Your 7 year old will have a 3-4% chance at getting into Drew. Your 4 year old (Assuming Kindergarden) will have a 35% shot getting in if you live in Kirkwood/East Lake. Don't move to this area for Drew. BUT Toomer is a solid Elementary school and it is currently being renovated. I will not have an issue sending my child there for 7 years. If you moved to Edgewood/East Lake/Kirkwood n'hoods you'd most likely not go to the current Middle/HS (MLK/Jackson). Both are at capacity (Toomer is too) they'll redistrict or reopen the local middle school in the next 5 years. Here are Drew's lottery results. https://www.drewcharterschool.org/enrollment/lottoresults South of 20 has a solid elementry school at Burgess (East Atlanta, Oremwood Park, Grant Park). The later does have a k-8 charters school...no clue how hard it is to get into. Anything west of 75/85 and south of Ga tech is probably a no go for schools. Everything further north just gets more expensive, but comes with better schools. Anything Mapped to North Atlanta High School (Essentially Buckhead-ish) or Midtown High School (used to be called Grady -- Midtown/Va Highlands/Morning Side...Anything north of Dekabl Avenue). will all provide solid schools. Another option is City of Decatur, but home prices are high and taxes are 2-3x City of Atlanta. Don't be fooled by Zillow's listed taxes. 4 years ago when I was looking, a 750k home in Decatur paid about 20k in taxes. ATL was around 8.
If you're in a good school district for the most part that's a 1,700 sq ft house (at best) with some problems
yea City of Decatur school district is also fantastic too. HS has good IB program and the feeder schools are highly regarded. its a unique tax enclave but with in-town amenities (marta).
Toomer has a 3/10 on the school ratings on Trulia. Admittedly I have no clue what methodology they use, but seems like a big disconnect between you and them. Is the area recently revitalized or something?
Good School rankings often take in account a lot of income and demographic information and it heavily negatively effects schools with diverse populations. 10 years ago Toomer was at like 35% enrollment and no one really sent their kids there. Now it's surrounded by homes being sold for 800-1.2m and people are sending their kids there. There is a good portion of higher income/higher education families there. I know many families that have their kids there with a lot of positive reviews. It'll be brand new too for the start of the 24-25 school year.
To be fair you were also suggesting to him some of the most expensive areas of the city. So yea, money wont go as far in Morningside as it would in East Lake or Ormewood. Have not been paying active attn to the market but think he could find something suitable in a desired school district in the 700-800 range.
Sorta. On the edge of an already gentrified neighborhood (Kirkwood) and a currently gentrifying neighborhood (Edgewood). There are so many vestiges of segregation still around that its def easier to ask questions ad hoc as you come across specific properties. That way we can give you a rundown of neighborhood vibe/dynamics, like LetitSoak said every enclave is unique. For reference, the grey road/rail line (Dekalb Ave) basically served to cut off whites from blacks during jim crow. Mary Lin is a school ppl will stab someone to send their kids to, but if you live on the south side of it, you are going to Toomer. Not much distinction in neighborhood. Kirkwood is where your girl Stacey Abrams lives and Pullman Yards. Oakhurst is my favorite, but its in Decatur and not Atlanta tax system. Another vestige of jim crow.
Brookhaven: https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/...ssage&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=txtshare Morningside: https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/...ssage&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=txtshare Piedmont Heights: https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/...ssage&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=txtshare Virginia Highlands (on a super busy street): https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/...ssage&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=txtshare
I'm not overly familiar with the area but a quick zillow search didn't yield much unless we're saying Toomer's rating/test scores are not accurate which is certainly possible
There just just a wide socioeconomic distribution that plays into it. For example my buddy is a professor at Emory and his wife is an engineer. They sent their child k-6 there and is off to MLK next year. Lots of those ppl and CDC employees. Then stark opposite you still have multiple generation families that have lived here since white flight with kids in the house and then also some older income assisted apartments. Test scores highly correlate with income levels. Good schools don't like the blended numbers and typically under value places with heavy socioeconomic and thus wide ranging test scores
No kids here, but have friends with kids at Morris Brandon and E Rivers elementary schools and they seem to be pretty happy there.
Atlanta really is crazy in the sense you can go like 200 yards down the road from your nice neighborhood and it feels like a different world.
My sister is a teacher at Morris Brandon, she thinks very highly of it. She taught at an elementary school in Decatur for awhile but it turned into a shit show.
West Midtown has some good spots but Howell Mill traffic is brutal, need to plan for that if you're moving over there. I have a friend in Berkley Hills and it's a nightmare on the weekends
Finally had Fishmonger last night. At least through February their Wednesday special is linguine a la vongole and it was magical. Key lime pie is up there with anything outside of south Florida.
Been a huge fan of their Inman/Highlands location for a while. My wife and I are both from Florida and it was the best blackened grouper either of us have ever had
speaker of Toomer school district wish they'd do something with the adjacent abandoned bike bar, but happy they finally finished the beltline spur extension.
How often do you go to IKEA? so much good stuff over there, but I have to really be moved to go over there now. No good way to get there or back without unnecessarily annoying traffic.
Walked my dog past there a little bit ago, but headed to Breaker Breaker to knock out a work thing. Was tough to not just stick there.
Going tonight and just saw this on insta and my lord I will be ordering. And yeah, the individual key lime pies are outfuckingstanding.
Love breaker breaker, there’s like 5 places to stop on that little Beltline between Tesoro & Ladybird
No linguini a la vongole tonight but Fishmonger continues to deliver. Food and cocktails are so damn good.