bad areas of town on all sides, many of them have local names. The East-side and North-side is mostly black with exceptions of some nicer areas such as Bexley which is basically mini-mansions, but then if you go a mile any which way and you are in the ghetto. Within the loop nice areas mostly seem to fall north of HWY 670 and all the way around closer to the loop...An example would be on the West side you have west broad that runs all the way through downtown and turns into east broad st. Next to downtown you have the bottoms as it is locally known which is a really bad area, then next to it the hilltop, another bad area, then hill-crest which isn't too bad, then as you go past doctors west it turns into Galloway which is a more rural nicer suburb area. Around the corner from the bottoms about 3 miles you have another nice neighborhood called Grand-view. Neighborhoods are broken up in sections, some good and some pretty bad. The bad will usually be pretty noticeable and have a considerable minority population (usually), the neighborhoods that are majority white are usually also very noticeable as well. Once you get outside of the 270 loop the white population jumps and it becomes considerably more rural, not to far after that you will be on the countryside, maybe 10 miles in any direction from the loop.
... Within the HWY 270 loop is many bad areas of town on all sides, many of them have local names. The East-side and North-side is mostly black with exceptions of some nicer areas such as Bexley which is basically mini-mansions, but then if you go a mile any which way and you are in the ghetto. Within the loop nice areas mostly seem to fall north of HWY 670 and all the way around closer to the loop...An example would be on the West side you have west broad that runs all the way through downtown and turns into east broad st. Next to downtown you have the bottoms as it is locally known which is a really bad area, then next to it the hilltop, another bad area, then hill-crest which isn't too bad, then as you go past doctors west it turns into Galloway which is a more rural nicer suburb area. Around the corner from the bottoms about 3 miles you have another nice neighborhood called Grand-view. Neighborhoods are broken up in sections, some good and some pretty bad. The bad will usually be pretty noticeable and have a considerable minority population (usually), the neighborhoods that are majority white are usually also very noticeable as well. Once you get outside of the 270 loop the white population jumps and it becomes considerably more rural, not to far after that you will be on the countryside, maybe 10 miles in any direction from the loop.
Wait, are you suggesting that a larger minority/black population equals ghetto?
what about olentangy school district any comments? Im moving to Ohio from New York this summer and have a son that will be in 2nd grade and i want a great school district but private is not an option at the moment.
Ambr - Olentangy received an Excellent with Distinction rating (the highest available). We've sold homes to plenty of clients in this area - especially in the recent months. See the ODE website for more info: Ohio Department of Education Interactive Local Report Card
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