<p>It really comes down to the issue that you pretty much “get what you pay for”…a very direct connection between quality of schools and cost of housing. Years ago we were looking at new housing, considering building one of the tract houses. From the same builder, a house in the Stevenson school district was $30K higher than one in a middle-of-the-pack western suburb…and this was a house that was around $300K at the time.</p>
<p>You won’t lose home value if you go to any of the lists that made the “top” of the list…</p>
<p>I don’t know where you are coming from, but another note is that there are far fewer private schools in the Chicago area than in other parts of the country where I’ve lived. And most of the ones that are private are parochial.</p>