It isn't just state differences either, because schools are mostly funded by property taxes, areas that serve a more expensive area of properties receives way m

It isn't just state differences either, because schools are mostly funded by property taxes, areas that serve a more expensive area of properties receives way more funding. While an area that serves all cheap property gets dog shit in funding. The area I grew up in was mostly farms but had one lake that was way overly priced compared to everywhere else, a new development of cookie cutter houses but they were 4-5 times the price of other property around. And the school there was excellent, and had I not ever moved I would of assumed that was the standard public education quality level. But I moved schools in highschool to another mostly rural school 2 hours away, but they didn't have the new development well-off lake community, and despite being in the same state, the poorer school was literally 3-4 years behind in education and had a third of the material supplies and teachers were paid significantly less and thus were mostly of far lower quality. So that my senior year in the poorer school was essentially having what I learned in 8th and 9ths grade repeated to me my senior year, but of course for the locals that was the first time many of them heard those things.