Can someone explain redistricting (schools) in the Nashville suburbs?

[septimus]

Any high growth area is going to have redistricting. There is less likely to be redistricting in Metro Nasvhille (lots of growth but fewer families) than Williamson Rutherford, Sumner counties (lots of families) because those counties are building new schools every year.

WCS has all of its growth projections online. Most likely the next high school will be somewhere in West Franklin. Every time there is a rezoning it is almost always the parents that are more upset than the kids. The kids adapt.

Buy a house that fits your needs and a part of town you like and don't sweat the schools. At the end of the day no matter what district you are in, opportunity exists to do well and the best indicator of student success is family stability. People poo-hoo Metro schools but kids in MNPS end up at the same colleges as WCS.

[BirdieBelle]

Originally Posted by septimus

People poo-hoo Metro schools but kids in MNPS end up at the same colleges as WCS.

Where you end up, of course, is only part of the equation. Kids still have to spend 4 years in the high school, day in and day out.

[septimus]

Originally Posted by BirdieBelle

Where you end up, of course, is only part of the equation. Kids still have to spend 4 years in the high school, day in and day out.

the difference in systems is in Metro your kids will be exposed to kids whose lives are very different from their own.. that' not a bad thing IMHO.

[BirdieBelle]

Originally Posted by septimus

the difference in systems is in Metro your kids will be exposed to kids whose lives are very different from their own.. that' not a bad thing IMHO.

Yes, that is one way to look at it. But of course you have to take the bad with the good in that lesson.

The friends I know who tried VERY hard to last at schools like Cameron and Cane Ridge got fed up with their stuff being stolen in the school building, including supplies AND personal items; with little daily incidents like being shoved "accidentally" in the hallway and having class disrupted by serious behavioral issues, etc.

They ended up deciding that they didn't want their kids to have to be pioneers every single day of their short school experience, and they moved to systems where that wasn't the case (one went to private school). And no, they didn't all go to Williamson.

To portray the experience in Metro as a replication of any other system here, just with more "diversity," is disingenuous.

[septimus]

Originally Posted by BirdieBelle

Yes, that is one way to look at it. But of course you have to take the bad with the good in that lesson.

The friends I know who tried VERY hard to last at schools like Cameron and Cane Ridge got fed up with their stuff being stolen in the school building, including supplies AND personal items; with little daily incidents like being shoved "accidentally" in the hallway and having class disrupted by serious behavioral issues, etc.

They ended up deciding that they didn't want their kids to have to be pioneers every single day of their short school experience, and they moved to systems where that wasn't the case (one went to private school). And no, they didn't all go to Williamson.

To portray the experience in Metro as a replication of any other system here, just with more "diversity," is disingenuous.

At OPs price point he would be looking at probably Hillsboro or Hillwood or the magnets. The sad reality is the value of homes in community determines how "good" a school is regardless of what amazing work teachers are doing inside the building.

[WakeMed]

Originally Posted by septimus

At OPs price point he would be looking at probably Hillsboro or Hillwood or the magnets. The sad reality is the value of homes in community determines how "good" a school is regardless of what amazing work teachers are doing inside the building.

Not really.

The Hillwood/Westmeade area is full of million dollar homes. (yes, I know middle-class Bellevue is a big part of the actual school zone).

SchoolDigger.com complies test scores, rankings, school and district boundaries, student/teacher ratios, etc for over 120,000 elementary, middle, and high schools in the United States. Let's compare Hillwood to Stewarts Creek which is the west side of north Rutherford County, taking students from LaVergne and Smyrna. Out of approx. 350 public high school they rank in Tennessee, Stew Creek is ranked #59 despite being in an area where new houses for around 250k are readily available. Hillwood is ranked #294.

[brentwoodgirl]

Every family we have known that has sent their kids to JT Moore have ended up pulling them out within 2 years, and this has been over a 8-10 year time period. It always seems to start the same, the parents have high hopes that JT Moore is improving and their group of 5th grade moms are committed to sending their kids to JT Moore and volunteering at the school to really turn it around. After giving it a year or two, they end up throwing in the towel and sending their kids to private school. We saw this happen with kids our oldest knew (now in college) and are seeing to still play out today with kids the same age as our youngest (12). He plays on a heavily JT Moore basketball team.
We do know several kids who have completed Oliver Middle and Overton High.