L******y
发帖数: 3292 | 1 请问如果在亚特兰大downtown工作的话，在哪里买房比较合适呢？家里有小孩，要考虑
校区和安全。谢
谢不吝赐教！ | a****e
发帖数: 9589 | | r*z
发帖数: 1679 | 3 "The best public schools in Buckhead are in VERY expensive areas. Warren T.
Jackson Elementary serves West Buckhead from the zip 30327 with a couple of
hundred homes from 30342 and 30305 as well. The school has the IB program at
the elementary level and IMHO is the second best public school in the state
, next to Kittredge. Statistically it is ranked in the top five. Zip 30327
has a medium home value of $964,000 and each year homes get more expensive
in the area. Note that if you look up homes in zip 30327 online many homes
will be in Sandy Springs's Heards Ferry Elem. district which is no where
near on Jackson's level. While that section of sandy Springs is nice I think
most parents there start sendng their kids to private schools at the
Kindergarten level whereas alot of Buckhead parents wait until grade six.
Sarah Smith is the best elementary school in the city of Atlanta based off
test scores. It serves the North Buckhead community(zips 30342 and 30326).
You can rent a three bedroom apartment in the district off Roswell Road for
$1200 to $1700 a month. Two bedroom condos can be as cheap as $250,000but
would probably be fixer uppers. Morris Brandon (serving the rest of 30327
and the western fringe of 30305) is also a top notch school and has also
intstituted the elementary version of the IB program. I think the average
home price in Brandon's district is now in the upper 600s.
E. Rivers and Garden Hills, the other two Buckhead public schools are
average in comparrsion to the other three mentioned above but are still
superior to most of Atlanta's suburban public elementary schools. The Garden
Hills district is the most afordable in Buckhead with homes ranging from
the 400s to the 700s and it is the most diverse.
Sutton Middle Shool also has the IB program and the kids are separated
according to grade level there. There is a sixth grade academy housed in the
new wing of the school, intended to make transition into middle school
years a smooth one without the crackling of the older students. The seventh
and eighth grade wings tend to be on the 2nd and third levels. Lunches times
are slotted according to grade level too. IMHO, the acdademic offerings
there are excellent, surpassing private schools like Holy Innocents' and The
Galloway School. Prestigeous Buckhead private schools like Westminster,
Lovett, and Pace tend to outshine Sutton and its high school counter part
North Atlanta though, for now. Many parents opt for private school by the
middle school level because Sutton draws many of its students fom the
southside based on a lottery. As such, the school is extreemly diverse. Some
Buckhad parents want their kids to be in a socially privaleged environment
(the Buckhead Bubble where the world is perfect and their kids never have to
encounter anyone outside their economic bracket) so they opt for private
school more for prestige most times than for a better education for their
children.
North Atlanta High School is home to Atlanta's International Bacalaurate
Program(IB). The IB Program is the most challenging, rigerous curriculum a
student can go through in the country and its offered at thousands of
schools as magnet programs accorss the country. There is a VERY competitive
admissions process to get into the program. Many of the students who get
into the program come from Atlanta's less privaleged southside looking for a
better education than the one their neighorhoods can provide. The Atlanta
International Scool (private) offers IB K-12 and now with Jackson and
Brandon Elem. and Sutton Middle offering the program, Buckhead parents have
a true alternative to private school education.
The rest of North Atlanta is not so stellar. Because the overwhelming
majority of single family dwellers in Buckhead opt for private schools,
North Atlanta has had to expand it's distric in order to stay open. It now
draws kids from two other middle schools, Usher and Carson, which draws
students from the low income neighborhoods like Bankhead. As a result, the
schools already low test scores plummeted and even more Buckhead residents
withdrew their children from the school; some of my fiends are included and
many of them couldn't afford private school but had to tweak their budgets
to make it work. They are now struggling and frushtrated that outside of the
IB program, their kids have no viable public high school option in Buckhead
. The students elligible for HOPE (those who have earned a 3.0 or higher) is
at a bismally low level and some of the schools in South Dekalb and South
Fulton have higher percentages, which should how bad the problem has gotten
there.
