<p>About changing the makeup of schools and the after effects, it does work. Though the key is the proportion of good students/behavior to less well behaved. The town next to mine has a split school district of two towns. One more affluent than the other. One is working class/minority the other is upper middle/racially mostly white. The property taxes in the upper middle got so out of control, the parents with kids in private removed them (mostly due to tuition and 10K +property taxes ) and put them back into their home school. The mix reversed, and so did the schools. The parents went on a media (locally) blitz, fliers, meetup groups for pre-k kids, door to door canvassing to make it a neighborhood school that would/could work. Now it was labelled a Blue Ribbon school, has gotten two Intel participants in the past 3 years, totally rejuvenated the schools. So an “N” of one, it can work if parents are willing.</p>