Checking The Pulse Of The Kansas City Real Estate Market
If you have kids and are considering a move to the Kansas City or Johnson County Kansas area, the first thing you’ll want to do is write down the school factors that are most important to your child’s success and happiness. Even if you don’t have school age children, the schools surrounding any metro area school can certainly play a role in the area’s real estate values. So once you’ve defined the school factors that are most important, where can you go to locate potential schools and/or check up on the schools surrounding the areas you’re looking into? For starters, you can check out PublicSchoolReview.com and, once there, you can enter the area or schools you want to research. You’ll find tons of information on the school, the school district, student ratios, faculty information and more. But that’s just one of the helpful sites out there. Another is GreatSchools.org and this site provides a 1 to 10 rating system for each area school, plus parent ratings and reader comments. Another site to check out is SchoolDigger.com, which also has school ratings but its ratings compare one school to all the other schools in the state. The site also includes enrollment figures going back many years, which can be helpful when analyzing a particular area or school.
Kansas City & Johnson County KS Schools
Another interesting school site is LocalSchoolDirectory.com. Although the site doesn’t include reviews, it does have detailed information and some nice graphs on the number of students per grade, student race and student gender. SchoolMatters.com is one of the oldest of all school sites and an old favorite, however it’s going through some changes as its been taken over by a non-profit group. Still, they’ve managed to maintain the great info they’ve always had on the site, including reviews, ratings, test scores and maps. Most important of all, you may want to see the facts and figures straight from the state, without commentary. If so, head on over to the Kansas Department of Education or the Missouri Department of Education.
Posted by Jason A. Brown