If you can't afford private school, my suggestion is not to move to Buckhead
. While there are great options for the elementary and middle school level,
you are kind of left out to dry by the time your child reaches the high
school level, unless they get into the IB Program, which by the way is
alienated from the rest of the school, giving it more of a private school
feel, which in my opinion is a good thing. There are much better schools in
more affordable areas in terms of pregnancy rates, dropout rates, SAT scores
, disciplinarian issues, the percentage of students who take and PASS AP/IB
tests and the percentage of HOPE elligible students. These factors are what
I use to determine if a school is good or bad. Test scores alone are
certainly not enough.
Hope this helps out."
Read more: http://www.city-data.com/forum/atlanta/129506-public-schools-buckhead-atlanta-sandy-springs.html#ixzz17cy4b4zJ
【在 L******y 的大作中提到】
: 请问如果在亚特兰大downtown工作的话，在哪里买房比较合适呢？家里有小孩，要考虑
: 校区和安全。谢
: 谢不吝赐教！
| L******y
发帖数: 3292 | | a*l
发帖数: 1915 | 5 赞。
Warren T.
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【在 r*z 的大作中提到】
: "The best public schools in Buckhead are in VERY expensive areas. Warren T.
: Jackson Elementary serves West Buckhead from the zip 30327 with a couple of
: hundred homes from 30342 and 30305 as well. The school has the IB program at
: the elementary level and IMHO is the second best public school in the state
: , next to Kittredge. Statistically it is ranked in the top five. Zip 30327
: has a medium home value of $964,000 and each year homes get more expensive
: in the area. Note that if you look up homes in zip 30327 online many homes
: will be in Sandy Springs's Heards Ferry Elem. district which is no where
: near on Jackson's level. While that section of sandy Springs is nice I think
: most parents there start sendng their kids to private schools at the
| f******g
发帖数: 70 | 6 very great post here. Any analysis on north altaltan area? As people have
been mentioning Alpheratta and Johns creek are great? | a*l
发帖数: 1915 | 7 Johns creek, Wilson creek elementary, Northview High.
5 bedrooms, Hard Coat Stucco, Finished basement, hardwood floor on main,有
院子，不算basment 2176平方呎，$224，900。
算是我最见看到很不错的了。
have
【在 f******g 的大作中提到】
: very great post here. Any analysis on north altaltan area? As people have
: been mentioning Alpheratta and Johns creek are great?
| f******g
发帖数: 70 | 8 How big is the basement? the SQF seems a little bit small?
【在 a*l 的大作中提到】
: Johns creek, Wilson creek elementary, Northview High.
: 5 bedrooms, Hard Coat Stucco, Finished basement, hardwood floor on main,有
: 院子，不算basment 2176平方呎，$224，900。
: 算是我最见看到很不错的了。
:
: have
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| a*l
发帖数: 1915 | 9 It has a full basement. 1,000sqft.客人看完了喜欢，但是后来因为个人原因不要，
我才贴出来。
现在有另外的客人要，我就不好再讨论了。
这个价位就是这个了，再好些的房子，价位也不一样，我改天再你发短信好了。你最好
要自己去看看，才有感觉。邮编30097 | a****e
发帖数: 9589 | 10 感觉不错哦，如果我拿到atl 的offer，就买这套。不过感觉外墙的颜色太穆斯林了点,appliances 也老了点，family room 小了点，这面积要是4br 会不会好点？
【在 a*l 的大作中提到】
: It has a full basement. 1,000sqft.客人看完了喜欢，但是后来因为个人原因不要，
: 我才贴出来。
: 现在有另外的客人要，我就不好再讨论了。
: 这个价位就是这个了，再好些的房子，价位也不一样，我改天再你发短信好了。你最好
: 要自己去看看，才有感觉。邮编30097
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