Very exclusive school board and neighbourhood.

“School Budget 2010-11 School Year   $96,079,659
Per Pupil Expenditure   $16,511

* Tuition Fees—Non-Residents

With the start of the 2000 - 2001 school year, the Westport Public schools stopped accepting new non-resident tuition students, except for children of Board of Education employees, and special education students placed by their school districts through the Special Education Department.

School Population 2010-2011   Enrollment (10/01/10)
Total enrolled in Westport Schools   5,819
Pre-K   55
5 Elementary Schools (K-5)  2,567
2 Middle Schools (6-8)  1,325
1 High School (9-12)  1,837
Outplaced   35

http://www.westport.k12.ct.us/district/about-us/school-facts-population/general-information/#population

Check out the cafeteria menus and the prices are really inexpensive, and the food looks tasty

Under Parents - than Food Services

Close school boundaries, and within the school districts in various parts of Canada is a reality. And when their is open boundaries, there is conditions and criteria that must be met, for a student to transfer.

Funny how Westport stopped charging tuition in the year 2000 for out of district residents, and now only allow SE students placed by their school districts and any children whose parents   work for the Board of Education, that lie outside the Westport boundaries.

” The problem of “boundary hopping” appears to be such a big issue in some areas in the United States, a new online service has been developed called VerifyResidence.com that can, within 72 hours, produce a Residency Audit Report for school boards, reports eSchoolNews.com. The service might be a big help to school districts like the one in Napa Valley, California, where “300 out of 680 high school freshmen left one school for another in a single school year,” says the story.
But what about here, in Canada? Do we have a problem with school district “boundary hopping?” A quick google search suggests the problem, if it exists at all, is not chronic.”
http://ca.shine.yahoo.com/blogs/shine-on/parents-sued-27-911-sending-kid-wrong-school-203255303.html

No way of confirming if it is a problem, since the data is not seriously track. But I have personally known quite a few, to assume it is prevalent as in the United States. In the above link - ““I have heard of cases anecdotally … where people may have signed over guardianship to a fellow relative because they would like the child to go to school in a district,” says Hadley. “But that would be something that’s allowed to be done.”
He says no one school in the Halifax area stands out as being a hot spot for enrollment, but some parents might want their child to attend a school on their commute route. Others who live in rural areas, might want their children to attend school in the city.”

I don’t think schools mind, because of enrolment numbers, but the school boards may indeed privately fume, for various reasons. To which I wonder why a school in the high rent district is never at high risk for closure, when former students become parents, elect to send their children to the schools that they went to as children. And why not, when the parents can put down their former addresses and where the grandparents are presently living.

POSTED ON BEHALF OF DOUG LITTLE AND ALL STATUS QUO EDUCATORS

The “Status Quo” educators would say, you blend everybody (bussing for race and class balance) or nobody with strict boundaries. You don’t pick “one lucky poor kid each year to attend the rich school” .
Progressives do not see individuals, we see groups. We don’t see trees, we see forests.
That is why we vomit at the Weston Scholarships to send poor kids to better schools as individuals.
We don’t believe in sneaking a few kids over the fence, we believe in tearing down the fence.
In the same way we work hard to make sure nobody with money has que jumping ability in health, we believe in a world of true equality, it ought to be impossible for those with too much money to have educational advantages.

Ahhh but there’s the rub you see. Most parents I know want good teachers not those who aspire only to the status-quo.

Reach higher Doug. Parents are…..do try to keep up with us.

Rumour has it some wealthy Asian parents have access to elite “academies” which guarantee admission to universities.  Is that the sort of egalitarian scenario we “progressives” should be aspiring to?   Turns out using wealth to buy advantage may or may not be a bad thing, eh?

Just sayin…