Since the majority of my business comes from off-Cape and outside Massachusetts, I often receive questions such as "what are the better towns/schools/communities". A tough question which we, of course, cannot answer. It's all subjective. What do you want in a community? What do you want in a school system? Does a "mid" ranking make a school any better or worse than the one immediately above or below it? Also, an incredibly driven student could do very well in a lower ranking school while a lazy one is going to do terrrible in even the best environment.
I did, however, recently find a website that I found very helpful. It's national and broken down by school, not just town or district. An observation I made while scanning this site was that not every school in a particular town/city is rated equal. For example, one urban city in MA has a pretty bad reputation for crime, low income, being run-down, etc. We all have them. However, two of it's schools ranked extremely high in our state. Above my own town, which is considered rural, middle class, and a pretty good school system.
The people I have sent to this site have found it very helpful. Hope it helps you, too!
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