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Message: [QUOTE="upstater, post: 4715636, member: 153"] It's really hard to measure schools against one another unless you do a very deep dive into the metrics, which are not available almost anywhere. And this goes double for state high school systems. Florida public schools are rated incredibly high by some measures. Had a family member with a daughter at one of the highest ranked public high schools in Florida in Jupiter. She was an A+ student down there. When my family member was transferred to Stamford, they settled in Westport and she attended Staples. I know Staples must be a stellar public school, but she was more than a year behind for her class. They had to get her tutors and she worked her butt off. It took her a full 6 months to catch up to the rest of the kids at Staples. You wouldn't know the very different level of school systems unless you did a direct test like this because all the rankings show that Florida has better public schools. [/QUOTE]