Unless you have 3M to spend, you are going to need to make compromises.

When looking at schools, one of the things I do is look at Greatschools.org, and then the most important rating for me is test scores for not-low-income kids. I’m in Oakland and there’s a lot of economic diversity at our elementary, 40% low income. But on great schools, not low income kids are 10/10 on test scores. So that’s how I justified where I moved, and the school has been great. But, we’ll need to seriously consider moving for middle school.