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How To Find The Best School Districts When Moving

When you have school-aged children nothing is more important when you’re moving than the nearby schools. After spending years getting to know your local schools – the leadership, the teachers, the facilities – now you’ve got to start all over again.

Maybe it’s been years since you’ve had to compare and contrast schools or you’re moving into a completely new area. Either way, the resources below can help you find and compare schools before moving day.

GreatSchools.org

The GreatSchools.org website is built to provide parents with information on area schools. Use the search filters to narrow the selection by grade level, rating and more. GreatSchools.org rates schools using a number of factors that range from test scores to equity for all students.

If you don’t have school-aged children yet check out the academic progress. It’s an indicator of whether a school will likely improve or digress in the coming years.

Another useful feature is the user reviews. Real parents weigh in how they think the school is doing. Getting insights like these are invaluable.

Real Estate Listing Sites / Local Realtors

Real estate agents know how important school ratings are to homebuyers. They stay on top of the local school district’s developments, test scores and ratings. When a buyer asks which areas have the best schools you can answer with confidence.

Google Maps

It’s amazing what Google has done with mapping technology. You can zoom in on an area and search specifically for schools. Related points will immediately pop up on the map.

Click on the point of a school to get additional details, including reviews. You can then get directions from your new home, and even use Google Streetview to get a ground look at the school.

Tour Local Schools

Once you get a better understanding of the local schools it’s time to tour the facilities. A school visit is the only way to get a true feel for an education facility.

You can call a school to request a tour or find out when they are holding their next open house. During the school visit pay attention to how people interact and how well the facility is maintained. Come prepared with a list of questions for the school faculty. If you need help getting started check out this list of school visit questions from Greatschools.org.

Don’t Underestimate Student Input

Engagement is critical for learning. The best way to gauge engagement is to talk with students.

How do students feel about the school in general? Do they like their teachers? Are they excited about classes? Do they have a selection extracurricular activities?

Real Estate Listing Sites

You can also find school ratings on real estate listings. Both Realtor.com and Redfin.com include information on nearby schools. Realtor.com stats come from GreatSchools, the National Center for Education Statistics and Pitney Bowes. Redfin.com uses information provided by GreatSchools.

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New district tops 2022 list of Michigan’s best school districts: Check top 25 here

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Published: September 20, 2021, 9:18 AM

Tags: Michigan Schools, Schools, School Districts, Northville, Niche, School Rankings, Novi, Oakland County, Education

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A new school district has taken over the top spot in Niche’s 2022 rankings for the best districts in Michigan.

Niche released their annual list of the best schools in every U.S. state. The rankings are based on “rigorous analysis of key statistics and millions of reviews from students and parents using data from the U.S. Department of Education,” Niche said.

Ranking factors include state test scores, college readiness, graduation rates, SAT/ACT scores, teacher quality, public school district ratings, and more. (Read more about methodology here)

This year, Northville Public Schools took the No. 1 spot for best school district in Michigan, surpassing Novi Community School District, which was No. 1 in both 2021 and 2020.

Here are the top 25 school districts in Michigan, according to the 2022 Niche rankings:

1. Northville Public Schools

2. Novi Community School District

3. Troy School District

4. Oakland Schools

5. Saline Area Schools

6. Okemos Publish Schools

7. Bloomfield Hills Schools

8. Birmingham Public Schools

9. East Grand Rapids Public Schools

10. Rochester Community School District

11. Forest Hills Public Schools (Grand Rapids)

12. Grosse Pointe Public School System

13. Ann Arbor Public Schools

14. West Bloomfield Public Schools

15. St. Joseph Public Schools

16. Spring Lake Public Schools

17. Portage Public Schools

18. Byron Center Public Schools

19. Berkley School District

20. New Buffalo Area Schools

21. East Lansing School District

22. Hudsonville Public School District

23. West Ottawa Public School District

24. Chelsea School District

25. Huron Independent School District

Some other notable rankings:

• No. 37: Plymouth Canton Community Schools

• No. 39: Midland Public Schools

• No. 51: Woodhaven-Brownstown School District

• No. 62: Chippewa Valley Schools

• No. 63: Farmington Public School District

• No. 75: Utica Community Schools

• No. 80: Livonia Public Schools

• No. 89: Trenton Public Schools

Related: 6 in Michigan make ‘2021 Best Places to Live’ list

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Ken Haddad is the digital content and audience manager for WDIV / ClickOnDetroit.com. He also authors the Morning Report Newsletter and various other newsletters. He’s been with WDIV since 2013. He enjoys suffering through Lions games on Sundays in the fall.

where they are rude and demand money, and where they are called “suns” – newstracker.ru

Why the Ministry of Education does not disclose the rating of Stavropol schools according to the Unified State Examination, how people’s assessments lined up and what parents complain about, the correspondent of NewsTracker understood.

Summer is in full swing, exams and graduation balls have died down, and parents of future students began to think actively about which school will give their child the maximum knowledge and minimum problems.

NewsTracker contacted the Ministry of Education of the Stavropol Territory to find out if there is a ranking of Stavropol schools that parents can refer to.

