I think your property taxes might be hard to come by in most areas of TX that you would want to live in--taxes here are more expensive (so people say who move in)--you would probably need to live in an unincorporated part of the county vs inside a city limit which means your police/fire/emt services--maybe water/sewer-would be reduced
you would probably have to have home valuated at less than 200K
I live in city--have 2600 sq ft house--25 yrs old--no pool--2 car garage and pay over 5K in tax
for tarrant county--you can use
www.tad.org and if you look at MLS listings for house that is what you are looking for, check out that address on TAD to see the valuation, the taxing entities paid to, and the taxes--
maybe doing a modular home would affect the tax rate--dont know about that...
OP--the closer the score to 100 the better--more elementary schools reach exemplary rating, than middle or jr highs, and few high schools in the state have Exemplary--they have more students and more variety in ability levels--larger sub groups--complicated to explain but basically the odds are stacked against high schools that are big and in cities with diverse population...smaller schools, more homogeneous student bodies, higher incomes--those usually score high
check out the TAKS thread on the Dallas board going on now--it has some insightful info on DFW area ISDs -- mainly ones around Dallas country--with info about the overall ISD score--the % of students in the ISD on free or reduced lunch (low income)...
frankly--to me--any district that has high income students does very well with standardized testing--there is no mystery there--but a district that has a high % of what could be lower performing students (10-20% or more) and achieves an overall TAKS score of 90% is doing a lot of things right--the more about 90, the better...
high schools in those districts probably only reach Acceptable ranking--which is the lowest passing score--because they have such a large, diverse student population--but they are doing some things right...look for % of commended (the highest ranking individual student score--that shows what % of students excelled at that school and again it is usually larger in elementary grades and drops as kids get older).
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