Williston Park/Mineola w/east williston or herricks sd VS Lynbrook or RVC (Oceanside: house)

[gwenrn]

We are closing in on our home search finally and have narrowed it down to the following towns:

How would you stack these up against each other based on our criteria?
Good Commute to Penn, Good SD, Community Feel (welcoming/friendly, not stuck up), Nice local stores etc. Budget is less than $550K but we've found a few properties in each within that range.

Mineola - East Williston SD
Williston Park - Herricks SD
Lynbrook
RVC - RVC or Oceanside SD

[SamTheCatRocks]

I can only speak of the town I know, but RVC is a great place. We have Oceanside schools, which are good (went through the OSD myself ages ago). The utilities are less expensive and very dependable. There is a nice sense of community and lots of restaurants and shopping. It's a nice town and the commute to Penn is pretty good - 35-45 minutes, whether you catch a local or an express.
Good luck!

[LaurenPrada]

Williston Park is a wonderful, extremely tight middle class community, largely Catholic. Herricks SD is large and serves a few neighborhoods. It is now about 65% Asian-South Asian, and rated very good, but it used to be excellent. East Willy SD is still excellent. It's very small with about 50% of the students being from wealthy to very wealthy families.

[S.I.B.]

those are all solid areas/SD's with good commutes. At this point, you may be better off finding the best possible house in those areas. In other words, if you find your dream house in Lynbrook at a great price, don't get hung up on the fact that the SD might be ranked slightly lower than say RVC or one of the others.

[AlexisT]

On the last report cards, Herricks was 47% Asian. It was going up a couple of points a year so it might be 50% now, but not 60-65%. It is the most Asian SD on LI, though.