<p>Well here’s what we did. We lived in the Northshore School District, which is located at the north end of Lake Washington but we wanted to upgrade houses. Northshore has one high school in the bronze category in the US News rankings but housing is very expensive. So we moved north, into the Monroe School District where housing is (way) less expensive. Then we requested a waiver into the Northshore School District. The Monroe School District approves waivers for any reason and as far as I know, Northshore accepts students from other districts routinely as well (even into special programs such as gifted). So we feel like we’re getting a champagne school district on our beer budget. We do have to provide transportation. Our daughter does not actually attend the bronze level high school but we’re very happy with the school she does attend and, more importantly, so is she.</p>
<p>Other Washington school districts that are pretty good with lower housing costs…Sumner and Puyallup.</p>