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Stella: Wellesley, Newton, Natic, Needham. All expensive communities full of well-educated, bright parents who have a habit of giving birth to equally bright kids. Those bright kids do very well on standardized tests and, Voila, those are identified as "great schools". Again, schools do not create quality communities or well-educated kids. Rather, it's those well-educated parents who flood the schools with smart kids. On the flip side, we could look at Lawrence High School, which was the most expensive school building project ("investment", don't you know) in the history of Massachusetts in exchange for ongoing deplorable academic outcomes. Why? Because parents in Lawrence are not well-educated, something a new $110M high school does little to alter. And over a decade after it's construction, Lawrence remains the poorest city in MA. Warwick already "invests" about $18,000 per student, and fewer than 1 in 10 are deemed to be meeting expectations on the high school level PARCC. If you wish to throw more money at this, fine. But let's not pretend that anything is going to change in an academically measurable manner.