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[quote=Anonymous]Help me understand why this would be? Looking to move to a place where school districts are town-based. The district we're considering has 5 elementary schools (K-6), a middle (7-8), and a high school (9-12). All of the elementary schools are OUTSTANDING and receive top marks in the state. The middle and high school aren't BAD by any means, they are still ranked well with comparatively good performance, but they're not at the level of the elementaries. Think: elementaries are 10/10 across the board while the MS and HS are like 6 or 7 out of 10.

Why would this be?

This is NOT a place with a culture of private schools, so it's not a situation where all of the "smart" kids are leaving the district after ES. There's a small number of little parochial K-8s that might send a handful of students each year to the high school, but otherwise they're not getting a huge dump of new kids at the MS or HS level. Barring some sort of far away relocation (not that common, it's not an overly transient area) if you go to elementary school in the district you almost certainly go to high school and middle school there; if you are at the middle or high school you almost certainly went to the elementaries.

Scratching my head! [/quote]

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