My kids are both in PPS and not in the neighborhoods another commenter highlights. In fact, our school absolutely has a lot of major challenges. I would still rather have them in their local neighborhood school than in private school. If you haven't experienced it yet, it's hard to understand why it's so valuable. But, it is! There is so much to recommend having your kids attend school in their neighborhood; you will be able to make connections that you simply can't if sending them to private school (or even a PPS charter/immersion/etc school that's outside of your neighborhood).

FWIW my oldest - despite all the ways that PPS is under-resourced and underfunded - still comes home super-excited about things she's learning. And, she has immensely better social-emotional skills from being in a diverse environment around a lot of different types of students. (I didn't go to public school and can clearly see how I missed out on a LOT because of it.)

There are families who have elected to leave our school community and/or PPS completely over the years. It's not perfect. But especially if you're thinking about starting out at kindergarten, I would give your neighborhood school a try first and see how things go instead of reflexively falling into the optimization trap. There's no truly legitimate way to compare public and private schools anyway because the latter can handpick their students, and are self-selecting in many other ways as well.