Pictures of Syracuse’s largest suburb –Clay, NY (New York: home builders, school district)
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A Money "Best Of" ranking seems to be the kiss of death. Since they ranked Fairmount the 27th Best Place to Raise Your Kids, there was an armed robbery at the Burger King, a rogue black bear on the loose, and someone with a pellet gun robbed the collection plate at the church! Watch out, Clay, you're next!
Just average. Compared to the city schools, the North Syracuse school district is great. On the other hand, compared to the Fayetteville-Manlius school district...North Syracuse schools are mediocre.
North Syr schools are much like the Greece school district outside of Rochester, NY. Large, without the prestige of the smaller school districts in the more wealthy eastern suburbs.
The school district is probably the single factor holding the Cicero, Salina, and Clay area back from more growth and development. On the flipside, the home prices are much lower than in Manlius largely due to the reputation of the NS school district.
I like Liverpool too, but they recently had an audit that revealed some issues in terms of money and school administrators between 2000-2007.
With that said, Liverpool spends more money that the North Syracuse SD. Taxes are higher too.
Also, if the North Syracuse SD went back to 2 HS's again, the development that bellafinizi is talking about would probably occur. With C-NS High at around 2400 kids in grades 10-12, they might have no choice but to go back to 2 HS's.
Recently I drove through some areas of Clay I've never visited before and took a few photos. Here's my first installment.
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