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Scarsdale. High taxes but with your thinking, you pay 1/3 of the tuition people with 1 child pay!
The only issue is that it is a terrible commute to Tarrytown. You have to go up the hutch and then back over 287, which is a nightmare in the mornings. The smaller roads in the morning are worse with school buses and traffic. Also, most I deal with (realtors and attorneys) seem to think Scarsdale schools are living off the past reputation and other schools have passed them by. Still great, but no where near as good as the past.
Other than Pleasantville, any towns north of Tarrytown with good public elementary schools?
You are talking about an area where the best schools are usually nationally ranked and the "bad" schools are in the top 10% pf the state. Its one of the best areas for schooling in the country. Taxes are insane, but there is a reason for it. The schools spend a lot per pupil. There are a few districts which are not truly bad, Ossining, Tarrytown, Mt Kisco, are light years ahead of most of the state, but they are just not in the same league as the others. Briarcliff is amazing. They really are all great. I would stay north of 287, only because its got lower population density, but that is something I value a great deal. I live on a couple of acres, but I commute 90 minutes each way.
You are talking about an area where the best schools are usually nationally ranked and the "bad" schools are in the top 10% pf the state. Its one of the best areas for schooling in the country. Taxes are insane, but there is a reason for it. The schools spend a lot per pupil. There are a few districts which are not truly bad, Ossining, Tarrytown, Mt Kisco, are light years ahead of most of the state, but they are just not in the same league as the others. Briarcliff is amazing. They really are all great. I would stay north of 287, only because its got lower population density, but that is something I value a great deal. I live on a couple of acres, but I commute 90 minutes each way.
And let's be clear about Mt Kisco. It's Mt Kisco elementary that's the concern. It's the Bedford school district and the middle school and HS combine with Bedford and Pound Ridge. Fox Lane HS does as well as the other brand-name districts when it comes to getting kids into the Ivies. Mt K provides the "diversity" that some seem to crave but also drags down test scores.
A bad grade school? In Mt. Kisco? What a joke. What are they teaching long division, multiplication, and spelling. If kids can't perform in a grade school in rural Westchester county because they happen to be around some Spanish speaking kids they don't have a shot at the ivies in the first place.
A bad grade school? In Mt. Kisco? What a joke. What are they teaching long division, multiplication, and spelling. If kids can't perform in a grade school in rural Westchester county because they happen to be around some Spanish speaking kids they don't have a shot at the ivies in the first place.
Respectfully, I think elementary education is significantly more involved than you let on. The race or language skills of the students has nothing to do with the strength of an elementary school. The class size/overcrowding, teacher evaluation and retention, early recognition of educational disabilities and appropriate responses, funds management/tax base and availability of music/art, physical education and introduction to sciences, all all very much impact elementary schools. Also, the recent changes to elementary education in the "common core" testing has resulted in significant problems for some elementary schools. Most individual districts develop their own early math programs, and these can vary widely.
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