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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are you choosing between two public schools, or are you choosing between two houses that are zoned for those two public schools?[/quote]

OP, it depends on your school district, but around here schools are rezoned all the time.   You should never buy a house assuming it will feed into a certain elementary school.

In addition, schools change all the time.   You can get a new principal, new educational model etc.

It wounds as if both schools are acceptable to you, and they both feed into the same middle and high school.   So I wouldn't place too much emphasis on the educational model in use at each school.

All else being equal, I'd mildly prefer a school that used tracking, but would want my child to be in the highest track, assuming she had the ability of course, and if she weren't able to be there would provide extra tutoring to get her there.  (I teach elementary school)  Do note that just splitting up subjects by teacher (here we call it departmentalizing) is not necessarily the same thing as dividing kids by ability level.  In addition, it is hard for an elementary school to group kids by ability level in both math and language arts.   Usually they group just by one -- say, math.

If I were looking for a house now, I would place more emphasis on location of kid services and activities.   Imagine living in both neighborhoods -- how much walking or biking or driving to locations like sports, piano lessons, religious education, schools,extra curricular events, church, community center for Scouts and judo, etc?  How uch of that can happen at school?  There's so much driving involved with having school aged kids  that it is a major stress reducer to have access to those things at school or very close by.   Also it helps if other families nearby send their kids to the same school.
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