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I grew up in a small town in the Midwest.  Our district was known as one of the best in the state (high income resort area with surrounding agriculture and commuting distance to larger urban area--so a mix of professionals and blue collar, but very little unemployment).  It was much more homogenous than the districts here and that probably made it easier to manage.  Children came to school prepared and the work ethic among families was very high.  There were virtually no "working poor" at that time.

I later moved to Rochester, New York and worked in a suburban school district (based on towns there as well).  It was affluent and the schools were well funded and excellent.  In NY districts band together for special programs so that money is pooled and those programs are very good also.

My own child grew up here in the huge county district.  OP, you are right that the town districting system in the North is more "community-ish".  I find that here the schools are fine, but vary quite a bit within the "district/county".  The county is too big to be one "community" so communities are built more around the pyramid that your school is in (the high school and its feeder schools).  So there are differences based on the communities.  I would say that financing is less important than the general demographics of an area.  If  an area has parents who can prepare and help their children (and those are usually higher income areas), the schools will be able to do more once the children enter them.  When you look for schools in these bigger districts, you are looking for areas with strong high schools.

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