What US cities have the best public & private schools?

[battleknight24]

When I finally start my career, get married, and have a couple of kids, I want to make sure they get the best education possible... I came from a well off family, but I attended a sh*tty public high school in a small town out in the middle of nowhere. When I went to college, although all my professors thought I was an outstanding writer, I had problems in a few other subjects.

When, or if, I have kids, I don't want there to be any excuses for them not getting a good education. BTW, I also prefer to live in decent sized city.

So hit me... where are the good schools? For that matter, which state has the best overall educational system?


Peace,

[Bombtrack]

1. Probably the Connecticut suburbs of NYC. That would be my guess

Could be wrong though. They've got to have the most revenue from property taxes to have good schools. I come from the Boston suburbs and those are pretty good.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

2. Suburbs of Washington, D.C.: Maryland and NoVA both have excellent

public schools, among the best in the country. Also excellent "magnet" schools for science/math, etc. You won't do badly in Boston area either with both excellent public schools and a much better selection of private schools if you want to go that route.
NYC has of course some of the best public schools in the country with Stuyvesant , Brooklyn Tech and Bronx Science, but you have to test into those schools. I don't know if places like Julliard or Performing Arts are pub or private. I suspect there's a lot of bad public schools in NYC too but I wouldn't know much about it. Many outstanding prep schools around NYC too.

The good prep school route'll really cost ya though!

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

3. All of these cities I just mentioned are also in the most overheated

real estate markets in the country/world too, though. Good luck!

[battleknight24]

4. I thought that Juillard was a college only...

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[Gothmog]

5. St. John's in Houston is excellent

First, it has the distinction of rejection Bush and his brothers as students back in the 1960s. At a college admissions seminar, one parent asked the Dean of Admissions of Yale is she was aware that St. John's had rejected Bush and she indicated that this had been a topic of conversation at dinner.

My son just graduated from St. John's. His class set a record with 78% of the class qualifying as either National Merit Semi-Finalists or National Merit Commended Students.