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Hi all. I'm hoping I can get some insightful feedback, I'm a bit overwhelmed with all the information out there. My husband and I are looking to relocate with our 8 year old son to he Charlotte area. We are familiar with Huntersville so have focused much of our search around there but have some concerns with school district and i77. We also looked at Matthews/Mint Hill but have read they have similar issues with schools being re-zoned. I don't want to buy a house based on a particular school to then have my son assigned to a different school. I was reading on Fort Mill and read the schools are superior snd don't have those boundary issues or rezoning. We will be moving from Miami so I also worry about him being accepted since we're hispanic. Any input helps at this point. Our priority is a great school district but not too far from Charlotte and not off a beaten path. We would like to be close to shopping and restaurants comparable to the Birkdale area in Huntersville. Thank you!!!
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Hi all. I'm hoping I can get some insightful feedback, I'm a bit overwhelmed with all the information out there. My husband and I are looking to relocate with our 8 year old son to he Charlotte area. We are familiar with Huntersville so have focused much of our search around there but have some concerns with school district and i77. We also looked at Matthews/Mint Hill but have read they have similar issues with schools being re-zoned. I don't want to buy a house based on a particular school to then have my son assigned to a different school. I was reading on Fort Mill and read the schools are superior snd don't have those boundary issues or rezoning. We will be moving from Miami so I also worry about him being accepted since we're hispanic. Any input helps at this point. Our priority is a great school district but not too far from Charlotte and not off a beaten path. We would like to be close to shopping and restaurants comparable to the Birkdale area in Huntersville. Thank you!!!
You're looking all over. Where is the job?
You don't give a price-range for housing or if you want to buy or rent. Have you looked in Gaston County? Gastonia has a sizeable Puerto Rican population, if that's important to you.
I'm Hispanic and my husband is Caucasian and have found that everyone is very welcoming here. There are a lot of Hispanic families in the Charlotte area. My son's elementary school in Fort Mill is 15% Hispanic.
The area we'really in in Fort Mill is close enough to Charlotte that we can commute without much of a hassle, and far enough away from the craziness that we can enjoy our quite after work. If you want more info you can private message me.
I agree with others, please post a price range and where the jobs will be located. That will help narrow your suggestions. And coming from Miami, I can tell you our 7 and above rated schools will be on par with the 10 rated schools in Miami. I have seen a lot of kids come from Miami as an A student and struggle here in NC schools as they are more challenging. Granted it's been 2 years since Miami but family that still live there still complain about the same things so it doesn't seem to have changed.
If you already familiar with Huntersville, come look in Concord in western Cabarrus county. We are on the Meck/Cabarrus line and we have some good schools around(Cox Mill ES, Odell ES, Boger ES, Harris Road Middle and Cox Mill HS). We aren't far from the city (about 20/25 minutes via 485/77) and we are near Concord Mills. We also have Afton Village close by which is a Birkdale Village but a bit smaller. Birkdale isn't far away either (maybe about 20/25 minutes or so).
Hi all. I'm hoping I can get some insightful feedback, I'm a bit overwhelmed with all the information out there. My husband and I are looking to relocate with our 8 year old son to he Charlotte area. We are familiar with Huntersville so have focused much of our search around there but have some concerns with school district and i77. We also looked at Matthews/Mint Hill but have read they have similar issues with schools being re-zoned. I don't want to buy a house based on a particular school to then have my son assigned to a different school. I was reading on Fort Mill and read the schools are superior snd don't have those boundary issues or rezoning. We will be moving from Miami so I also worry about him being accepted since we're hispanic. Any input helps at this point. Our priority is a great school district but not too far from Charlotte and not off a beaten path. We would like to be close to shopping and restaurants comparable to the Birkdale area in Huntersville. Thank you!!!
It would be hard to give you exact recommendations without knowing your job location(s) and your budget
I'm sorry ... Overwhelmed is an understatement lol. The job will be in downtown Charlotte (uptown?). We are still deciding between new construction or an older home and would like to be about $220k. Large Hispanic population isn't important, but good to hear people are welcoming.
That's great to hear about the schools. That really is my main focus, I don't mind a longer commute if it means better schools. Thanks again.
I love Mooresville, and it does have some great schools, but not the number one ranked schools.
The number one ranked elementary is in Wake County.
In fact 3 of the top 10 elementary schools are in south Charlotte.
The top 15 high schools in the state include several in Charlotte.
Just stating for accuracy.
The last article I read in the paper about it said that Mooresville was ranked number one and was the only school in the state in which 80%+ of the students passed the EOG tests. I can't find anything online stating the same thing but that is what I recently read so...............
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