I’m somewhat embarrassed to say that I never thought about schools when house shopping in 1989. I guess I just figured that most schools in the area (Madison and suburbs) were good. We ended up in one of those burbs, within walking distance of the grade school, middle school, and high school that our daughters later attended. The grade school was, at the time, one of the two (out of a total of six or seven) in the district with any ethnic, racial, and economic diversity. We loved it. My daughters got good educations at all their schools but the only one they liked was the grade school. As for the house, its value has gone up but probably not out of proportion to similar homes in Madison and other suburbs.