Good Schools around Little Rock-New Home (Conway, Benton: transfer, to buy, construction)

[zztop610]

I moved last month to Little Rock to work at the VA hospital. I am looking to buy a home in the Little Rock Metro area. I have 3 school age kids (middle and high). I would preferably send them to good public schools (cannot afford private schooling).I have a few questions

1) How is Maumelle school district?

2) I found that Bryant/Benton area seems to have good schools. how bad is the commute during rush hour from this area to the VA hospital

3) How is Cabot for a new home. Is it too far away to drive back and forth if working in the city?

Thanks for your help!

Cheers

[850_branded]

I can't answer about schools, but I can answer about the commute.

As one would expect, coming from towards downtown (the VA hospital) going towards Bryant/Benton, from about 330p and onwards traffic starts backing up on 30 westbound right about the 430 junction/Outlet Mall area. It gets slow but not agonizingly so. Kinda the same at the 430/40 junction going west towards Maumelle/Conway. But again, it's not agonizingly bad.

As it stands now, traffic flow going up 67 from NLR at quittin' time of day seems to flow pretty decently. They are doing a bunch of contsruction up that way, though. (When finished, 67 will be redesignated as (part of) I-57, which will eventually mean a pipeline between the LR area and Chicago. Take that for what it's worth.) All that to say...Cabot is about, what, 25-30 miles up 67 from DTLR? That's gonna dent you in the fuel department...but some people do make that commute, from what I've observed.

Hope this helps some!

[zztop610]

Thank you for the information!

[North Pulaski Player]

Originally Posted by zztop610

I moved last month to Little Rock to work at the VA hospital. I am looking to buy a home in the Little Rock Metro area. I have 3 school age kids (middle and high). I would preferably send them to good public schools (cannot afford private schooling).I have a few questions

1) How is Maumelle school district?

2) I found that Bryant/Benton area seems to have good schools. how bad is the commute during rush hour from this area to the VA hospital

3) How is Cabot for a new home. Is it too far away to drive back and forth if working in the city?

Thanks for your help!

Cheers

Maumelle is in the Pulaski County Special School District, and Maumelle High is a fairly decent public school. If you are going to live in Little Rock, the only public high schools I would recommend is Robinson, and Central(if taking AP couses). A majority of Benton/Bryant and Cabot residents work in Little Rock, so you wouldn't be alone in making those commutes, but the Cabot commute us going to remain messy until they finish the construction on 67/167 in 200 years. Even a quarter of Conway residents work in Little Rock/ Pulaski County, and Conway has decent public schools too, so that may be an option since that commute is similar to Cabot's.

[DFWMike]

I don’t know where you are moving from, so school quality is relative. For instance I love Little Rock but after thoroughly searching schools the only schools I have found that really thrive in central ark. is Bryant and Benton. I’ve gone that way during rush hour and there is some congestion but not horrible congestion. That seems to be reserved for 630 going west to private school land, Beautiful area but Robinson is the only half decent school out there that is public, not impressed with Maumelle. Cabot does have good schools, they’re smaller if that matters to you. Conway is mixed, they’re just okay, not great schools but not horrible either.

I love west Little Rock and could’ve transferred there, the deciding factor for not doing so was the school systems. I won’t trade a Frisco education for what passes for public education out there for my 7 year old. Yet again, Benton or Bryant, great schools, I just couldn’t find an area in those cities that made it worth a move.

[Tyryztoll]

Originally Posted by DFWMike

I don’t know where you are moving from, so school quality is relative. For instance I love Little Rock but after thoroughly searching schools the only schools I have found that really thrive in central ark. is Bryant and Benton. I’ve gone that way during rush hour and there is some congestion but not horrible congestion. That seems to be reserved for 630 going west to private school land, Beautiful area but Robinson is the only half decent school out there that is public, not impressed with Maumelle. Cabot does have good schools, they’re smaller if that matters to you. Conway is mixed, they’re just okay, not great schools but not horrible either.

I love west Little Rock and could’ve transferred there, the deciding factor for not doing so was the school systems. I won’t trade a Frisco education for what passes for public education out there for my 7 year old. Yet again, Benton or Bryant, great schools, I just couldn’t find an area in those cities that made it worth a move.

You sound like such a typical Frisco/Allen/McKinney/Plano school snob. You chastise me for giving advice on living in AR and then feel authorized to tell people which schools there are acceptable when you don't even live there? The majority of school experiences depend on what the child and parents put into them, not what the schools themselves are doing for you. We got the same shpeel from the DFW school snobs about how only Frisco/Allen/McKinney/ Plano schools were acceptable when we moved there and it couldn't have been a bigger load of BS. You're such a hypocrite, Mike!