@warbrain most people may not do it but it is easy to do. Our state has online “scorecards” that go very in depth, there are a bunch of third party web sites for school districts, realtors keep info on it in their offices.
Being here for 20+ years now I can say I know a lot about the neighboring districts vs this one. Who has pay to play fees, who can’t pass a levy and so must make cuts, what the graduation rates and average class sizes are and so on.