I think in a lot cases you might have this backwards. Many new schools, especially in the South, are built in the county or in a more rural part of the town, b

I think in a lot cases you might have this backwards. Many new schools, especially in the South, are built in the county or in a more rural part of the town, because property is cheap or donated there. If the school is a "good" (you can decide on what that means for you) school, then all of a sudden, the property near that school become much more valuable to build home on for parents. If the value of the property goes up, taxes go up in those new divisions. Now, you have a situation where THE SCHOOL has driven off poor families and increased its own budget ... just because it was "good" to start off with! So it isn't always that people are building the "good" schools on already expensive property to cater to the wealthy.