Official point of view

They explained to the correspondent that the Russian Federation currently has a unified system for assessing the quality of education (ESOKO), which allows monitoring the knowledge of students at different levels of schooling, promptly identifying and solving problems in the education system in the context of subjects, schools and regions.

“This system makes it possible to get a complete picture of the quality of education in the country, to analyze and take into account the influence of various factors on the results of schools. It allows schools to self-diagnose and identify existing problems, and parents to receive information about the quality of knowledge of their children,” the ministry explained.

The department’s specialists said that the system for assessing the quality of school education in Russia is currently a multi-level one, consisting of several procedures.

The first important procedure of this system is the national unified state examination (USE), which has been mandatory for all school graduates since 2009. In fact, the Ministry of Education maintains a rating of schools according to the Unified State Examination.

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The second important procedure of the education quality assessment system is the state final certification 9grades (GIA-9), the key form of which is the main state exam (OGE).

Intermediate sections of students’ knowledge are conducted in different subjects and in different classes with the help of national studies of the quality of education (NIQO) and all-Russian testing works (VPR).

“Besides, the Stavropol Territory assesses the quality of education and monitors the regional level. The assessment of the knowledge of school students is complemented by studies of the professional competencies of teachers. The results of the evaluation procedures and studies carried out are sent to educational organizations, municipal education authorities, the ministry for making targeted management decisions, to the state budgetary institution of additional professional education “Stavropol Regional Institute for the Development of Education, Advanced Training and Retraining of Educational Workers” – for the development of targeted recommendations, aimed at improving the quality of education,” the ministry explained.

In addition, the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation and the Federal Service for Supervision of Education and Science do not recommend the compilation of any ratings based on the results of assessment procedures and studies.

“On the choice of parents or legal representatives of an educational organization for teaching their children, the Ministry recommends considering the following criteria: the location of the school, transport accessibility, a private or public institution, teaching staff, and so on. We recommend that you familiarize yourself with all the necessary information about the educational organization on its official website. Detailed information about the activities of the institution will be reflected in documents, video and photo materials,” said the specialists of the regional Ministry of Education.

Since the ministry did not give access to the official rating of Stavropol schools, NewsTracker turned to the national rating, namely, studied the ratings and reviews on the Internet.

TOP of the worst schools in Stavropol

The TOP of the worst schools opens school number 43. It has a score of 2.8. In the comments they write that it is impossible to eat in the dining room, there are a lot of cockroaches and mold. Other parents point out that although the school is large and new, it is sorely lacking in the area.

school number 43

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School No. 2, located at the intersection of Mira and Artem streets, scored slightly higher.

“Terrible place. The school is falling apart. I don’t advise visiting, the school smells of burning, the service in the canteen is terrible, there are good teachers, there are inadequate ones, the steps are broken, the asphalt has not been changed since 1812, as if there was a war, there are pits everywhere, ”they write in the comments.

Lyceum No. 8 has few reviews and no comments, but the rating leaves much to be desired – only 3 points out of 5. Approximately the same rating and the same score were given to gymnasium No. 30. School No. 26 is also at this level of the rating, about which there is a lot told in the comments.

“This school has crippled many with its attitude towards students,” writes a resident of Stavropol.

Others report that they teach normally at school and the food is delicious, but some teachers, citing geography teachers as an example, leave much to be desired. The parents hope that the teacher will soon leave her post, but they immediately admit that she is the only teacher of geography, which means that she is unlikely to be fired.

Lyceum No. 16 and school No. 32 scored 3.2 points each in the rating of Stavropol schools. They write about the first one that this is an unpleasant place, where teachers are mostly demanding professionals.

“The pluses are only a large area with a forest where you can take a walk. Cons – dishonest management, constant fees that go nowhere. There is a disgusting dining room – the stench is already in the corridor, like in a slaughterhouse, and unsanitary conditions – always sticky tables and pieces of food on the floor, ”the parents write.

School No. 32 is called a completely dangerous place where “anything will happen to children”. Parents recall how children were allegedly taken without the consent and knowledge of their parents to an “incomprehensible medical examination” on a voluntary-compulsory basis.

school No. 32

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“Children returned late crying — they were taken out in private cars to other institutions, from which they then returned home, some children had mobile phones, which the teachers told everyone to hand over, but some savvy children still got through and warned their parents – a very strange place with unusual patrons, kept in the shadows, from the diaspora, obviously engaged in dark deeds, ”recalls one of the parents.

School No. 1 showed a strange dissonance – the grades are low (only 3.3 points), and the reviews are mostly good.

About school No. 18, which also scored 3.3 points, they write that the food in the canteen is bad, hair is often found in the food, the dishes are almost always cold and tasteless.

“Worse teachers can hardly be found, few of them teach children well and know their subject. It is probably impossible to find worse schools in Stavropol, eternal excuses about zero school funding. Going to this school is worth it only if there are no other options at all, ”the parents said in the comments.

There are really no informative reviews about school No. 34, but parents did not rate school No. 39 very well, which scored the same as it (3.4 points), at least because children are forced to clean the territory using technology.

