Moving to Corning, NY (New York, Elmira: school districts, community college, taxes)

[dianea]

We will be moving to Corning , NY in September. Which are the best elementary, middle and high schools? We want to move into a great progressive school district. We also need help with good towns as well. Thanks

[ckhthankgod]

Originally Posted by dianea

We will be moving to Corning , NY in September. Which are the best elementary, middle and high schools? We want to move into a great progressive school district. We also need help with good towns as well. Thanks

Go with the Corning-Painted Post School District. You might also like the Horseheads School District just north of nearby Elmira too. there might be some districts in nearby PA that you might like as well, like Towanda, Sayre or Athens. Here's some information you might like to check out:
https://www.nystart.gov/publicweb/Co...county=Steuben

https://www.nystart.gov/publicweb/Co...county=Chemung

https://www.nystart.gov/publicweb/Co...ounty=Schuyler

CPP Website - Home

Horseheads Central School District Home

Bath Central School District

Elmira City Schools

Welcome to Elmira Heights Schools

Watkins Glen School District

New York schools - NY elementary, middle and high school information

New York schools - NY elementary, middle and high school information

Pennsylvania schools - PA elementary, middle and high school information

Pennsylvania schools - PA elementary, middle and high school information


According to what I saw, Erwin Valley, Gregg, Calvin Smith and Carder are the better Elementary schools in the Corning SD. Corning Free Academy is the better of the two Junior Highs and East and West High Schools are about the same. It's not a bad school district, but some test scores could be better.

If you don't want Corning-Painted Post, besides Horseheads and the others I mentioned, you might like a district like Campbell-Savona, Addison, Elmira Heights, maybe even Elmira(most prefer the Southside schools over the other schools), Bath, Watkins Glen, Odessa-Montour, Waverly and a few Pennsylvania schools close to Corning.

[Finger Laker]

you'd be better of in any of the corning schools than addison or CS

the schools for most of the area are definitely what you get out of them is directly related to what you put in - the same can be said for most places

i don't think any are terrible and none are exactly prep academies though - however anything from corning community college to the ivy league is acheivable from them for the collegiate bound

other paths are definitely open as well

and those who just want to hang around, drink and party the days away, well there are plenty of drug stores they can clerk at as well

[ki0eh]

Corning-Painted Post area schools definitely seem to be the way to go if you want an education with your taxes. My pretty tough to please sister seems happy with her daughter in Corning West although East I hear is OK too. Taxes are atrocious so the school had better be good.

You can turn on school district boundaries in Google Earth since NYS school district boundaries follow no rhyme nor reason (unless you happen to be steeped in the history of how that district formed).

In PA, Wellsboro Area seems more highly thought of than the other two school districts in Tioga County. Middlebury Twp, even areas with a Tioga 16946 zip code are in Wellsboro Area SD. Sayre, Athens, and especially Towanda are quite a drive from Corning, if you're considering Towanda to Corning you might as well live in oft-recommended Ithaca.

[golf anyone?]

dianea, what are you doing for work and where are u coming from? I grew up in Horseheads and have been wanting to move back. currently, i am in FL. some would call me crazy for wanting to move back but the heat is not for me. i just need the right opportunity to move back. i miss the area daily.