Dallas Area School District Ranks in Top Ten Best Places for Families to Live

The Dallas area has been long revered by residents and visitors.  And it’s looking like the rest of the country is starting to recognize how great this area is as well.  ZipRealty Inc., an online real estate platform, released a list of the top ten best places for families to live in the United States and Highland Park ISD, a Dallas area school district, ranked at number 7, according to the Dallas Business Journal.

This list was compiled using data that takes into account several aspects of different communities, but the two main aspects this list focused on were the rankings of the schools in the districts and affordability of the surrounding real estate.  The schools are scored by an academic measurement system that calculates the test scores in areas such as English, mathematics and science, as well as other factors such as the number of teachers assigned to the number of students, or teacher-student ratio.  The teacher-student ratio plays a big role in the scoring based on the belief that when a teacher has a smaller class size, they can focus more attention on each individual student and be more equipped to give them the attention they need.

Besides being a great school district, the Highland Park district in the Dallas area also has affordable surrounding real estate at a median price of $287 per square foot.  That may be a high figure when compared to the rest of the State of Texas and surrounding cities.  Comparatively, San Francisco real estate came in at a median price of $662 per square foot, according to online real estate media platform trulia.com.  The CEO of ZipRealty, Lanny Baker, said that the combination of an academically exceptional school and surrounding real estate that won’t break the bank are often the most important factors to families when choosing a new location for their family to move to.  Highland Park is by no means considered an area to find ‘affordable housing’, but for families looking to buy a home in one of the best school district in the country, the price of real estate in Highland Park may not be a factor.

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