Show HN: Lookup the school district associated with a street address in the US

Post by Kon-Peki » Thu, Feb 08, 2024, 11:45 PM UTC

akgfab wrote: post #4

Nice work! This doesn’t hold for all school districts. Some, like New Orleans post Katrina, became all-charter districts such that each school essentially operated as its own district. Other districts serve only elementary school students (as opposed to “Unified” districts). Just heads up that there are edge cases.

Post by peterangular » Fri, Feb 09, 2024, 1:11 AM UTC

aidenn0 wrote: post #43

peterangular wrote: post #32

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> When people perceive one school to be better than another Often there's more to it than just perception. My parents moved to a smaller suburb so my brother and I could attend schools with higher standardized test scores, lower class sizes, less violent incidents, more extracurricular activities, and ultimately _a lot_ more funding. Both districts were public. They made this decision looking at publicly accessible d…

> Often there's more to it than just perception Yes, perception has a correlation with reality. > Sure - address fraud is very common in regards to getting your kid to a better education opportunity but when there are stark, vast differences between districts I have a hard time blaming people. Especially given my anecdotal experience. Indeed, a friend of mine in elementary school was one example; his grandparents liv…

Post by BadCookie » Fri, Feb 09, 2024, 1:25 AM UTC

gnicholas wrote: post #29

cwmma wrote: post #25

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As somebody who's company has been involved in creating those maps and has been accused of "destroying property values and ruining lives" there are some really complex trade offs that go into these things.

I can imagine things get pretty high-stakes. In this particular situation, the school district they were zoned for was very similar, but it was just much less convenient to get the kids to school in the morning. Curious about the downvotes — isn't this a relevant anecdote that shows the need for products like this one?

Post by bombcar » Fri, Feb 09, 2024, 1:33 PM UTC

rcbdev wrote: post #41

nineplay wrote: post #14

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As someone from the US - does this mean there are places where students are free to go to any high school they wish? Could this result in overcrowding if all the students want to go to the same school?

I am from Austria and yes I am free to send my kid to any public school in the country that will have them. I've even had times in my own childhood where I lived in one state, went to school in another and then switched schools twice within a month because I just didn't like the first one I switched to. I've never heard that we have significant overcrowding issues or somesuch - if anywhere then probably in Vienna, bu…

Post by bombcar » Fri, Feb 09, 2024, 1:54 PM UTC

FinnKuhn wrote: post #12

lhamil64 wrote: post #10

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Also, about the "regardless of where your friends go" part, I'd say most people meet their friends in school. I guess if they moved and had to change schools that would suck but I can't think of anyone that happened to personally (other than friends who moved far away, like to another state). And the school district is often a very key factor when people with kids are looking for housing.

At least where I live you change the school you go to at least once and I just assumed it was the same in the US considering that there are middle and high school. So when you switch from middle to high school, I would have assumed not all of your friends end up at the same school...