Highland vs. Marlboro Schools (New Paltz, Arlington: houses, school district, to live)

[cmorsh7]

We currently live in Highland. We want to move into a newer house. We like Highland Central School District, but there are not many houses on the market in Highland right now. New Paltz looks more expensive with the prices of their newer houses. Marlboro has more variety of houses on the market and the prices are more reasonable. My question is if Highland schools are comparable to Marlboro? There is a difference in High School Test Scores. Highland and Marboro have the same score for English but Highland has 94 as opposed to 88 for Marlboro in math. Now if you compare Highland/Marlboro to Wappingers or Arlington, those schools have much higher scores than this side(more close to 100%). But I went to Wappingers, when I was a kid, and I think that school district has gotten worse through the years. A lot more people on that side of the river are coming up from the city to live there. I think Highland is much better, from personal experience. More people over here have lived here for a longer period of time. I just don't know how Marlboro is compared to Highland. Thanks for the advice. I do not want to move back to Dutchess! Hopefully more houses will come on the market in Highland.