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Originally Posted by Crawford
I'm not talking about urban cores, I'm talking about outer sprawl vs. inner suburbia. I really doubt your average McMansion buyer is simultaneously considering urban living.
Is there a metro where the outer sprawl McMansion zone has better schools than the older suburbs? I doubt it. In Dallas, older suburbs like Frisco have much better schools than the newest sprawlburbs. And schools in the oldest suburbs like University Park/Highland Park are better still. In Detroit, the best school districts are all in fully built-out suburbs.
If you're building a McMansion in a cornfield, you're pretty likely to have inferior schools. IMO it's more of a more space/new construction thing.
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School district performance drifts with development patterns, though. And, I would argue it is a lagging indicator of affluence.
This is not necessarily indicative of school district performance, but there's now an International Academy in Macomb to serve all of the new money sprawl in the northern part of the county and it is consistently rated as the top #1 or #2 high school in Michigan. I remember when practically no school in Macomb County made it near the top of the list of best high schools.
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