School No. 34

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“Technology lessons are held on the street, the territory is being cleaned. My child is not a janitor. Teachers are evil, there is no understanding among teachers for students. The material is not explained in an accessible way, they immediately do the control work. The student should receive knowledge at school, and not in additional classes with tutors, ”the parents write.

TOP secondary schools

Schools No. 4, No. 20 and No. 29 scored 3.7 points each. They say that teachers allow themselves to humiliate children, and the director turns a blind eye, they also use schoolchildren for their own purposes. But there are also positive reviews.

“They pay a lot of attention to children, there are many circles – all are free and interesting, you can choose for every taste. Our teacher is very good and attentive. The food is excellent. I really like that a lot of attention is also paid to the spiritual and moral education of children, ”the review says.

They are not ashamed to write about school No. 20 that it is frankly bad, and the director allegedly behaves inappropriately towards everyone, shows negligence towards students.

School No. 20

Photo: Yandex.Maps

“The fire extinguishers are expired. There are cockroaches in the dining room, there are hairs in the plates of food. Cooks without caps, without gloves, do everything with bare and untreated hands. MHC is not taught, since the only teacher of this subject is a religious fanatic. But there are also good teachers. Classes are very overloaded, ”said the Stavropol resident.

School No. 29 is generally praised, but they write that the teachers are not all good, the cafeteria cooks poorly, and the schedule changes every day.

School No. 9 (with complaints about dirty dishes in the canteen and slippery floors in the gym), School No. 35 (with complaints about dirty toilets, cockroaches and bad teachers) and School No. 13 (with quite positive comments) scored 3.8 points each. for which it is not clear why the overall score was low).

The next three schools No. 10, No. 45 and No. 50 scored 3.9 points in the national rating.

“School of the future. Built according to all requirements. From materials to aids. Gyms and swimming pool. There is everything. The young energetic director and the team are just like her,” they write about school No. 45.

But at No. 50, the parents were dissatisfied with the environment – because of the fence in the parking lot, you can’t see the children going to school.

School No. 50

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Next, we move on to the “good students”. Here we have school number 6, in the comments to which former students send rays of good to teachers: “I would especially like to note such subjects as chemistry, the Russian language, mathematics and history.” They praise the recently made repairs, however, with reservations.

“There are no toilets – there are holes in the floor. The servicemen are kind, they call us “suns”. All are kind, except for those who make us sing the national anthem on Mondays and Thursdays and wear a shift,” former students complain.

At school No. 11, parents found two big shortcomings – a stadium and a site, at school No. 15 – one (“retired” teachers).

Once one of the best schools in the city, Gymnasium No. 25, also came in fourth place, with admiration for the teaching staff and program, and complaints about the canteen.

Gymnasium No. 25

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“Probably, they wrote positive reviews themselves. I do not recommend this school. They do not teach, because there are additional, paid courses. And in general, they collect money for everything. 4000 – for the needs of the class, 1500 – for trustees. The food is disgusting. There are no electives, as well as an educational platform, ”the parents write.

Lyceum No. 5, which was considered the best, turned out to be slightly higher. It scored 4.1 points. Parents in the reviews write that the school is good, albeit with drawbacks such as a difficult school curriculum, a “rude” leader, and a biased attitude towards children from poor families.

Gymnasium No. 3 also complains about rudeness on the part of teachers. But at Schools No. 7, 19 and 41, despite the rather high score (4.1), there were practically no constructive reviews.

TOP of the best schools in Stavropol

This list starts with a score of 4.2. She was recruited by six educational institutions at once: Lyceum No. 14, schools No. 17, 23, 24, 38, 64.

Not everyone who visited Lyceum No. 14 was satisfied with the food. Parents complain that schoolchildren smoke in the toilets, and the director does not let the children into the store near the territory of the institution and calls a little something.

Lyceum No. 14

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They write about School No. 23 that teachers “masterfully master the ability to humiliate careless students.”

According to commentators, school number 24 is one of the most prestigious educational institutions in the city of Stavropol.

“There is a cadet class. The direction of the educational process is an in-depth study of English and other languages. Only there is no parking, which means that a threat to the safety of schoolchildren is created due to the dense flow of cars, ”the reviews say.

School No. 22, where, according to parents, they can hit a student, yell, lower grades for their own benefit, and the director thinks only of himself, and School No. 37, where teachers destroy the child’s psyche, do not provide a certain level of knowledge, along with school number 36, which has no reviews at all, took a position of 4.3 on the standings.

School No. 22

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Three institutions share the silver medal of the hit parade of schools with a total score of 4.4.

“Soviet-type” school No. 21, which is also described as having a strong teaching staff, but cannot boast of repairs.

“The school is normal, the canteen is not very good, the French teacher is super, stylish, kind, beautiful, she teaches her subject in an interesting way,” obviously a former student said about school No. 42.

They say about school No. 44 that it is beautiful and large, but the teaching staff leaves much to be desired – “as if by shortage.”

school number 44

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And the top of the rating is school No. 12, about which, however, they write that it “stinks of unwashed toilets”, and school No. 28 with good teaching staff, preparation for exams, interesting lessons and honest grades.

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