Moving to a new area comes with a lot of decisions to make, and choosing your child’s new school is one very important decision. This can influence where you choose to live, and will affect your child’s daily life. Before you call your Durham mover, you need a destination. How do you choose where to send your child? Try these resources for more information about public, private, and charter school options for your child.

Check out this website: www.strongdurhamschools.com. This website is an effort by members of Durham Allies for Responsive Education, a community group formed to support and strengthen the Durham public schools. It’s on this site that you can read testimonials from parents, teachers, and other Durham residents who share the positive aspects of Durham Public Schools. You can search by particular elementary, middle, and high schools to find opinions on each school. You can email the site creators in order to actually speak with the person who wrote the opinion, in order to get more information.

The website for the Office of Charter Schools has a comprehensive list of the charter schools in Durham County. You’ll find a basic description about each school, contact information for administrators, and data about the school. On this site, you can also find a report card for each school, with test scores and information about their Adequate Yearly Progress status.

For information about private schools, look into www.greatschools.org. Besides listing all the private schools in the area, you can find information about teacher/student ratios, affiliations, and ethnicity make-up. Each school is rated with stars based on comments from the public. Read testimonials, both positive and negative, about each school.

Once you choose a school for your child, you will be able to find a new home in the right area. It will be time to call a Durham mover to get you there.

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