Study: Maine's most attractive school districts

Posted: December 2
Updated: Today at 1:11 AM
http://www.onlinesentinel.com/news/schools-appeal-to-young-families-rated_2012-12-02.html

Using U.S. Census data, economists determine which Maine school districts parents with young children most often move to — and which ones they most often leave.

By Susan McMillan smcmillan@mainetoday.com
Staff Writer 

With their oldest son about to enter kindergarten, Suzanne and Jeff Farrington decided that it was time to move.

While most families with children choose a place to live based in part on available schools, it was the only factor for the Farringtons, who lived in Newfields, N.H., a small town on the southern border of the state near Exeter.

She's a stay-at-home mother and he travels around New England for his job in technology sales, so they weren't tied to an area by work. Suzanne Farrington said the Exeter-area school district is excellent, but it has 5,700 students and eventually would split up her sons – Jack, 5, Colin, 3, and Grant, 1 – into schools in three different towns.

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