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I'm considering a long-distance move and I can't find a good site that will identify national school district ratings by students' national test scores ~ can anyone help me? Many thanks, MsV
I checked the site and compared the schools in Jupiter, FL (where I used to live) with those in Exeter, NH (where I live now). Schools in both places rate 4 or 5 stars. However, I do know that in Jupiter we spent less than $5,500 per year on each student, while in Exeter, we spend over $13,500 a year per student.
The schools in Exeter should be much higher ranked than the schools in Jupiter, if expenditures have anything to do with it.
I checked the site and compared the schools in Jupiter, FL (where I used to live) with those in Exeter, NH (where I live now). Schools in both places rate 4 or 5 stars. However, I do know that in Jupiter we spent less than $5,500 per year on each student, while in Exeter, we spend over $13,500 a year per student.
The schools in Exeter should be much higher ranked than the schools in Jupiter, if expenditures have anything to do with it.
Expenditures don't have much to do with it at all. One factor in terms of expenditures has to do with the COL in the areal. I would bet the COL is higher in Exeter which would account for the higher expenses.
Now, I do think that schools in New Hampshire are, in general, better than schools in Florida.
Great schools doesn't always have the best ratings, though. They are better at comparing schools *within* an area.
The problem is that the tests in various states are not always comparable. I do like greatschools.net for parent and teacher reviews of individual schools.
Many thanks Nana053 for your response - I'm not finding the varying states are truly comparable, due to an inequity of testing levels. I feel the NE schools have always been more cutting edge, so it's difficult to move South, away from this caliber of academic environment.
Many thanks Nana053 for your response - I'm not finding the varying states are truly comparable, due to an inequity of testing levels. I feel the NE schools have always been more cutting edge, so it's difficult to move South, away from this caliber of academic environment.
No kidding. Also, when you move to the south, you need to watch out for the decimation of the science curriculum and now even the social studies curriculum.
Texas just removed Thomas Jefferson from their teaching standards and are slanting the curriculum toward religious figures. I have no objection to learning about religious figures, but taking out one of the important founding fathers is not a good idea.
They took out most of the references to important Hispanic contributions as well.
I checked the site and compared the schools in Jupiter, FL (where I used to live) with those in Exeter, NH (where I live now). Schools in both places rate 4 or 5 stars. However, I do know that in Jupiter we spent less than $5,500 per year on each student, while in Exeter, we spend over $13,500 a year per student.
The schools in Exeter should be much higher ranked than the schools in Jupiter, if expenditures have anything to do with it.
Expenditures are not a good measure of a school system. The worst school systems in our state have the highest per pupil spending mainly because they have so many special ed kids and so many ESL kids that their budgets for those areas eat up a lot of money. Our district is continually ranked one of the top in the nation but our per pupil spending is average for our state and around average for the nation.
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