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Columbus on Top 20 Cities List for Schools

From Forbes.com 'Where To Educate Your Child ' by David Savageau gives the list below which includes Columbus.

Slide show of the Top 20 Places Top to Educate Your Child

For more on education in Central Ohio and what Forbes.com had to say about schools in Columbus Ohio visit ColumbusBestBlog.com - Columbus on Top US Cities List

They rated cities based on their public and private schools, libraries, colleges.

1: Washington, D.C.- Arlington, VA.

2: Madison, WI.

3: Cambridge-Newton-Framingham, MA.

4: Baltimore-Towson, MD.

5: Akron, OH.

6: Columbus, OH.

7: Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY.

8: Syracuse, NY.

9: St. Louis, MO.

10: Ann Arbor, MI.

11: Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN.- Bloomington, WI. MN

12: Richmond, VA.

13: Rochester, NY.

14: Wilmington, DE. & surrounding MD and NJ.

15: Hartford-West Hartford, CT.

16: Lexington-Fayette, KY.

17: Milwaukee-Waukesha-West Allis, WI.

18: San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA.

19: Columbia, MO.

20: Durham, NC.

Previously on ColumbusBestBlog.com following the Columbus Dispatch series about Ohio's big cities which included concerns about education in Ohio's seven big cities:

Columbus: the end of the line… Columbus and it's suburb's Win - Win

Blame “Sex in the City” Concern for education in Ohio's seven big cities which would include Columbus and Akron.

AcitveRain members who want to argue about communities that should not be on the list... please visit Forbes.com and take it up with them.

Another option visit Zillow and trash other communities in their forum. You'll fit in well with the bubbleheads.

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Posted by Maureen McCabe Central OH Homes on 12/16/2007 03:54 AM

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4 Comments on Columbus on Top 20 Cities List for Schools

DEC

2007

I don't know if you noticed but Forbes must not know where Bloomington, MN is located in relation to Minneapolis and St. Paul. They listed Bloomington, WI, where ever that is. :)

DEC

2007

My mistake....

Not sure where the WI comes from. If you click through to the list, it's Bloomington MN, they mention the Mall of America.

DEC

2007

I am stunned that Washington DC is number 1 on the list! They do include private schools, and ours are wonderful (they have to be because the public schools are pretty scary). But they are really, really expensive. I think our new mayor is turning it around, and in another couple of years they might be up there.

Wow anonymous that's the same response as some ActiveRain members whose responses were deleted from my blog made. Maybe blogging about schools is a bad idea because as a real estate agent I certainly don't want to come up in Google searches for someone else's prejudices and nasty opinions about ANY school district. How could I even have opinions about schools at such a distance?

Maybe I was the one who made the assumptions that what Forbes.com is looking at in the region that I can see up close and personal, in our case that is not the just the Columbus school district but the Bexley, Dublin, Grandview, Gahanna, Hilliard, Olentangy, Plain Local, Southwestern City School District, Upper Arlington, Westerville, Worthington and a bunch of others depending on what is considered Greater Columbus. I'd have to assume the Washington D.C. area and Arlington VA is not one monolithic school district.

I think if you GO to read what Forbes.com article it says it is about regions, not about A SINGLE SCHOOL DISTRICT. Of course if you just comment without going to the source linked you might make assumptions and statements about a singular school district.

And as I recall the public schools are just one of 4 or 5 parts of what was measured. Columbus (which I am assuming is the region, not a particular school district) only got a B there... Libraries..colleges, is another part of the equation. I can't remember what the 4 or 5 parts were

I posted a list of cities with a link. If disparaging the Washington DC school district is important to you (or to the two ActiveRain members who I have lost a lot of respect for) please by all means visit Forbes.com and vent your spleen at the source of the info.

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