what are the best schools in raleigh north carolina
on today's video we're going to tell you how you can find out
hi this is chris morton real estate broker with exp realty in raleigh north carolina in today's
video we're going to answer the question we get asked more often than any other question
by home buyers with kids that question is what are the best schools in the raleigh north carolina
area well in today's video we're going to give you the resources to get the answer for yourself
first we need to let you know that we are real estate agents and by law we are not allowed to
give you our specific opinion on one school or the other that would be a violation of fair housing
laws and we cannot in any way shape matter or form discriminate against anyone or any area but what
we can do is provide you with some really good resources to help you make the decision on your
own but even if we were allowed to give you our opinion i really wouldn't recommend you take it
and that's for two reasons the number one reason school assignments change frequently if you were
to buy a home based on where your infant bouncing bundle baby of joy was going to go to high school
odds are pretty good that by the time your little angel baby gets to high school the
school assignment may have changed simply because the raleigh durham triangle area is growing so
rapidly they're adding more and more schools all the time and they're reassigning students because
of that and number two reason if i gave you my opinion it would be just that my opinion why trust
the opinion of one person when you can access a resource that has the opinion of thousands
and thousands of people as our frequent viewers know our mission on this channel is to provide
valuable information and valuable resources to our viewers and with that in mind we're going to share
a few websites that are widely considered to be really valuable resources they're also free to use
and readily accessible we will put the links to these websites in the description below so you'll
be able to access them on your own the first site i want to tell you about is greatschools.org this
is a really really awesome great website hence the name great schools you can type in a specific city
school district or even a specific school you can scroll down to see how it compares to the rest
of the state and you can see specific schools and click on them to get even more information
the next website we want to tell you about is niche.com which you've heard us talk about in
previous videos this is another really good resource where you can find reviews and ratings
based on government data and thousands and thousands of users so if you're looking for
information on a specific school or a specific city you can look up information and get reviews
from people that are living there for example wake county in general gets an overall score of
A+ for their schools now let's look up the specific ratings of the cities and suburbs
around the triangle to see what their specific scores are city of raleigh schools get an A city
of wake forest schools also gets an A Knightdale schools get a B and youngsville schools get a B
Rolesville schools get an A- while morrisville schools get an A+ Cary schools get an A
and apex schools also get an A holly springs schools get an A fuquay varina schools get an A-
garner schools get an A- wendell schools get a b+ and clayton which is in Johnson county
also gets a B+ public schools in the city of durham durham of course is in durham county get
a B- according to nich.com and chapel hill city schools chapel hill is in orange county gets an A+
so if you're buying a home in raleigh wake forest knightdale wendell apex holly springs morrisville
or cary you need to go to the wake county school website and we will of course put a link in the
description below if you're looking to buy a house in durham you would go to the durham county school
website if you're looking to buy a house in chapel hill or carrboro you would go to the chapel hill
carrboro city school website any other city in orange county like hillsboro you would want to
go to the orange county website and last but not least if you're looking to buy a house in clayton
smithfield or selma or any other city in johnson county you're going to want to go to the johnson
county schools website so why are these county websites so helpful well they all allow you
to type in a specific address into their search bar and it will tell you what schools
elementary middle and high school that this specific address is assigned to
so what this means is let's say you are down to two different schools that you really really like
one is on one side of town and one is on the other side of town home A is assigned to a school that's
like pretty much attached to the neighborhood that you're thinking about buying into
the other school is about 15-20 minutes away from home B that you're thinking about
let's say you have kids that do not get up early it's hard for you to get them out of bed
the logical choice for you would be if both homes are equal the logical choice
for you would be home A because it's going to greatly reduce the chance that your
kids are going to miss their school bus and be late for school so you get the idea this is just
one use of these websites are really valuable resources highly recommend you go check them out
do you know of any other education websites that your fellow viewers will find helpful
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